An association of independent Iranian filmmakers has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to overhaul how it accepts films from countries under authoritarian rule, warning that the current system legitimizes state-controlled cinema bodies.
France has selected Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, as its submission for the Academy Awards in the international feature category, giving the exiled filmmaker a path to Hollywood that Tehran was unlikely to offer.
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi praised Iranian civil society on the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, saying victims' families have kept the pursuit of justice alive by turning grief into a force for change.
Iranian authorities have led a systematic campaign to silence the families of those killed and executed amid the Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement—denying public mourning, arresting relatives and subjecting mourners to threats and intimidation.
The United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran, created after mass protests were crushed in 2022, has emerged as a rare instrument of accountability whose survival now rests on the political and financial will of the international community.
Countless young Iranians whose lives were snuffed out in the Woman, Life, Freedom protests became enduring symbols of defiance — human faces for a movement that challenged the very foundations of the Islamic Republic.
Iran condemned the United States on Tuesday for what it called “hypocritical and deceitful” remarks on the anniversary of a young Iranian woman's death in morality police custody in 2022, accusing Washington of decades of crimes and subversion.
The Islamic Republic survived the Woman, Life, Freedom protests three years ago, but Iranian women’s defiance keeps reshaping society and their lives in irreversible ways.
Iranian authorities have failed to investigate serious human rights violations committed during and after the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests and continue to shield those responsible, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday.
On the eve of the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, families and victims of Iranians killed, tortured or injured by authorities have issued an open letter to world leaders calling for urgent international action to confront Tehran.
A concert by famed Iranian artist Sirvan Khosravi held on the grounds of what were once the Shah’s palace in Tehran has become an emblem of the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement's legacy.
Iranian security bodies summoned and threatened families of people killed in 2022 nationwide protests that followed the death of a young woman named Mahsa Amini in morality police custody ahead of the third anniversary, source told Iran International.
Iranian authorities have summoned 10 citizens in the northeastern city of Sabzevar to face charges linked to protests over repeated power and water cuts, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Monday.
Iranian communities abroad staged demonstrations across Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand on Sunday to mark the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death and to honor those killed in protests since 2022.
Iranian women artists, writers and political figures marked the third anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, whose case ignited nationwide protests under the slogan Woman, Life, Freedom, saying the movement she inspired remains alive and has reshaped society.
Iranian people have kept the Woman, Life, Freedom movement alive through creative acts three years after its eruption, shaping society in ways that continue to unfold, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi told Iran International on Saturday.
Australia and New Zealand marked the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death with statements to Iran International reaffirming their support for Iranian women and condemning human rights violations by the Islamic Republic.
Twenty-four Iranian labor, social and support organizations said in a joint statement on Monday that the Woman, Life, Freedom movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 would not be silenced, pledging to continue their struggle for political and social change.
Canada-based activist Hamed Esmaeilion on Sunday urged Iranians worldwide to take part in protests marking the third anniversary of the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, whose killing in police custody in 2022 sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
The Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) said on Wednesday that Iran remains one of the most dangerous places in the world for independent reporters, detailing a pattern of threats, surveillance, arbitrary arrests and prosecutions targeting media workers this year.
Israel supports exiled crown prince Reza Pahlavi as Iranians trust and back him, Science Minister Gila Gamliel told Iran International, in the first explicit endorsement by an Israeli cabinet member of the exiled prince’s push for regime change.
A man scaled the clock tower at London’s King’s Cross railway station on Tuesday morning with a small dog and unfurled a large flag carrying anti-Iranian government slogans, prompting a major emergency response.