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Three journalists arrested in continued crackdown against Internet

Reporters Without Borders: Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the latest escalation in a crackdown against news on the Internet as three...

Three juveniles sentenced to death

Iran Focus: Death sentences have been issued for three boys by the names of Ali M., Morteza F. and Milad B. who are presently...

Executions on the rise in Iran

Iran Focus: A religious court in Tehran sentenced two men to execution, bringing to more than 110 the number of people hanged since January...

Iran’s hardliners roll back Khatami’s reforms, but how far?

AFP: Iran's dominant conservatives have been rolling back the tentative liberalisation of reformist President Mohammad Khatami since winning control of parliament in disputed polls...

Shock, outrage over execution of 16-year-old girl in Iran

Iran Focus: News of the execution of a sixteen-year-old girl in northern Iran, first broken by Iran Focus, has been met with shock and...

Man hanged in public

Iran Focus: An Iranian man was hanged today near the Iranian capital, Tehran, the fifth person to be executed in public in as many...

Iranian official confirms hanging of girl in northern Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug 25 - After initially denying that a 16-year-old girl had been hanged in public in the northern town of Neka...

Iran lambasts Canada’s “crocodile tears” for dead photographer

AFP: Iran again hit out at Canada for complaining about the murder in custody here of Canadian-Iranian photographer Zahra Kazemi, saying Ottawa was only...

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Amnesty International Calls Halting the Death Sentence of Toomaj Salehi

On Thursday, May 17, Amnesty International sent a letter to the head of the Iranian regime’s judiciary, calling for...

Around 6 Workers Die of Safety Incidents Every Day in Iran

Ali Ziaei, the head of the Crime Scene Investigation Group at the Iranian Forensics Organization, reported the deaths of...

Air Pollution Kills 26,000 People in Iran Every Year: Head of Environment Organization

Ali Salajegheh, the head of the Environmental Protection Organization admitted in a conference in Kerman on Monday, May 13...

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Iranian media have reported a new increase in the...

Amnesty International Calls Halting the Death Sentence of Toomaj Salehi

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