Capital punishment

July 10, 2026 | Janatan Sayeh |

Pick To Run Iran’s Judiciary Shows Repression Will Live on Long After Ali Khamenei’s Death

If Iranians were hoping for a softening of the Islamic Republic’s iron rule, new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei has wasted no time in disillusioning them. He has appointed Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei...

March 25, 2026 | Janatan Sayeh |

Tehran Regime Marks Persian New Year With Public Hangings

Iranians’ greatest fear is not the bombs exploding around them, but the hangman’s noose wielded by their own rulers. Not content with the mass slaughter of some 40,000 unarmed Iranians during the...

September 11, 2024 | |

26 Human Rights Groups Denounce Iran’s Death Sentence Against Prominent Activist

Iran must rescind its death sentence against Kurdish women’s rights activist and social worker Pakhshan Azizi, a group of 26 human rights organizations said in a joint statement...

September 1, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran imposes double execution on champion wrestler for peacefully protesting regime

Courts in the Iranian city of Shiraz slapped a champion wrestler with a shocking penalty of two death sentences and whipping for protesting in 2018 against the Islamic Republic of Iran’s disastrous...

February 27, 2020 | Toby Dershowitz, Talia Katz

Torture TV

The Case for Sanctions on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s State-Run Media

July 9, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran’s War On Women

Co-authored by Saba Farzan As the world powers meet with representatives of the Iranian regime in Vienna in an effort to end its illicit nuclear program, the plight of strugglin...