Migrants from neighboring Afghanistan form the majority of some 8,000 foreign nationals incarcerated in Iran, the Deputy Minister of Human Rights and International Affairs at Iran’s Ministry of Justice announced on Tuesday, adding the first phase of transferring the convicts to their home country has initiated.
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who had supported the nationwide protests and riots in Iran, and was convicted of propaganda against the government, has been released after serving his sentence, Mizan news agency affiliated with the country’s judiciary reported on Monday.
Iran’s Prosecutor General has called on Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi to intensify efforts in pursuing the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
A court in Iran’s Isfahan province has officially closed the case against detained rapper Tumaj Salehi dating back to 2021 over his support for the nationwide unrest and deadly riots.
The Deputy Minister for International Affairs and Human Rights of Iran's Justice Ministry announced that within the next two months, a thousand Afghan prisoners will be returned to their country from Iran.
The spokesperson for Iran’s Judiciary announced that two detained Iranian journalists, convicted of collaborating with enemies in the case of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whose death sparked nation-wide unrest and deadly riots in Iran in 2022, have submitted a pardon request.
An Iranian court has sentenced three individuals affiliated with Israel to death after they were convicted of procuring equipment used in the assassination of top scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 2020, according to the country's judiciary.
A spokesperson for Iran’s Judiciary announced that Jamshid Sharmahd, leader of the “Tondar” terrorist group and member of the so-called “Kingdom Assembly of Iran,” passed away before his execution.
Shohreh Mousavi, former director of Iran’s Football Federation, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison as part of the high-profile “King Money” case involving widespread economic disruption and fraud.
Jamshid Sharmehed, the ringleader of the US-based Tondar (Thunder) terrorist group, who for years planned numerous terrorist operations against Iran, was executed.
A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary says it has no information about whether the house arrest of former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi and the latter’s wife Zahra Rahnavard has come to an end.
The death sentence of four main convicts in the case of selling bootleg alcoholic drinks that led to the death of their clients was carried out on Wednesday in Alborz province, near the capital Tehran.
The Iranian Judiciary addressed on Tuesday rising questions regarding the exclusion of several journalists from a recent amnesty granted by the Leader, clarifying their cases have security aspects.
A group of renowned journalism and communication professors has written a letter to Iran's Judiciary chief, calling for the revocation of prison sentences of journalists, highlighting the recent case of two female journalists.
Lawyers for two Iranian journalists say they have received notices to report to prison within five days to begin serving their five-year sentence despite having been pardoned by the Leader.
Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, who was accused of spreading anti-government protests in Iran in 2022 with his catchy “For” song, says he has been pardoned in a general amnesty.
Iran has released an Austrian national who had been detained for crimes committed in Iran's northwest, according to the Chief Justice of the Iranian province of West Azarbaijan.
Gholamabbas Turki, Iranian Deputy Prosecutor General for Public Rights and Crime Prevention, revealed that around 130,000 suicide attempts occur in Iran annually, resulting in 7,000 deaths.
Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simai Sarraf says the Iranian Judiciary has promised to form a working group to review the cases of students and university lecturers who got implicated following the September 2022 unrest in the country.
Abdollah Momeni, a well-known Iranian political activist, has been released from prison following a Supreme Court decision that overturned his original sentence, says his brother.
An initial court verdict on Iranian Grammy Award-winning singer Shervin Hajipour has been declared null and void in an appeals court, according to the Iranian Judiciary’s Media Center.
Iran’s Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Tootoonchi says the Iranian government has convinced the Kuwaiti side to let 22 Iranian nationals jailed in the Arab sheikhdom be transferred to their country to serve the remainder of their prison term.