Avatoday has learned that on the afternoon of Monday, September 24, following protests by residents of the villages of Karavian, Qolqoleh, and Pireomran in Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, against the continued operation of the Qolqoleh gold mine, one citizen named Mohammad Ra
Official statistics from 1979 to 2024 reveal that the divorce rate in Iran has risen nearly sixfold in relation to marriages.
In recent days, Naser Bakrzadeh, a 26-year-old Kurdish political prisoner from Urmia, has once again been sentenced to death by Branch 2 of the Revolutionary Court of Urmia, presided over by Judge Shahini, on charges of “espionage for Israel.”
In response to court rulings by Iran’s repressive judiciary against two Kurdish teachers, a group of educators from Saqqez and Sanandaj visited the homes of Shahram Karimi, a teacher from Zivieh, and his brother Majid Karimi, a teacher in Sanandaj, to express solidarity and demand the annulment o
Sasan Khanzadeh, a Gilak political prisoner arrested during the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) uprising and sentenced to three years and one day in prison, has already spent more than a year behind bars.
A 50-year-old man in Mashhad brutally murdered his former wife in front of their daughters by stabbing her multiple times before fleeing the scene.
According to information received by Avatoday, Shahin Wasaf, a 29-year-old detainee of the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom) uprising in Urmia, has been sentenced by Branch 1 of the city’s Revolutionary Court to 10 years in prison.
According to a report received by Avatoday, Bafrin Maroufi, a Kurdish political prisoner and 44-year-old resident of Bukan, was released from Urmia Central Prison on Tuesday, September 9, after serving three months and 14 days of her sentence.
State-affiliated media in Iran reported that on Saturday, July 27, 2025, a 45-year-old man shot and killed his wife and 13-year-old daughter in the Chitgar district of Tehran.
The Iran Human Rights Center, in a report published on Wednesday, September 3, documented an unprecedented escalation in the repression of media and journalists across the country.
