RFE/RL's Radio Farda breaks through government censorship to deliver accurate news and provide a platform for informed discussion and debate to audiences in Iran.
Amnesty International is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately release prominent human rights defender Narges Mohammadi, who it said is at imminent risk of receiving 80 lashes following her arrest earlier this week.
Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Iranian judiciary's "unrelenting persecution" of an Iranian photojournalist and activist who must serve two years of internal exile after being released earlier this week from nearly eight years in imprisonment.
A hacktivist group that has exposed what appears to be systemic prisoner abuse in Iran explains to RFE/RL's Radio Farda that it is all-Iranian, is working inside the country, and wants to let the authorities know they can no longer hide their alleged inhumane practices.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog has been invited to visit Iran "probably soon," the country's Foreign Ministry said, amid concern over a lack of contact with Iranian authorities ahead of the expected resumption of negotiations with world powers on reviving a 2015 nuclear deal.
Environmental experts speaking to RFE/RL's Radio Farda say the Iranian government has been mismanaging environmental policies with catastrophic consequences for the present and future. While the government cites sanctions for its inability to cut greenhouse gases, some say it could do more.
A tribunal in London has begun hearing evidence from witnesses, activists and others over Tehran’s role in a crackdown on anti-establishment protests in Iran in November 2019 that left more than 300 dead.
Gohar Eshghi's son died in police custody in 2012. She has demanded justice for the past nine years. This week she sent a video to RFE/RL in which she blasted alleged human rights abuses committed in the Islamic republic. Hours later, Eshghi was arrested along with her daughter.
Thousands of people who fled violence across Afghanistan are living in makeshift tent cities in Kabul. Authorities in the capital have sent some of the displaced home, but a lot of them say they can't return to houses and communities destroyed by conflict.
A cybergroup has leaked confidential documents and correspondence from Iran's Evin prison. The documents, which were sent to RFE/RL's Radio Farda, appear to reveal the plight of prisoners at the notorious facility.
Hospitals in Ilam Province in western Iran are said to be at full capacity amid a new wave of COVID-19. Some residents link the rising numbers to a religious pilgrimage in August, when tens of thousands of Iranians traveled through the province to reach Karbala, Iraq, for the holiday of Arbaeen.
Gas stations across Iran experienced widespread disruptions on a government system managing fuel subsidies, in what state television said was a cyberattack.
Iran's southwestern Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province has a wealth of water resources -- but a combination of poor management and low rainfall this year has left residents with barely enough to drink.
Iran is dealing with skyrocketing inflation, which some observers blame on government mismanagement. President Ebrahim Raisi has promised to take action to reverse the rising prices of food and other goods, but citizens say the situation is still dire.
Amnesty International has called on Iran to carry out an "impartial and transparent" investigation into the "suspicious" death in custody of prisoner Shahin Naseri, who claimed that he witnessed the torture of champion wrestler Navid Afkari before his execution on homicide charges.
Amnesty International says Iran has postponed the execution of a man arrested at age 17 and sentenced to death following what rights groups said was a "grossly unfair" trial.
Amnesty International is urging Iran to stop the execution planned for later this week of a man arrested at aged 17 and sentenced to death following a "grossly unfair" trial.
Communities on the Hour al-Azim marshes in Iran's Khuzestan Province say they're facing catastrophe. Marshes are drying up and piped-in drinking water is severely rationed by the authorities. Local residents say livestock are dying and farms are being abandoned.
Iran is calling on the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to clarify its position regarding an alleged Israeli attack on a centrifuge-component manufacturing workshop near Tehran in June, amid a dispute with the UN nuclear agency over access to the site.
RFE/RL has heard from people in the city of Sari in northern Iran about how they have been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Many accuse the government of gross mismanagement of the crisis. Despite the risks of being filmed, local residents spoke of their distrust of the authorities.
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