Iranian authorities have executed 55 people so far in 2023, a rights group said Friday, adding that the surging use of the death penalty aims to create fear as protests shake the country.

To stop these executions, a comprehensive strategy must be devised by a coalition of democratic governments using all ...

Iran has announced it would be suppressing its infamous morality police but nevertheless has carried out this week the execution of the second of a protest-related death row inmate after last ...

Iran’s execution of a former Iranian official with British citizenship, Alireza Akbari, after accusing him of spying for ...

Minnesota Iranian community members gathered for a rally protesting the executions of political prisoners in Iran and to ...

Officials said "individuals in Iran" had tasked the defendants with carrying out the plot to kill the activist.

A dual British-Iranian citizen was hanged by Iran on charges of espionage and corruption, a state-affiliated media outlet ...

Ali Reza Akbar, who once worked for Iran's defense ministry, was executed despite international outcry over his death ...

Rishi Sunak has hit back at accusations his government was soft on Iran in the lead up to Tehran’s execution of dual citizen ...

A group of 30 female political prisoners incarcerated in Iran's notorious Evin prison have published a letter demanding a ...

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called it “a callous and cowardly act carried out by a barbaric regime with no respect for ...

Alireza Akbari served as Iranian deputy minister of defense from 2000 to 2005, but was arrested in 2019 and accused of serving as a British intelligence agent.