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Iran police arrest Kurdish activist in restive city

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 25 – A Kurdish activist in the city of Sanandaj, northwest Iran, was arrested by State Security Forces, Persian-language...

7 boys under-18 executed in Iran since January: Amnesty

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 25 - The human rights organisation Amnesty International expressed concern on Thursday at the imminent execution of two minors in...

Iran town’s jail has 30 prisoners on death row

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – There are 30 prisoners on death row in a prison in the town of Arak, central Iran,...

17-year-old musician to be hanged in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – A seventeen-year-old musician in Iran is facing imminent execution in public after his death sentence was upheld...

Iran to hang 16-year-old schoolboy

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 24 – Iran’s clergy-dominated Supreme Court has given the green light for the hanging of a 16-year-old schoolboy in...

Iran hangs four men aged between 17 and 23

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Four young men between the ages of 17 and 23 were hanged in public in the port...

New roundups in Iran as hard-liners crack down

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 20 – Iran’s new police chief has ordered a new wave of arrests in the country’s capital by the...

Young man hanged in Iran prison

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 18 - A 21-year old prisoner from the southern port city of Bandar Abbass was hanged in prison, a...

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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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Seventy Percent of Students at School in Tehran Have Dropped Out

In the latest sign of the collapse of education...

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

On Wednesday, September 2, human rights media outlets reported...

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