Legal

Based on a bill passed by the Parliament, Iranian authorities, from the Leader and president to ministers and vice-presidents, are obligated to report the amount and details of their possessions and properties to the country’s Judiciary.

Iran’s Prosecutor General says the imprisoned billionaire Babak Zanjani, who is sentenced to death for fraud and money laundering, among other charges, will not be executed before returning the country’s oil money he has withheld.

More than 350 activists and scholars from universities around the world, and a Jewish group in Germany, have called on the University of Vienna’s law faculty to cancel a lecture by the Israeli regime’s justice minister Ayelet Shaked.

Spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary says two people have been arrested on suspicion of starting the fire of Plasco building, which led to its collapse on January 19 and killed several people.

A judge in southern Iran has sentenced a teenager charged with carrying illicit drugs to learn Islamic rules instead of going to jail.

Despite certain regulations on violence against Iranian women, the ones who suffer sexual abuse often don’t disclose it due to a lack of social support.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has granted clemency or commuted the sentences of a number of convicts on the anniversary of Islamic Revolution’s victory.

People can receive free legal advice in Tehran subway and cultural centres during the first ten days of February.

Kambiz Derambakhsh, an acclaimed Iranian graphic designer and cartoonist, has held a painting workshop for Iranian working children.

By imposing sanctions on the export of pharmaceuticals to Iran, Trump administration is trampling human rights and threatening Iranian lives, an Iranian Parliament member said.

The US Justice Department will face off with opponents in a federal appeals court on Tuesday over the fate of President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, his most controversial act since taking office last month.

A top Iranian parliamentarian says Tehran will win the lawsuit it has filed against the US at The Hague and make Washington compensate for its misappropriation of Iran’s assets.

An Iranian lawmaker lashed out at the country’s inadequate laws to fight the smuggling of goods, saying the huge amount of contraband cannot be smuggled into Iran without cooperation of certain official sources.

Iran says a lawsuit that it had submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) – the principal judicial organ of the United Nations – against the United States last summer for freezing billions of dollars worth of its assets has been officially put in motion.

An Iranian Judiciary human rights official rejected as not good the notion that the Islamic Republic should impose a visa ban on American citizens in response to US President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban on seven Muslim countries, including Iran.

An Iranian women rights activist hailed a recent bill passed by the Parliament to ensure gender equality in the country, and highlighted the key role such equality plays in national security.

A top Iranian parliamentarian says President Hassan Rouhani’s government is not doing enough to follow up on the lawsuits Iran has filed against the United States.

Tejarat Bank has filed a lawsuit at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), seeking compensation for the losses it incurred during the sanctions that targeted Iran's nuclear program, the bank's CEO said on Saturday.

The children who are employed for military purposes are in danger of serious physical and psychological damages.

Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli said on Wednesday that all perpetrators of the tragic fire and collapse of Plasco Building in Tehran will be identified and certainly be brought to justice.

A Pakistani female lawmaker threatened to burn herself after she was harassed by male colleagues in the parliament.

An official says the recent sealing of the offices of a number of advisors to the late Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council, was “a bureaucratic and natural measure which will be revoked soon.”

Hundreds of child refugees in various European countries, particularly Serbia, risk freezing to death as temperatures plunge to as low as minus -16C.

A Moroccan baby was denied the permission to live in Spain because, according to local officials, she hadn’t applied for it in person!

Iran’s laws fail to sufficiently protect women’s rights in family issues including marriage and divorce, said an Iranian lawmaker.