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Saturday, 28 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 28 - The European Union on Friday urged Iran to halt executions of juvenile offenders.
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Tuesday, 24 June 2008 |
 AFP: Two Iranian journalists who wrote for publications for Iran's ethnic minorities have been handed jail terms of up to 11 years, the Kargozaran newspaper reported. |
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 |
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CNN: Seven Bahai leaders detained by Iranian authorities have contacted their families for the first time since their arrest more than a month ago, the Bahai movement said Thursday. |
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Friday, 13 June 2008 |
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BBC: Reports from Iran say a boy aged 17 has been hanged, in violation of UN charters signed by Tehran and official pledges not to execute minors. |
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 11 – Iranian authorities hanged eight men in the capital Tehran on Wednesday, state media reported.
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Tuesday, 10 June 2008 |
 AFP: The United Nations top human rights official on Tuesday asked Iran not to execute four offenders sentenced to death over crimes committed when they were under the age of 18. |
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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 9 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in North Khorrasan Province, north-eastern Iran, state media reported on Monday.
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Thursday, 05 June 2008 |
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New York Times: A government spokesman confirmed that a group of Bahai religious leaders had been arrested, but said that the charges against them related to security and not religion. |
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Wednesday, 04 June 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 04 - The European Union on Wednesday expressed its "deep concern" at the impending execution of an alleged juvenile offender in Iran.
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Friday, 30 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 30 - The new speaker of Iran’s Majlis, Ali Larijani, said on Friday that Europe has no right to demand Iran respect human rights, state media reported.
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Friday, 23 May 2008 |
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AP: Seven Bahai leaders arrested and accused of endangering national security are being persecuted by Iran's government for their religious beliefs, leaders of the minority faith said Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 21 May 2008 |
 Reuters: The European Union called on Iran on Wednesday to release six members of the Baha'i faith imprisoned on security-related charges, urging Tehran to allow full freedom of religion. |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has imprisoned six members of the Baha'i faith on security-related charges, government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham said on Tuesday. |
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Tuesday, 20 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran confirmed on Tuesday it has arrested members of the Bahai religious community, whose faith is banned in the Islamic republic, for acting against the national interest. |
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Monday, 19 May 2008 |
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Reuters: The Iranian authorities have detained six members of the Baha'i faith, an offshoot of Islam considered heretical by Iran's Shi'ite Muslim establishment, members of the religious group said. |
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Sunday, 18 May 2008 |
 AFP: Canada expressed concern over the apparent arrest of six Iranian Bahai followers and called for their release, while deploring an "ongoing decline" in the country's human rights situation. |
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Saturday, 17 May 2008 |
 CNN: Six Baha'i leaders in Iran were seized and imprisoned this week, the religious group said. The act prompted condemnation and concern from the movement and a top American religious freedom panel. |
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Monday, 12 May 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 12 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men including a teenager in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran, state media reported on Monday. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – Iranian authorities have hanged four men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008 |
 AKI: A 20-year-old Iranian is due to be executed on Wednesday for a crime he allegedly committed as a teenager despite international efforts to save his life. |
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Sunday, 27 April 2008 |
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Reuters: A 17-year-old Iranian youth who knifed and killed a rival suitor for a girl has been sentenced to death by a court in Tehran, a newspaper said on Sunday. |
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Thursday, 24 April 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 24 – Iranian authorities have hanged five men in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
 AKI: Seventy-five young people accused of 'immoral acts' have been arrested by police at a birthday party in the city of Shiraz in southwestern Iran. |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 17 – Authorities have hanged a man in the city of Gonbad Kavoos, northern Iran, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 15 April 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 15 - Iran executed at least 317 people in 2007, a prominent international human rights organisation said on Tuesday. Iran had the second-highest number of executions per capital, Amnesty International said in its yearly statistics, Death Sentences and Executions in 2007.
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Monday, 14 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 14 – Authorities have hanged two men in the city of Sari, northern Iran, state media reported. |
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Friday, 11 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 11 – Iranian authorities have hanged two men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday. |
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Wednesday, 09 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 09 – Authorities in Semnan Province, northern Iran, hanged a man in prison at dawn on Wednesday, state media reported. |
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Thursday, 03 April 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 03 – Britain’s Foreign Office has urged Iran to limit the number of executions it carries out. |
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Friday, 28 March 2008 |
 The Independent: Britain must radically change its immigration policy and end immediately the deportation of failed asylum-seekers who fear persecution in Iran, a group of leading peers will tell the Government today.
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