Freed Belgian Aid Worker Lost Weight, Not Sense of Humour, During Iran Ordeal
BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - Freed Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele lost 30 kg (66 lb) but not his sense of humour during over a year in an Iranian jail, his spokesman said on Saturday following his...
VIDEO: Former IRGC Hostage Visits Vahid Beheshti
By Kayhan Life
Peter Moore, a British computer expert kidnapped in Iraq by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 2007 and held captive for two-and-a-half years visited Vahid Beheshti on Friday.
Vahid Beheshti has resumed his...
VIDEO: Vahid Beheshti Resumes Hunger Strike After Fatwa Allegedly Issued Against Him
By Kayhan Life
Vahid Beheshti who was hospitalised on day 72 of a hunger strike to convince the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK has resumed his public protest...
Aid Worker Back in Belgium After Iranian Diplomat Prisoner Swap
By Marine Strauss and Charlotte Van Campenhout
BRUSSELS/DUBAI, May 26 (Reuters) - A Belgian aid worker arrived back in Belgium on Friday night from Iran, where he had been accused of spying and jailed until being...
Iran’s Persecution of Religious Minorities Is ‘Appalling,’ US State Department Says
By Natasha Phillips
The Iranian government’s track record of persecuting religious minorities is “appalling,” according to the US State Department.
“Iran continues to persecute members of religious minority groups, and subjects them to disproportionate arrest, detention, harassment, and surveillance. This behavior is appalling,”...
Thousands of Child Marriages are Celebrated In Iran Each Year
By Kayhan Life Staff
A recent report by the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) said that 27,448 girls aged under 15 were married between December 2021 and November 2022.
The report added the number of girls...
Iran Trains 200,000 Women Seminarians for Khamenei’s ‘Explanation Jihad’
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic is training 200,000 female seminarians for the “explanation jihad,” Javad Esmaeilnia, deputy director of “Sisters Seminaries” (women’s religious seminaries) in Qom, said recently.
In comments reported by the Mehr...
Milan Photo Exhibition Reveals Lives of Women in Iran
By Federico Maccioni
MILAN, May 23 (Reuters) - A photograph of a woman, wearing a white chador with an ornate pattern and standing in front of a hanging Persian rug, is perhaps the most striking image of...
Iran Says It Executes Leader of Women Trafficking Network
May 20 (Reuters) - Iran’s judiciary said on Saturday that it had executed the head of a network that trafficked Iranian women to neighbouring countries for prostitution.
It said Shahrooz Sokhanvari, a man known as "Alex”, was the...
