Web campaign secures Iranian teen's release
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Online donations do the trick for Nazanin Fatehi Well done to all those Reg readers who donated cash to the campaign to release Iranian teenager Nazanin Fatehi, who secured her freedom on Wednesday.â¦
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The number of Iranian bloggers passes 10,000 as internet users seek to protest against media censorship.
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An Iranian-American journalist held in her native country for months and accused of security-related offenses was permitted to leave Iran, her employer said Tuesday.
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Amnesty International yesterday demanded the swift and unconditional release of 33 prominent Iranian female activists arrested last weekend and jailed in Tehran's notorious high-security Evin prison. The women were arrested after peacefully protesting the trial of five other activists and grass-roots organizers against discrimination in the legal system....
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Name of a teenage suspect has been given in a posting on the video website YouTube, detectives say.
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Iranian-American academic Kian Tajbakhsh, detained in Tehran on spying charges since May, will be released on bail when the investigation is complete, a judge was quoted as saying on Tuesday.
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Iran releases a second Iranian-American academic who had been detained in Tehran since May.
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When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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A 17-year-old boy was arrested and police found weapons, ammunition and bomb-making paraphernalia in his home after a tip that he was making threats online against his high
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A 16-year-old high school junior has been charged with making bombs in a plan to target classmates in his school, a plot uncovered after a video was discovered on the Internet, police said.
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The move represents a victory for the parents and supporters of a U.S. citizen who has been held without charges in Saudi Arabia since June 2003.
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A detained Iranian-American told reporters visiting Tehran's notorious Evin prison on Tuesday that he expected to be released soon after being held in solitary confinement since May.
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A French national jailed in Iran for more than a year for straying into territorial waters during a fishing expedition was released on Sunday, French diplomats said.
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MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. - A 16-year-old fugitive believed to have posted a "Catch me if you can" message on his MySpace Web page was captured Friday, three days after his escape from a detention center, an official said.
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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was released yesterday after more than 100 days in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, but Tehran did not indicate whether the 67-year-old grandmother still faces a trial on charges of "crimes against national security" or will be allowed to leave the country.
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Iran has released on bail a U.S.-Iranian peace activist, Ali Shakeri, the last of four dual nationals to be freed after being detained on security-related charges, an Iranian news agency said on Tuesday.
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A Canadian-Iranian writer freed after   four months in an Iranian jail for allegedly endangering state   security was quoted by an Iranian news agency on Thursday as   saying he had been duped into aiding U.S. organizations.