Amnesty demands Iran ends 'grotesque' stoning executions
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Tehran urged to abolish executions by stoning, described by Amnesty as 'horrific'
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Rights group Amnesty International condemned Pakistan over abuse of terror suspects, claiming hundreds had been &quot;disappeared,&quot; while many were tortured before being sold on to US authorities.
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A radio reporter being detained in Iran urged the Bush administration yesterday to end its vocal campaign for democracy there, saying it encouraged Iran's government to curtail its citizens' freedoms.
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Iran executes a man over a bomb attack which killed 11 members of its elite Revolutionary Guards last week.
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An Iranian artist and democracy campaigner facing deportation from Australia as an illegal immigrant is likely to be killed if he is returned to his native country, a refugee advocacy group said.
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Iran steps up protests over award of knighthood to British author.
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A man convicted of adultery was stoned to death last week in a village in northern Iran, a judiciary spokesman said Tuesday, the first time in years that the country has confirmed such an execution.
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A United Nations human rights body called on Iran on Friday to abolish the death penalty as well as amputation, flogging and stoning for people who committed crimes as minors.
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Government under pressure not to expel lesbian who, campaigners say, faces death by stoning.
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The United Nations on Sunday painted a  damning portrait of women's rights in Iran, saying they had  insufficient right of appeal against violence and were being  sentenced to death on flimsy evidence.
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'Beaten, denied a fair trial, sentenced to death' Campaigning group Human Rights Watch has petitioned King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia to halt the execution by beheading of a "witch" who in 2006 was convicted of "witchcraft, recourse to jinn [supernatural beings], and slaughter of animals".â¦
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The head of Iran's judiciary issues a order that no executions be carried out in public without his permission.
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A gathering of Holocaust deniers in Iran touched off a firestorm of indignation Tuesday across Europe, where many countries have made it a crime to publicly disavow the Nazis' systematic extermination of 6 ...Comment
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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The Vatican urges Catholics to stop donating to Amnesty International, saying it promotes abortion.
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Amnesty International condemns Greek police amid allegations that they beat and tortured young Afghan immigrants.
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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....