The two were convicted of membership of the People's Mujahedin opposition group, which is outlawed by the Islamic republic.

Cecilia Sala (L) was welcomed home to Rome by Italy's prime minister who took personal charge of her case An Italian journalist has returned to Rome after spending weeks in an Iranian jail.

Two young women were detained by police in Iran for posting a video of themselves dancing. The viral Instagram post features ...

Three Christians rearrested for their faith in Iran were subjected to torture and asked to write letters renouncing their ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi on Thursday called for an "end" to the Islamic republic and urged human rights to be a precondition of any negotiation with Tehran as she addressed ...

The two hanging-judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moghiseh, were integral parts of a network of criminal clerics at the heart ...

Iran's judiciary said on Wednesday that a Swiss prisoner who took his own life this month had been jailed for "taking photos of a restricted military site".

Bent on suppressing Christianity in Iran, Islamic courts handed down six times more prison time to persecuted Christians in ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

A Swiss national who Iranian authorities said took his own life while in an Iranian jail after being arrested on suspicion of espionage had taken pictures of military sites, Iran's judiciary ...

Trump terminated Secret Service protection for John Bolton. The former national security adviser, who left the Trump White ...