Fereshteh Ghazi is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
Sixteen people are facing charges connected to protests in the Iranian city of Isfahan in January, during which a colonel in Iran's Revolutionary Guard was killed. Sources in Iran told RFE/RL's Radio Farda that authorities used torture to extract confessions from the defendants.
Sixteen people are facing charges connected to protests in Isfahan in January, during which a colonel in Iran's Revolutionary Guard was killed. Rights defenders are raising concerns about the legitimacy of the case, including the charges against 20-year-old sisters Taraneh and Romina Rahimi.
Tens of thousands of Iranians have flocked to sign an online petition with a rare but pointed message to the country's hard-liners: Go fight the war against the United States yourselves.
Families sharing single meals. Appliances sold to pay utility bills. Businesses gutted. Four Iranians inside the country describe an economy in freefall.
Dozens of protesters have been killed in a brutal government crackdown on ongoing antiestablishment demonstrations in Iran. RFE/RL's Radio Farda has profiled some of those killed, which include children.
A growing number of Iranian women and girls have stopped wearing the hijab in public, despite the threat of arrest and imprisonment. Women say the move has transformed the streets of major cities in Iran.
Qarchak Prison, located southeast of Tehran, is Iran's largest women's detention center. Calls to close the facility have grown after multiple inmate deaths due to alleged neglect.
For decades, Iranian women have defied legal and cultural barriers by riding motorcycles without licenses. Now, the government has submitted a bill to parliament that would finally legalize their right to ride.
Iranian authorities are increasingly disconnecting citizens from mobile services for posting critical content about the Islamic republic on social media, a coercive tactic that links freedom of expression to access to essential digital tools.
A clinic is being launched in Iran to "treat" women who violate the country’s hijab law. Experts say the clinic in the capital, Tehran, is the latest attempt by Iranian authorities to use mental-health diagnoses to silence critics.
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.
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