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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 |
 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 |
 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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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 09 – Iranian officials have announced they intend to continue with a nationwide crackdown on “corruption” in society – a euphemism for suppressing dissent, according to opposition sources. |
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Thursday, 27 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in public in the northern city of Babol on Thursday halfway through the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, state media reported. |
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
 AP: Iran should immediately halt the execution of children, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Monday. |
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Saturday, 15 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 – Iranian authorities hanged three individuals in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, south-west Iran, state media reported earlier this week. |
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
 Reuters: Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran as well as the "treatment of women as second class citizens" there. |
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 14 – Iranian authorities have stepped up arrests of young people in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, as part of a nationwide “plan to eradicate corruption”. |
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Thursday, 13 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – Iranian authorities have stepped up arrests of young people in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, as part of a nationwide “plan to eradicate corruption”. |
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – The hands of four men were chopped off as punishment for robbery in north-west Iran, state media reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 12 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran Sep. 12 – Iranian authorities hanged seven individuals in public on Wednesday in the south-eastern town of Mahan, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 11 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – Two men were hanged in central and north-eastern Iran on Tuesday, state media reported. |
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Friday, 07 September 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Two Iranian men were hanged on Thursday in the southern province of Hormozgan, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 06 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 06 – The human rights organisation Amnesty International said it was “appalled” at the “spiralling numbers of executions” in Iran. |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – Four more men were hanged in public in the southern province of Fars on Wednesday, bringing the total number of people executed in Iran today to at least 21. |
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Wednesday, 05 September 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – Iranian authorities hanged 17 men on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of group executions. |
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Sunday, 02 September 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 02 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public south of the capital Tehran on Sunday, state media reported. |
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Friday, 24 August 2007 |
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Daily Telegraph: Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can't hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for Iran's long-suffering population which now finds itself on the receiving end of one of the most brutal purges witnessed since the 1979 Islamic revolution. |
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the southern province of Fars, state media reported on Wednesday. |
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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 22 – Authorities hanged two men on Tuesday in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. |
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Sunday, 19 August 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in public in the town of Saveh, near the Iranian capital Tehran, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 18 August 2007 |
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The Observer: Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal. |
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