The Latest Breaking News from Iran Human Rights

An Iranian policeman and his wife were shot dead on Sunday by unknown gunmen in Balochistan province, bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to Iranian media. Governor of Saravan Saeed Tajlili told Tasnim News Agency that Lieutenant Colonel Ali-Reza Shahraki had been assassinated inside his car at a crossroad in Saravan.…

Two rights groups revealed on Thursday that Iran is using death penalty as an “execution machine” aimed at spreading fear as protests shook the country in 2022. According to Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and France's Together Against the Death Penalty (ECPM), Iran hanged 75 percent more people in 2022…

Iran on Friday hanged a Kurdish man viewed as a political prisoner by activists, rights groups said, amplifying alarm over the soaring number of executions in the country this year. Mohayyedin Ebrahimi, 43, was hanged at dawn at Urmia prison in northwestern Iran, the Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) and…

Iran has long been one of the world's most prolific executioners. But it seems to have taken the death penalty to a new level recently, with dozens of people executed in the last few weeks, according to the Norway-based NGO Iran Human Rights. The UN has denounced what it calls…

At least 100 Iranians, including five women, are charged with capital offences in connection with protests in Iran, Norway-based Iran Human Rights says, as two Iranian chess champions defy hijab laws during a chess tournament in Kazakhstan.

Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran's restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning a fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. Iran has seen waves of demonstrations since the September 16 death in custody of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd who had been…

Iran’s Islamic Republic continues to violently suppress ongoing pro-democracy protests, which broke out in September in response to the killing of a young woman who had been arrested for not wearing a proper head covering. According to the NGO Iran Human Rights at least 458 protesters have been killed, including…

Iran's national soccer team has received a subdued welcome home with a few dozen fans greeting them at the capital Tehran's airport and waving flags following their World Cup defeat by the U.S. team

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Iranian police fatally shot a man celebrating the country’s World Cup elimination Tuesday, according to human rights groups.

A rights group warns other convicts risk being "hastily" executed, with at least 20 people facing charges punishable with death following protests that spread across Iran.