A Canadian academic detained by Iranian authorities for nearly three months has been hospitalized due to her declining health, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. According to a statement released by her family, Homa Hoodfar, an anthropologist at Montreal’s Concordia University, suffers from the rare neurological disease myasthenia gravis, which causes muscle fatigue and requires special care. She...

Iran announced on Sunday that it completed the first of three stages to establish its government-controlled “national internet,” according to state media reports. While authorities are championing the National Information Network as a faster, less costly alternative to the World Wide Web, observers caution that the service will impose strict censorship on Iranian...

The Palestinian Authority and the terrorist group Hamas “are arresting, abusing, and criminally charging” journalists and activists who criticize them, leading to a “chilling effect” on freedom of expression in the Palestinian territories, Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a report released on Monday. “Both Palestinian governments, operating independently, have apparently arrived...

The international community must intervene in Syria and prevent the regime of Bashar al-Assad from committing more war crimes, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum said in a statement Thursday. Unless the international community intervenes to “protect civilians from mass atrocities and ensures their access to outside humanitarian assistance,” the residents of eastern Aleppo “could face annihilation”...

A prominent Iranian ayatollah condemned the state-sponsored executions of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 as “the biggest crime in the Islamic Republic,” according to an audio recording recently released by his family, The Guardian reported on Thursday. The publication of the recording has prompted survivors and relatives of those killed...

The case of British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been detained in Iran since April, charged with scheming to enact the “soft overthrow” of the Iranian regime, and separated from her two-year-old daughter, should prompt a reconsideration of whether the UK should normalize relations with Iran, an editorial in The...