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Deepa Parent

Deepa Parent is an independent journalist based in Paris who covers conflict and its consequences on human rights

July 2024

  • Voters in Iran put their votes into red ballot boxes.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I feel betrayed by the west’: Iran’s freedom protesters react to their new president

    Many who took to the streets in 2022 boycotted the poll that elected ‘reformist’ Masoud Pezeshkian, while others feel he is their only hope
  • People stand behind a white metal fence looking at personal belongings piled on floor coverings

    Relatives of India crush victims accuse authorities of leaving people to die

    Family members and eyewitnesses say they had to dig in mud to find survivors and some of the more than 120 killed
  • An ambulance at the Sikandra Rao hospital in Hathras.

    At least 116 killed in crush at Hindu gathering in northern India, say officials

    Most of the dead are women or children, say officials, with suggestions a dust storm created panic as thousands were leaving a prayer meeting in Hathras, south-east of Delhi

May 2024

  • A man reads a newspaper with a front-page report on the crash of the Iranian president's helicopter outside a kiosk in Tehran on 20 May.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘People are in no mood to mourn’: mixed reactions in Tehran after death of President Ebrahim Raisi

  • 'When there's a state trying to kill you, how do you report that news?" Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International

    World Press Freedom Day 2024
    ‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk

April 2024

  • Iran's 'morality police' have intensified their crackdown on women defying hijab rules in several cities over the past week

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    How Iran has intensified its crackdown on women under cover of war – video explainer

  • Women being forcefully arrested by the 'morality police'

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian women violently dragged from streets by police amid hijab crackdown

  • Students wearing sunglasses , graduation gowns and caps

    Rights and freedom
    Students in Iran threatened with prosecution for graduation dance video

  • Cécile Kohler appears on iran tv wearing a headscarf whilst delivering a forced confession

    Rights and freedom
    ‘I saw my sister forced to say she was a spy on Iranian TV. It was the worst day of my life’

March 2024

  • Iranian TV presenter Pouria Zeraati recovers in hospital yesterday after being stabbed in London.

    Tehran denies involvement in London attack on TV presenter

    Met police say investigation into stabbing of Iranian journalist near home in Wimbledon is being led by counter-terrorism officers
  • Palestinians line up for food in Rafah, Gaza

    Middle East crisis live
    Middle East crisis: aid ship ‘set to sail from Cyprus to Gaza on new maritime corridor’ – as it happened

    US charity preparing vessel with hopes it could leave for territory this weekend
  • A woman is held by one arm as she attempts to run

    Rights and freedom
    UN: Iran committed crimes against humanity during protest crackdown

    Fact-finding mission concludes regime murdered, imprisoned, tortured and raped those who protested the death of Mahsa Amini

February 2024

  • Ali and Kiana Rahmani, children of Narges Mohammadi, Iranian journalist, human rights activist and Nobel peace prize winner, with their father Taghi Rahmani in Paris.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘The Iranian regime holds all the cards’: children of jailed Nobel winner on learning to live without their mother

    Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has been in prison in Iran for most of her children’s lives. Now living as exiles in Paris, they say they will never lose hope of seeing her again

January 2024

  • Smoke from a bombardment billows in the background as displaced Palestinians flee from Khan Younis.

    Middle East crisis live
    Israel denies its forces are storming al-Amal hospital in Gaza – as it happened

    Denial comes after Palestinian Red Crescent Society says hospital in Khan Younis is under attack; White House declines to give further details of response
  • Composite image of Sima Sabet and Fardad Farahzad.

    Rights and freedom
    Sanctions will not stop Iran killing and kidnapping on UK soil, officials warned

    Journalist targeted in UK says tougher action needed, after UK and US sanction members of cartel and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps over murder plot
  • Elaheh Mohammadi and Niloofar Hamedi as they were released from Evin prison in Tehran on 14 January.

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian journalists celebrating release from jail charged for not wearing hijab

    Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi were charged in 2023 for their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini

December 2023

  • About 200 protesters demonstrate with flags against the Iranian government in Manchester in September 2022. They chanted the name of Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in Iranian police custody after being arrested for not covering her hair.

    Rights and freedom
    ‘We live with a gun to our heads’: how Iran is targeting protesters in Britain

    As David Cameron says the Iranian regime threatens people on UK soil, Iranians talk about the threats, harassment and intimidation they experience for organising British protests
  • Black-clad police on motorbikes holding batons at a crossroads in a city

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian regime accused of raping and violating protesters as young as 12

    Amnesty International report details ‘harrowing’ testimonies of survivors at hands of security forces following nationwide protests
  • Human rights activists in the Netherlands protest against the execution of protesters in Iran

    Rights and freedom
    Iran ‘using Gaza conflict as cover’ for execution of 127 people since war began

    Human rights groups record alarming rise in number of people put to death by Tehran regime since 7 October

November 2023

  • Mahsa Yazdani with her son, Mohammad Javad Zahedi

    Rights and freedom
    Iranian mother jailed for 13 years after denouncing death of son shot at protest

    Mahsa Yazdani convicted of blasphemy and ‘insulting supreme leader’ as Iran regime targets families of those killed in protests
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