By Pooya Stone

The Friday prayer leader for Tehran called for the protesters in the Iran uprising, who are demanding their basic rights, to be executed, during his speech to the congregation on November 29.

By Pooya Stone

Dozens of Arab-Iranians were arrested during protests in southwestern Iran, which began on Sunday following the suspicious death of a young local poet. 

By Jubin Katiraie

A group of 14 Nobel laureates has written a joint letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, in which they drew attention to the Iranian authorities crackdown on the ongoing Iran protests, and call for the UN to immediately intervene to prevent the mullahs from conducting further atrocities against the Iranian people.

By Pooya Stone

Although Amnesty International and Western governments condemned Iran’s violation of human rights, Iran’s representative at the review session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, claimed that the Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the largest democracies in Western Asia and needs no Special Rapporteur.

By Jubin Katiraie

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is “deeply concerned” over the Iranian authorities’ violent crackdown on ongoing peaceful protests that began in the country on Friday.

By Jubin Katiraie

In a statement on Wednesday, Amnesty International called on the United Nations Human Rights Council to condemn the “appalling deterioration of human rights in Iran” in its next meeting on November 8.

By Jubin Katiraie

On Thursday, November 14, the United Nations adopted its 66th resolution condemning Iran’s systematic and ongoing human rights violations. Eighty-four nations expressed their concerns about the human rights conditions in Iran through their affirmative votes.

By Pooya Stone

An Iranian official admitted that 15,000 people have been executed in Iran on drug-related charges since the mullahs stole power in 1979.