Mahsa Zhina Amini

Six Sentenced to Death in Connection with Iran Protests

They receive the EU's finest prize

Venezuela's opposition leaders María Corina Machado and Edmundo González Urrutia receive this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought – the EU Parliament's finest human rights prize.

Women Defying Power – Two Years After Amini's Death

The religious dictatorship in Iran may have struck down the wave of protests that followed Mahsa Zhina Amini's death, but two years later, many continue to defy the country's moral police. On the streets, women who do not wear the mandatory veil are increasingly visible.

Iranian hunger strike ahead of Mahsa Amini's death anniversary

34 political prisoners in Iran, including the Nobel laureate and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi, have begun a hunger strike in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.