Iran protests

Iran executes detainee for participating in January anti-regime protests, judiciary says

Iran's judiciary claimed that Siavash Jamshidi Kheirabadi fired at least three shots at police on January 8 and was arrested two days later with a handgun in Shahrekord in southwestern Iran.

Neither Shah Nor Mullah protest against the executions carried out in Iran by Ayatollah Khamenei's regime in the city of Paris in France on September 19, 2026.
CITIZEN FOOTAGE from Tehranpars, Tehran Province, featured in Manoto’s documentary ‘This Is Our Story,’ which reconstructs the January uprising through videos filmed by Iranians as events unfolded.

In their own voice: How Iran’s citizens documented January's massacres in Manoto documentary

Students at Tehran’s Allameh Tabataba'i University protest against the compulsory hijab, September 28, 2026.

Iranian students protest compulsory hijab, university costs as campus unrest returns

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) at UN headquarters in New York City, US, September 23, 2026.

Bereaved Iranians respond to Pezeshkian's claims to UNGA that US, Israel armed January protesters


UN probe finds Iran committed crimes against humanity in crackdown, cites US and Israel for strikes

The mission concluded that the suppression “went beyond a simple continuation of familiar patterns and represented a marked escalation in the use of lethal force and mass arrests.”

UN High commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk (3rd L) delivers his speech during the 63rd session of United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, in Geneva, on September 7, 2026.

UN accuses US military of committing war crimes, Iranian regime of crimes against humanity

The US was accused of the targeting a school in the city of Minab and a sports center in the city of Lamerd, while the Iranian regime was accused of the handling protests.

FILE PHOTO: People and rescue forces work following an Israel strike on a school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026.

'Women, Life, Freedom' Iran uprising survivors honor Mahsa Amini on anniversary of her death

‘The Woman, Life, Freedom uprising gave them an opportunity to say ‘no’ to a fascist system that treated women merely as slaves and always portrayed them as inferior to men.’

A mural of Mahsa Amini painted by Chilean-American artist Rodrigo Pradel in collaboration with Yasi Farazad, his Iranian-American friend, is pictured in Washington, United States in this undated handout picture.

‘Last Breath’: The campaign giving Iran’s condemned a face and a name

This year, more than 950 people have been executed in Iran, including at least 29 people arrested in connection with January’s protests. Months later, scores are still at risk of execution.

A demonstrator wears a sticker over her mouth with the words "no execution" during a silent march denouncing the Iranian government's deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in the Islamic Republic, in Paris on January 31, 2026.

Iran’s regime is increasingly forced to defend itself at home - opinion

Iran’s regime is increasingly turning its security apparatus inward as protests, armed opposition and internal threats put pressure on the IRGC.

People walk past a banner with a picture of the late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohammad Pakpour, in Tehran Bazaar, Iran, April 21, 2026

UN chief Guterres slammed for ignoring Iranian regime executions in talk with President Pezeshkian

The UN’s official readout of the meeting said Guterres and Pezeshkian discussed the humanitarian and economic consequences of the conflict between Iran and the US.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian (L) shakes hands with the United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres during the UN's General Assembly.

Iranians protesting unfair employment, economy brutalized by security forces, rights group says

The Human Rights Activists’ News Agency reported that young protesters began demonstrating over allegations of unethical hiring practices at the Lishtar refinery project.

FILE PHOTO: People walk on the beach, with vessels in the Strait of Hormuz visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, Iran, May 22, 2026.

Iranian regime sentences 10 January protesters to death, six others receive 25 years in prison

According to rights groups' claims, more than 500 people have been killed by the regime since the protests erupted in January.

People walk past a banner with a picture of the late Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander Mohammad Pakpour, in Tehran Bazaar, Iran, April 21, 2026

Who is Leila Abolhasani? The mother sentenced to death after Iran’s January protests

Abolhasani, a 43-year-old beautician and mother of two teenage girls, was sentenced to death for “enmity against God” after authorities accused her of helping set fire to a supermarket.

Leila Abolhasani, a 43-year-old mother of two, faces execution in Iran after being convicted of “enmity against God” following her arrest during January’s nationwide protests.

Facing exile and persecution, an Iranian dissident crossed from devout Muslim to student of Judaism

IRANIAN AFFAIRS: Iranian refugee Behnam Vali Heydarian recounts persecution, attacks, pro-Israel activism, and fears of deportation to Iran after his journey from Islam to Christianity and Judaism.

IRANIAN ACTIVISTS display the Lion and Sun flag alongside Israel’s flag outside Georgia’s parliament at one of the rallies that interviewee Behnam Vali Heydarian says he was pressured to stop organizing.