|
Monday, 07 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – Authorities amputated the hands and legs of five individuals as punishment for alleged crimes in the volatile province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. |
|
|
Friday, 04 January 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan.05 – Iran’s chief of police reiterated on Friday that the country’s State Security Forces would continue “decisively” with a nationwide clampdown on “social vice”. |
|
|
Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
 AFP: Iran hanged 13 convicted criminals on Wednesday, including the mother of two young children who had been found guilty of murdering her husband after discovering he was having an affair, reports said. |
|
|
Monday, 31 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 01 – Iranian authorities hanged two men Monday morning in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. |
|
|
Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for a 17-year-old schoolboy over the murder of his younger friend. |
|
|
Thursday, 27 December 2007 |
 New York Times: A prominent human rights activist who has been jailed since October was transferred to a hospital Wednesday, according to his wife and the news agency ISNA. |
|
|
Monday, 24 December 2007 |
 Reuters: Iranian police detained 28 young men and women wearing "inappropriate and repulsive" clothing and confiscated alcohol at a party in a northeastern city, an Iranian news agency reported on Monday. |
|
|
Saturday, 22 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Dec. 22 – A prominent international human rights organisation called for the immediate release of an Iranian trade union leader who was rushed to hospital after collapsing in prison. |
|
|
Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged four people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday. |
|
|
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Dec. 19 - The United Nations General Assembly accused Iran on Tuesday of continuing the practice of torture and punishments such as flogging, stoning and amputation of limbs. |
|
|
Wednesday, 19 December 2007 |
|
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 - An Iranian student was arrested earlier this week after reporting to the country’s moral police as he had been instructed to do, students in Tehran told Iran Focus. |
|
|
Monday, 17 December 2007 |
 Reuters: Iran should release students arrested for planning a protest, the president of the European Parliament said on Monday. A statement from Hans-Gert Poettering also condemned the execution of a man found guilty of a crime supposedly committed when he was 13. |
|
|
Monday, 17 December 2007 |
 Reuters: An Iranian court has jailed nine teachers for 91 days on charges of disturbing public opinion by encouraging colleagues to stage illegal protests, an Iranian daily reported on Monday. |
|
|
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
 AKI: A 48-year-old man with two children faces death by stoning in Iran after he was accused of having had extra-marital sex. |
|
|
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
|
AKI: Four Kurdish students, who called for human rights for their ethnic group at a university protest, have been arrested in Iran. |
|
|
Tuesday, 11 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 11 - Four people were hanged on Tuesday in the province of Khorrasan Shomali, north-eastern Iran, state television reported. |
|
|
Friday, 07 December 2007 |
 AFP: The top United Nations human rights official on Friday voiced her "grave concern" at the execution of a young Iranian man convicted of rape amid reports a judge had ordered a stay of execution.
|
|
|
Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
 AFP: An Iranian youth was hanged for rape in the city of Kermanshah despite his victims withdrawing their complaint and a judicial decree quashing his death sentence, a newspaper reported on Thursday. |
|
|
Wednesday, 05 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 05 - Five individuals were executed in the southern Iranian province of Kerman on Wednesday, state media reported.
|
|
|
Monday, 03 December 2007 |
|
http://www.iranfocus.com/uploads/img475485ca2cbae.jpg" /> |
|
|
Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 02 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, on Sunday, state media reported. |
|
|
Tuesday, 27 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 27 - A man was hanged in central Iran earlier this week, state media reported on Tuesday. |
|
|
Sunday, 25 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 25 - Two men were hanged in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. |
|
|
Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 21 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the province of Golestan, northern Iran, state media reported on Tuesday. |
|
|
Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
 CBC News: Iran failed by one vote on Tuesday to stop a Canadian-sponsored UN resolution condemning Iran's "ongoing systematic violations of human rights." |
|
|
Tuesday, 20 November 2007 |
 Canadian Press: A Canadian-based filmmaker stuck in Iran appeared at a closed-door trial Saturday in Tehran, according to a group working for her release. |
|
|
Sunday, 18 November 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 18 - Iranian authorities hanged three men in the province of Hamadan, western Iran, state media reported on Sunday. |
|
|
Saturday, 17 November 2007 |
|
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 - Iranian authorities hanged a man on Thursday in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported. |
|
|
Wednesday, 14 November 2007 |
|
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – Iranian authorities hanged two men in public in the province of Kermanshah, western Iran, state media reported on Wednesday. |
|
|
Tuesday, 13 November 2007 |
 The Times: Homosexuals deserve to be executed or tortured and possibly both, an Iranian leader told British MPs during a private meeting at a peace conference, The Times has learnt. |
|
