The 16-year-old girls were killed by the Iranian security services in a crackdown on the protests that have rocked the country for the past month.
‘They are massacring people’: Iran demos intensify in Kurdish city
Demonstrations against the clerical establishment have swept across Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini in September. Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman from the western city of Saqqez, fell into a coma …
Children caught up in Iran demos face ‘psychological centres’
Dozens of Iranian children have been killed and hundreds detained after being caught up in protests over Mahsa Amini’s death, some of them even ending up in “psychological centres”, it has emerged.
Inside Iran
The history, protest and voices from Iran …
Iran’s Women- and Youth-Led Protests Continue to Grow Amid Brutal Crackdown
Anti-government protests in Iran, first sparked last month by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, have moved into their fourth week. The youth and women-led protests cross class and ethnic divides, …
Iran: A really simple guide to the protests
What are the protests about? It all started with the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman arrested by morality police in Tehran on 13 September for allegedly violating Iran’s strict rules …
Iran’s Gen Z ‘realise life can be lived differently’
Protests against religious rule have spread like never before through Iran’s new generation of women and girls, whose parents and grandparents tried and failed to change the system from within. In …
More than a thousand protesters have been arrested in Iran. Here are three of their stories
As the protest cries of exasperated Iranians continue to ring through the streets of the country, reflected in videos posted on social media, here are a few of the key stories that have shaped the …
Calls grow to kick Iran out of UN body dedicated to equality and empowerment of women
Amid a crackdown on women for defying the Islamic dress code there are fresh calls to oust Iran from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
Iran president accuses US of ‘destabilization’ amid protests
Iran’s president accused the U.S. on Thursday of conducting a “failed policy of destabilization” targeting his nation after Iranians in cities nationwide protested the death of a 22-year-old woman in …