At least 12 workers from a major Iranian gas processing project were killed when their bus overturned in western Iran, as authorities launched an investigation into the cause of the deadly crash.
Iran International
Iran's deadly crackdown on protests in November 2019 failed to prevent successive uprisings, fueling a cycle of unrest driven by economic hardship, restrictions on personal freedoms and increasingly forceful repression.
Iran International
Canadian lawmaker Ali Ehsassi has pledged to refer findings that Iranian security forces possessed paintball guns from a Canadian-owned brand during the 2022 protest crackdown, which left scores of demonstrators blinded, to federal authorities.
Iran International
The story: In Iran, hardline factions opposed to diplomacy with the United States have intensified their attacks on the pro-reform government of President Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf. This comes as protesters wearing white burial shrouds are turning…
Amwaj.media
Iranian comedian Saeed Shakiba was sentenced to five years in prison after publishing a satirical video imitating the voice of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, the human rights website HRANA said on Friday.
Iran International
Written and smuggled out of prison, the 2023 Nobel Prize laureate's memoir reveals the cost of defying Iran's regime and fighting for freedom.
DW
Political prisoner Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani, one of seven athletes at risk of execution in Iran, given prestigious Magnitsky humanitarian award A boxer and political prisoner on death row in Iran said he will “never surrender” as he accepted a prestigious human rights prize on behalf of “the…
The Guardian
A little-known judge in northeastern Iran has sentenced at least 11 protesters to death since nationwide protests erupted in January and served on the judicial panels that sentenced two others who were subsequently executed, an Iran International investigation has found.
Iran International
The story: An integration deal on one of Iraq’s thorniest security disputes may be redrawing the political map of the Yazidi heartland of Sinjar. Baghdad has begun folding thousands of fighters from the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK)-linked Sinjar Resistance Units (YBS) into Iraqi forces under…
Amwaj.media
Since the launch of the Israeli-US war on Iran in late February, Gulf Arab states have announced the dismantling of at least nine purported espionage networks linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Lebanese Hezbollah. Courts have handed down lengthy prison terms for spying and…
Amwaj.media
Samira's 16-year-old daughter Sevda was shot dead as they took part in mass protests in January.
BBC News
