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A woman student activist, Zamaneh Zivi, was sentenced to 50 lashes of the whip and payment of 800,000 toumans ($225) as cash fine. Ms. Zivi has been charged ...

A young Iranian woman was sentenced to 100 lashes and forced labor in a hospital for a year on the alleged charge of illicit relations. The trial was ...

The order of 80 lashes was carried out in Iran on Tuesday afternoon, September 19, 2017, for Leila Bayat.  Leila Bayat had sought refuge in Norway but had ...

In a shocking move by the Iranian Judiciary, a young woman convicted of having illicit relations with a man was sentenced to 74 lashes and two years of ...

A victim of rape and violence was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment and 99 lashes of the whip. A 32-year-old woman by the name of Nahid was sentenced ...

A young woman was sentenced to 99 lashes and internal exile merely for having telephone contact and exchanging text messages with a man. Sepideh's husband left home on ...

A 28-year-old woman was given 80 lashes of the whip for participating in her friend's birthday party. The young woman had the account of her arrest and flogging ...

Atena Farghadani, young cartoonist who spent nearly two years in prison for criticizing government policies in her cartoons, released a new cartoon on August 22, 2016, in which ...

Over 30 young men and women arrested in a graduation party in Qazvin were punished by 99 lashes of the whip. Qazvin’s Public Prosecutor announced that in an ...

18 human rights activists including families of political prisoners and martyrs were sentenced each to 91 days imprisonment and 74 lashes. They had participated in a peaceful gathering ...