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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 24 - Iran executed at least 346 people in 2008, a prominent international human rights organisation said on Tuesday.
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Thursday, 19 March 2009 |
 AFP: A young Iranian blogger jailed in Tehran's notorious Evin prison for insulting supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has died, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday. |
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Thursday, 12 March 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 12 - Iranian authorities hanged four men in a town in eastern Iran, state media reported on Thursday.
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Wednesday, 11 March 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 11 – A man was ‘secretly’ stoned to death in a prison in the northern Iranian city of Rasht, the main opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said on Wednesday, citing ‘reliable sources’.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Mar. 10 - Iranian authorities hanged five men in central and south-eastern Iran earlier this week, state media reported.
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Friday, 06 March 2009 |
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RFE/RL: Iranian political prisoner Amir Heshmat Saran has died at the Rajayi Hospital in the city of Karaj, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. |
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Tuesday, 03 March 2009 |
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AFP: Iran confirmed on Tuesday it was holding a freelance US journalist with Iranian nationality in a Tehran prison but did not reveal the charges. |
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Monday, 23 February 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 23 - Iranian authorities hanged three men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Monday.
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 |
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 RFE/RL: A house of worship of the Gonabadi dervishes in Isfahan has reportedly been destroyed by the Iranian authorities.
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Tuesday, 17 February 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 17 - Authorities hanged a man in south-western Iran, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Monday, 16 February 2009 |
 AFP: Britain expressed concern Monday over charges laid against seven members of the banned Bahai religion in Iran, accusing Tehran of targeting religious minorities. |
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Saturday, 14 February 2009 |
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 RFE/RL: Sahar Yazdanipour, the wife of a jailed student activist, has been detained by authorities, Radio Farda reports.
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Monday, 09 February 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 09 - Authorities hanged three men in western Iran, state media reported on Monday. |
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Tuesday, 03 February 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 03 – Iran's State Supreme Court upheld on Monday an earlier court ruling for a man to be blinded with acid as punishment for blinding a woman several years ago, state-run press reported on Tuesday.
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Saturday, 31 January 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 31 - Authorities in southern Iran hanged a man, state media reported on Saturday. |
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Thursday, 29 January 2009 |
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 RFE/RL: The family of ethnic Azeri activist Abdullah Abbasi Javan says he has been held incommunicado in Tehran's Evin prison for more than two months without being charged.
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Tuesday, 27 January 2009 |
 AFP: Iran has arrested six adherents of the banned Bahai faith and a Christian for alleged propaganda against the Islamic republic and insulting Islam, the judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday. |
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Thursday, 22 January 2009 |
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AP: Iran has sentenced two internationally renowned Iranian AIDS physicians to six and three years in prison for their alleged participation in a U.S.-backed plot to overthrow Iran's Islamic regime, their lawyer said Thursday. |
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Thursday, 22 January 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 22 - Iranian authorities hanged 22 people over the past two days. |
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Saturday, 17 January 2009 |
 AFP: The United States on Friday joined international condemnation of the stoning death of two men in Iran for adultery, demanding an end to such "cruel and unusual punishment" there. |
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 |
 Washington Post: Two men convicted of adultery in the northeastern city of Mashhad were stoned to death in December, but a third convicted man escaped while the punishment was being carried out, a spokesman for Iran's judiciary said Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 13 January 2009 |
 AFP: Iran's judiciary on Tuesday confirmed that two men had been stoned to death for adultery in the northeastern city of Mashhad while a third struggled from the stoning hole and escaped with his life. |
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Wednesday, 31 December 2008 |
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Press Association: Iran's judiciary spokesman has confirmed that two internationally renowned Iranian Aids physicians are in jail on charges of acting against national security. |
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Monday, 29 December 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, state media reported on Monday.
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Friday, 26 December 2008 |
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Norway Post: Norway deplores the executions of 10 persons in Iran on Christmas Eve. Prior to the executions Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere appealed to Iran to stop in time and not go ahead with the executions. |
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Wednesday, 24 December 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 24 – Iranian authorities hanged eight men and a woman on Wednesday in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. |
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Friday, 19 December 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Dec. 19 - The United Nations General Assembly accused Iran on Thursday of continuing the practice of torture and punishments such as flogging, stoning and amputation of limbs.
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Sunday, 07 December 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Iranian authorities have hanged three men in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-east Iran, state media reported.
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 27 – An Iranian court sentenced a man to be blinded with acid as punishment for blinding a woman several years ago, state-run press reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 26 November 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 26 – Iranian authorities on Wednesday hanged 10 people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison.
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