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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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Iranian Political Prisoners Mark 61st Anniversary of PMOI Resistance

As the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) approaches the 61st anniversary of its founding on September 6, a...

Iran’s Rial in Freefall, Putting Strain on People’s Livelihoods

The U.S. dollar exchange rate in Iran's free market has surpassed 2.8 million rials, while the official rate remains...

Iran’s Regime Rejects Retrial Request by Protester Sentenced to Death

On Wednesday, September 2, human rights media outlets reported the continued detention and interrogation of opponents of Iran's regime,...

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The Strange Business of Real Estate Agents and Grave Sales in Iran

The state-run Hamshahri newspaper reported on the buying and...

Heavy Collapse in Iranian Workers’ Purchasing Power Over the Past 10 Years

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