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Iran sentences three youths to flogging, jail

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 21 – Three youths were sentenced to flogging, jail time, and being street-paraded, a semi-official daily reported on Monday....

UN voices serious concern about human rights violations in Iran

AFP: The UN General Assembly on Friday passed a resolution expressing "serious concern" about human rights violations in Iran, including the use of torture...

Iran’s “morality police” flog student in public square

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 17 – Agents of Iran’s morality police flogged a young man outside the Open University in the southern town...

Iran hangs man for running porn ring

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, A man was publicly hanged in the town of Qazvin, west of the Iranian capital Tehran, a state-run daily reported...

Iran’s police use humiliation to punish young men

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s para-military policemen paraded seven handcuffed men around for several hours as a way to punish them...

Iran’s judiciary summons 4-year-old to court

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Iran’s hard-line judiciary has summoned a four-year-old child to court to face charges of assault on a...

Iran hangs two young homosexuals

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 13 – Two young men were hanged in a public square in the northern city of Gorgan after being...

Iran hangs 27-year-old man

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Nov. 12 – A 27-year old man from the central city of Isfahan was hanged to death, a state-run daily...

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War and its Impact on Children’s Education in Iran

Repeated school closures during the war between the United States and Iran's regime have severely reduced the quality of...

Iran: Violent Transfer of Political Prisoners to the Notorious Ghezel Hesar Prison

On Monday, April 13, seven political prisoners held in Ward 7 of Evin Prison in Tehran were abruptly, violently,...

The German Government Will Not Receive the Son of Iran’s Last Shah

Following reports of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s last Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, traveling to Germany to attend...

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