Judiciary

A court in Iran has sentenced a young man to death for murdering famous Iranian film director Dariush Mehrjouei and his wife.

An Iranian man, sentenced to death for involvement in the 2022 protests and deadly riots in Iran, was hanged to death on Tuesday after his stay of execution was repealed, Nour News website affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council reported.

Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi who were freed on bail, now face new legal charges for flouting hijab rules after their release from prison, the Iranian judiciary’s website Mizan reported on Monday.

Niloufar Hamedi, a reporter with the Shargh Daily, and Elaheh Mohammadi, head of the social issues desk at the Hammihan newspaper, have been released from prison on bail after 17 months in detention following the 2022 unrest and riots in the Islamic Republic.

A Tehran court has issued its final verdict in the case of Mohammad Jamebozorg, who was murdered in a nighttime raid by security forces on his house in the town of Malard in Tehran province.

The social media in Iran is abuzz with a torrent of outrage as well as appreciation after an Iranian woman was flogged on Wednesday, concurrent with Women’s Day, for refusing to wear hijab.

Iran’s Judiciary has categorically dismissed reports that the main suspect in a Ukrainian plane crash incident in January 2020 has been released on bail.

Kazan Gharibabadi, Secretary-General of the High Council for Human Rights of the Islamic Republic of Iran said Iran has requested Iraq to extradite 38 terrorists from the notorious Mujahedeen-e Khalq Organization, commonly known as MKO or Munafeqeen.

Iran hanged to death four members of a sabotage team with links to the Israeli regime’s Mossad spy agency on Friday, the Iranian judiciary announced.

Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of Iran Nasser Kanaani has strongly condemned the ruling by a Swedish appeals court that has upheld a life sentence imposed on former Iranian prosecutor Hamid Nouri, stressing the verdict is totally unacceptable.

Sweden's Court of Appeal issued its final ruling on this Tuesday, confirming the life sentence for Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian prosecutor.

The trial of members of the anti-Iran terrorist cult Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO) will start Tuesday, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson said.

The trial of a Swedish individual accused of intelligence cooperation with the Zionist regime of Israel commenced with the first hearing held at Branch 26 of the Islamic Revolution Court in Tehran.

A court in Tehran has ordered the US government to pay nearly $50 billion in damages for assassinating Iran’s top anti-terror icon general Qassem Soleimani nearly four years ago.

Iranian rapper Tomaj Salehi, recently released following a Supreme Court decision to re-examine his case within the Judiciary, was rearrested on charges of spreading falsehoods and causing public unrest.

Three members of a terrorist group who carried out bomb explosions targeting security forces in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan over four years ago have been executed, a judiciary official announced on Monday.

A court in the Iranian capital, Tehran, has sentenced the United States to paying $420 million in compensation to 14 survivors of a US terrorist attack in Iran back in 1980.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei has approved a proposal from Iran’s top judge to pardon or commute the prison terms of more than 2,000 convicts found guilty by various Iranian courts.

The First Deputy of the Iranian Judiciary Mohammed Mossadegh’s two sons have been arrested over links to a corruption case amounting to nearly five million dollars, Tasnim news agency reported.

The Iranian Judiciary has issued indictments for 73 Americans over their involvement in the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the anti-terror icon.

The main defendant in the case against masterminds and perpetrators behind a recent deadly attack on a holy shrine in southern Iran has been sentenced to death.

The Iranian vice president for legal affairs says court verdicts for 105 members of the anti-Iran Mojahedin Khalq Organization (MKO), are ready and will soon be issued.

Five Iranians held in US prisons for years will be released on Monday and two of them will arrive in Tehran via Qatar's Doha, an Iraniian judiciary official has confirmed.

Tehran’s public prosecutor announced on Wednesday that a part of the judicial investigation into an armed attack on the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in Iran earlier this year has been completed and that he has asked for a maximum penalty for the perpetrator of the deadly incident.

A legal hearing session was held in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday for the ringleader of the Tondar terrorist group, with 120 petitioners against the United States government for its support of the group’s terrorist activities.