A man who says he was deployed during Tehran’s January crackdown describes watching protesters shot and helping load bodies into refrigerated trucks, including a little girl whose earrings had been taken before her body was thrown inside.
Iranians and the government held rival ceremonies Tuesday marking the 40th day after the January 8–9 protest killings, with families staging independent memorials as officials organized a state event critics called an attempt to “appropriate” the victims.
Forty days after Iran’s deadly January crackdown, senior officials repeated claims of foreign influence while some insiders—even from the hardline camp—offered sharply different explanations.
Mai Sato, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, says there is still no clear or transparent information about how many peop ...
Palestinian Walid Al-Assi was playing with his young granddaughter this week, promising to take her to the market in Gaza City with the arrival of the holy month of Ramadan as his family had done before the Israel-Hamas war, but now circumstances had changed.
Sina Yousefi is an Azerbaijani lawyer and former political prisoner who was arrested and sentenced to prison during the “Woman, Life, Fr ...
Pars Today – The first phase of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy exercise was held on Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf.
Pars Today – The spokesperson for Afghanistan’s Taliban highlighted border coordination, prisoner exchanges, legalization of Afghan workers, and ensuring Iran’s water rights according to agreements.
Pars Today – The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy, Alireza Tangsiri, stated that Iran maintains 24-hour, comprehensive intelligence oversight in the Strait of Hormuz.
Mostafa Tajzadeh, a political prisoner currently held in Evin Prison, has been handed a 14-month prison sentence by Branch 22 of the Teh ...
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Monday, February 16, that it has launched a military exercise in the Strait of Horm ...
“It’s not that we were healthy people with normal lives before this, but we can’t even go back to that wretchedness from before. Faces a ...
Families Forced to Carry Out Secret Burials, Banned from Publicly Mentioning Their Children’s Names Teacher Associations Across Iran Express Outrage, Call for International Action February 12, 2026 — At least 216 children were killed during the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown on protesters in January 2026, when Iranian security forces unleashed live ammunition, military-grade weapons, knives, […] The post Over 200 Schoolchildren Killed by Security Forces in Iran: ‘They’ve Effectively Massacred an Entire School’ appeared first on Center for Human Rights in Iran .
According to information received by IranWire, Payam Faridian, a Baha’i citizen arrested in Mashhad, remains in a state of uncertainty a ...
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk called on Wednesday for Israel to rescind recent measures to expand control over Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.
More than a month after the deadly crackdown on protesters in January, eyewitnesses are beginning to speak about what they saw. The viol ...
According to information obtained by IranWire, Atila Soltanpour, a 45-year-old citizen, was arrested on the evening of January 29 after ...
Around 1:00 p. m. on January 7, people began gathering in the streets of Shirvan, in North Khorasan, to protest.
Narges Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, human rights activist, and political prisoner, has been sentenced to seven and a half ye ...
The parents of Venus Hosseinejad, a Baha’i citizen detained in the city of Kerman, have described their daughter’s situation in a letter ...