Human Rights

Amid fears of a renewed Israel-Iran conflict, another danger is quietly looming: the risk of Iran sliding into civil war....

A peaceful environmental protest in the Kurdish city of Saqqez ended in gunfire when guards at the Qolqoleh gold mine...

Babak Shahbazi, born in 1981, is a father of two, with children aged 18 and 12. Prior to his arrest,...

Iranian authorities have stepped up arrests of activists, workers, women, and minorities, especially Kurds and Arabs, in a coordinated crackdown...

A diverse group of men advocating for gender and sexual equality has issued a collective statement condemning the patriarchal and...

The murders of Elaheh Hosseinnejad and Hanieh Behboudi in Iran have reignited outrage over gender-based violence, exposing systemic legal failures...

Kurdish cities across Iran have gone on strike in response to the death sentences of two Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi...

Iranian police are reportedly arresting and deporting Afghan migrants, even those with legal residency permits. Several Afghan migrants who were...

On 14 February, General Prabowo Subianto — Indonesian Defense Minister and former military general, long since accused of human rights...

The text discusses changes in Iran’s penal system during the second half of the 1980s, leading to an increase in...