As Tel Aviv Pride, the largest LGBTQ event in the Middle East and Asia, kicked off in Israel last week, Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, reiterated the Islamic Republic’s right to execute homosexuals. Paul Ronzheimer, a reporter for the German daily newspaper Bild, said on Twitter that he had...

Organizers of a gay pride parade in Washington, D.C. have come under fire for banning Jewish rainbow flags adorned with the Star of David, which they said too closely resembles the flag of Israel, from its Friday event. While the Dyke March is supposed to be a celebration of inclusiveness,...

A prominent Iranian activist and lawyer has been sentenced to flogging and 30 years in prison, after he set up a channel on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram, highlighting human rights abuses in Iran. Amirsalar Davoudi was found guilty of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting officials” by a revolutionary...

The Iranian-sponsored Houthi rebels have been accused by the World Food Program (WFP) of diverting critical aid deliveries in Yemen, where millions of people are on the brink of famine. David Beasley, the head of WFP, told the BBC on Monday that children were dying as a result of this...

In a shocking report released last week, a UN-affiliated human rights group detailed the cases of several hundred people who were summoned, arrested, and detained over the course of one year by the Islamist terrorist group Hamas for their political beliefs. According to the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights,...

Two 17-year-old boys have been “secretly” flogged and executed in southern Iran, according to a report from Amnesty International, which slammed the country for its “utter disdain for international law and the rights of children.” The cousins – Mehdi Sohrabifar and Amin Sedaghat – were arrested and convicted of multiple...