Researchers contacted by VOA and an Iranian news site have reported reduced activity of morality police in Tehran, other big cities in past month
In VOA Persian interview, Iranian Arab rights researcher Karim Dahimi says schoolteacher in Khuzestan province was punished for social media posts criticizing local authorities
Exiled Iranian Sunni activist tells VOA Persian that outspoken Sunni cleric Molavi Fazl al-Rahman Kouhi has remained arbitrarily detained in Iran’s Mashhad since November
New charges could add to her seven-year prison term for peaceful activism
Source says judiciary official said 5-year sentence qualified her for release
Aida Younesi told VOA Persian she received threatening Twitter messages from Iran government supporters after posting video criticizing Iran's detention of her brother Ali Younesi
In VOA Persian interview, Soheil Arabi's mother confirmed that he ended a hunger strike on Wednesday and that he wrote a letter vowing to fight for better prison conditions
In April 16 interview with VOA Persian, Iranian women's rights activist Giti Pourfazel said stay-at-home rules have made it harder for female heads-of-household to earn a living
Two dissidents whose activist wives remain jailed in Iran say relatives risk contracting virus when visiting
Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb tells VOA that regime mismanagement will prolong unemployment, recession
In VOA Persian interview, Iranian teacher unionist Ali Akbar Baghani says students risk virus exposure if forced back to classrooms, face inability to connect to online classes
In recent weeks, Iran and China have used state media to promote each other’s unproven claims that US triggered pandemic, drawing rebukes from Washington
5,000 Pakistanis have been stranded in Iran since Pakistan closed its border Sunday, while Iranian dissidents’ relatives have raised alarm about virus contagion risk in prisons
Iranians' anxieties about the spread of the virus and difficulties in finding medical supplies were on display in several videos filmed Monday in Iran and sent to VOA Persian
Lawyer for Alireza Shir-Mohammad-Ali tells VOA Persian he died at the Greater Tehran Penitentiary on Monday, in what one rights group said was a stabbing attack by fellow inmates
Callers from Iran to Wednesday’s VOA Persian Straight Talk show complained that they could not find dollars at the relatively cheap prices being reported by state media
Foreign minister’s domestic TV comments prompt thousands of tweets from Iranians saying they were not a party to that 'choice'
