Rights groups report at least nine executions on political or espionage charges

Amnesty International reported that police spokesperson Saeed Montazer Al-Mahdi announced on 12 August that around 21,000 people had been arrested since the hostilities. The arrest campaign included...

Human Rights Watch reported that at least 62 women political prisoners were transferred from Evin to Qarchak after the June 23 attack, including a toddler with an imprisoned mother. It documented...

Human Rights Watch said Iranian authorities refused to disclose the fate and whereabouts of some detainees held in security and intelligence sections associated with Evin. Families and lawyers made...

Following an investigation using verified video, satellite imagery and interviews, Amnesty International said the June 23 Israeli strikes damaged at least six areas of Evin prison and killed and...

The two organizations reported arrests and intimidation of dissidents, human-rights defenders, journalists, Afghans, Baluchi and Kurdish people, and Baha’i, Christian and Jewish minorities. They...

The joint Amnesty-HRW report said parliament had fast-tracked emergency legislation expanding the death penalty for vaguely worded offences such as “cooperation with hostile governments” and...

Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported a mass arrest and expulsion campaign against Afghans in the postwar security climate, alongside the use of the discriminatory label...

The joint Amnesty-HRW report said checkpoints introduced after the June conflict involved invasive vehicle and mobile-phone searches, with people arrested for alleged collaboration based on content...

After examining eight impact sites, Human Rights Watch reported that at least five Iranian ballistic missiles struck populated areas in Israel and that 20 civilians were killed during the war. It said...

The IAEA reported that its Director General and Iran’s foreign minister signed a Cairo agreement setting procedures for inspections, notifications and safeguards implementation at declared facilities....