Mohammad Javad Zarif emphasises “positive discrimination” for women and minorities, but it is the Islamic Republic that has been the main source of discrimination and oppression.

Article18 has submitted a joint report to the UN Human Rights Council ahead of Iran’s upcoming Universal Periodic Review, highlighting […]

Iran’s hand-picked presidential candidates have used some nice phrases in recent weeks about the rights and “dignity” of the people of Iran in general, and women and minorities in particular, but they have lacked any substance.

“Many people throughout the world have reacted with shock to the murders of three Protestant clergymen in recent months.” So […]

Rev Mehdi Dibaj’s final defence, before he was sentenced to death for “apostasy”, was published in full by The Times […]

Eight Iranian Christian converts have been sentenced to a combined total of nearly 45 years in prison. The eight, who […]

A Christian convert arrested last month remains in detention in an unknown location, as his wife and two daughters grow […]

An Armenian Christian has been condemned to 10 years in prison in Iran despite his lawyer arguing that the case […]

A Christian convert who was detained for over four months following his arrest on Christmas Eve has been sentenced to […]

A hospital founded by American missionaries 100 years ago and confiscated following the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979 […]