Two women journalists in Iran, saw an injustice and did what independent journalists are supposed to do— they reported on it. Now they are in jail for ‘espionage’, a crime that has a death penalty. Reporters Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi reported on Mahsa Amini, the young Kurdish Iranian woman, who died Sept. 16 after […]
Nikan Khosravi, a member of the Iranian metal band “Confess,” fled Iran last March to find safety in Turkey in an effort to avoid being imprisoned for six years for producing “satanic” music. On March 29, 2018, Khosravi told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) that “the interrogators had translated my English lyrics […]
After India, now Iran! A tragic collision between two passenger trains in Iran’s Semnan province killed over 31 people dead and left 70 others injured, including four railway employees. According to the provincial governor in the region, an intercity express was struck by another train while it was stationary at the Haft-Khan station in Shahroud […]
