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Monday, 10 August 2009 |
 AP: An Iranian opposition leader said Sunday that detained protesters are alleging male and female prisoners were savagely raped by their jailers to the point of physical and mental damage. |
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Wednesday, 24 June 2009 |
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 AP: For years, women's defiance in Iran came in carefully planned flashes of hair under their head scarves, brightly painted fingernails and trendy clothing that could be glimpsed under bulky coats and cloaks.
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Thursday, 04 June 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 04 - A female prisoner has committed suicide to escape “unbearable torture” by prison guards, according to reports from Ward 7 of Gohardasht Prison. |
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 26 - An Iranian women's rights activist was beaten by inmates inside a prison in the western province of Kurdistan, Iran Focus has learnt.
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
 Daily Mail: A 23-year-old woman made a frantic phonecall to her mother begging for help before Iran authorities held a rushed execution - disregarding a stay-of-execution and allegedly without informing her lawyer. |
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Friday, 01 May 2009 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 1 - A young Iranian woman, who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and whose sentencing had been condemned by international human rights organisations, was hanged earlier today, Iran Focus has learnt. |
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Monday, 09 March 2009 |
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 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 09 - Amnesty International on Monday urged Iran to suspend stoning sentences pending for eight women.
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Thursday, 05 March 2009 |
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 RFE/RL: An adviser to Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that female engineers can serve society from home.
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Friday, 13 February 2009 |
 New York Times: In a year of marriage, Razieh Qassemi, 19, says she was beaten repeatedly by her husband and his father. Her husband, she says, is addicted to methamphetamine and has threatened to marry another woman to “torture” her. |
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Sunday, 01 February 2009 |
 AP: A lawyer for an Iranian activist says police detained the woman while she was campaigning for equal marriage rights for women. |
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Sunday, 30 November 2008 |
 AFP: Iran's supreme court has confirmed a sentence of death by stoning against a woman convicted of adultery in the southern city of Shiraz, a newspaper reported on Saturday. |
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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
 Reuters: U.N. human rights investigators called on Iran on Thursday to end what they called a "crackdown" on women's rights activists who have been harassed and detained for seeking equal status in the Islamic Republic. |
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008 |
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 Reuters: Iran has test-fired a new type of missile during war games near the Iraqi border, state television said on Tuesday, after warning the United States it would respond to any violation of Iranian airspace.
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Tuesday, 04 November 2008 |
 Reuters: An Iranian female student, who was arrested in Tehran last month while visiting from the United States, is accused of acting against national security, the judiciary said on Tuesday. |
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Wednesday, 24 September 2008 |
 Reuters: Iran has doubled the number of police assigned to its more than year-long crackdown against women flouting Islamic dress codes, Kargozaran newspaper said on Wednesday. |
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 |
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AFP: Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt on Friday criticised Iran for sentencing women's rights activist Parvin Ardalan to prison, saying it revealed Tehran's "deteriorated respect for human rights." |
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Thursday, 04 September 2008 |
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The Guardian: Four women's rights campaigners in Iran have been sentenced to six months in jail just as activists were celebrating a rare success, having persuaded MPs to shelve a bill that would have made it easier for men to have more than one wife. |
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Wednesday, 03 September 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has sentenced four women's rights activists to six months in jail over articles written on feminist websites, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. |
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Wednesday, 13 August 2008 |
 Reuters: The U.S. Treasury on Tuesday imposed sanctions against five more Iranian entities it said had provided support or materials to Iran's nuclear and missile programs. |
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
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 Daily Telegraph: Eight women and one man convicted of adultery are set to be stoned to death in Iran, according to activists and lawyers.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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 BBC News: At least eight women and one man are reported to have been sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.
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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
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Reuters: An Iranian women's rights activist has been sentenced to five years in prison on security-related charges, her lawyer said on Saturday. |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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 BBC: A female student in the Iranian city of Zanjan who alleged she was sexually harassed by a senior male lecturer - triggering a massive demonstration by her fellow students - has herself been arrested.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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BBC: Police in Iran have begun a new campaign against Western-style clothing and hairstyles. |
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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AP: Police closed dozens of clothing stores and hairdressers and stopped cars and pedestrians in a crackdown on women who do not abide by Iran's strict Islamic dress code and men wearing fashions seen as too Western, Iranian media reported Monday. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 Reuters: A court has sentenced a male activist for greater female rights in Iran to one year in prison, his lawyer and a fellow campaigner said on Monday. |
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
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AFP: A male defender of the feminist cause in Iran has been sentenced to a year in prison, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported on Monday without providing further details. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, May 09 - The international press freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Iranian authorities earlier this week to end a recent spate of systematic attacks against women’s rights publications.
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has handed down a suspended jail sentence to an award-winning women's rights activist found guilty of seeking to harm national security, press reports said on Saturday. |
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