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Iran student to be flogged 74 times, serve 2 years in prison

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 22 – An Iranian medical student was sentenced to two years prison time and 74 lashes by Iran's Revolutionary Court...

Father of political prisoner in Iran says son in solitary cell

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 21 – The father of an Iranian political prisoner who has been held without charge in Tehran's notorious Evin prison...

Fear of imminent execution

Amnesty International - URGENT ACTION: Ali, a 16-year-old student, may be at risk of imminent execution for the murder of another student in his...

Iranian journalist held after giving interviews to foreign radios: paper

AFP: An Iranian journalist has been arrested on charges of giving interviews to foreign radios, a newspaper reported Thursday. Arash Sigarchi, chief editor of...

Iranian teenage offender hanged in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 20 - A young man who was accused of killing a member of Iran’s security forces when he was a...

Iran Democracy Rally Planned in Paris

Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 18 – Iranians are planning a massive rally in Paris on the twenty-sixth anniversary of the 1979 Iranian revolution to...

Nobel woman defies Iranian court to denounce torture

The Times: Shirin Ebadi, Iran’s Nobel peace prizewinner who has defied a summons to appear before the feared Revolutionary Court, yesterday called on her...

Human Rights Watch annual report condemns violations in Iran

Iran Focus: Paris, Jan. 14 - In its annual report on human rights practices around the globe Human Rights Watch said that "basic human...

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Dire Living Conditions of Iranian workers on International Labor Day

On the occasion of International Workers' Day, May 1, the dire economic conditions of Iranian workers have reached a...

Only One-Fifth of Iran’s Annual Housing Needs Are Met

Beytollah Setarian, a housing expert, said in an interview that Iran needs one million housing units annually, but only...

Resignation, Job Change, and Nurse Exodus in Iran

The state-run Hame-Mihan newspaper has addressed the problems of the healthcare workforce in Iran, examining issues such as resignations,...

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Only One-Fifth of Iran’s Annual Housing Needs Are Met

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