Remembering two brave Scandinavian cartoonists, Kurt Westergaard of Denmark and Lars Vilks of Sweden, who've died this year. Both lived in grave peril for the rest of their lives after drawing cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. #DefendFreeSpeech
These are Shakila Ghasemi, 26, Mahdieh Yousefi, 19, and Diana Taherabadi, 16.
They have been held captive by the Islamic regime in complete isolation and subjected to severe torture for nearly six months. Their lives remain in immediate danger.
No headlines. No protests. No rights.
The world remains silent.
Every morning I write about someone Iran just executed, within minutes, a message arrives a mother, a sister, a friend, begging me to write about their loved one who is on the death row. Before it's too late.
This is why I want to write before the execution of this young woman, not after. Arghavan Fallahi. 24 years old. Evin Prison. Sentenced to death.
Judge Salavati one of Iran's most notorious hanging judges, sentenced her under "Baghi," armed rebellion.
During months in solitary confinement, she was subjected to severe psychological torture and pressure to make forced confessions. But she refused. So they sentenced her to death anyway.
Fellow female prisoners who were with Arghavan inside Evin say her situation is urgent. The torture has left her with severe psychological trauma and physical illness. She is not just facing the death sentence, she is suffering right now, inside that cell. But is still alive and is still time to save her life.
Please join me and help us Iranians to say her name now and demand international community and the leader leaders of the world to put pressure on these that republic to stop them from executing her and other political prisoners.
#StopExecutionsInIran
Since yesterday, people keep asking me the same question: How can someone be hanged for opening a door?
I want you to see the answer with your own eyes.
Two Iranian protesters. Both killed in front of cameras for showing compassion.
One opened a door when protesters came running security forces right behind them, armed. He let them in. Then he pushed against that same door with everything he had, trying to keep the security forces out. They forced it open. And they killed him right there.
The other had a wounded protester on his shoulder, carrying him through the streets to safety. That was enough.
Empty hands. No weapons. Just human beings doing what human beings do, protecting each other.
The Islamic Republic calls this a crime worthy of death.
That is the Iran the world needs to see. The Islamic republic is terrorist not the people of Iran.
#StopExecutionInIran
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Anita Popist—a female Iranian singer—has been sentenced to 74 lashes by the Islamic regime in Iran for singing and refusing to wear the hijab.
This has received no coverage in the mainstream media. No condemnations from political leaders or celebrities. Where are the protests?
Two of the young men in this photo have been executed today in Iran.
The other ten have been transferred to solitary confinement, they are next in line to be hanged.
These are the same prisoners president Trump publicly announced that, the Islamic Republic had promised not to execute.
That promise was a lie. You all watching war headlines but no one talks about the war being imposed on us Iranians by our own regime that hanging its own people in silence.
They are people who said: we want freedom.
If no one speaks, the regime will kill more protesters.
Please join me and help us to #StopExecutionsInIran.
While the world watches the war, the Islamic Republic of Iran hanged a 19-year-old boy today.
His name is Erfan Esfandiari and he was his parents' only child.
He did not kill anyone. He did not carry a weapon. His crime, according to the Islamic Republic, was opening a door. Sheltering protesters who were running from security forces. That was enough to send him to the gallows.
Erfan was one of 12 young men in the Alikhani Square case in Isfahan, arrested during the January 2026 uprising. Yesterday, all 12 were moved to quarantine. Today, the Islamic Republic hanged him.
This is a government that is so terrified of a generation that refuses to be silent, that it executes teenagers for the act of compassion.
Say his name. Because the regime is already trying to erase him. Because his mother and father are left with nothing, not even the right to grieve loudly.
@vnbateman@BBCWorldatOne@BBCRadio4 Radio piece reported on a French town fining people who are topless €150 - fifteen fines so far. Men will complain about this, but they take the right to go topless for granted when women are objectified and derided for doing this. When UK rejoins EU, VB will surely be knighted.
This is Javid Khales, a young conscript in Iran's military. In January 2026, during the regime's brutal crackdown on peaceful protesters, he refused orders to open fire on unarmed civilians. Because of this, he was arrested and has now been sentenced to death.
We call on the international community, governments, human rights organisations, and world leaders to demand Javid Khales' immediate release. A young man who refused to kill his own people is not a criminal. He is a symbol of moral courage and the best of Iran.
@Yvonne00322432@Larchwood20 Is this the intention of the new rule? That a brief greeting is permissible only at the KH? I don't think this was made explicit, so I wonder how it's being implemented.
Ehsan Afarashteh
36 years old
Master's degree graduate in civil engineering and an elite in networking and IT
Originally from Isfahan and raised in Tehran.
Executed in Iran by the regime on unproven spying charges
The 38th execution during the 75 day Internet blackout