Three schools were vandalized in the city of Urmia in northeast Iran, over an alleged rape incident. Following reports that the school janitor had raped a 12-year female student, angry protesters on Monday attacked the …
A senior Iranian official expressed concern on Monday that foreign powers may interfere in the country’s elections through social media, Radio Farda reports. Social media tools, such as the messaging application Telegram, could control and analyze …
Amnesty International has called on Tehran to immediately reverse the death penalty reportedly imposed on a Swedish-Iranian scholar who has been detained in Iran since April 2016. “The Iranian authorities must urgently quash the death sentence …
Ordinary Iranians took their grievances against the Tehran regime Tuesday to the country’s parliament as a result of what they say are the regime’s plundering of their savings and its corrupt policies, Fox News reports. …
A member of President Hassan Rouhani’s reelection campaign in Ilam province has been sentenced to five years in prison for “insulting the sacred,” the head of Ilam’s Justice Department announced on Sunday, October 22. The judiciary affiliated …
Ahwazi Arab Student’s eardrums teared after school’s moderator punished him by slapping, the Ahwazi Center for Human Rights reports. “Two days ago, my 12-year-old son, when he asked his classmate to change his place at the …
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister was quick to respond to the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who called on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Shi’ite militias in Iraq “to go home” now that ISIS …
The Iranian regime attempts to control the flow and consumption of information into the country and Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, believes the Internet is “used by the enemy to target Islamic thinking.” Control of the information and …
Dozens of Kurd porters were arrested by Iranian government forces and after their goods were confiscated, they were stripped and then released. “On the night of October 14, six Kurd porters were directly shot at …
A mass rally organized by Europe’s Ahwazi community took place in Berlin on Friday. Demonstrators demanded that the German government, headed by Chancellor Angela Merkel, intervenes immediately regarding Iran’s increasingly oppressive human rights violations against …
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