VOA — LYON, FRANCE — Hundreds of people marched Sunday in France to honor an Iranian Kurdish man who took his own life in a desperate act of anguish over the nationwide... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI — A top dissident Iranian Sunni cleric on Friday denounced as un-Islamic Iran’s alleged use of forced confessions to convict detained protesters, as weekly demonstrations continued in the county’s... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran released a prominent actress from an Oscar-winning film on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after she was jailed for criticizing a crackdown on anti-government protests,... Read more »

VOA — TEHRAN — A member of Iran’s security forces has been shot dead during protests in the city of Semirom, state media said Sunday, more than 100 days after Mahsa Amini’s... Read more »

VOA — PARIS — At least 100 Iranians arrested in more than 100 days of nationwide protests face charges punishable by death, Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights (IHR) said Tuesday. Protests have... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — A prominent former soccer player in Iran who has expressed support for anti-government protests says his wife and daughter were prevented from leaving the country... Read more »

VOA — Reports from Iran say at least 44 lawyers have been arrested since mass anti-government protests erupted following the death of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who had been arrested by... Read more »

VOA — DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — Iran’s currency hovered near a historic low against the U.S. dollar on the unofficial foreign exchange market Friday amid renewed street protests in the restive... Read more »

At least 500 people have been killed in Iran since protests there began in mid-September, according to U.S.-based rights monitor HRANA. The Human Rights Activists News Agency said the dead included 69... Read more »