Iran is using rap music to promote hardline Islamist values ... Salehi was first arrested in September 2021 after his songs ...
The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) is alarmed by recent reports of the rise of execution orders issued against ...
Executions, which activists say are used by Tehran as a means to instil fear into society, have also increased in recent days ...
Despite averting a war with Israel for now, Tehran is nervous. It is cracking down on critics and women who disobey the ...
Musician Toomaj Salehi had backed anti-government nationwide protests in 2022. Aida Shakarami was detained for allegedly violating the compulsory hijab laws, her mother says.
Dozens of rappers have been arrested in Iran since the rise of hip-hop in the country in the early 2000s. But the death ...
Morality police,' whose presence diminished after last year's mass protests following death of Mahsa Amini, reemerged just as ...
Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is ...
The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis, edited and contributed to a new graphic ...
EU foreign ministers agreed in principle on April 22 to expand sanctions on Iran following Tehran's missile and drone attack ...
The Iranian Human Rights Organization announced that between the last two weeks of April, equivalent to 18 April to May 2nd, ...