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Tuesday, 05 December 2006 |
 Wall Street Journal: Iran's campaign to shutter popular Web sites and curtail text-message traffic reflects the growing ability of governments to control online content inside their national borders. |
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04 – Iranian authorities have hanged two men in public in the restive south-eastern city of Zahedan. |
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Monday, 04 December 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04 – Two young men were hanged in public in the northern Iranian province of Gilan, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Wednesday, 29 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 29 – A prominent international press freedoms watchdog released on Tuesday the names of dozens of journalists who were banned from practising their profession in Iran. |
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Sunday, 26 November 2006 |
 The Observer: With a smile the young man emerges from a car and swaggers towards the camera, but his balance is off kilter because his hands are tied behind his back and he slips a bit on the grass.
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Sunday, 26 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 26 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in south-eastern Iran for adultery, a state-run news agency reported on Sunday.
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 22 – Tehran’s public prosecutor’s office is seeking the death penalty for seven individuals accused of producing and distributing pornographic CDs which are banned in Islamic Iran.
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 22 – A United Nations General Assembly committee accused Iran on Tuesday of continuing the practice of torture and punishments such as flogging, stoning and amputation of limbs. |
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Monday, 20 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 20 – Five men have been hanged in public in Iran’s northern province of Golestan, a state-run daily reported on Monday. |
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Friday, 17 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 17 – The European Parliament (EP) voted on Thursday to condemn institutionalised violations of human rights in Iran. |
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Friday, 17 November 2006 |
 The Scotsman : TEHRAN'S hardline Islamic regime is preparing to publicly hang 11 Iranian Arabs convicted of "enmity with God" for their alleged involvement in a bombing campaign in which over 20 were killed last year, after what rights activists say were summary, secret trials. |
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Tuesday, 14 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 - A gay Iranian man was hanged in public on Tuesday in the western city of Kermanshah on the charge of sodomy. |
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Friday, 10 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 10 – An Iranian man was hanged in prison in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 09 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 09 – Four men, one of whom is believed to be a teenager, were hanged in a prison in Tehran, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 07 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 07 – The international media 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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Monday, 06 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 06 – Iranian authorities hanged a political prisoner in public on Sunday in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan for his alleged role in the killing of two of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s bodyguards. |
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Two Iranian men were hanged in a prison in the south-western city of Ahwaz. |
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Friday, 03 November 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 03 – Iran’s official news agency reported that two men were hanged in public in northern and south-eastern Iran. |
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Thursday, 02 November 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 02 - More than half a dozen people have been hanged in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan, were anti-government sentiment is high, since the start of the week. |
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Tuesday, 31 October 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 – An Iranian prisoner was hanged in the southern province of Hormozgan, state media reported on Tuesday. |
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Sunday, 15 October 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Oct. 15 – Britain’s Foreign Office censured human rights violations by Iran’s theocratic government in its 2006 annual human rights report. |
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Sunday, 08 October 2006 |
 Reuters: A senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's system of clerical rule was arrested on Sunday after his supporters clashed with police outside his house in the Iranian capital, Iranian news agencies reported. |
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 04 – A man was hanged in the restive city of Ahwaz, south-west Iran, state-media reported.
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Saturday, 30 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 30 – Agents of Iran’s dreaded Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have arrested the daughter of a Christian priest whose high-profile murder 12 years ago was met with international condemnation, a Christian news agency reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 29 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 29 – Two Iranian brothers were hanged in public on Friday in the western city of Khorramabad, the provincial capital of Lorestan Province, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Wednesday, 27 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 27 – An Iranian court in the north-eastern city of Mashad sentenced a man to have one of his eye’s gouged out as punishment for blinding another man during a scuffle, state-run press reported. |
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 26 – Iranian authorities have hanged three prisoners in the south-eastern city of Zahedan, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 26 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 26 - The international human rights group Amnesty International is "greatly concerned" by a continuing crackdown by Iranian authorities against rights activists, according to a statement released by the group on Monday. |
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Hamedan, Iran, Sep. 25 – State Security Forces (SSF) in the western city of Hamedan have announced that they would crack down on people eating in public during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. |
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Monday, 25 September 2006 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 25 – Iranian authorities have hanged four men in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan, according to a state-run daily.
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