VOA — TEHRAN, IRAN — An Iranian police officer has been reprimanded after he did not enforce the country’s dress code requiring women to cover their hair, local media reported Monday. A... Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN — Iranian authorities have released journalist Elnaz Mohammadi from the Hammihan newspaper on bail one week after her arrest, media reported Sunday, but her sister, also a reporter, remains... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON — Condemnation of the Islamic Republic’s violent suppression of freedom drew together eight noted Iranian dissidents who gathered to determine how they could more effectively advance their quest to... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran on Friday released dissident Farhad Meysami — jailed for protesting Iran’s requirement that women wear hijabs — a week after supporters warned he risked... Read more »

VOA — PARIS — Iran has released several prominent women activists and journalists from Tehran’s Evin prison, campaigners said Thursday, with video showing them defiantly chanting pro-protest slogans outside the jail. Media... Read more »

VOA — Iranian dissident journalist Keyvan Samimi, imprisoned since December 2020, was released Thursday, his family told AFP. Samimi, age 74, had been sentenced to three years in prison for “conspiracy against... Read more »

BBC — The BBC has found evidence of a considerable number of Covid-related deaths in China’s rural regions, as the virus spread from big cities to more remote areas with older populations.... Read more »

VOA — When Aida Ghajar saw a tweet that a young woman was in a coma after being taken into custody by Tehran’s morality police, the IranWire reporter immediately contacted her sources... Read more »

VOA — Iran has executed a British Iranian national. Ali Reza Akbari was a former Iranian deputy defense minister and had been charged with spying for Britain. On Saturday, Iran’s Mizan news agency announced... Read more »