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Thursday, 17 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 17 – The relatives of a political prisoner who recently died while on hunger strike in one of Iran’s notorious jails have blamed the country’s clerical rulers for their son’s death.
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Wednesday, 16 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 16 – Three men were hanged in south-east Iran, according to a semi-official daily.
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Friday, 11 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 11 – An Iranian man from the northern city of Rasht is facing prison and may be executed for converting from Islam to Christianity, a Christian news agency reported. |
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Wednesday, 09 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 09 – A young man was hanged in public in the northern Iranian town of Babol, a government-run news agency reported. |
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Tuesday, 08 August 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 08 – A young Afghan man was hanged in public on Monday on a highway close to the ancient city of Bam, southern Iran, the government-run news agency Fars reported.
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Saturday, 05 August 2006 |
 AFP: Iran has declared as "illegal" a human rights group headed by Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and vowed to prosecute its continued activities, local media reported Saturday. |
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Wednesday, 02 August 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, Aug. 02 – A prominent international human rights organisation called on Iran to put an end to torture and ill-treatment in its prisons. |
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Monday, 31 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Ahwaz, Iran, Jul. 31 – A man was flogged in public in the south-western town of Ramhormoz for stealing a motorbike.
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Monday, 31 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – An Iranian student arrested in the course of nationwide protests seven years ago died in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison late Sunday several days after beginning a hunger strike. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 – A student from the restive Iranian city of Ahwaz has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to the state-run news agency ILNA. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 – A man was lashed in public in the northern town of Gorgan for distribution of alcoholic beverages, according to the official news agency. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 27 – The European Union blasted on Wednesday’s Iran human rights violations and urged Tehran to refrain from punishing individuals for expressing their thoughts. |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
 AFP: A court in southwestern Iran handed down 10 death sentences Tuesday over a wave of ethnic unrest in the key oil province of Khuzestan, the state broadcaster's website reported. |
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Monday, 24 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 24 – Two teenagers were hanged in public in the town of Aq Qala, northern Iran, the official news agency reported on Monday. |
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
 Sunday Mirror: A girl of 19 faces being hanged in Iran for a crime she didn't commit. |
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Sunday, 23 July 2006 |
 Sunday Mirror: It was exactly 6am and the start of another blisteringly hot summer day when 16-year-old Atefeh Rajabi was dragged from her prison cell and taken to be executed. |
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Saturday, 22 July 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 22 – Iran’s judiciary has sentence a man to 50 lashes and six months in prison for taking part in a massive anti-government rally in the north-western city of Tabriz earlier this year. |
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Thursday, 20 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the western city of Boroujerd, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 18 July 2006 |
 AFP: Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani said on Tuesday he had been sentenced to five years in jail on charges of disclosing confidential information and opposing the regime. |
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Friday, 14 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 14 – A man was hanged in a prison in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, the official news agency IRNA reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – Iran’s state-run media reported half a dozen executions on Wednesday bringing to 98 the number of executions reported in the state media since the start of 2006. |
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Wednesday, 12 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – Four men were hanged in public in the south-eastern city of Zabol, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, on Wednesday, the official news agency IRNA reported. |
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Monday, 10 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – A young man was hanged in the north-eastern city of Shahroud while several others were sentenced to execution and lashes, the state-run media reported on Sunday. |
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Thursday, 06 July 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 – A court in southern Iran has sentenced a man to ten times execution, the official news agency reported. |
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Wednesday, 28 June 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, Jun. 28 – A Tehran-based human rights group has voiced concern about the rapidly-deteriorating state of health of an Iranian journalist who was imprisoned in May for reporting on massive anti-government demonstrations in Iran’s north-western Azeri provinces. |
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Monday, 26 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 26 – A political prisoner was hanged in Tehran after serving 10 years behind bars, Persian-language websites reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 26 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 26 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the southern city of Shiraz, a state-run daily reported on Sunday. |
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Tuesday, 20 June 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 20 – A man has been hanged in a prison in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan for killing an army soldier and injuring an army officer, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. |
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Thursday, 15 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 15 – Iran’s State Security Forces have carried out nearly 80,000 “on the spot” interrogations over the past two months in the streets of Tehran alone, according to the chief of police in the Iranian capital. |
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Thursday, 15 June 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 15 – A man has been hanged in a prison in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, according to a state-run daily. |
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