The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) has released a new brief titled Tab'eed: Internal Exile as a Punishment for ...

Human rights groups have voiced growing alarm over Iran's escalating use of capital punishment, particularly against ...

In Iran, blood money – known as diya in Islamic law – can be paid to a murder victim’s family as an alternative to capital ...

Iran on Monday executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man in 2022 following a person dispute, reports said. It was a rare case of an execution of member of a religious minority in ...

Iranian authorities amputated fingers of two men convicted of theft, rights groups said Wednesday, in a relatively rare use ...

Iran on Monday executed a Jewish citizen convicted of murdering another man in 2022 following a personal dispute, reports ...

These developments call for intensified international efforts and dialogue to address Iran's use of capital punishment, ...

Iran has executed 633 people this year alone. Activists accuse the authorities of using capital punishment as a way of instilling fear throughout society.

Iran has executed a 20-year-old Jewish man who killed a man in a 2022 fight after the victim’s family refused to negotiate an alternative punishment.

Mizanonline.ir, a website affiliated with Iran's judiciary, said 23-year-old Arvin Ghahremani was put to death after the country’s Supreme Court affirmed the capital punishment handed down in ...

In Iran, blood money – known as diya in Islamic law – can be paid to a murder victim’s family as an alternative to capital punishment. However, they later demanded execution after becoming a ...