Iran

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Centre (DHRC) urge the Iranian authorities to end executions.

Islamic Republic of Iran has been committing “serious human rights violations” in response to a series of nationwide protests since November 2019, Amnesty International said in a report published on October 2.

The US government seized the domains of 92 news websites apparently operated by the Iranian government, the Department of Justice announced on Wednesday.

Videos received by Avatoday on Wednesday show bakeries are closed in several provinces across Iran due to a severe shortage of bread.

In other places, people had to stand in line for hours to buy bread.

A US judge has ordered Islamic Republic of Iran to pay $1.45 billion to the family of a former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who have been missing on an Iranian island since 2007, the Washington Post reported.

From killing thousands of citizens over the span of a few nights to assassinating their perceived rivals abroad, the authoritarian Islamic regime has been systematically killing those in opposition to their beliefs.

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, who is detained in Iran since June 2019, has been temporarily released from prison, her lawyer told AFP.

The US government warned Thursday that it would not tolerate any attacks on US interests in Iraq by Iran-backed militias.

In a joint statement, the 47 member states of UN Human Rights Council condemned the execution of a young Iranian Wrestler Navid Afkari and slammed the country for human rights violations. 

The US State Department on Thursday imposed new sanctions targeting Iran's judicial and penal systems, including a judge who sentenced a wrestler to death.

 Iran is highly criticized for its shocking record of human right abuses.