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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…

London, Tehran: Iran on Wednesday secretly executed a political prisoner who had been convicted of killing a police officer in 2018 and of being a member of an opposition Kurdish party, rights groups revealed. This came two days after activists reported the execution of another political prisoner. On Thursday, the…

Iranian authorities have executed 55 people in 2023, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country. IHR said it has confirmed at least 55 executions in the first 26 days of this year.…

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.

More than 100 days of protests in Iran have shattered taboos and shaken the ideological pillars of the Iranian republic in a push for change that has defied a fierce crackdown. The demonstrations, which erupted in mid-September following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, are a reflection of…

Rights groups warned Sunday that several protesters in Iran are at imminent risk of execution, following an international backlash against the clerical regime's first hanging linked to ongoing demonstrations. The almost three-month-old protest movement was sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish-Iranian arrested by the morality…

Black-clad women in Iran's Sistan-Baluchistan province on Friday joined nationwide protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death, in what a rights group called a "rare" move in the staunchly conservative region. Online videos showed dozens of women on the streets of the provincial capital Zahedan holding banners that declared "Woman, life,…

The 27-year-old was honking his car horn along with hundreds of others, in celebration of Iran's defeat against the US, before he was killed

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At least 108 people have been killed in Iran's crackdown on more than three weeks of nationwide protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, said Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights.

At least 31 civilians have been killed in crackdowns by Iranian security forces on protests that have erupted over the death of a young woman after her arrest by the morality police, an Oslo-based NGO said Thursday.