VOA — A prominent Sunni Muslim cleric in Iran called Friday for improved women’s rights. Leading Friday prayers in Zahedan, regional capital of Iran’s restive southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan, prominent... Read more »
VOA — An Iranian journalist who was jailed last year for conducting an interview with Mahsa Amini’s father said Thursday that she has been “terminated” from her position at the newspaper where... Read more »
VOA — TEHRAN — An Iranian court has sentenced a man to death after convicting him of killing a powerful cleric in April, the judiciary said Wednesday, but the victim’s family may... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — Most transplanted hearts are from donors who are brain dead, but new research shows a different approach can be just as successful and boost the number of available... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — The life of a German Iranian detained in Iran is in danger and she is in such pain she can barely move, a fellow prisoner who is a... Read more »
VOA — WASHINGTON — Iran carried out 142 executions in May, marking the highest number of people put to death in one month in the country since 2015, a rights group said... Read more »
VOA — PARIS — Iranian authorities on Thursday executed a man in public in front of large crowds, a rights group said, denouncing a “medieval” practice as the Islamic republic presses on... Read more »
VOA — Two jailed Iranian journalists, who helped break the story of the case of a 22-year-old woman who died in police custody last September, will go on trial later this month,... Read more »
VOA — Iran’s judiciary said Saturday that it had executed the head of a network that trafficked Iranian women to neighboring countries for prostitution. It said Shahrooz Sakhnoori, a man known as... Read more »
VOA — Iran’s judiciary announced Friday it executed three men convicted of killing security force members during protests last year triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, drawing condemnation from rights... Read more »