Kurdish Sunni cleric Mohammad Khezrnejad has been sentenced to death for eulogizing a young man who was killed during the protests that swept Iran in 2022 after the killing of Mahsa Amini by the Tehran “morality police,” according to Iranian human rights organizations. Khezrnejad was arrested in November 2022 after delivering a speech at … Read more
American porn actress Whitney Wright, an outspoken Palestinian supporter since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, recently visited Tehran. During her visit, Wright reportedly made comments blaming the safety risks women in Iran are exposed to on political dissidents for not obeying Iran’s modesty laws, according to numerous media reports and social media posts … Read more
Iran’s judiciary has opened a new case against two jailed female journalists for appearing without a hijab upon their temporary release from prison, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported on Monday. Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, respectively sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison for their coverage of the death in custody of … Read more
Singer Mehdi Yarrahi has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison plus 74 lashes, his attorney Zahra Minoui said on Tuesday. Yarrahi, 42, was arrested in August on multiple charges in connection with a song that criticized the mandatory wearing of a headscarf for women. He was sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary … Read more
Plainclothes hijab enforcers have been searching the personal bags and the phones of citizens at Tehran’s Theatr-E Shahr metro station, the Iranian Jamaran news site reported on Tuesday. The enforcers filmed citizens in the station, looked through their phones, photographing their mobile registry codes, and searched their bags. A Jamaran correspondent asked one of … Read more
The family of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman killed by Tehran “morality police” last year, was recently banned from exiting Iran, a European Parliament member and Radio Farda reported on Saturday. According to the report, Amjad Amini, Mahsa’s father, along with Amini’s mother and brother were on their way to the Sakharov Prize for … Read more
Dr. Fatemeh Rajaei-Rad, a professor and surgeon, was fired from the Babol University of Medical Sciences a little over a month after she attended an award ceremony for doctors without wearing a hijab, the doctor announced on her Instagram story on Tuesday. During the ceremony in late October, Rajaei-Rad was honored as an exemplary … Read more
