In the end, it is not only Iran’s youth who suffer under this hypocrisy; it is the integrity of human rights itself.

The Iranian human rights organization Hengaw has reported the execution of two Afghan citizens, including a woman, by the ...

Iran's state media say authorities have executed in public a man convicted of raping dozens of women over two decades.

Mizanonline.ir, a website affiliated with Iran's judiciary, said 23-year-old Arvin Ghahremani was put to death after the country’s Supreme Court affirmed the capital punishment handed down in ...

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has released a new brief titled Tab'eed: Internal Exile as a Punishment for ...

These developments call for intensified international efforts and dialogue to address Iran's use of capital punishment, ...

In Iran, blood money – known as diya in Islamic law – can be paid to a murder victim’s family as an alternative to capital ...

Human rights groups have voiced growing alarm over Iran's escalating use of capital punishment, particularly against ...

Iran has executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man following a personal dispute. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in the predominately Muslim ...