Sunday, September 23, 2007

Public Hanging in Iran & Other Recent Human Rights Abuses


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U.N. official: Iran should stop executing children
Mon. 17 Sep 2007
AP: Iran should immediately halt the execution of children, the U.N.'s top human rights official said Monday.
Iran hangs three in south-west
Fri. 14 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 14 – Iranian authorities hanged three individuals in the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, south-west Iran, state media reported earlier this week.
Crackdown near Iran capital – photos 2
Thu. 13 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Sep. 14 – Iranian authorities have stepped up arrests of young people in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, as part of a nationwide “plan to eradicate corruption”.
Crackdown near Iran capital – photos 1
Thu. 13 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 13 – Iranian authorities have stepped up arrests of young people in the city of Karaj, west of the capital Tehran, as part of a nationwide “plan to eradicate corruption”.
West puts Iran in dock at U.N. rights forum
Thu. 13 Sep 2007
Reuters: Western countries on Thursday voiced concern at the rising number of executions in Iran as well as the "treatment of women as second class citizens" there.
Iran chops off hands of four men
Wed. 12 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 12 – The hands of four men were chopped off as punishment for robbery in north-west Iran, state media reported on Wednesday.
Iran hangs seven in public
Wed. 12 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran Sep. 12 – Iranian authorities hanged seven individuals in public on Wednesday in the south-eastern town of Mahan, state media reported.
Two hanged in Iran cities
Tue. 11 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 11 – Two men were hanged in central and north-eastern Iran on Tuesday, state media reported.
Iran hangs two men in the south
Fri. 07 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 07 – Two Iranian men were hanged on Thursday in the southern province of Hormozgan, state media reported.
Amnesty “appalled” at group executions in Iran
Thu. 06 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: London, Sep. 06 – The human rights organisation Amnesty International said it was “appalled” at the “spiralling numbers of executions” in Iran.
Four more hanged in public, total of 21 executed in Iran today
Wed. 05 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – Four more men were hanged in public in the southern province of Fars on Wednesday, bringing the total number of people executed in Iran today to at least 21.
Iran hangs 17 in one day
Wed. 05 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 05 – Iranian authorities hanged 17 men on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of group executions.
Iran hangs man in public
Sun. 02 Sep 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 02 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public south of the capital Tehran on Sunday, state media reported.
Iran's hangmen work overtime to silence opposition
Fri. 24 Aug 2007
Daily Telegraph: Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can't hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for Iran's long-suffering population which now finds itself on the receiving end of one of the most brutal purges witnessed since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
Man hanged in public in southern Iran
Thu. 23 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 23 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the southern province of Fars, state media reported on Wednesday.
Iran hangs two in volatile Iran city
Wed. 22 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 22 – Authorities hanged two men on Tuesday in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported.
Iran hangs three men in public
Sun. 19 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in public in the town of Saveh, near the Iranian capital Tehran, state media reported on Sunday.
Hanging crackdown in Iran
Sun. 19 Aug 2007
The Observer: Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal.
Man hanged in public in northern Iran town
Thu. 16 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 16 – A man was hanged in public in the northern Iranian province of Gilan on Thursday, state media reported.
Media rights group urges UN chief to act on Iran executions
Wed. 15 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 15 – A prominent international media rights group called on the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take action to save two Iranian journalists from execution.
Two hanged in north-eastern Iran town
Wed. 15 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 15 – Two men were hanged in the north-eastern province of Khorassan Razavi, state media reported.
Iran authorities lash man for having bible in car - report
Mon. 13 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 13 – Iranian authorities in Tehran lashed a man on his back earlier this year for having a bible in his car, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website on Friday.
Authorities say they will hang 12 in Iran province soon
Sun. 12 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – Iranian authorities in the south-eastern province of Kerman announced that they will hang a dozen individuals soon, state media reported.
Iran arrests five trade unionists
Sun. 12 Aug 2007
AFP: Iranian security forces arrested five members of Tehran's bus drivers' union after they visited the home of their imprisoned chief, the men's lawyer said on Sunday.
Iran hangs man in public
Sun. 12 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 12 – Iranian authorities hanged a man in public in the northern province of Mazandaran, state media reported on Sunday.
Man hanged in public in northern Iran
Tue. 07 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Aug. 07 – Authorities hanged a man in public in the province of Golestan on Tuesday, northern Iran, state media reported.
Media watchdog: Iran must stop hounding journalists
Tue. 07 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 07 - A prominent press freedoms organisation urged Iran to release a newly-arrested journalist.
Iran hangs three men
Mon. 06 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Aug. 06 – Iranian authorities hanged three men in the south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan on Monday, state media reported.
Iranian morals police arrest 230 in raid on 'satanist' rave
Mon. 06 Aug 2007
The Guardian: Iran's drive to enforce Islamic morals netted revellers from Britain and Sweden after police swooped on a "satanic" concert organised over the internet.
EU calls on Iran to stay execution of journalists
Fri. 03 Aug 2007
Iran Focus: London, Aug. 03 – The European Union called on Iran on Friday to stay the execution of two Kurdish journalists accused of having ties to armed groups.
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