Fereshteh Ghazi is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
The families of the victims of the mass executions of political prisoners in the 1980s have expressed relief after the death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who allegedly played a role in one of the darkest chapters of the Islamic republic.
A 16-year-old Iranian schoolgirl is in a coma after an incident in the Tehran metro. Activists and a human rights group say Armita Garavand was assaulted by the morality police for not wearing the mandatory hijab. Her case has drawn parallels with the Mahsa Amini case.
Iranian security forces have detained hundreds of people as protesters in the country’s southeast marked the first anniversary of the killing of scores of demonstrators in the region, according to a human rights group.
After Iranian authorities responded forcefully to demonstrations following the death of Mahsa Amini a year ago, public anger exploded into nationwide protests. Hundreds of demonstrators followed Amini to the grave amid a brutal state crackdown.
Javad Ruhi, who was arrested and handed three death sentences after being spotted in a video dancing during protests in Iran, died under suspicious circumstances in prison last week. A source close to his family said Ruhi never stood a chance of getting out of prison alive.
The Iranian authorities are purging the ranks of university professors as the anniversary of mass nationwide protests approaches. Those in the firing line say they are being falsely accused of "encouraging students" to violate the hijab law, demonstrate, and chant antiestablishment slogans.
As Iran’s antiestablishment protests approach their one-year mark, the authorities are stepping up pressure against the families of slain demonstrators to prevent tributes to those killed.
Members of a musical group that performed in tribute to slain protester Ghazaleh Chalabi in the northern Iranian city of Amol last week have apologized for their actions after facing pressure from security forces.
Pedram Azarnush, 17, was allegedly shot dead by security forces during an anti-regime protest in southern Iran almost five months ago. His family has endured constant threats and intimidation as they seek justice. Azarnush is among the hundreds of protesters killed in the brutal state crackdown.
Reza Khandan, a civil activist and the husband of prominent Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, says he has been summoned by the judiciary to serve an older suspended sentence of five years in prison.
A prominent Sunni cleric from Iran's Kurdistan region has condemned the mass arrests of Sunni scholars from the region and criticized the silence of Shi'ite clerics on the matter.
Abandoned by friends and family as he awaited his fate on death row, a 39-year-old man executed in connection with ongoing antiestablishment protests in Iran has gained a family of supporters who see him as a face of everyday victims of state repression.
Eyewitnesses to the death of Omid Moayidi say he was first shot in the back as he ran from Iranian security forces during street protests before being shot at close range in the head. Officials have pressured his family to say that Moayidi was not protesting, but was shot by "rioters" as he drove.
Yahya Rahimi was allegedly shot dead by Iranian security forces on October 8 in Iran's Kurdistan region for honking his car horn in support of the ongoing anti-government protests.
A 16-year-old boy was among the dozens of people killed during a crackdown on anti-government protests in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan Province on September 30. In an interview with RFE/RL's Radio Farda, the teen's brother said he was shot dead after attending Friday Prayers.
Nika Shakarami, 16, left to join anti-government protests in Tehran on September 20. She was never seen alive by her family again. In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL's Radio Farda, Nika's mother says the family is now being pressured to echo the official account of her daughter's death.
Iran has arrested a singer whose song about the ongoing protests in the country has gone viral, RFE/RL's Radio Farda has learned. Shervin Hajipour's arrest comes amid a crackdown on artists, journalists, and activists.
Maryam Behtarpur lost her 27-year-old son during Iran's November 2019 state crackdown on antiestablishment protests. Authorities doubled down recently by arresting her husband and her younger son, and her daughter now faces more than four years in prison.
In 1998, several Iranian intellectuals and dissidents were brutally killed by Intelligence Ministry agents in what became to be known as the "chain murders." Twenty-two years later, there has been no official claim of responsibility for several of the victims and many cases remain unsolved.
The relatives of some of the hundreds killed in the state crackdown on anti-establishment protests in November 2019 say they have been threatened and prevented from holding memorials to mark the first anniversary of their loved ones' deaths.
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