Iran detains journalists outside Tehran
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Iran's Intelligence Ministry detained several journalists outside of the capital city for allegedly receiving money from abroad, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Sunday.
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Iran today returned the passport of American journalist Parnaz Azima, who has been detained in Tehran since arriving to visit her ailing mother on Jan. 25, according to her family and employer, Radio Farda.
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Iran has detained a fourth Iranian American, California businessman Ali Shakeri, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, calling his arrest a "disturbing pattern" of harassment of dual citizens.
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Iran has arrested more than 10 spies in the country&#39;s nuclear field since March, the official IRNA news agency reported Wednesday.
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Amnesty International yesterday demanded the swift and unconditional release of 33 prominent Iranian female activists arrested last weekend and jailed in Tehran's notorious high-security Evin prison. The women were arrested after peacefully protesting the trial of five other activists and grass-roots organizers against discrimination in the legal system....
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Iranian police have closed down 24  Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours,  detaining 23 people, as part of a broad crackdown on immoral  behavior in the Islamic state, official media said on Sunday.
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U.S. soldiers arrested members of an Iranian government delegation Tuesday at a hotel in Baghdad and took them to an unidentified location, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported.
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TEHRAN -- Tensions between law enforcement officials and human rights activists ahead of today's annual commemoration of International Women's Day have led to dozens of arrests in the capital. The days around the commemoration have been a perennial rallying point for critics of government policies viewed by rights activists as sexist or discriminatory. This year, the conservative government of President ...
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An Iranian-American journalist held in her native country for months and accused of security-related offenses was permitted to leave Iran, her employer said Tuesday.
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Iran is investigating a fourth Iranian-American citizen detained on security-related accusations, Iran's ISNA news agency reported on Friday.
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TEHRAN -- Iran's president called yesterday for an investigation into journalists' allegations that they were tortured into confessing to charges such as insulting sacred beliefs and endangering national security after publishing articles critical of conservatives in the government. About 20 journalists from print, Internet, and other media outlets have been detained in Iran since a crackdown on the proreform press ...
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Iran has arrested three Finnish men who allegedly strayed into its territorial waters during a fishing trip in the Persian Gulf, Finnish government officials said Wednesday.
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Three Finns have been detained by Iran while fishing in the Gulf, Finnish diplomats say.
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Iran said Tuesday its former deputy defense minister was missing while on a private trip to neighboring Turkey, and its top police chief accused Western intelligence services of possibly kidnapping the official.
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Iran has blocked four local photographers from exhibiting some of their work in Paris after certain pictures were deemed to be &quot;against Islamic values and mocking the image of Iranian women.&quot;
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An American-Iranian academic, detained in Iran on spying charges, has been held in solitary confinement for 40 days, Nobel Peace prize winner and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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The Indonesian government has quietly imposed a ban on foreign journalists traveling to provinces it fears could be at risk of breaking away, as well as to several other areas that have been conflict zones in the past, officials said.