The report came about a month after the UN human rights chief said Iran had executed 901 prisoners in 2024. Volker Turk said ...

Iran executed at least 975 people last year in a “horrifying escalation” of its use of capital punishment, two human rights ...

The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran.

The kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, was once shunned in diplomatic circles. Now he is playing an ...

Iran's top judicial authority has pardoned two journalists who uncovered the death of a young woman in police custody that triggered nationwide protests in 2022, the judiciary's news outlet Mizan said ...

A video shows an Iranian woman protesting strict hijab laws by stripping and climbing onto a police car in Mashhad. In December, Iran's legislature passed a bill introducing harsher punishments ...

The second batch of Israeli hostages set to be released by Hamas this weekend are four female soldiers, an advocacy group representing the captives’ family members confirmed Friday. Hamas had ...

Iranian police arrested two young women for dancing in a Tehran cemetery while wearing inappropriate clothing. This act of defiance against the country's strict dress code, particularly in a ...

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. Azizi, 40, had her request for a retrial rejected by Iran’s Supreme Court, her lawyer said on Friday. She was ...

Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said on Thursday. The United States and the European Union in January called on Iran to overturn her death sentence.

March is International Women's History Month. March 2001 also marks the 22nd ... but for the first time moved the question of the Middle East from oil, to one of social revolution. What was most ...