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Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 - A man was hanged on Sunday in the volatile province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern Iran, state media reported. |
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Sunday, 11 November 2007 |
 Reuters: Police detained 180 people in a western Iranian city after unrest involving Sufi Muslims, the semi-official Fars News Agency reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
 AP: Iran's Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence against a Kurdish journalist accused of offering to provide the United States with information on Kurds in Iran, his lawyer said Saturday.
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Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
 Reuters: Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence on a Kurdish dissident journalist convicted of charges including spying, his lawyer said on Friday. |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 08 – A prominent international press freedoms group accused Iran on Thursday of violating journalists’ basic rights. |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 08 – Iran hanged two men in public on Wednesday south-west of the Iranian capital Tehran, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 08 November 2007 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday urged the police to keep up its crackdown on social vice that has also targeted un-Islamic dress. |
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Tuesday, 06 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 06 – One of the students who took part in an anti-government demonstration last week at Tehran’s Allameh University has been arrested, his mother has said. |
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – A man was hanged in the city of Isfahan, central Iran, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 04 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 04 – Four men were hanged in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 - Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in Kerman Province, southern Iran, stated media reported on Saturday. |
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Saturday, 03 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Three students who were detained in the course of an anti-government protest earlier this week at Tehran’s Allameh University have been transferred to the infamous Ward 209 of Tehran’s Evin Prison, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 – Authorities hanged a man in public in the city of Arak, central Iran, on Wednesday, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the holy city of Qom on Wednesday, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 31 October 2007 |
 Reuters: An Iranian court has sentenced a dissident labor leader to five years in jail, a judiciary official was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
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Tuesday, 30 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 30 – At least half a dozen Iranian students were arrested on Tuesday while taking part in an anti-government protest on the campus of Tehran’s Allameh University. |
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Sunday, 28 October 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 28 – Three men were hanged on Saturday in prisons in Yazd Province, central Iran, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 25 October 2007 |
 The Guardian: They have become a haven for modern bookworms everywhere - a place to combine a love of the written word with the pleasures of cafe society. |
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Wednesday, 24 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 24 – The European Union on Tuesday criticised Iran for “serious” violations of its international human rights obligations. |
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Tuesday, 23 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 23 – Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) Speaker congratulated the State Security Forces (SSF) for cracking down on “trouble-makers”, state television reported on Tuesday. |
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 - Five people were hanged in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 21 October 2007 |
 Los Angeles Times: The head of Iran's law enforcement agency warned Friday of a renewed crackdown on Iranians who adhere to Western cultural ways.
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 18 – The global human rights group Amnesty International launched an urgent appeal on Thursday to save the life a young man who is sentenced to be executed for a crime he allegedly committed while still a minor. |
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Thursday, 18 October 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 18 – Iranian authorities hanged eight men and a woman in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 17 – Three men were hanged in public on Wednesday in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
 AP: Three Iranian student leaders have been sentenced to jail terms of up to three years on vague charges of insulting Islam and its clerics, their lawyer said Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 17 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 17 – The international press freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) in its annual report ranked Iran as the worst violator of press freedoms in the Middle East. |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 13 – Two men were hanged in the province of Kurdistan, north-west Iran, earlier this week on the World Day Against the Death Penalty. |
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Saturday, 13 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 14 - A Christian couple were flogged in Iran for participating in an “underground Church”, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week. |
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Wednesday, 10 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 10 – Some 150 British Parliamentarians have signed a statement calling on the government of Gordon Brown to bring Iran before the United Nations Security Council over its systematic abuse of its citizens rights, it was announced on Wednesday. |
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