33 Activist Women Arrested in Tehran
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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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Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and ten lashes.
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Israeli left-wing activists have demonstrated in Tel Aviv in support of an Israeli woman who has placed in administrative detention.
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Iran has arrested dozens of spies,  including several who passed secrets about its nuclear program  to its enemies, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said on  Tuesday.
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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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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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Pakistani police have arrested more than a dozen opposition activists in a bid to scupper protests against President Pervez Musharraf's plans for re-election on October 6, officials said.
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Iranian journalists meet to protest against the arrests of eight webloggers and press journalists.
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Pakistani police have detained around 350 opposition party activists in the latest attempt to muzzle criticism of embattled President Pervez Musharraf, officials said Wednesday.
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Female Iranian students form a human chain around the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization&#39;s headquarters in Tehran, Monday Nov. 1, 2004, in defense of the right of Iran to possess nuclear technology.
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An Iranian-American woman detained in Tehran is being held illegally and has been repeatedly denied access to attorneys, Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi told CNN on Friday. Haleh Esfandiari and other Iranian-Americans held in Iran are political prisoners, said Ebadi, one of Haleh Esfandiari's attorneys. Ebadi -- who won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and is the founder of the Center for Defense of Human Rights in Tehran -- was once held in the same prison as Esfandiari.
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More than a dozen activists who rallied in support of Georgia outside the country's embassy and accosted counter-protesters with taunts and eggs were arrested on Saturday.
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Iran on Wednesday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the U.S. to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said.
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Thirty-three detained Iranian women activists go on hunger strike in prison, their relatives say.
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Iran has charged three U.S.-Iranian citizens with spying, officials said on Tuesday, a day after Washington and Tehran held their most high-profile talks in nearly 30 years.
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The Iranian government announced yesterday that a number of spies linked to an armed opposition movement had been arrested for passing on nuclear secrets to foreign enemies.
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Authorities in Uzbekistan have arrested a prominent human rights advocate, a fellow activist said Wednesday, amid an ongoing crackdown on dissidents and government critics in the tightly controlled former Soviet state.