Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Grondeau was detained by Iranian authorities in October 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison on espionage charges that ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to 16 years in prison on Saturday (March 8) and also handed ...

Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists ...

The State Department is offering $15 million for information on Chinese nationals accused of smuggling U.S. weapons ...

According to the report, the “Nazer” mobile application enables users to upload the license plate, location, and time of a vehicle where a woman ... capital Tehran and southern Iran to surveil ...

Tehran (AsiaNews ... documenting abuses and limitations on religious freedom in Iran, three converts from Islam, including a woman pregnant with her first child, have been sentenced to over ...

Such releases of Westerners in Iran typically come in exchange ... said France had arrested an Iranian woman who supported Palestinians, but said Tehran was still trying to gather more details ...

The ‘Nazer’ app is a government-backed tool that allows citizens and police to report women for alleged violations of hijab ...