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 ...

AP The lawyer of an Iranian-British woman convicted on spying charges in Iran has asked that she be released after serving half of her sentence, a request that was immediately rejected by the Tehran prosecutorsoffice, the state IRNA news agency reported Sunday. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was sentenced ...

Narges Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) co-founded by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, was arrested on May 5 at her home in Tehran, according to her husband. Speaking to RFE/RL by telephone from Paris, Taghi Rahmani said the officers apparently arrived early in the morning with an arrest warrant....

[caption id="attachment_75077" align="alignright" width="179"] Hamid Baeidinejad (pic) heads Irans expert-level nuclear negotiating team.[/caption] Iran and the 5+1 Powers (US, Britain, France, Germany, China, and Russia) will continue the process for a comprehensive nuclear agreement withexpert-level talks this week. Hamid Baeidinejad, the Foreign ...