Iran: Political prisoner still deprived of medical leave

Political prisoner Qadrieh Qaderi is deprived of medical leave despite numerous physical illnesses in need of treatment. This is the fifth year she is imprisoned in Yasouj Prison...

Iran: Woman prisoner pressured to ask for amnesty

Prison authorities are presently bringing pressure on political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared to ask for amnesty...

Iran: Tehran’s prosecutor vows to be harsh on desegregation

“We cannot only give advice to the people who hold mixed-sex parties or co-ed swimming-parties. It is necessary to prosecute such people in accordance to the penal codes.”...

Iran: Innocent woman shot dead by SSF

The State Security forces of Terjan district, in the Iranian Kurdistan, shot directly at a Toyota on Thursday, August 11, 2016, and killed a civilian woman...

Iran: Two young women commit suicide simultaneously

Two young women threw themselves down a building and lost their lives.
The tragic incident happened in the morning of Saturday, August 13, 2016, in Tehran's...

Iran: Women’s working hours made conditional on employer’s consent

The parliamentary Social Committee made reduction of women’s working hours conditional on employers’ consent in its final deliberations on the bill...

Iran: Teachers’ protests outside the mullahs’ parliament

Hundreds of teachers of the literacy movement continued their protest on August 15, 2016, for the second consecutive day outside the Iranian regime’s parliamen...