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Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 14 – Three men were hanged in the southern city of Kerman, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 14 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 14 – Iranian authorities hanged two men in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, the official news agency IRNA reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 13 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 13 – Three men were hanged in city of Qazvin, west of Tehran, state-run dailies reported on Tuesday. |
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Thursday, 01 June 2006 |
 New York Times: Members of the Bahai religious minority in Iran said this week that the government had recently intensified a campaign of arrests, raids and propaganda that was aimed at eradicating their religion in Iran, the country of its birth. |
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 31 – The international media freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday that it was “very worried” about the fate of an Iranian student web-logger who disappeared on Friday. |
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Wednesday, 31 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 31 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in a prison in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan which has been the scene of numerous attacks by armed insurgents against government and security officials. |
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Saturday, 27 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 27 – The international press freedoms organisation Reporters Without Borders demanded on Saturday the “immediate release” of two Iranian Azeri journalists who were detained by authorities following mass anti-government demonstrations earlier this week by ethnic Azeris in north-west Iran. |
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Friday, 26 May 2006 |
 UPI: Iranian officials have released 54 Baha'is arrested in the city of Shiraz last week, the Baha'i International Community said Wednesday.
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Tuesday, 23 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 23 – The international human rights organisation Amnesty International blasted human rights abuses in Iran in 2005 in its annual report on the state of the world's human rights. |
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Monday, 22 May 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 22 – Four men and one woman were hanged in Iran, press reports said on Monday. |
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Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, May 17 – Despite a promise by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before he took office to root out poverty and corruption, Iran’s State Security Forces have launched a new crackdown on poor and homeless people in Tehran. |
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Wednesday, 17 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 17 – Despite a promise by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad before he took office to root out poverty and corruption, Iran’s State Security Forces have launched a new crackdown on poor and homeless people in Tehran. |
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Saturday, 13 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 13 – A Tehran-based human rights group has called on the European Union to pressure Iran to suspend the imminent execution of a long-time political prisoner. |
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Tuesday, 09 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 09 – Iran failed to win a seat Tuesday at the newly-established United Nations Human Rights Council. |
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Saturday, 06 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 06 – Iran rejected on Saturday a statement by the European Union denouncing its human rights record and instead criticised European states of violating their own citizens human rights. |
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Saturday, 06 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, May 06 – The European Union censured Iran on Friday for its human rights violations. |
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Friday, 05 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 05 – Iranian authorities flogged 54 people for attending a mixed-sex party in the northern province of Mazandaran, a state-run daily reported. |
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 04 – Dozens of Islamic mystics and their lawyers have been sentenced to jail and flogging, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 04 May 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, May 04 – The international media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) accused hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of being a "predator" of press freedoms. |
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
 Reuters: Prominent Iranian philosopher and writer Ramin Jahanbegloo has been arrested on unspecified charges, judiciary officials said on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 03 May 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 03 – Iranian authorities street-paraded two young men in central Tehran on charges of “hooliganism”, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 26 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 26 – A young man was lashed in public in the Iranian city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran, on charges of “hooliganism”, the official news agency IRNA reported.
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Monday, 24 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 24 – A young man was hanged in prison in the central city of Isfahan charged with killing a local police commander, a state-run daily reported. |
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Thursday, 20 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 20 – An Iranian man was flogged in public in the city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran, for drinking alcohol, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 20 April 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 20 – An Afghan man was hanged in central Iran in the early hours of the day, Iran’s official news agency reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 20 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 20 – Ten young men were paraded by police in the northern Iranian town of Tonkabon, Iran’s official news agency reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 20 April 2006 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged 10 men in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on various charges including murder.
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Wednesday, 19 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 19 –Iran’s State Supreme Court has upheld the execution sentence of a young man, a state-run news agency reported on Wednesday.
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Tuesday, 11 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 – Iran’s State Security Forces tied three men to a tree in public in Tehran, state-run press reported on Tuesday. |
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 07 – Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) tied a young man to a wall in Tehran on charges of “causing trouble”, the government-run news agency Fars reported on Friday. |
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