Amir Hossein Maghsoudlou, better known as Amir Tataloo, has always grabbed the headlines, and now with his deportation from Turkey and arrest in Iran drawn media attention.

An Iranian Judiciary official held meetings with the German and Dutch ambassadors to Tehran to talk about the legal and judicial cooperation with the two European nations and to pursue the efforts to protect the rights of Iranian nationals and inmates in Europe. Kazem Gharibabadi, the Iranian Judiciary chiefs deputy for international affairs and ...

rans judiciary has opened cases against six security guards at Tehrans high-security Evin Prison in connection with viral videos that apparently showed mistreatment of inmates. The newly-appointed Judiciary spokesman Zabihullah Khodaeian, in his first press briefing on Tuesday, said four guards had been introduced to a military court, two others ...

A court in Iran has summoned the countrys telecoms minister to investigate why he failed to filter photo-sharing website Instagram, among other charges filed against him. A spokesman of the telecoms ministry said in a Wednesday tweet that Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi had returned to his office after being questioned by investigating judges in the ...

Iran said on Tuesday the Islamic Republic Supreme Court had upheld a death sentence against an anti-Iran media figure who was captured last year in a complex intelligence operation outside the country. Ruhollah Zam, the administrator of the counterrevolutionary website Amad News, was convicted of fomenting violence during anti-government protests ...

Irans Supreme Court has agreed to retry three men over links to last years fuel protests and whose death sentences have been suspended. Upon a decree by the head of the Supreme Court, the three convicts, Amir-Hossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi, and Saeed Tamjidi will be tried again in another court branch. They had been found guilty of involvement ...

Judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaeili said on Tuesday that the Judiciary pardoned 157 prisoners with security charges for taking part in the riots of 2017, 2018 and 2019. Upon a proposal by Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Ebrahim Raeisi on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) and Imam Sadeq (AS), Supreme Leader of ...

Iran has temporarily released Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer who was jailed two years ago on spying and propaganda charges, the judiciarys news agency reported on Saturday. Sotoudehs release followed warnings last month by human rights groups that her health had severely deteriorated after she staged a six-week hunger ...

Iran has released prominent rights activist Narges Mohammadi, according to a report by an Iranian news agency, which said her 10-year sentence had been reduced. A leading advocate for the abolition of the death penalty in Iran, Mohammadi was jailed in 2016 for founding a campaign group that was deemed to be an illegal splinter group. She was freed ...

Iran's Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raeisi has said that individuals behind money laundering, economic corruption and instability in the country will have nowhere to flee according to the country's Islamic governance values. Raeisi made the remarks concluding his tour of judicial institutions in Irans northwestern Ardabil province on Thursday. Economic ...

Press TV - Irans Judiciary has sentenced a high-ranking official in its executive branch to a total of 31 years in prison over involvement in a major financial corruption case. Judiciary spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaeili announced the ruling on Saturday and said Akbar Tabari, the former deputy head of the Judiciary for executive affairs, had been ...