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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 |
 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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Saturday, 23 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 23 - A prisoner was hanged in the troubled province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan, south-eastern Iran, the state-run daily Etemaad reported on Saturday. |
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Thursday, 21 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 21 – Iranian authorities hanged a teenager in public on Wednesday for a crime he had purportedly committed as a child, state media reported. |
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Wednesday, 20 September 2006 |
 Voice of America: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's address to the United Nations coincided with sharp criticism of the Iranian leader in the U.S. Congress. The House of Representatives debated three resolutions dealing with political and human rights issues in Iran |
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Sunday, 17 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 17 – A new security organ has been set up to aid police inside schools in Tehran beginning from the start of the new academic year, the chief of police in the Iranian capital announced. |
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Saturday, 16 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 16 – The United States Department of State accused Iran on Friday of “severely” restricting freedom of religion.
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Friday, 08 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 08 – Human rights activists in the Iranian capital have told Iran Focus that prison-mates of Valiollah Feyz-Mahdavi, a political prisoner who died in custody earlier this week, plan to hold a ceremony in his honour later this evening inside Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
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Friday, 08 September 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, Sep. 08 – The international human rights groups Amnesty International expressed “deep concern” at the death in custody of a long-time Iranian political prisoner. |
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Friday, 08 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 08 – Two men were hanged in Tehran, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 07 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Sep. 07 – Iranian authorities have “murdered” a long-time political prisoner, the main Iranian opposition coalition announced on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – A prisoner was hanged in the southern port city of Bandar Abbass, the semi-official daily Kayhan reported on Monday. |
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Tuesday, 05 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – A man was hanged in public on Monday in one of Iran’s most volatile provinces. |
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Thursday, 31 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 31 – Iran’s State Security Forces have dispatched motorbike units in several districts of the Iranian capital in an effort to crack down on social dissent there. |
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Sunday, 27 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27 – A man was hanged in public on Saturday in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchestan, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Friday, 25 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 25 – The European Union expressed “grave concern” about the situation of dissidents in Iran, highlighting the recent death of a political prisoner. |
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Thursday, 24 August 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the south-eastern Iranian town of Khash, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. |
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Sunday, 20 August 2006 |
 AFP: The government of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on judiciary to clamp down on local media which it accused of "spreading lies", press reports said Sunday. |
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Sunday, 20 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – A young man was hanged in public in the western Iranian city of Khorramabad on Sunday, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Saturday, 19 August 2006 |
 AFP : An Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in the northern town of Sari, an Iranian newspaper reported on Saturday. |
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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 – Dozens of Iranian Kurds have been arrested over the past few days in the course of a new crackdown by Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) on political activists in the western province of Kurdistan, according to a local rights group.
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