Nobel Winner Tells Iran to Ban Solitary Confinement
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Iran's Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi on  Monday issued an unprecedented demand for Iranian authorities  to ban the use of solitary confinement because she said it  amounted to torture, again defying the Islamic Republic.
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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 world's focus on Iran's nuclear program, which many fear could produce nuclear weapons, has made it ignore human rights abuses there, Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi said.
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TEHRAN -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country was ready to stop its nuclear enrichment program and return to talks provided Western nations also stopped their own. Ahmadinejad told a crowd of thousands in northern Iran one day ahead of a UN Security Council deadline that it was no problem for his country to stop, but that "fair talks" ...
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Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi complains that common criminals are treated better than political prisoners in Iran.
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Iran's judiciary has ordered 2003 Nobel  Peace Prize winner and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi to  appear before a branch of the feared Revolutionary Court or  face arrest, a colleague said on Thursday.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   urged the West to turn to God's path and said on Wednesday that   failure to do so would tempt fate.
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Iran&#039;s former parliament speaker on Saturday urged direct talks with the United States to break down the &quot;walls of mistrust,&quot; but said Tehran would not give up the right to produce nuclear fuel and pursue other technological advances.
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Iran's supreme leader says the US should not use the nuclear stand-off to bring Iran to its knees.
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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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Fears that Islamic hard-liners could  exacerbate Iran's nuclear standoff with the West, scare foreign  investors and worsen social tensions may pave the way for a  comeback by former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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Tehran urged to abolish executions by stoning, described by Amnesty as 'horrific'
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US Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Monday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should be banned from the UN General Assembly next week and indicted for genocide.
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UNITED NATIONS : UN nuclear weapons chief Mohamed El Baradei on Monday called on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment and said North Korea presented a &quot;serious challenge&quot; to the fight against non-proliferation.
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Q&amp;A: The Nobel Prize winner  -  and runner-up for TIME Person of the Year  -  talks about why it's hard to celebrate his honor
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Nobel Peace Prize laureate says we need to devote global resources to education to end poverty.
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Human rights group Amnesty International calls on Iran to halt the execution of child offenders.