Family wants Iran student who died in jail exhumed
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The family of a Kurdish law student in Iran who died in custody is disputing the official version he committed suicide and wants his body to be exhumed to determine the cause of death, their lawyer said on Sunday.
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Iran is investigating a fourth Iranian-American who has been held in the Islamic Republic, the country's semiofficial news agency ISNA reported Friday.
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Demand for inquiry into why teenager was bailed hours before he played role in brutal murder
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Amnesty International urges Iran to drop death by stoning, a fate the rights group says awaits 11 people.
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Iran said Sunday it had "no exact report" about an Iranian-American employee of a U.S. foundation promoting democracy missing after a visit to his homeland &#151; one of several people believed detained in Iran amid rising tensions with the United States.
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Human rights group Amnesty International calls on Iran to halt the execution of child offenders.
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Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, a former Iranian lawmaker who has been jailed without charges in Tehran for more than 100 days, was briefly released from detention last Thursday to attend a memorial service, where he shouted out allegations of torture and other harsh treatment, according to his lawyers...
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A civil rights group has asked a judge to order the U.S. government to turn over information about the deaths of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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Iran's hardline president will honor an American scholar's request to be buried in a historic Iranian city when he dies, the state broadcasting company said Thursday.
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Â· Warning follows death in custody of 15-year-oldÂ· Delay for general review would be 'unforgivable'
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A federal judge yesterday ordered Iran to pay more than $2.6 billion to nearly 1,000 family members and a handful of survivors of a 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed 241 soldiers. The ruling brought cheers and tears from survivors but faces long odds of being fulfilled.
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The wife of California businessman Ali Shakeri today appealed to the Iranian government for information on her husband, who has been missing since May 8, according to family members in Iran.
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A sheriff calls for the way prisoners are monitored by police to be improved after a death in custody.
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The father of a soldier who died at Deepcut Barracks wants a review of the probe into her death made public.
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Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari was released yesterday after more than 100 days in Iran's notorious Evin Prison, but Tehran did not indicate whether the 67-year-old grandmother still faces a trial on charges of "crimes against national security" or will be allowed to leave the country.
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The Israeli military wants to exhume the body of a 13-year-old girl shot dead in Gaza by soldiers last month.
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TEHRAN -- Iran executed a defendant by hanging after a court convicted him of a bombing last week that killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi was executed at the site of the attack in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran, the report said. The sentence was ...