Human rights

Internet restoration in Iran begins as rights groups warn of deepening crisis

NetBlocks, a privately held global internet monitor, also claimed that there were signs of "an attempt to generate false traffic and manufacture narratives of a wider restoration."

An Iranian living in Japan, with taped mouth and carrying a sign, marches in support of nationwide protests in Iran, in Tokyo, Japan, January 18, 2026.
An engineer shows devices and explains the technology developed by the Israeli firm Cellebrite's technology on November 9, 2016

Jordan officials use products from Israeli company to violate activists privacy, rights - report

Cars burn in a street during a protest over the collapse of the currency's value, in Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2026.

Iranian man pretends to be dead for three days, fearing a regime execution - report

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei looks on, in a televised message following the Israeli strikes in Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2025.

Iran's internet to return to normal by Friday, official announces


CBS airs El Salvador mega prison report weeks after pulling segment

The report on the prison holding US deportees was delayed from December 21, with CBS saying more reporting was needed.

A Salvadoran soldier stands guard, as the CECOT logo is seen, during a media tour at the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) prison, in Tecoluca, El Salvador April 4, 2025.

Khamenei's gamble: Iran admits to the slaughter and counts on the world to look away - editorial

Khamenei himself bears the responsibility for this bloodshed.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after casting his ballot during the runoff presidential election in Tehran on July 5, 2024.

Erfan Soltani, Iranian protester sentenced to death, confirmed alive by watchdog

Soltani was arrested during public protests in Karaj on January 8. He was the first to be sentenced to execution, an Iranian official told Reuters.

26-year-old Iranian protester Erfaneh Soltani who is set to be executed by the Islamic regime on Wednesday, January 14, 2026.

Fake Western morality is fueled by Qatari money - opinion

For years, billions of dollars have flowed from Qatar into Western academic institutions.

A PERSON holds a flag of Qatar and money, as protesters march to Jerusalem during an anti-government demonstration on March 19, 2025.

Restore constitutional monarchy to honor lost Iranian lives - opinion

The Iranian protests call for monarchy restoration, but the world refuses to report what the protesters really want.

A person holds a picture of exiled Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi, during a protest against the Iranian regime at the Peace Palace ahead of a NATO leaders' summit in The Hague, Netherlands June 21, 2025.

Israel’s post-Oct. 7 emergency detentions risk becoming permanent law, rights groups warn

The measures, first enacted on December 18, 2023, as a temporary amendment to the Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants Law, have since been extended six times.

An Israeli police officer looks on as a Red Cross vehicle is seen near the Israeli military prison, Ofer, on the day Israel releases Palestinian prisoners as part of a hostages-prisoners swap and a ceasefire deal in Gaza between Hamas and Israel, near Ramallah in the West Bank, January 19, 2025.

Obtuse global piracy in Venezuela: Trump's illegal actions shatters US world standing - opinion

His invasion of Venezuela to seize its oil, under the pretense of combating drug trafficking, shatters the US's moral, legal, and ideological standing, while also violating international law

An activist holds a poster that reads ‘Condemns Donald Trump’s military aggression in Venezuela’, during an anti-US protest, after the US struck Venezuela and captured its President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, outside the US Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, January 6, 2026.

How Gazan medical professionals were complicit in hostage captivity, sexual assault - opinion

If medical professionals can participate in terror without accountability, then the laws meant to protect humanity have been hollowed out from within.

 Smoke rises as displaced Palestinians take shelter at Al Shifa hospital, amid the ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Gaza City, November 8, 2023.

Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says

Iran's treatment of prisoners in 2025 was also rife with abuses, according to the report, with 2,513 cases of prisoners being held in inappropriate conditions.

PEOPLE ATTEND a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022.

Between fear and hope, civic protest survives in Iran -opinion

What began as mourning for a human rights lawyer in Mashhad exposed Iran’s familiar strategy of turning grief into a threat and protest into a crime.

A picture shows traffic in the city of Mashhad, the capital of the province of Khorassan-e Razavi in northeastern Iran, on October 1, 2023