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Category: Human Rights
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Iran’s Protest Cycles: Exclusion, Contention, and the Path to Anti-Discriminatory Politics
A compact way to read the last decade of Iranian protest waves is to treat them as the political expression of a specific accumulation…
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Day 11 of Iran’s Nationwide Protests: A Human Rights Brief on Killings, Arrests, and Injuries
After 11 days of protests, rights monitors report at least 38 deaths and 2,217 detentions, including many minors, alongside escalating violence, intimidation, and hospital…
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Inside the Streets: Three Eyewitness Accounts from Iran’s Nationwide Protests
Three eyewitness accounts from Tehran and Isfahan show teenagers leading protests, women shielding them, and security forces responding with pellets, batons, and tear gas.…
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Islamic Republic 2025: Solomon’s Palace and a Corpse Leaning on a Staff
In 2025, economic breakdown and war shattered the Islamic Republic’s core claim—security—leaving a regime that looks intact yet hollow, like a corpse propped up…
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Rial Crash to Campus Revolt: Iran’s Protests Spread from Tehran’s Markets Nationwide
A post-war currency shock sparked bazaar shutdowns in Tehran, then spread through cities and universities, becoming a broader confrontation over inequality, repression, and life.…
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Taraneh Alidoosti’s Body as Testimony: Refusing Compulsory Hijab in Iran’s Official Cinema
Pegah Ahangarani’s documentary shows Taraneh Alidoosti’s post-prison body as political testimony, and records her irreversible break with Iran’s official cinema under compulsory hijab. This…
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The Islamic Republic Executed Aqil Keshavarz amid Iran’s 2025 Execution Surge
Aqil Keshavarz was executed on “Israel spying” charges amid a sharp rise in executions, post-war securitization, mass arrests, and expanding death-penalty laws. The Islamic…
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Iranian Barber Faces Imminent Execution Following Sham Trial
Urgent alarms are mounting over the fate of Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, a 28-year-old barber from Urmia, whose death sentence has been finalized by the Iranian…
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Arrests at Alikordi’s Funeral: When Mourning Becomes a Security Case
Security forces violently disrupted Khosro Alikordi’s memorial in Mashhad, arresting dozens including prominent activists, as mourning was reframed as “disorder” and justice-seeking treated as…
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Workers March in Asaluyeh, the Beating Heart of Iran’s Energy Economy
For 18 weeks, precarious South Pars workers in Asaluyeh have marched against broken promises—exposing how Iran’s “energy heart” runs on exploited labour at the…
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“He Never Stopped Defending Us”: The Suspicious Death of Lawyer Khosro Alikordi
Human rights lawyer Khosro Alikordi dies suddenly after sustained state pressure, prompting prison protests, a nationwide lawyers’ statement, and scrutiny of Iran’s war on…
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“Orange the World”: One Year of Violence Against Women in Iran
Annual data from Iranian rights groups reveal at least 110 femicides, 63 rapes, 180 “honor killings” and expanding structural, legal and state violence against…