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Thursday, 15 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 15 – An Iranian man was
hanged in a prison in the city of Yazd, central Iran, a semi-official daily wrote on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 – Some 172 individuals in the Iranian capital were being prosecuted for disrupting national security, the man in charge of organising a new crackdown on “trouble-makers” said in an interview with Iran’s state-run television. |
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Tuesday, 13 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 - A new crackdown on “trouble-makers” was launched last week. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi to hand down “harsher, decisive” sentences to those arrested. The following are scenes of some of the arrests in Tehran:
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Monday, 12 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – One person was hanged and 13 others were imprisoned in West Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, as part of new wave of crackdown on dissent which began last week, Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) announced on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 12 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – A young man was hanged in public in the southern town of Kazeroun, in Fars Province, for a crime he had committed when he was a minor, a state-run daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 12 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – A young Iranian mother was sentenced to execution in the town of Langaroud, northern Iran, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 12 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the head of the country’s judiciary to deal “decisively” with “elements creating disruption in society” and sentence them to “the most severe punishment that God has prescribed”, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami wrote in its Tuesday edition. |
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Monday, 12 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – Two Iranian Kurds were arrested and taken to unknown locations by Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) in the western province of Kurdistan for their opposition to the Iranian government, a Kurdish opposition group announced on Monday. |
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Wednesday, 07 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Two Iranian Kurdish activists were hanged in a prison in the town of Orumieh, northwest Iran, for their opposition to the Iranian regime, opposition websites reported on Wednesday. |
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Monday, 05 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – A court in Iran sentenced a woman to 100 lashes and 15 years jail time and an Afghan man to execution on charges of murder, Persian-language websites reported on Tuesday. |
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Sunday, 04 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 04 – An Iranian man was
hanged in the town of Iranshahr, in Iran’s south-eastern Baluchistan Province, a semi-official daily reported on Sunday. |
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Monday, 29 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 30 – The head of Iran’s Judiciary on Monday called harsh and speedy punishments for individuals convicted of a variety of organised crimes, many of which carry the death penalty.
Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi was speaking at a gathering of senior judicial officials a day after the shooting of a judge in the Iranian capital. |
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Thursday, 25 August 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – A Kurdish activist in the city of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, was arrested by State Security Forces, Persian-language websites reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 25 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Aug. 25 - The human rights organisation Amnesty International expressed concern on Thursday at the imminent execution of two minors in Iran, who have been sentenced to death by hanging.
The group said that Iran had already executed seven children this year and called on the Islamic Republic to abide by its international commitments. |
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Tuesday, 23 August 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – There are 30 prisoners on death row in a prison in the town of Arak, central Iran, according to the area’s Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor. Hamzeh Pakbin said that the prisoners had all been sentenced to hanging for a variety of crimes, local newspapers reported on Wednesday.
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Tuesday, 23 August 2005 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – A seventeen-year-old
musician in Iran is facing imminent execution in public after his death sentence was upheld by Iran’s hard-line Supreme Court,
a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday.
The teenage boy, identified by his first name Sina, was found
guilty of murdering another individual after a dispute over
cannabis last October, the daily Etemaad reported. |
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Tuesday, 23 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Iran’s clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in Tehran, a state-owned daily reported on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 23 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, on Tuesday, according to the state-owned daily Kayhan. News of the hanging was posted on the ultra-Islamist daily’s website late on Tuesday. The four were identified only by their initials. Two of them received 74 lashes in public before their execution, the daily reported.
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Saturday, 20 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the country’s capital by the para-military State Security Forces as part of a crackdown on young people harbouring anti-government sentiments. |
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Thursday, 18 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 - A 21-year old prisoner from the southern port city of Bandar Abbass was hanged in prison, a state-run daily reported on Thursday.
The young man, identified as Farshid Farighi, was hanged in prison after he was convicted of murder, according to the daily Javan.
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Sunday, 14 August 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 – An Iranian man was hanged on Sunday morning in front of a crowd at a public square in the city of Arak, central Iran. The man, identified by his first name Mehdi, was 21 years old at the time of his arrest on homicide charges. Another prisoner, identified by his first name Yaghoub, will be hanged in public in Arak in the coming days, according to the government-owned news agency Fars. |
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Thursday, 11 August 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 11 – More than a dozen protestors arrested in the oil-rich city of Ahwaz, southern Iran, during a demonstration in July were sentenced to serve prison time and to be flogged in public, Iran’s state-run news agency reported on Thursday. A court in Ahwaz sentenced the 15 individuals to flogging and jail time for “creating mayhem and disrupting public order”. |
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Tuesday, 09 August 2005 |
 AFP: Three Iranian men convicted of drug trafficking have been hanged in the western city of Hamedan, the Etemad daily reported Wednesday. The men only identified as Hamid Reza, Nosratollah and Reza were hanged Tuesday by the Hamedan revolutionary court for possession and sale of more than 10 kilos (22 pounds) of opium and heroin, the report said without specifying whether the hangings took place in public. |
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Friday, 05 August 2005 |
 AFP: Canada threatened Friday to introduce a UN resolution
on Iran's human rights record as it called on the Islamic republic's new government to improve its human rights record and change its position on nuclear ploriferation. |
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Thursday, 04 August 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 – A political prisoner who has launched a one-week-long hunger strike in solidarity for jailed journalist Akbar Ganji has been refused visitation rights for a week, a rights group in defence of political prisoners said on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 04 August 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 04 – A number of journalists and human rights defenders have been arrested in towns and cities in western Iran, according to human rights activists in the Iranian capital. Mahmoud Salehi, the spokesman for the Organisational Committee to Establish Trade Unions, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday. |
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Monday, 01 August 2005 |
 AFP: An Iranian man convicted of murdering and robbing five men when he was a minor has been hanged in the southern city of
Bandar Abbas, the Khorasan daily reported Monday.
Farshid Farighi, 21, was hanged at the city prison after he was convicted of stabbing to death five men in separate incidents after
they gave him a lift in their car.
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Sunday, 31 July 2005 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 31 – Iran’s Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an article that the international community should not ignore the plight of other political prisoners in Iran as well as focusing on the case of jailed journalist Akbar Ganji, a Persian-language website reported on Sunday. Ebadi said that while the case of Akbar Ganji was “a regretful example of the harsh situation of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Iran that has gained attention in recent weeks”, other political prisoners must not be forgotten. |
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Friday, 29 July 2005 |
 BBC News: The wife of Iran's best-known political prisoner, journalist Akbar Ganji, says officials will not let her visit her husband, 49 days into a hunger strike. Massoumeh Shafeih says she will not be allowed access until she stops giving interviews to the foreign media. Mrs Ganji said she received
the message when she called the hospital where he is held
to arrange her next visit. |
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Tuesday, 26 July 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 27 – An Iranian man was hanged at dawn on Tuesday in a prison in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas, the state-run daily Aftab Yazd wrote today. The man only identified as Farshid F. was convicted of murdering five drivers between the years 1998 to 2000 in an attempt to steal their belongings. |
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