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Monday, 16 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 16 – A top human rights group called Monday on Iran to end the execution of child offenders after death sentences were handed down to two teenage girls for crime they allegedly committed when they minors.
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Sunday, 08 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 08 – Three men were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Sunday.
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Monday, 02 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 02 – A court in Iran sentenced a young man to amputation of his hand, flogging, and jail time, a state-run daily reported on Monday. |
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Thursday, 29 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iranian authorities hanged two young men in public in the cities of Ilam, western Iran, and Taibad, eastern Iran, the official news agency reported. |
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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 28 – Iranian authorities flogged three men in public in the southern town of Jahrom, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 28 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 28 – Two men were hanged in public in the volatile city of Ahwaz, southwest Iran, the official state news agency reported on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 27 – Iranian authorities hanged
a young man in the Kurdish town of Saqqez, a Persian-language opposition website reported on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 27 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld stoning and amputation sentences for four men and jail terms for several dozen other members of a gang in the north of the country, according to a report in a semi-official daily. |
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Sunday, 25 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 26 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for a man in the town of Varamin,
near Tehran, according to a state-run daily.
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Sunday, 25 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 25 – Iran has executed a political prisoner who had been jailed since 1996 for allegedly killing an agent of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Thursday, 22 December 2005 |
 AFP: Iran is to halt its human rights dialogue with the
European Union after the bloc condemned what it described
as continued abuses by the Islamic regime, foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said in comments published Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 21 – Iranian authorities publicly hanged three men all in their twenties in the town of Sabzevar, north-east Iran, the state-run Fars news agency reported late Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Dec. 20 – The European Union on Tuesday criticised Iran’s abysmal human rights record. |
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Monday, 19 December 2005 |
 Reuters: An Iranian of the Bahai faith has died in his jail cell of unknown causes, 10 years after being imprisoned by Tehran for abandoning Islam, the Bahai International Community said on Monday. |
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Monday, 19 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – Authorities hanged a young man in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, a state-run daily reported on Monday.
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Sunday, 18 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 18 – Authorities hanged a man
in the Iranian capital Tehran Sunday morning, a state-run news agency reported. |
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Dec. 17 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted on Friday a resolution censuring widespread human rights violations in Iran. |
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Friday, 16 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Dec. 16 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted on Friday a resolution censuring human rights violations in Iran.
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Thursday, 15 December 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 15 – The State Supreme Court
in the central Iranian city of Isfahan upheld a death sentence
for a young man and ordered two other men to be lashed in public, a state-run daily reported on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
Iran Focus: London, Dec. 13 – Iran has executed at least eight individuals who were under the age of 18 when they allegedly committed their crimes, according to a top international human rights group.
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 13 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld sentences for two young men to be hanged in the Iranian capital Tehran, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
 Dow Jones Newswires: European Union foreign ministers called on Iran Monday to show greater respect for human rights, saying the situation in Iran was deteriorating and damaging E.U.-Iran ties. The E.U. ministers said they regretted that Iran has failed to hold talks on human rights this year, "despite the E.U.'s strong and repeated requests." |
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 12 – Monday’s edition of the state-run daily Hamshahri carried the photo of a young Afghan who was hanged in public on Saturday for a crime he was alleged to have committed as a minor.
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Saturday, 10 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 10 – Iran publicly hanged a young Afghan on Saturday for a crime he was alleged to have committed as a minor. |
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 10 – A woman was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirvan, according to a state-run news agency. |
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Friday, 09 December 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 10 – A young man was hanged in the Iranian capital Tehran, the state-run news agency ISNA reported on Saturday.
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Wednesday, 07 December 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Two young men were publicly hanged Wednesday morning near the central city of Arak, the official state-run news agency reported.
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Monday, 05 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 06 – A young Afghan man is set to be executed on Saturday for a crime he committed as a minor, a semi-official daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Sunday, 04 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 04 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a home in the north-eastern city of Mashad, host to a co-ed party, dozens of youths, a state-run daily reported on Sunday. |
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Thursday, 01 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 02 – A senior Iranian cleric accused France on Friday of human rights violations. |
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