Human Rights

By warning of “Syriaization,” authorities shift blame to protesters, normalize unlimited force, and recycle the Syrian playbook: dehumanization, impunity, and...

As protests surged nationwide, Iran’s blackout cut people off from the world, disrupted daily life, and strengthened repression by blocking...

Tehran and other cities face an undeclared curfew, coercion, darkness, and plainclothes repression—de facto martial law after a massacre—despite the...

Iran’s protests enter a third week amid mass casualties, widespread arrests, and an internet blackout, as videos and eyewitness accounts...

A compact way to read the last decade of Iranian protest waves is to treat them as the political expression...

After 11 days of protests, rights monitors report at least 38 deaths and 2,217 detentions, including many minors, alongside escalating...

Three eyewitness accounts from Tehran and Isfahan show teenagers leading protests, women shielding them, and security forces responding with pellets,...

In 2025, economic breakdown and war shattered the Islamic Republic’s core claim—security—leaving a regime that looks intact yet hollow, like...

A post-war currency shock sparked bazaar shutdowns in Tehran, then spread through cities and universities, becoming a broader confrontation over...

Pegah Ahangarani’s documentary shows Taraneh Alidoosti’s post-prison body as political testimony, and records her irreversible break with Iran’s official cinema...