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Iran rights lawyer jailed for 11 years: family

AFP: Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 11 years in jail and banned for 20 years from working as...

Iran targets Christians with a wave of arrests

Wall Street Journal: Iranian authorities have arrested dozens of Christians in the two weeks since Christmas, the latest challenge to the Mideast's small but...

Iran arrests Christian missionaries: official

AFP: Iran has arrested a number of Christian missionaries in Tehran province and vowed to detain more of them, the provincial governor was quoted...

Funeral services barred for Iranian political prisoner, son says

CNN: Iranian authorities have buried the body of a political prisoner who was executed last week without the presence of his family or friends,...

Canada decries rights violations in Iran

AFP: Canada's top diplomat Saturday denounced Iran for imposing draconian death sentences and unfair jail terms, urging Tehran's incoming foreign minister to improve the...

Iranian sentenced to lose eye and ear over acid attack

The Guardian: In a literal application of the law of an eye for an eye, an Iranian man convicted of blinding another man in...

Iranian dissident executed in prison

Iran Focus: Tehran/London, Dec. 28 - An Iranian political prisoner, Ali Saremi, was hanged in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison on Tuesday on the charge...

Iranian whipped in public for drinking alcohol

Reuters: An Iranian man was given 80 lashes in public for drinking alcohol, ISNA news agency reported on Wednesday, a punishment aimed at discouraging...

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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’s Regime Executes Baluch Political Prisoner Amer Ramesh

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

Iran’s Regime Ramps Up Execution of Baluch Political Prisoners to Control Society

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