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Prominent Iranian rights lawyer gets jail term

AFP: Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani said on Tuesday he had been sentenced to five years in jail on charges of disclosing...

Prisoner hanged in south-east Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 14 – A man was hanged in a prison in the south-eastern Iranian city of Zahedan, the official news...

98 executed in Iran so far this year

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – Iran’s state-run media reported half a dozen executions on Wednesday bringing to 98 the number of executions...

Four men hanged in public in southern Iran

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 12 – Four men were hanged in public in the south-eastern city of Zabol, Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province, on Wednesday, the...

Iran steps up executions

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 10 – A young man was hanged in the north-eastern city of Shahroud while several others were sentenced to...

Iran sentences man to 10 times execution

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 06 – A court in southern Iran has sentenced a man to ten times execution, the official news agency...

Iran rights group voices alarm at detained writer’s condition

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 28 – A Tehran-based human rights group has voiced concern about the rapidly-deteriorating state of health of an Iranian journalist...

Iran executes political prisoner – report

Iran Focus: London, Jun. 26 – A political prisoner was hanged in Tehran after serving 10 years behind bars, Persian-language websites reported on Monday....

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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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Regime Insiders Admit That Majority of Iranians Are Dissatisfied

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Widespread Student Protests Across the Country; Opposition to Educational Policies

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