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 ...

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

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

He was arrested in January in what was the biggest number of rape case ever attributed to a single offender in Iran.

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 ...

His public execution in Hamedan highlights Iran's continued use of capital punishment for serious crimes. Authorities confirmed Salamat, aged 43, faced accusations from 200 women, making it the ...

Following his arrest, hundreds of people gathered at the city’s justice department, demanding capital punishment for Salamat. U.N. experts said in September that Iran is among the world’s top ...

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

In Iran, blood money – known as diya in Islamic law – can be paid to a murder victim’s family as an alternative to capital punishment. However, they later demanded execution after becoming a ...