Bani Yagoub's death in prison was similar to that of Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photographer who was arrested while taking pictures outside Iran's notorious Evin prison in 2003.

Zahra Bani Yaghoub was sitting on a park bench chatting to her fiancé when Iranian religious police arrived and arrested the couple. They were carted off to jail and held in separate cells. The ...

In 2007, Zahra Bani-Yaghoub was arrested in a park in the western city of Hamedan while she was with her fiance. Two days later, police said she was found dead in a detention centre after ...

Zahra Bani-Ameri, a 27-year-old female physician, died in October while in custody in the town of Hamedan. In both cases, officials claimed the cause of death was suicide.

Outlook talks to the brother of Zahra Bani Yaghoub, the young woman doctor arrested by Iran's moral and virtue police for sitting with her fiance in a public park. He disputes the claims that she ...

Zahra Bani Yaghoub was sitting on a park bench chatting to her fiancé when Iranian religious police arrived and arrested the couple. They were carted off to jail and held in separate cells. The ...

Human right activists and relatives called for a probe Tuesday into the sudden deaths of two Iranians who were in government custody, rejecting official claims that the two committed suicide.