TEHRAN, Iran -- An Iranian official has accused the U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in Iran of taking bribes from the United States, the semi...

By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Iran has stepped up executions of prisoners including juveniles as well as arrests of ...

For those who believe in the rights of victims to truth and justice, the lack of interest of Latin American democracies in Iran's abysmal human rights record is concerning and disheartening.

Iran's abysmal human rights situation should draw attention on its own merits, and trigger concerted international efforts to hold human rights abusers accountable and ensure that Iranian authorities respect their obligations under international law.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's state prosecutor has confirmed for the first time that a blogger who died in police custody last month had been beaten. Prosec...

Now that many names of those in Evin prison have been published, these courageous women must not be forgotten and the Iranian government should be pressured for their immediate release.

TEHRAN, Iran -- Iran's state prosecutor confirmed Monday that a jailed blogger died in police custody last week and that wounds were found on his body...

“Buy a grave today and come collect his corpse tomorrow.” This is how Iranian prison authorities reportedly informed Sattar Beheshti’s famil...

Both candidates showed determination to prevent a nuclear Iran, including by military action. Neither of them however, wondered publically whether the Iranian people, who have the most at stake in case of war, approve of Iran's leadership's policies?

My purpose here is not to defend the UN report, which speaks for itself. Rather, I want to point to what Larijani's outburst means and why it should encourage the international community to stand with the victims and strengthen human rights defenders.

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Human rights activists in Iran are subjected to beatings with batons, mock hang...

Mr. Ban won't meet a free press and he won't meet free and independent people. But he can speak his mind and he can tell the world what he said. Thanks to the Internet, the Iranian people will find out what happened.

Ban Ki-moon enjoys a reputation of moral clarity and of boldness to criticize and to cling to principles. This week's visit to Tehran, where the Non-Aligned Summit is being held, represents a major test for him.

BERLIN — A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to 13 years in prison by a Tehran revolutionary court, his daughter said Tue...

Is the nuclear program more important in Islamic Republic's quest for status and power than overcoming the economic malaise, the terrible pollution gripping its capital and the growing suffocation of civil liberties?

It's time to start paying attention to what can be done to both reduce the dangers of reporting and increase, if not simply safeguard, basic freedoms. This is important on all days, but especially today, World Press Freedom Day.

Unfortunately, some leaders of the Occupy movement have been all too eager to address Iran's state-run media, bolstering the mullahs' narrative of a violently repressive American government beholden to shadowy Wall Street power.

How would a military strike on Iran affect the country's human rights situation? A new message from 35 prominent Iranians, released in a new video by ...

Stoning has been removed from the section of the code dealing with penalties for 'adultery.' However, sexual relation outside of marriage remains a crime.

It was momentous that an Iranian artist reflected the voice of so many Iranians at a venue as important as the Oscars, where millions of people watched his speech.

"I do not regard the country mandate as a punitive measure. This is the start of a process that we can hopefully work through peacefully and collaboratively."

Every day, I marvel at the resiliency of the human spirit while time and again, I am struck by ideologies that instill a sense of alienation and hatred prompting ordinary people to commit unimaginable atrocities.