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Saturday, 07 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – The government of radical Islamist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad plans to segregate Iran’s pedestrian walkways on gender basis, according to Fatemeh Alia, a deputy in Iran’s Majlis (Parliament) and one of Ahmadinejad’s closest allies. |
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Saturday, 07 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 07 – An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece. |
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Friday, 06 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 06 – The Persian-language website Hambastegi Meli reported on Friday that in Karaj, west of the Iranian capital, a 17-year-old girl, identified only as Nazanin, was sentenced to be hanged. The verdict was handed down in branch 71 of Iran’s Islamic courts, the report said. |
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Wednesday, 04 January 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 04 – In the latest “acid attack” by radical Islamists on young women accused of ignoring the country’s strict dress regulations, two female university students had acid splashed on their faces in the town of Shahroud, north-eastern Iran. |
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Tuesday, 27 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 27 – Iran’s State Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a teenage woman accused of murdering another woman despite her repeatedly denying that she had committed the crime, according to a wire report from the country’s State Security Forces (SSF). |
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Monday, 26 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 26 – More than ten percent of street-children in the Iranian capital, Tehran, are girls, according to a report in the Fars news agency, which is close
to the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. |
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Tuesday, 20 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Dozens of women sealed off a highway in southern Iran on Tuesday by setting fire to car tyres. |
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Monday, 19 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a residence in the northern city of Noshahr over the weekend, arresting some 20 men and women who had attended a co-ed party, according to an email sent to Iran Focus from the area. |
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Sunday, 18 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – A powerful cleric rejected the notion of women taking up posts in the assembly of theologians who choose the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic.
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Monday, 12 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 12 – Prominent women’s rights personalities from Iraq’s Diyala Province condemned on Monday “massive meddling by Iran” in their country’s internal affairs ahead of key elections this week. They called for widespread and active participation in the elections by Iraqi women to combat this threat. |
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Sunday, 11 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 11 – An Islamic court in Tehran sentenced a woman to stoning for adultery in the town of Varamin, near Tehran, a state-run daily reported on Sunday.
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Thursday, 08 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 08 – A young Iranian woman
was hanged in prison in the north-eastern town of Shirevan, a state-run daily reported on Thursday.
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Tuesday, 06 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 07 – Dozens of women blockaded a main road leading to Tehran during a protest on Monday. |
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Monday, 05 December 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 05 – Iraqi women gathered outside a political party headquarters in Baghdad protesting secret prisons and torture chambers run by Iraq’s Interior Ministry, an Iraqi television reported on Saturday. |
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Tuesday, 22 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 23 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a woman, state dailies reported on Wednesday. |
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Monday, 14 November 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 14 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a woman who had been accused of murdering her abusive husband, the state-run Fars news agency reported on Monday. |
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Friday, 11 November 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 11 – The radical group Ansar-e Hezbollah pledged to Iran’s hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that it would root out the “virus” of mal-veiled women. |
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Monday, 31 October 2005 |
 AFP: Two thirds of Iranian women have suffered domestic violence and a quarter are unhappy with their gender, a social welfare official said Monday. |
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Sunday, 30 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 – Police in the north-eastern town of Bojnourd have launched a new crackdown on alluring mannequins in clothes stores and the main bazaar, the town’s prosecutor-general told the state-run news agency, IRNA on Monday. |
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Thursday, 27 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 26 - Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against a 35-year-old woman, the Iran daily reported on Wednesday. |
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Monday, 17 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 18 – An Iranian woman was
sentenced to execution in the Iranian capital on Monday, a
state-run daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 17 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 18 – Students from a female dormitory of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran started a protest against lack of water supply, a state-owned daily reported on Tuesday. |
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Friday, 14 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15 – A court in Iran sentenced a woman to death by stoning for adultery and an Afghan man to execution and 100 lashes on charges of murder, a state-run daily reported on Saturday. |
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Tuesday, 11 October 2005 |
 Reuters: Female civil servants at Iran's Culture Ministry and female journalists at the state newspaper and news agency must be out of the office by dusk to be with their families, a directive said on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 10 October 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – A Majlis (Parliament) deputy from the central city of Isfahan told reporters that there was an urgent need to act against “corruption and mal-veiling” by women in society, state media reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 10 October 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – A senior Iranian cleric in the city of Qom called for death sentences to be handed down to prostitutes, a semi-official daily reported on Monday. |
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Sunday, 02 October 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 02 – Iran’s State Supreme Court sentenced a woman to death, a state-run daily reported on Sunday. |
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Saturday, 10 September 2005 |
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Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – Women have been finding it evermore difficult to find employment in Iran and their social rights have continuously deteriorated since the 1979 revolution that swept to power fundamentalist Islamic clerics, according to a recent economic survey in the country. |
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Friday, 09 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 09 – Female restaurant managers in Iran will be required to name a man as the person who will carry out the management on their behalf, or else their businesses will be shut down, the country’s police force announced on Friday. |
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Monday, 05 September 2005 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 06 – Women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code will be flogged immediately, prosecutor’s offices in provincial centres announced on Tuesday. |
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