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Wednesday, 30 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 01 – Two youths were street-paraded in Tehran by the State Security Forces, a state-run daily reported on Thursday. |
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Monday, 28 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 29 – Iran’s Islamic judiciary cut
off the right hand and the left foot of a prisoner in the volatile town of Ahwaz, southwest Iran, state-run dailies reported Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 23 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 24 – The European Union criticised on Wednesday violations of freedom of speech in Iran and called on Tehran to adhere to its international obligations and commitments to human rights. |
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Monday, 21 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 21 – Three men were hanged to death in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran, a state-run daily reported on Monday. |
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Sunday, 20 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 21 – Three youths were sentenced to flogging, jail time, and being street-paraded, a semi-official daily reported on Monday. |
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Friday, 18 November 2005 |
 AFP: The UN General Assembly on Friday passed a resolution expressing "serious concern" about human rights violations in Iran, including the use of torture and public executions, and called on Tehran to end the abuses.
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Wednesday, 16 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Agents of Iran’s morality police flogged a young man outside the Open University in the southern town of Behbahan, a student from the university reported in an email to Iran Focus. |
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Monday, 14 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, A man was publicly hanged in the town of Qazvin, west of the Iranian capital Tehran, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Saturday, 12 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s para-military policemen paraded seven handcuffed men around for several hours as a way to punish them for “making trouble”, the country’s state-run press reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 12 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s hard-line judiciary has summoned a four-year-old child to court to face charges of assault on a ten-year-old, a Tehran-based daily reported on Wednesday. |
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Saturday, 12 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Two young men were hanged in a public square in the northern city of Gorgan after being found guilty of lavat, or homosexual relationship, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday. |
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Friday, 11 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 12 – A 27-year old man from the central city of Isfahan was hanged to death, a state-run daily reported on Saturday. |
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Tuesday, 08 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Nov. 09 – The United States Department
of State in its 2005 annual International Religious Freedom Report designated Iran as a “Country of Particular Concern” for “severely violating” religious freedoms. |
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Tuesday, 08 November 2005 |
 Canadian Press: Canada has introduced a UN resolution expressing concerns over the violation of human rights in Iran, Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew said Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 08 November 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 08 – A young man was publicly hanged in the northern Iranian town of Sari, a semi-official daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 24 October 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 25 – A 22-year-old man from the town of Varamin, southern Tehran, was street-paraded and sentenced to lashes for instigating trouble, a semi-official daily wrote on Monday. |
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Thursday, 20 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 – The international media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a report ranked Iran as the worst violator of press freedoms rights in the Middle East. |
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Thursday, 20 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20 – A top international human rights organisation condemned Iran on Thursday for handing down death sentences to minors and continuing to issue sentences of stoning to death. |
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Wednesday, 19 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 20 – Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi ordered a ban on prison leave for “enemies of the Islamic Republic”, including political prisoners and “trouble-makers”, a semi-official daily reported on Thursday.
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Friday, 14 October 2005 |
Iran Focus: Karaj, Iran, Oct. 14 – An Iranian youth from the city
of Karaj, west of Tehran, was publicly paraded by State Security Forces (SSF) in the city centre for several hours on Tuesday. |
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Saturday, 08 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 09 – A 17-year-old boy was sentenced
to death by hanging, a state-run daily reported on Sunday. |
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Wednesday, 05 October 2005 |
 Reuters: Canada will put forward a resolution at the United Nations for the third year in a row accusing Iran of human
rights violations, Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew said on Wednesday. |
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Saturday, 01 October 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 02 – A group of Iranian men were flogged in public in the Iranian capital and sentenced to several years in prison, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday. |
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Monday, 26 September 2005 |
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AFP: Iranian dissident student leader Ali Afshari has been sentenced to six years in jail for "attacking national security", a source close to him said Monday. |
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Sunday, 25 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 25 – A young man was publicly hanged at a riverside in the Iranian town of Kashan, south of the capital, on Sunday evening, the country’s state-run news agency reported. |
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Saturday, 24 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 25 – A man was hanged in the city of Sari, capital of the northern Mazandaran Province, on drug charges, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday. |
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Sunday, 18 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 18 – Close to 1,600 persons have been arrested in Tehran over the past 10 days as part of a nationwide crackdown, the state-owned hard-line daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 17 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 17 – An Iranian man was hanged in public in the volatile town of Ahwaz, southwest Iran, on Saturday morning, Iran state-run news agency reported. |
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Friday, 16 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 17 – Over a thousand “hooligans” have been arrested by Iran’s State Security Forces throughout the Iranian capital since the start of a 20-day-long crackdown on dissent, the deputy commander of the force said on Saturday. |
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Friday, 16 September 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 17 – A young Iranian man was hanged in a penitentiary centre in the city of Yazd, central Iran,
a state-run daily reported on Saturday. |
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