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Iran detains human rights lawyer in top-security prison

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 01 – An Iranian human rights lawyer arrested on Saturday on charges of nuclear espionage is currently being held...

Preliminary list of Iran’s new cabinet

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 01 – The preliminary choices for ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s new cabinet have been announced. The list is to...

Iran daily labels arrested human rights lawyer “nuclear spy”

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 01 – The jailed human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani is being charged with giving away Iran’s nuclear secrets, a...

Over 280 protests in Iran in past month – opposition

Iran Focus: London, Aug. 01 – Disenchanted Iranians stated more than 280 anti-government protests, clashes, strikes, and other forms of social unrest throughout Iran...

Iran president-elect submits new cabinet list to Majlis

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – Iran’s ultra-conservative President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has submitted his choice for a cabinet to the Majlis (Parliament) for...

Iran police arrest women for “un-Islamic” dress

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – Iran has deployed squads of women-only vice police in a new crackdown on “un-Islamic” dress. Eight women...

Iran says Europe supports its nuclear project

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 31 – In a letter to outgoing Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, the secretary general of the Supreme National Security...

Iran’s Nobel laureate highlights plight of political prisoners

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 31 – Iran’s Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi wrote in an article that the international community should not ignore the plight...

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Message from a Political Prisoner Inside Iran’s Prisons

Imprisoned student Amirhossein Moradi, responding to an offer by the Iranian regime’s judiciary to grant him a pardon, declared...

Record Number of Imprisoned Writers Worldwide. Iran Ranks Second with 53 Jailed Writers

PEN America announced in its latest annual report on the state of freedom of expression worldwide that the number...

IRGC Members Arrested in Kuwait, Woman Sentenced to Life in Prison in Bahrain for Cooperation with IRGC

As the Iranian regime continues its destabilizing activities against countries in the region, Kuwait announced the arrest of four...

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