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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 07 – Iranian authorities went ahead with tying a teenager to a tree in public in Tehran on Thursday for “causing trouble” on the orders of a district judge, state-run Persian-language websites reported on Friday. |
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Friday, 07 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 07 – Former Norwegian Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has appealed to the Iranian government not to go ahead as planned with the execution of a long-time political prisoner.
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Thursday, 06 April 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 06 – The United States accused Iran on Wednesday of “serious human rights abuses”.
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Wednesday, 29 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 29 – An Iranian opposition activist is in danger of imminent execution, Iran Focus has learnt.
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Tuesday, 28 March 2006 |
 Reuters: Iran's ambassador to the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Tuesday the Islamic Republic's research on atomic enrichment was proceeding well and that the programme was on track to be expanded later this year. |
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Sunday, 26 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 26 – Hundreds of people have been arrested in Iran’s south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan after a deadly ambush on a government convoy carrying dozens of top provincial officials, an informed source in Tehran told Iran Focus. |
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Friday, 24 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 24 – The international human rights group Amnesty International expressed concern over the possible arrest of two young Arab boys and three Arab women one of whom is pregnant in the south-western volatile city of Ahwaz, fearing that they may face “torture and ill-treatment”. |
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Saturday, 18 March 2006 |
 AP: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her counterparts from Australia and Japan urged Iran on Saturday to suspend all uranium enrichment activities and resume negotiations over its disputed nuclear program.
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Thursday, 16 March 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 16 – Iran’s paramilitary police arrested 1,000 individuals in the Iranian capital during Tuesday night’s annual fire festival, Tehran’s deputy chief prosecutor announced on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 08 – The United States accused Iran on Wednesday of committing “numerous, serious” human rights abuses. |
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 08 – A man was flogged in public in the Iranian city of Karaj, west of Tehran, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 08 – A young man was hanged in public in the western city of Qazvin, a state-run daily reported on Wednesday.
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Thursday, 02 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 02 – Two men accused of carrying out a recent bombing in the south-western city of Ahwaz were hanged in public on Thursday morning, a government-owned news agency reported.
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Wednesday, 01 March 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 01 – Iran has executed three Arab activists in the south-western oil city of Ahwaz, according to local dissidents reached by telephone. |
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 27 – Two political activists in Iran’s Azerbaijan Province were arrested for spreading anti-government propaganda leaflets in the north-western town of Ahar, according to local residents. |
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Monday, 27 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 27 – A man accused of being a “trouble-maker” was flogged in public by police in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, a semi-official daily reported on Monday. |
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Saturday, 25 February 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, Feb. 25 – The human rights group Amnesty International announced that it had “grave concern” about the “alarming rate” of executions in Iran, in particular highlighting the cases of a number of political prisoners, several of whom are on death row. |
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Friday, 24 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 24 – A young man from the town of Ardebil, north-western Iran, was hanged in prison, a state-run news agency reported on Friday. |
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Saturday, 18 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 18 – A judge at Tehran’s Appellate Court announced on Saturday that the Islamic Republic would continue to issue death verdicts for juvenile delinquents “without considering other available options”. |
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Friday, 17 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17 – Two men accused of murder were hanged in the central city of Shiraz, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Friday. |
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Thursday, 16 February 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, Feb. 16 – A top international rights group blasted on Thursday the hard-line government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for failing to address the “dire human rights situation” in that country. |
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Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15 – An Iranian court sentenced seven individuals to death for allegedly playing a role in twin bombings in the south-western city of Ahwaz that occurred in January, the state-run daily Iran reported on Wednesday.
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Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Feb. 15 – A 15-year-old schoolboy has been sentenced to death accused of murder, government-run websites announced on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 15 February 2006 |
 Washington Post: While the international community is locking horns with Iran over its plan to push ahead with uranium enrichment -- a potential first step toward making nuclear weapons -- a separate global confrontation is gathering steam over labor practices under the Iranian theocracy. |
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Tuesday, 14 February 2006 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 14 – Iran’s Supreme Court upheld a death by hanging sentence against two teenagers in Tehran, the official state news agency reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 13 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 13 – Iranian authorities are believed to have executed a long-time political prisoner, Iran Focus has learnt.
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Monday, 06 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 06 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in the north-eastern town of Sabzevar, Khorassan Razavi province, a state-run daily reported on Monday. |
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 02 – Agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the country’s secret police, have been conducting night raids into the homes of striking bus drivers and workers in Tehran in recent days, arresting hundreds of union activists and, in some cases, detaining family members to blackmail strikers.
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Wednesday, 01 February 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 01 – Iranian authorities hanged in public an individual accused of being a “trouble-maker” in the central city of Kerman, the state-run ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday. |
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Monday, 30 January 2006 |
 Reuters: President George W. Bush will offer words of support on Tuesday in his State of the Union address to Iranians who want greater freedom as U.S. diplomats push for sanctions over the Islamic republic's nuclear program. |
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