Eight men face disfigurement for robbery; rights group blasts 'cruel and inhuman punishment'

Iranian court rules that Ali Younesi and Amir Hossein Moradi endangered national security by sabotaging public facilities and cooperating with opposition groups

Supporters of Benjamin Briere, 36, say he is being used as a pawn for Tehran as it negotiates nuclear pact with France and other Western powers

British Council announces the release and return of Aras Amiri, amid ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and world powers

Nahid Taghavi, 66, a human rights activist, was given 10 years for membership in an illegal group

Benjamin Briere to be tried for espionage -- punishable by death -- after allegedly being caught flying a drone and taking photos in restricted area; sister appeals to Macron

Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced in 2019 to 12 years in jail for defending women who protested compulsory headscarf laws

IOC president says it is 'deeply upsetting' that appeals by committee and athletes around the world failed to sway Tehran from putting Navid Afkari to death

Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohammad Rajabi, who took part in January rallies over gasoline price hikes, said tortured into confessing to crimes

Report details case of Maziar Ebrahimi, who said he and 11 others were tortured to falsely claim they had assassinated nuclear scientists for Israel