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“Dozens arrested” at service for Iran activist: report

Reuters: Dozens of people were arrested at a commemoration service Saturday for an Iranian activist who died at her father's funeral earlier in the...

EU deplores Iran’s execution of juvenile offenders

AFP: The EU's foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton on Friday condemned the public execution of juvenile offenders in Iran last week and urged Tehran...

Iran steps up rate of public executions: Amnesty

Reuters: Iran has sharply stepped up its use of public executions, hanging 13 men this year, nearly as many as in all of 2010,...

Norway blasts ‘grotesque’ hike in Iran public executions

AFP: Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere on Thursday blasted a sharp hike in public executions in Iran and the high use of the...

Brand Ahmadinejad rights abuser: US senators

AFP: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should formally brand Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and 25 other current and former Iranian officials as human...

List of 32 Iranian officials banned by EU for human rights violations

Iran Focus: London, Apr. 14 - The European Union on Thursday imposed travel bans and other sanctions against 32 Iranian police commanders, judges and...

EU slaps sanctions on 32 Iranians over rights abuses

AFP: The European Union imposed assets freezes and travel bans on 32 Iranian officials on Tuesday, saying they had been involved in human rights...

Iranian cancer prisoner ‘died for lack of care’

RFE/RL: A former cellmate of an Iranian political prisoner who died this week of cancer says authorities provided medical treatment that was too little,...

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Iran’s Car Market Experiences Sharp Surge in Prices Afte War-Induced Stagnation

Media outlets in Iran report that the prices of many domestically produced cars have increased by 3 billion to...

UN Officials Call for a Halt to Executions and Repression in Iran

Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement published on April 29, strongly condemned...

Iran’s National Currency Has Declined by 120% Over the Past Year

Reports from Iran indicate a sharp surge in the price of the U.S. dollar in the open market in...

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Iran War: Escalating Drug Shortages and Disruption of Healthcare Services

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent...

Iran’s Regime Executes Baluch Political Prisoner Amer Ramesh

The Iranian regime, continuing its daily extrajudicial executions, executed...

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