Dressed head-to-toe in black robes with just a slit for their eyes, the revelation of the Taliban's new all-female burqa-clad security force could hardly be called an unveiling. https://youtu.be/pbaT8ru-HYc The new squad - formed to put down female protests - was put on display in Kabul during a video to…
Security forces in Iran have been accused of clubbing a teenage schoolgirl to death and then ordering her family to say she'd had a heart attack. Sadaf Movahedi poses in an undated photo. She allegedly died after being battered by police during protests in Iran. (Newsflash) Nineteen-year-old Sadaf Movahedi -…
French media organisations have demanded that Iran release a journalist who was arrested while covering the protests gripping the country. Iranian journalist Vahid Shamsoddinnezhad poses with his family in an undated photo. Shamsoddinnezhad, a France resident covering Iran protests, has been arrested in Saqqez, Iran, on Sept. 28, 2022. (Newsflash)…
Iranian security forces have been accused of fatally shooting a 16-year-old Kurdish boy at point-blank range after the teen posted a prescient online post about death. Komar Daroftadeh's last Instagram post was a picture of him in the mountains with the caption: "We are the people of the Middle East,…
These photos allegedly showing an Iranian government minister cuddling up to his hijab-free girlfriend in public have caused outrage after emerging online. Rostam Qasemi, top IRGC general and current transport minister of Iran, poses with his unveiled girlfriend in Malaysia, near Petronas Towers in 2011. Qasemi played the main role…
