Iran's human rights violations include restrictions on freedom of assembly, abysmal prison conditions, unfair legal codes, religious discrimination, and limits on women's rights.

BEIRUT (AP) — Human Rights Watch alleged Thursday that an Israeli airstrike on a notorious Iranian prison was “an apparent ...

The newly released U.N. Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran savaged Tehran’s failure to adhere to basic human rights norms.

On July 29, the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and the Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation, an independent institution monitoring human rights in Iran, reported 386 executions in 2016 so far.

This edition of the Farda Briefing looks at the back-and-forth between Iran’s president and Israel’s prime minister over Iran ...

While Iran is targeted over human rights issues, Western governments remain silent about the ongoing atrocities in Gaza. How can this double standard be exposed? The West has lost all credibility on ...

Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says "unfortunately, the nuclear energy issue has stalemated many issues in Iran, the most important being the issue of ...

The United States and Iran clashed on security and human rights on Wednesday, with Iran's president demanding U.S. guarantees to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal and the U.S. president vowing ...

Among them there are human rights lawyers, including Nasrin Sotoudeh and Soheila Hejab. Nasrin Sotoudeh is a tireless defender of human rights and of those most persecuted in Iran, including ...

Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, says "unfortunately, the nuclear energy issue has stalemated many issues in Iran, the most important being the issue of ...