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Two men hanged in south-east Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 01 – Iranian authorities hanged two men Monday morning in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported....

Iran Supreme Court upholds death sentence for teenage boy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 29 – Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for a 17-year-old schoolboy over the murder of his...

Human rights activist, jailed in Iran, is transferred to hospital

New York Times: A prominent human rights activist who has been jailed since October was transferred to a hospital Wednesday, according to his wife...

Iran police detain 28 youth at banned party: report

Reuters: Iranian police detained 28 young men and women wearing "inappropriate and repulsive" clothing and confiscated alcohol at a party in a northeastern city,...

Amnesty calls for release of trade unionist from Iran jail

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 22 – A prominent international human rights organisation called for the immediate release of an Iranian trade union leader who...

Iran hangs three men, one woman

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian authorities hanged four people, including a woman, in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on...

UN condemns human rights violations in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Dec. 19 - The United Nations General Assembly accused Iran on Tuesday of continuing the practice of torture and punishments such...

Iran student arrested after reporting to court as summoned

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 - An Iranian student was arrested earlier this week after reporting to the country’s moral police as...

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