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Iranian actor Mohammad Sadeghi, a vocal supporter of women's rights in the country, says he been sentenced to five years in prison for his activism.

A legal complaint called on December 11 for Swiss authorities to arrest Iran's president during a potential upcoming visit and charge him with crimes against humanity connected to a 1988 purge of dissidents.

Upwards of 300 million people are classified by the UN as international migrants. That’s some 3.6 percent of the global population on the move and chasing hope. RFE/RL’s language services have come together to mark International Migrants Day on December 18 with a special series of stories.

The European Union on December 11 said it has imposed sanctions on six individuals and five entities it says are involved in Iran's “development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used in Russia's illegal war of aggression."

Receding foreign aid has directly impacted the lives of Afghans, many of whom are reeling from the devastating economic impact of the Taliban takeover.

A group of Afghan women's rights activists have launched a hunger strike in Germany to protest against the policies of the ruling Taliban that limit the rights and freedoms of Afghan women.

Women in the Afghan capital, Kabul, are furious after being turned away at a women-only section of a park that Taliban militants now say is closed as part of a nationwide ban keeping them out of one of the few remaining spaces where they say they could feel free.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says the Taliban militants ruling the war-torn country have carried out more than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces since taking control two years ago.

Taliban spokesperson Khalid Zadran said that the explosion occurred in the Afghan capital’s Darul Aman district and an investigation had been launched. (file photo)

At least eight members of the Women’s National Unity and Solidarity Movement in Afghanistan were released after being detained on August 19 for several hours on a charge of organizing a protest in Kabul.