Acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who has been jailed for the past six months, said he has begun a hunger strike to protest his detention,… Read More »Imprisoned Iran filmmaker Jafar Panahi says on hunger strike
A Pakistani who was tortured by the CIA and held in the Guantanamo Bay prison for 16 years after admitting to helping Al Qaeda was… Read More »‘High value’ Guantanamo prisoner, held for 16 years, released to Belize
It would normalise relations between Israel and another member of the Arab League.
Nazanin Boniadi, British-Iranian actress and activist, spoke to FRANCE 24 from Los Angeles. After the regime’s brutal crackdown on the protest movement, demonstrations are now… Read More »‘Iranian people have not given up’, says British-Iranian actress and activist Nazanin Boniadi
After months of strikes and protests in Iran, thousands of people have been arrested and now face harsh sentences by the courts, including death. Activists,… Read More »Iran: ‘Sham’ courts hand out severe sentences for passive protest
Ukraine on Wednesday announced searches of government buildings and the homes of high-profile ministers and oligarchs as part of a clampdown on corruption. The move… Read More »Ukraine launches a wave of anti-corruption busts ahead of EU summit
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with France’s president, business leaders and members of France’s Jewish community during a trip to Paris starting Thursday that… Read More »Netanyahu visits France amid spike in Middle East tensions
An operation by Western allies reportedly led by France seized a boatload of weapons and ammunition allegedly being sent to Yemen from Iran last month,… Read More »Western allies seize Iran arms shipment bound for Yemen’s rebels
Meet the women who are breaking boundaries and living their lives while wearing a hijab.
Pope Francis on Thursday urged young people in Democratic Republic of Congo to forge a new future without the ethnic rivalry, corruption and distrust that… Read More »Pope Francis tells youth in DR Congo to shun ethnic rivalry and corruption
