Qarchak prison has been sanctioned by the US on the basis of extrajudicial killings, torture and other violations of human rights - Tahmineh Rahmani/Fars News Agency/Creative Commons Iran moved female ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Rajabian is awaiting trial for working with female dancers and singers after being arrested earlier ...

In a desert outside Iran’s capital, Tehran, lies one of the largest women’s prisons in the world. Several thousand women are believed to be incarcerated in Qarchak Prison, which is notorious for ...

BEIRUT — Sayeh Seydal, a jailed Iranian dissident, narrowly escaped death when Israeli missiles struck Tehran’s Evin Prison, where she was held. She had just stepped out of the prison’s clinic moments ...