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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has jailed a U.S.-Iranian reporter in her absence for one year on charges including acting against national security, a news agency said on Monday. |
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Monday, 03 March 2008 |
 AFP: An Iranian student activist has been sentenced to one year in prison for acting against national security, his lawyer told the ISNA news agency on Monday. |
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Wednesday, 27 February 2008 |
 RFE/RL: Labor rights activists and prominent human rights figures have condemned the lashing sentences that have been handed down in recent weeks to 11 workers in the Iranian province of Kurdistan. |
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Monday, 25 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 25 - Twenty students have been arrested at the Industrial University of Shahrood, northern Iran, in the course of a protest which has entered its sixth day, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged ten people on Wednesday, state media reported.
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Wednesday, 20 February 2008 |
 New York Times: Iran has sentenced a journalist to death, accusing him of being a member of a terrorist group in the country’s southeast, the judiciary said Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 19 February 2008 |
 AP: A journalist accused of involvement in a terrorist group in southeastern Iran has been sentenced to death, the judiciary said Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 13 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 13 – The international press freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Wednesday that Iran continues to be the “Middle East’s biggest prison for journalists”. |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 AKI: Yaghoub Mehrnahad, a student and journalist from the Beluchi ethnic group, is the latest person to be condemned to death in Iran. |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 Reuters: Gulf states believe Israel will destroy Iran's nuclear programme rather than allow it to acquire an atomic bomb, an adviser to the Kuwaiti government and Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 12 February 2008 |
 BBC: Early morning in Tehran, and two mobile cranes are being manoeuvred into place. They are to act as temporary gallows for a public execution. |
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Saturday, 09 February 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: Iran's ambassador to Spain has compared chopping off the hands of thieves to a "surgeon amputating a limb to prevent the spread of gangrene".
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 AKI: Two Kurdish students have been arrested in Iran for unknown reasons, increasing the number of arrested Kurdish students to 11. |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 07 – The European Union criticised Iran on Thursday for the rise in the number of executions carried out by the state. |
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Thursday, 07 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 07 – Amnesty International issued an urgent appeal on Wednesday to save the life of a young Iranian man who is facing imminent execution for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 15 years old. |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
 Canadian Press: A Montreal filmmaker who was arrested and jailed in Iran says the Canadian consul was never in contact with her while she was behind bars. |
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Friday, 01 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 01 – The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday adopted a strongly-worded resolution denouncing human rights violations in Iran.
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
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Iran Focus: London, Jan. 31 - A prominent press freedoms organisation condemned on Wednesday a decision by Iranian authorities to suspend a feminist monthly for "publishing information detrimental to society's psychological tranquillity." |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 AKI: A young Iranian man is facing execution after a court judged him a 'hardened and incorrigible drinker," Iranian daily Etemad Melli reported. A section of Tehran's criminal court is currently deciding whether the 22-year-old man, known as Mohsen, should be executed.
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31 – Five men were hanged in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 31 January 2008 |
 BBC: The head of Iran's judiciary has issued an order that no executions be carried out in public without his permission. |
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
 New York Times: Iran’s judiciary has executed an airport customs contractor accused of bribe-taking and other corruption and has sentenced three other airport employees to death, the Iranian news agency ISNA reported Tuesday.
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008 |
AFP: Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday it has sentenced 54 members of the Bahai religious community, whose faith is banned in the Islamic republic, for anti-regime propaganda.
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Monday, 28 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 28 – Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in the central province of Markazi on Monday, state media reported. |
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Saturday, 26 January 2008 |
 Daily Telegraph: The death of a student in the custody of Iranian intelligence officers has provoked outrage among opponents of the regime, who claim it is part of a concerted crackdown on dissent in the run-up to parliamentary elections. |
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Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 24 – The United States said on Wednesday that it was “deeply concerned” at the death in prison of a Kurdish Iranian student who had been arrested by the country’s secret police in Sanandaj, western Iran. |
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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 22 – Iranian authorities in the province of Lorestan, western Iran, hanged a man in public on Tuesday, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 17 January 2008 |
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AKI: A Kurdish student has died in custody at the Iranian intelligence ministry's detention centre in Sanandaj where he was taken after his arrest ten days ago. |
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Tuesday, 15 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jan. 15 – A prominent international human rights organisations on Tuesday urged Iran to abolish the “grotesque and unacceptable” practice of stoning. |
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 10 – Authorities in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, hanged three individuals on Wednesday, state media reported.
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