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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 05 - An international media rights group said that three journalists had been detained by Iranian authorities, one of them as recently as this week. |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
 AP: Authorities have arrested some 80 suspects on the charge of damaging gas stations and looting shops during last week's protests against fuel rationing, state-run television reported Wednesday.
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 30 – Iran said on Friday that it would execute at least 10 “trouble-makers” in the coming days to combat “insecurity” in society. |
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 27 – The international human rights group Amnesty International accused the Iranian regime on Wednesday of continuing to execute minors. |
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
 New York Times: Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans, three of whom have been in prison for more than six weeks. |
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Sunday, 24 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 24 – A man was hanged in a prison in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Friday, 22 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 22 - A man was hanged in public in Khorramabad, western Iran, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 20 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 20 - Authorities executed a 40-year-old man in public in southern Iran, state media reported on Wednesday. |
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Monday, 18 June 2007 |
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Washington Post: Iran is in the midst of a sweeping crackdown that both Iranians and U.S. analysts compare to a cultural revolution in its attempt to steer the oil-rich theocracy back to the rigid strictures of the 1979 revolution. |
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Thursday, 14 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 14 – Iranian authorities hanged five individuals in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 12 – Authorities have hanged a man in public in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan, state media reported. |
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Monday, 11 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 11 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the southern town of Kazeroun, the official state daily Iran reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 04 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 04 – Prominent international human rights group Amnesty International is concerned about the fate of an Azeri Iranian who may be on death row for his political activity. |
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Friday, 01 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 01 – Iranian State Security Forces (SSF) have arrested 32 “trouble-makers” in the northern province of Qazvin. |
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Friday, 01 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 01 – The Iranian government should immediately release two Iranian-Americans from detention and clarify the case of a third who may have “disappeared”, several human rights organisations said on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
 AFP: Iran on Tuesday announced it was holding a second US-Iranian scholar on charges of spying for foreigners alongside the US-Iranian Middle East expert Haleh Esfandiari.
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Tuesday, 29 May 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 29 – Iranian authorities hanged five people in the eastern and south-eastern provinces of Khorrasan Jonoubi and Sistan-va-Baluchistan respectively, state media reported on Tuesday. |
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Friday, 25 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 25 - Click here to watch a film of police brutality in Iran during the ongoing nationwide crackdown on youths and women under the pretexts of “being trouble-makers” or “mal-veiling”. The clip which was aired on an Iranian opposition satellite channel was captured by a bystander using a mobile phone and smuggled out of Iran. |
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Thursday, 24 May 2007 |
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Iran Focus: London, May 24 - Two people were stoned to death in Iran and sentences of flogging, amputation and eye-gouging continued to be passed, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
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AFP: Iran has arrested the leader of one of its largest Sufi sects as well as other members of his order in the northeast of the country, the reformist Etemad daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 22 May 2007 |
 AFP: Iran has arrested more than 15 people for calling for a demonstration in the northwestern city of Tabriz to mark the anniversary of the publication of a cartoon offensive to the Azeri minority, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
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Monday, 21 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 21 – Iran’s State Security Forces are cracking down on youths across the country.
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 19 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in the Iranian capital earlier this week, state media reported. |
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Saturday, 19 May 2007 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 19 – Two men were hanged in Hormozgan Province, southern Iran, earlier this week, a state-run newspaper reported. |
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
 AFP: An Iranian journalist arrested last year after returning from a conference abroad has been sentenced to three years in jail, the judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 15 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 15 – Authorities have chopped off the hand of a man in public in the western city of Kermanshah, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 14 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 14 – Iranian authorities have hanged 15 people in the north-eastern city of Mashad, state-run media reported on Monday. |
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