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After spending six years in prison in Iran, she also said she found it ‘very hard to adjust’ to being back in the UK. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells of ‘constant worry’ for family in Iran ...
Iranian authorities detained the father of Mahsa Amini on the one-year anniversary of her death Saturday, Iranian journalists and rights groups have said.
Born in Iran, Abedini is a former Shia Muslim who converted to Christianity in 2000. [2] [3] [4] While Christianity is recognized as a minority religion under the Iranian constitution, [5] Shiʿite converts to Christianity suffer discrimination at the hands of Iranian authorities. In particular, such converts are disallowed from worshiping with ...
Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh [1] were sentenced to execution by hanging in 2009 for converting to Christianity in Iran. [2] [3] [4] They were detained in the notorious Evin Prison for 259 days [5] [6] [7] where they were tortured and interrogated. [8] After gaining freedom, the two women wrote Captive in Iran which detailed their ...
On 16 November 2022, during the crackdown on the Mahsa Amini protests in the city of Izeh, there was an armed attack on Izeh the market by government security forces. Nine-year-old Kian Pirfalak, who was sitting in his parents' vehicle, was shot by government security forces during the attack.
A US envoy for Iran met on Friday with the family of Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd, who has been imprisoned and sentenced to death in Iran.
Siamak Namazi (Persian: سیامک نمازی; born September 14 or October 14, 1971 [1]) is an Iranian-American businessman. He was detained in Evin Prison in Iran from October 13, 2015 until his release on September 18, 2023.
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