Iran hangs three men in public for raping 12 women
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Iran hanged three men in public on Thursday for raping and robbing twelve young women, most of them university students, Iranian media reported, in the latest of a series of executions in the Islamic Republic.
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Criminals rather than Islamic militants are holding three kidnapped U.N. workers, an official said Wednesday, dismissing the claims of a Taliban-linked group threatening to kill the trio unless the United States frees 26 jailed comrades.
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Iran's judiciary has tried a number of arrested al Qaeda members and verdicts have been issued, a senior judiciary official was quoted as saying on Monday.
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Iran acknowledged for the first time today it has convicted some Iranians of supporting al-Qaida. âA few pro-al Qaida Iranian nationals have been tried and convicted,â said foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi.
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Kidnappers holding an Iranian diplomat  in Iraq will "punish" him within 48 hours if Iran does not  release 500 prisoners captured in its 1980-1988 war with Iraq,  Iranian state television said Sunday.
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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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Iran has hanged three drug smugglers in a public square in the southern province of Kerman, the Jomhuri-ye Eslami newspaper reported on Saturday.
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A man in prison for rape has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women, including three that another man was convicted of committing, police said Saturday.
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A woman from Lithuania was raped by seven men who tried to sell her as a sex slave, a court hears.
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Two men convicted of rape by a court in Pakistan's southern Punjab province are executed.
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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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A millionaire businessman is given the death penalty in China for raping more than 20 young girls.
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Three Finnish nationals arrested by Iran at the weekend after entering Iranian waters by mistake during a fishing trip in the Gulf have been released, Finland&#39;s foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
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A man spotted by three children as he attempted to rape a schoolgirl is jailed for 12 years.
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Amnesty International on Tuesday called on Iran to abolish the "grotesque and horrific" practice of stoning people to death.
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Iran fiercely denies executing juvenile criminals or stoning people to death.
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Suspected Islamic militants in north-west Pakistan behead two women they accused of being prostitutes, police say.