Iran dissident faces prison term
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Iranian dissident Ebrahim Yazdi is reported to have been given a heavy prison sentence by the country's hardline judiciary.
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TEHRAN -- Emad Baghi is a human rights activist who spent three years in prison for his writings. Shadi Vatanparast is a promoter of underground Iranian rock bands who, in the semi-privacy of her office, throws off her government-mandated headscarf. And Fazel Mehbadi is a mullah who preaches a message that's dangerously dissident in the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran: ...
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The imam of a Georgia mosque who pleaded guilty to providing support to the militant group Hamas was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison.
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A Saudi court has sentenced a university professor to five years in prison for sowing dissent and inciting disobedience against the government.
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Iran's President Ahmadinejad warns the US any attack on his country will be "severely punished".
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An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a Muslim militant to 10 years in jail for involvement in last year's bombing of a hotel, but acquitted him of helping plan the 2002 Bali attacks.
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INDONESIAN prosecutors today called for a two-year prison term for a man accused of using his science degree and Islamic militant experience to run bomb workshops and plot terror attacks on Western interests.
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A militant convicted of role in the bomb attacks on Bali island and Jakarta was sentenced to a relatively lenient jail term of 10 years by the South Jakarta District Court here Tuesday.
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A court sentenced a major in Israel's army reserves to five years in prison Thursday for offering secret information to Iran and the Islamic militant group Hamas, according to court documents.
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A man pleaded guilty in a scheme to buy thousands of submachine guns and sell them to Iranians opposed to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, court records showed.
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An Iranian man is sentenced to death for his role in the serial killings of 17 children and three adults.
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A journalist accused of involvement in a terrorist group in southeastern Iran has been sentenced to death, the judiciary said Tuesday.
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A Canadian-Iranian writer freed after   four months in an Iranian jail for allegedly endangering state   security was quoted by an Iranian news agency on Thursday as   saying he had been duped into aiding U.S. organizations.
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Iran has imprisoned an Iranian American affiliated with George Soros' Open Society Institute, the foundation said on Wednesday, marking the fourth dual citizen to be detained in Iran in recent months.
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An Iranian-American detained in Iran said on state television on Thursday she had concluded that a network of research centers and universities she had helped create had aims which would weaken the Iranian government.
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An Iranian-born businessman was accused Tuesday of illegally smuggling equipment to support his native country's nuclear missile program.
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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 ...