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Iran authorities amputate fingers of man for alleged theft

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 26 – Iranian authorities have amputated the fingers of a man in his forties in public for stealing money,...

Iran hangs man accused of taking part in recent bombing

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 19 – Iranian authorities in the restive province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, south-eastern Iran, hanged a man in public on Monday...

Four men hanged in Iran’s dreaded gulag

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 16 – Four men were hanged in the Islamic Republic’s most notorious prison, a semi-official daily wrote on Wednesday....

Iran executes three Arabs

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Feb. 15 – Three men were executed in a prison in the restive city of Ahwaz, south-western Iran, the government-owned...

Press freedoms watchdog blasts Iran media crackdown

Iran Focus: London, Feb. 02 – A top international press freedoms monitoring organisation accused Iran of cracking down “hard” on journalists. Iran FocusLondon,...

Man hanged in public in central Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 29 – A man was hanged in public in the central Iranian city of Natanz, a semi-official daily reported...

Four men hanged in prison in south-west Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 24 – Iranian authorities hanged four men in a prison in the restive city of Ahwaz, south-west Iran, on...

Man hanged in public in south-east Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 23 – A man was hanged in public in south-eastern Iran, the semi-official daily Jomhouri Islami reported on Monday....

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