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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 9 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in North Khorrasan Province, north-eastern Iran, state media reported on Monday.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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 New York Times: A government spokesman confirmed that a group of Bahai religious leaders had been arrested, but said that the charges against them related to security and not religion.
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 04 - The European Union on Wednesday expressed its "deep concern" at the impending execution of an alleged juvenile offender in Iran.
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 30 - The new speaker of Iran’s Majlis, Ali Larijani, said on Friday that Europe has no right to demand Iran respect human rights, state media reported.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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AP: Seven Bahai leaders arrested and accused of endangering national security are being persecuted by Iran's government for their religious beliefs, leaders of the minority faith said Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The European Union called on Iran on Wednesday to release six members of the Baha'i faith imprisoned on security-related charges, urging Tehran to allow full freedom of religion. |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has imprisoned six members of the Baha'i faith on security-related charges, government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran confirmed on Tuesday it has arrested members of the Bahai religious community, whose faith is banned in the Islamic republic, for acting against the national interest. |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
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Reuters: The Iranian authorities have detained six members of the Baha'i faith, an offshoot of Islam considered heretical by Iran's Shi'ite Muslim establishment, members of the religious group said. |
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Sunday, 18 May 2008 |
 AFP: Canada expressed concern over the apparent arrest of six Iranian Bahai followers and called for their release, while deploring an "ongoing decline" in the country's human rights situation. |
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Saturday, 17 May 2008 |
 CNN: Six Baha'i leaders in Iran were seized and imprisoned this week, the religious group said. The act prompted condemnation and concern from the movement and a top American religious freedom panel. |
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men including a teenager in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported on Monday.
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – Iranian authorities have hanged four men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
 AKI: A 20-year-old Iranian is due to be executed on Wednesday for a crime he allegedly committed as a teenager despite international efforts to save his life. |
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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Reuters: A 17-year-old Iranian youth who knifed and killed a rival suitor for a girl has been sentenced to death by a court in Tehran, a newspaper said on Sunday. |
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 24 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
 AKI: Seventy-five young people accused of 'immoral acts' have been arrested by police at a birthday party in the city of Shiraz in southwestern Iran. |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 17 – Authorities have hanged a man in the city of Gonbad Kavoos, northern Iran, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 15 - Iran executed at least 317 people in 2007, a prominent international human rights organisation said on Tuesday. Iran had the second-highest number of executions per capital, Amnesty International said in its yearly statistics, Death Sentences and Executions in 2007.
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 14 – Authorities have hanged two men in the city of Sari, northern Iran, state media reported. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 – Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 09 – Authorities in Semnan Province, northern Iran, hanged a man in prison at dawn on Wednesday, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 03 – Britain’s Foreign Office has urged Iran to limit the number of executions it carries out. |
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
 The Independent: Britain must radically change its immigration policy and end immediately the deportation of failed asylum-seekers who fear persecution in Iran, a group of leading peers will tell the Government today.
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Wednesday, 26 March 2008 |
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Iran Focus: London, Mar. 26 - The United Kingdom's Foreign Office has accused the Iranian authorities of committing "serious" human rights abuses. |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
 Bloomberg: The Bush administration will freeze any U.S. assets of Future Bank B.S.C., a Bahrain-based bank controlled by an Iranian lender linked to Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons, the Treasury Department said in a statement.
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 12 - The U.S. State Department on Tuesday accused Iranian authorities of stepping up repression throughout the country in 2007. |
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 The Independent: Mehdi Kazemi is a gay teenager from Iran. He sought sanctuary in Britain after his boyfriend was hanged for homosexuality. So why is Britain so determined to send him back to Tehran – to almost certain execution? |
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 The Independent: The Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, did not bat an eyelid when he asserted at New York's Columbia university that there were no homosexuals in Iran.
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Thursday, 06 March 2008 |
 RFE/RL: Even before his foot touched Iraqi soil, Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad had much to celebrate. His country has entrenched itself in the Iraqi economy, so much so that observers say Iraq is becoming economically, if not politically, subordinate to Iran. |
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