Judiciary

Iran has put on trial young billionaire Babak Zanjani on corruption charges.

Rezaian was tasked with implementing a scenario orchestrated by a group of US Senators, Shafiei quoted an IRGC report as saying.

The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution has pardoned or reduced the prison sentences of as many as 630 convicts marking two Muslim feasts.

Nothing has been raised about the exchange of Jason Rezaian for Iranian nationals jailed in the US, Mohseni Ejei said.

Over the past 25 years, 90,000 prisoners found guilty of involuntary offenses have been released.

"What is wrong with a defendant or their attorney saying that the ruling issued in the case is not fair?" Motahari asked in the letter.

Rezaian is facing charges of espionage, collaboration with hostile governments, gathering classified information and disseminating propaganda against the Islamic Republic.

Mehdi Hashemi, son of Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for security offences, bribery and embezzlement after his appeal was overturned.

A Saudi criminal court has sentenced two Saudi officers who molested two Iranian teenagers at the Jeddah airport to four years in prison and 1,000 lashes.

The Supreme Leader has pardoned or commuted prison terms of 102 convicts that had been found guilty by the Iranian Armed Force’s judiciary system.

Images of a convicted killer being spared by the family of the murder victim.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei has granted clemency or commuted the sentences of a number of convicts.

The crime being committed in different parts of the region and Yemen today is a scandal for those who claim to be supporters of human rights, said the Judiciary spokesman.

The decision was in response to a request by Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadegh Amoli Larijani.

The Supreme Leader has pardoned or commuted the prison terms of 809 convicts in a move to mark the anniversary of the formation of the Islamic Republic (April 1).

The secretary of Iran’s Human Rights Council has said the responsibility to protect people under house arrest lies with the security apparatus.

Those who question the house arrest are the ones who either have not read the law or do not understand it, said the head of the Administrative Justice Court.

The request by the US for a spy exchange has been submitted to Iran’s Judiciary, but Tehran has not responded to it yet.

The justice minister said a majority of prisoners and most legal cases in the Iranian courts are related to drug offenses.

Ghoncheh Qavami has been freed on bail until the appeals court hands down the final verdict.

The Judiciary chief has expressed support for Iran's nuclear team, saying the Iranian nation will not give in to the other side’s excessive demands.

The Italian prosecutors called for a 30-year jail term for the Indian flatmates of an Iranian girl who was strangled.

The Iranian judiciary says serious measures will be taken by officials to identify and prosecute the perpetrators of recent acid attacks in Isfahan.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei pardoned or commuted prison terms of a number of convicts sentenced by various Iranian courts on the eve of Eid al-Fitr.