Forced 'virginity tests' are intrusive procedures that count as torture - they are humiliating, cruel and discriminate against women. Atena says that when she was held in Tehran's Evin prison, female ...

was temporarily released on bail from Evin Prison in late 2022 after undertaking a monthlong hunger strike. He was briefly ...

OP-ED. The Turkish sociologist highlights the plight of three activists sentenced to death by the Tehran regime.

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