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EU decries Iran’s treatment of dissidents

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 25 – The European Union expressed “grave concern” about the situation of dissidents in Iran, highlighting the recent death of...

Authorities hang man in public in southeast Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the south-eastern Iranian town of Khash, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, the...

Iran urges judiciary to act against media

AFP: The government of hardline Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called on judiciary to clamp down on local media which it accused of "spreading...

Another young man hanged in public in Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – A young man was hanged in public in the western Iranian city of Khorramabad on Sunday, the...

Man hanged in Iran

AFP : An Iranian man convicted of murdering his wife was hanged in the northern town of Sari, an Iranian newspaper reported on Saturday....

Iran police arrest dozens of political activists in crackdown

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 17 – Dozens of Iranian Kurds have been arrested over the past few days in the course of a...

Relatives of political prisoner blame Iran’s rulers for son’s death

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 17 – The relatives of a political prisoner who recently died while on hunger strike in one of Iran’s notorious...

Iran hangs three men in south-east

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 16 – Three men were hanged in south-east Iran, according to a semi-official daily. Iran FocusTehran, Iran, Aug....

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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On Tuesday, June 9, the "No to Executions Tuesdays"...

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CNN: Iran plans to prosecute 26 current and former...