Iran’s Mahsa movement (2022-2023) was a non-violent uprising aimed at overthrowing the Islamic rule established in 1979. The government’s sole response was to suppress the protestors because of the movement’s objective.
The world on Saturday witnessed a unified wave of protests marking the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman whose killing at the hands of Iran's morality police in 2022 sparked nationwide ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests.
Just a day before the fourth anniversary of the execution of champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari, the Islamic Republic reportedly hanged a second decorated Greco-Roman wrestler, Morteza Yousefi, on Wednesday.
In spite of global sanctions and global condemnation, two years after Iran’s Woman Life Freedom uprising, “impunity for crimes reigns supreme”.
On the second anniversary of Iran's sweeping anti-regime protests, a new report by two rights groups calls for urgent international intervention to protect Iranian artists who face severe repression for their creative dissent.
Sara Deldar, a former political prisoner, has died due to multiple infections caused by pellet wounds sustained during the 2022 nationwide protests after being shot by Iranian security forces.
Nurses and healthcare workers in multiple cities across central Iran, including Isfahan, Qom, and Kashan, held protests on Saturday demanding better wages and improved working conditions.
As the anniversary of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protests approaches, security forces have begun a wave of arrests, repeating a pattern of repression targeting Iranian civil society and families of slain protestors.
In a move seemingly to deter any future unrest, the judiciary of the Islamic Republic has sentenced 89 residents of Likak, a town in the southwest, for their participation in the November 2019 protests.
As the Iranian Parliament conducts hearings for President Masoud Pezeshkian’s proposed cabinet, a new wave of strikes has swept across the country, as economic hardship continues for the sixth consecutive year.
In a wave of protests across cities like Arak, Mashhad, and Yasuj, Iranian nurses have taken to the streets, demanding better working conditions, fair pay, and respect for their profession.
On Saturday, public hospital nurses in Shiraz, southern Iran, extended their strike into a sixth day, joined by others in protest against harsh working conditions, low wages, and ongoing government neglect.
As global calls intensify to commemorate the second anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s state-sanctioned killing, her family remains uncertain if security forces will permit a memorial ceremony in her hometown.