Mahsa Amini

Iran overturns rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence for criticizing the government

9:18pm June 22, 2024

by The Associated Press

The rapper came to fame over his lyrics about the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022. Iran's Supreme Court ruled the sentence was more than what is allowed by the law.

Marjane Satrapi, a graphic novelist, holds her latest book Woman, Life, Freedom, in her home in Paris, France.

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Iran women's protests are the focus of 'Persepolis' author Marjane Satrapi's new book

5:01am April 27, 2024

by Eleanor Beardsley

The French Iranian author and artist, best known for her graphic novel Persepolis, edited and contributed to a new graphic anthology titled Woman, Life, Freedom, inspired by Iran's recent protests.

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Jamileh Alamolhoda is the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

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Why Iran won't budge on mandatory hijab laws — according to the president's wife

8:53am September 25, 2023

by Steve Inskeep

Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, talks about why Iran's government is unwilling to compromise on compulsory headscarf rules.

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Newspapers with a cover picture of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by Iran's morality police, are seen in Tehran, Sept. 18, 2022.

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In Iran, women's resistance defies state clampdown a year after Mahsa Amini's death

5:18am September 15, 2023

by Arezou Rezvani

The death of a young woman in Iranian morality police custody sparked months of protests and a violent crackdown by the government. A year later, a more subdued defiance endures.

People listen to a speaker during a demonstration to denounce the Iranian government and express support with anti-government protesters in Iran, in Washington, DC.

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Despite Khamenei's amnesty, most protesters in Iran won't go free, advocate says

6:00am February 14, 2023

Iran has jailed up to 20,000 people in months of protests against the regime. The announcement that it's pardoning prisoners is an empty gesture, a human rights lawyer says.

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Protesters hold placards with messages such as "Do not leave the people of Iran alone" during a demonstration on Dec. 3 in Istanbul.

Iran demonstrators vow to continue protests despite ongoing crackdowns

1:35pm January 06, 2023

by Peter Kenyon

The protests that have gripped the country since September may have diminished to some extent recently, but demonstrators in Iran reached by NPR insist the protests will not die out or fade away.

Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Arash Ashtiani as Rahimi and Sharifi in Holy Spider.

A man killed women he deemed 'immoral' — an Iranian film fictionalizes the story

7:00am January 04, 2023

by Diba Mohtasham

The real-life "Spider Killer" murdered 16 women in Iran between 2000 and 2001. The case inspired Holy Spider, which has resonated abroad during a time of amplified state violence in Iran.

People protest against the Iranian government at a demonstration in Istanbul, Turkey, on Saturday. In recognition of those allegedly executed by the Iranian government, protesters wore nooses around their necks and held photographs of people who have been killed.

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More Iranians face possible execution as authorities seek to crush continuing unrest

12:05pm December 20, 2022

by Peter Kenyon

The executions are Tehran's main response to protests that have swept the country since September, and are seen as a sign that Iran's clerical leadership intends to continue a violent crackdown.

Demonstrators chant slogans Friday as one of them holds up a poster of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a demonstration in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran.

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Iran marks the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover amid nationwide protests

2:03pm November 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

The country's theocracy, which came to power 43 years ago, faces one of its stiffest challenges amid weeks of widespread protests after the death of a woman arrested by the country's morality police.

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Iran's protesters find inspiration in a Kurdish revolutionary slogan

11:31am October 27, 2022

"Jin, jiyan, azadi!" — "Woman, life, freedom!" — has become the rallying cry for people in Iran and beyond who are protesting the death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian police custody.