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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
 Reuters: The United States and the European Union said on Monday they feared the Iranian government may crack down on opponents during this week's anniversary of Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. |
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Monday, 08 February 2010 |
 Reuters: The total number of journalists in detention in Iran has risen to at least 55 after the arrest of 10 in recent days, reformist websites reported on Monday. |
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 |
 AFP: Iran said on Sunday it has arrested seven people for allegedly planning to provoke riots on February 11, the day the nation marks the anniversary of its 1979 Islamic revolution. |
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Tuesday, 02 February 2010 |
 The Times: Nine more dissidents will be executed soon, a senior member of Iran's judiciary declared today, as the regime stepped up its efforts to deter another huge opposition rally planned for next week. |
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 |
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AP: Iran's state media reports that a group of opposition activists are standing trial in Tehran on charges of rioting in connection with protests in late December. |
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Friday, 29 January 2010 |
 AP: A senior hard-line Iranian cleric has called for more activists to be executed to silence anti-government protests, a day after two men were hanged. |
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Saturday, 23 January 2010 |
 AFP: Finland has summoned the Iranian representative in Helsinki to express its concerns over human rights violations, the Nordic country's foreign ministry said Friday. |
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Sunday, 17 January 2010 |
Reuters: A senior reformer who used to head Iran's football federation has been sentenced to six years in jail, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Sunday.
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Friday, 15 January 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran will soon put on trial 16 people arrested in connection with anti-government protests that turned violent last month, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 08 January 2010 |
 New York Times: At least five protesters arrested in Iran last week during antigovernment demonstrations will be tried on charges of warring against God, which carries an automatic death sentence if they are found guilty, Iran’s judiciary said Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 05 January 2010 |
 Reuters: Iran's interior minister warned opposition activists on Tuesday they risk execution as enemies of God if they continue anti-government demonstrations, and the foreign ministry said arrested foreigners face punishment. |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 04 - Three men were hanged in a town south of Tehran on Monday. |
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Sunday, 03 January 2010 |
 AP: An Iranian journalist lost an appeal Sunday against his conviction on charges of spreading propaganda against the ruling Islamic establishment and was sentenced to six years in prison and five years of internal exile in a remote desert town. |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
 Reuters: United Nations Human Rights chief Navi Pillay on Wednesday called on the Tehran government to curb excess use of force by its security services and expressed shock over violence in Iran over the past few days. |
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Wednesday, 30 December 2009 |
 AFP: Iranian police said on Wednesday that they are still holding 300 of the 500 "rioters" they arrested at the weekend when opposition supporters staged protests during a Shiite religious commemoration. |
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 |
 AP: After months of denials, Iran acknowledged Saturday that at least three people detained in the country's postelection turmoil were beaten to death by their jailers. |
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Saturday, 19 December 2009 |
 AFP: The United States said Friday that the voices of Iranian human rights activists are being heard, as it welcomed the adoption of a non-binding UN resolution condemning abuses by Tehran. |
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Thursday, 10 December 2009 |
 BBC: Human rights in Iran are as poor as at any time over the past 20 years, according to a report from campaign group Amnesty International.
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Wednesday, 09 December 2009 |
 Washington Post: Iran intensified its crackdown on demonstrators Tuesday as thousands of pro-government militiamen stormed the grounds of the country's most prominent university and assaulted students who had gathered in protest. |
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Monday, 07 December 2009 |
 New York Times: Ahead of a planned opposition rally on Monday, Iran tightened security and arrested more than 20 mothers who were mourning children killed in the unrest that has broken out since the disputed June 12 elections. |
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Monday, 23 November 2009 |
 New York Times: A flurry of executions and death sentences in Iran has raised concern that the government is using judicially sanctioned killing to intimidate the political opposition and quell pockets of ethnic unrest around the nation, human rights groups and Iran experts said. |
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Saturday, 21 November 2009 |
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New York Times: The United Nations criticized Iran on Friday for numerous human rights abuses in the wake of the disputed presidential election in June, including the arrests, intimidation and mass trials of members of the political opposition. |
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
 Reuters: The U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee condemned Iran on Friday for a violent crackdown on protesters after presidential elections this year that the Iranian opposition says were rigged. |
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
 AFP: A UN panel on Friday blasted Iran for "serious, ongoing and recurring" human rights violations, including violence against protesters after the disputed June presidential elections. |
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Friday, 20 November 2009 |
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AP: A United Nations committee has approved a resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of disputed presidential elections. |
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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 |
 Reuters: A court has sentenced a man detained after Iran's disputed election in June to seven years in jail and 74 lashes, the reformist Mowjcamp website said on Wednesday. |
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
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AFP: A Japanese and two Canadian journalists have been arrested along with an Iranian working for "satellite channels," because they were reporting without permission on rallies in Tehran earlier this week, the Fars news agency said on Friday. |
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Friday, 06 November 2009 |
 AP: Denmark's journalists union says one of its members is being held in a jail in Tehran. |
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Monday, 26 October 2009 |
 Reuters: North Korea and Iran were among the world's worst offenders in abusing religious freedom, the U.S. State Department said on Monday in an annual report spotlighting countries Washington charges with severe religious repression. |
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Sunday, 25 October 2009 |
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AFP: Iranian authorities have detained 35 relatives and supporters of jailed reformists, including wives and children, the reformist Sarmayeh newspaper reported on Saturday. |
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