VOA — The wife of a jailed Iranian dissident has criticized Iran’s government for refusing to grant her husband a single day of sick leave in his 14 months of detention despite... Read more »

DW — Iranian director Manijeh Hekmat expected the production of her latest movie to go ahead as planned — but then she found herself having to improvise. The resulting film is more... Read more »

The Conversation — Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution was a defining event that changed how we think about the relationship between religion and modernity. Ayatollah Khomeini’s mass mobilisation of Islam showed that modernisation... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – A jailed Iranian blogger is intensifying his campaign to raise international awareness about worsening conditions at the notorious prison where he is detained, saying in a new audio... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – A jailed Iranian lawyer and human rights defender has suffered a significant decline in her health on the 21st day of a hunger strike to protest Iran’s treatment... Read more »

DW — Millions of West German children were sent to brutal “spa” homes between the 1950s and 1980s that left them traumatized, a new report alleges. Many of the homes were run... Read more »

VOA — WASHINGTON – Multiple sources say a jailed Iranian labor union leader has had his five-year prison term extended for another year by Iran’s appellate court in retaliation for his pursuit... Read more »

DW — Keiko Ogura intends to commemorate August 6 in peaceful contemplation alongside the river at Peace Park — but will never talk about her experiences with her own children. Keiko Ogura... Read more »

VOA — HAMPTON, VIRGINIA - In late August 1619, an English pirate ship named the White Lion sailed into the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay and ... deposited, according to handwritten records,... Read more »