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Interview with Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer in Iran. Photo: portrait of Ebadi.

Shirin Ebadi: “Gender apartheid means you are discriminating against half of society”

Two years ago, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian student, died after she was arrested by morality police for allegedly not wearing hijab properly. Her death triggered large-scale protests in Iran which were met with brutal repression. Nobel Peace Prize winner and Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi reflects on the continued discrimination against women in her country, […]

By Anahita Davari (for Justice Info)

International law: exchange of prisoners between Sweden and Iran. Photo: Hamid Nouri speaks to the Iranian press on his return to Tehran.

International law put to the test in prisoner exchanges

Gender apartheid for women in Iran and women in Afghanistan - Photo: a woman wearing a hijab walks down a street, closely followed by a Taliban patrol.

Crimes against Afghan women drive push to recognize “gender apartheid”

Iraj Mesdaghi displays documents on a table

Sweden-Iran: Noury faces death row survivors

Kazem Rajavi

Why Switzerland is relaunching an Iranian cold case for "genocide"

Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran

Why the trial of an Iranian in Sweden is a "big deal"

Activist in front of thousands of photos of victims of the 1988 massacres in Iran

Iran: first trial for 1988 massacres opens in Stockholm

Four questions on Iran's legal challenge to US sanctions

Four questions on Iran's legal challenge to US sanctions

The Return of Diplomacy: What Consequences for Transitional Justice?