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22-year-old Mahsa Amini died after she was arrested by police in Tehran last September (File image)

Iran executes three linked to Amini protests

Iranian authorities have executed three men convicted of violence against the Islamic republic's security forces during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death in custody last year, the judiciary said.

World • 19 May 23

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaking about the protests (Pic: Iranian leader press office)

Iran intensifies crackdown amid UN criticism

Iran is weaponising the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent, and its execution of protesters without due process amounts to state-sanctioned killing, the UN has said.

World • 10 Jan 23

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei speaking about the Mahsa Amini protests (Pic: Iranian leader press office/handout)

Iran sentences 3 more to death over Amini protests

Iran has sentenced to death three more people accused of killing members of the security forces during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the judiciary has said.

World • 09 Jan 23

A poster of Mahsa Amini is held during a rally in Warsaw earlier this month

Europe puts pressure on Iran's leaders as protests rage

Iran's clerical rulers faced mounting international pressure over their crackdown on protests, with France's president characterising the unrest as a revolution and European governments planning sanctions on the Revolutionary Guards.

World • 14 Nov 22

A protestors holds a photo of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini during a demonstration against the Iranian regime

Fire reported at Iran prison amid Amini protests

Fire and gunshots have erupted at Tehran's notorious Evin prison tonight, an Oslo-based rights group has reported, as the protest movement sparked by Mahsa Amini's death in custody enters its fifth week.

World • 15 Oct 22

Protests led by women have continued across Iran for 21 consecutive nights

Iran says Mahsa Amini died of 'illness'

An Iranian coroner's report has denied Mahsa Amini had died due to blows to the head and limbs while in the custody of Iran's morality police and linked her death to pre-existing medical conditions, state media said.

Iran • 08 Oct 22

A protester holds a photo of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in Istanbul, Turkey

Anti-govt protests were 'planned', says Iran's Khamenei

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said protests over the death of a woman in police custody were planned and not staged by "ordinary Iranians", in his first comments on unrest that has swept the country since 17 September.

World • 03 Oct 22

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