The Latest Breaking News from Masih Alinejad

For dissident writers fleeing persecution overseas, the United States has long been a safe haven, a place where freedom of expression is tolerated and, even, valued.

Protests follow appearance of ‘tortured’ writer on state television, while human rights group warn forced confessions on the rise as hijab laws hardened

The Iranian regime has a long, dishonorable history of assassination plots against dissidents and detractors abroad, but commissioning a hit against a former U.S. national security adviser represents a raising of the bar in brazenness. The revelation that a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attempted to have John…

A man arrested in New York City near the home of an Iranian opposition activist and writer has been indicted on a weapons count

US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with Iranian-American journalist and opposition activist Masih Alinejad on Wednesday and expressed his concern over her safety following the arrest of a man with a rifle outside her home in New York last week, an NSC spokesperson said in a statement. The man,…

U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad on Wednesday and expressed his concern over her safety following the arrest of a man with a rifle outside her home in New York last week, an NSC spokesperson said in a statement.

“The whole regime is scared of women,” says Masih Alinejad after a man came to her home with a loaded machine gun

Authorities have charged a man with lurking near the New York City home of an Iranian dissident with an assault rifle

Masih Alinejad, a critic of the Iranian government, says she was ‘shocked’ by the arrest outside her house in Brooklyn.

New York Police Department (NYPD) officers arrested a man with a loaded Kalashnikov in a Brooklyn neighborhood where Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad resides with her family, the New York Post reported on Sunday. The newspaper quoted sources as saying that Khalid Mehdiyev, 23, was found near the journalist’s…

NEW YORK — A man with a loaded AK-47 rifle was caught outside the Brooklyn home of a prominent Iranian dissident journalist and author, authorities allege, just a year after the FBI foiled a kidnapping plot against the dissident by the Iranian government.