Iran bans Mahsa Amini’s family from travelling to accept EU’s Sakharov human rights prize
The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights...
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Iranian teenage girl dies a month after losing consciousness in
Iranian teenager Armita Garawand died on Saturday a month after falling into a coma following a disputed incident on Tehran’s metro, media in the Islamic...
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard recruits volunteers to fight in Gaza
The Iranian regime has launched an online campaign to recruit volunteers – including children – to fight alongside Hamas in the war against Israel. But...
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Iranian teenage girl ‘brain dead’ after alleged encounter with
A teenage Iranian girl, who fell into a coma earlier this month following an alleged encounter with officers over violating the country’s hijab law, is...
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Iranian Mahsa Amini and the movement she inspired, ‘Woman, Life,
Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was...
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How police in Iran are cracking down on hijab regulations on year after historic protests began
Issued on: 18/09/2023 – 11:26 On September 16, 2022, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for wearing her hijab “improperly”....
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Clampdown and grief as Iranians mark first anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death
Iranians at home and abroad marked the first anniversary Saturday of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, with activists speaking of a renewed...
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‘Whoever targeted my eye knew exactly who I was’
Saman, a 31-year-old export consultant, fled from a Tehran hospital when Iranian security officers came to arrest him in October. His left eye was seriously...
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One year on: Iranian women grapple with the aftermath of Mahsa Amini’s death
Issued on: 13/09/2023 – 14:35Modified: 13/09/2023 – 14:49 One year ago this week, the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in Iran sparked nationwide demonstrations against...
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One year on: Oppression of women in Iran since Mahsa Amini’s death
Issued on: 13/09/2023 – 13:02Modified: 13/09/2023 – 14:11 08:11 PERSPECTIVE © FRANCE 24 A major exhibition at the Festival of Photojournalism, the Visa pour L’Image,...
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Iran sentences two more women journalists to jail time as anniversary
Two female Iranian journalists will spend around a month behind bars as part of a three-year partly suspended prison sentence for “conspiracy and “collusion”, local...
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'The Siren': The Iran-Iraq war seen through the eyes of a teenage boy
A renowned Iranian filmmaker who’s now based in France says it’s very important for her to make films that tell the truth about her childhood...