Human Rights

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...

Aqil Keshavarz was executed on “Israel spying” charges amid a sharp rise in executions, post-war securitization, mass arrests, and expanding...

Urgent alarms are mounting over the fate of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a 28-year-old barber from Urmia, whose death sentence has been...

Security forces violently disrupted Khosro Alikordi’s memorial in Mashhad, arresting dozens including prominent activists, as mourning was reframed as “disorder”...