The hidden toll of Iran crackdown: disability, chronic pain, opioid dependence
The Islamic Republic may want the world to forget what happened in January, but the bodies of those who survived make that difficult.
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Iran Supreme Court upholds political prisoner's death sentence - rights group
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of 24-year-old political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi, who was convicted of “baghi,” or armed rebellion, the US-based HRANA rights group reported on Friday.
Trans woman prisoner says she was raped in Iran Intelligence Ministry detention
Ghazal Marzban, a transgender woman held in Tehran’s Evin prison, says she was raped after being detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 2023 and later threatened into silence, according to a letter published by the HRANA human rights news agency.
With the war quieting, Iran's hijab crackdown gathers pace again
The men who spent the war demanding control of the Strait of Hormuz have returned to demanding control of women's clothing. As the fighting subsides, Iran's hardliners are pressing to revive a hijab law the state itself suspended for fear of new protests.
Death of TV host in exile revives Iranians' grief over lost freedom
Messages sent to Iran International after the death of its 37-year-old presenter Farahnaz Espad have mixed personal tributes with reflections on exile, repression and hopes for political change among Iranians at home and abroad.
Iran's top university expels student over toy rat that mocked Khamenei
A student at Iran's most prestigious technical university has been expelled and banned from all universities for four years over a stuffed rat hung from a campus tree, a toy that carried the nickname protesters gave the late supreme leader.
Pezeshkian admin says infiltration bill violates rights, could drive brain drain
President Masoud Pezeshkian's government has formally opposed a bill aimed at countering foreign intelligence infiltration, saying it violates citizens' rights, restricts academic ties and could accelerate the emigration of Iranian experts and researchers.
For Iranian journalists, exile can last a lifetime
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Canada deports former Iranian official linked to 2019 protest crackdown
Canada has deported a former Iranian Interior Ministry spokesman who served during the deadly crackdown on nationwide protests in November 2019, Global News reported.
Forced to serve in the IRGC, now fighting to stay in Canada
Iranian men conscripted into the Revolutionary Guards for their compulsory military service fear they and their families could lose the right to remain in Canada, after letters warned the mandatory stint may amount to membership in a terrorist organization.
They carry the evidence of Iran’s crackdown on their bodies
I stop people from bleeding to death. As a trauma and vascular interventional radiologist in Los Angeles, I find catastrophic bleeding and stop it within minutes. Still, I wasn’t prepared for what I saw in victims of Iran’s January protests inside and outside the country.
Iran’s new infiltration bill could make ordinary contact a crime
Iranian lawmakers have advanced sweeping legislation that could send people to prison for speaking to journalists, academic cooperation and unauthorized contact with foreign embassies, dramatically expanding the conduct security agencies could treat as foreign infiltration.
Iran executes man accused of driving into police during January protests
Iran executed Shahram Sadeghi early Sunday after accusing him of security offenses and deliberately driving into police officers during protests in Karaj on January 8, the judiciary’s Mizan News reported.
Iran crackdown grinds on with new wave of prison terms
Iranian courts have handed down a new wave of prison terms and other punishments against protesters, activists and citizens accused of national security offenses, as the judicial crackdown that followed January’s nationwide protests continues months later.
Iran seals dozens of businesses in renewed hijab crackdown
Iranian authorities have sealed at least 42 cafés, restaurants, shops, sports clubs and other businesses across the country in the past three weeks, over compulsory hijab rules and what officials describe as violations of Islamic norms.
Over 150,000 disabled Iranians await nursing allowances
More than 152,000 people with severe disabilities remain on a waiting list for nursing care payments because of insufficient funding, the rehabilitation deputy of Iran’s State Welfare Organization said on Wednesday.
Canada says IRGC conscription alone no bar as Iranians face scrutiny
Canada says immigration applications are assessed individually in response to cases of Iranians who completed mandatory military service with the Revolutionary Guards receiving letters warning they could be deemed inadmissible on security grounds.
Nearly 100,000 answer Iran International poll, 83% say they would leave Iran
Eighty-three percent of nearly 100,000 respondents to an Iran International Instagram poll said they would emigrate from Iran if given the opportunity, offering a stark measure of the frustration and uncertainty felt by many of those who participated.
At least 916 executed in Iran since January - rights group
Iran has carried out at least 916 executions since the start of 2026, including 15 so far in August, the Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran said on Tuesday.
Iran security forces targeted protester’s monarchist tattoo, then killed him
Iranian security forces shot protester Farid Ramezani during the January protests in Tehran, then targeted his Pahlavi crown tattoo as he lay wounded before killing him with a shot to the forehead, a source familiar with the case told Iran International.
