Iran hangs 12 for rape and murder
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Iran hangs 12 people, including a woman, as the government steps up a crackdown on vice.
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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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BAGHDAD : An Iranian diplomat was freed after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same Islamic militant group which is holding two French newsmen, as 12 people were killed in fresh Iraq violence.
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Iranâs judiciary has executed an airport customs contractor accused of bribe-taking and other corruption and has issued death sentences for three other airport employees.
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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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Iran was accused of supplying weapons to the Taliban on Saturday after security forces found dozens of Iranian-made mines in a rebel cache in western Afghanistan.
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MONTERREY, Mexico  - Ten gang members were given  lengthy prison terms for the murders of 12 women in a Mexican  city on the U.S. border where hundreds of women have died in a  mysterious 12-year killing spree, court officials said on  Friday.
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Banaz Mahmod tortured, raped and murdered because she loved a man killers disapproved of.
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A San Antonio man with a previous conviction for manslaughter was executed Thursday for the abduction, rape and fatal stabbing of a woman more than 12 years ago.
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In a troubling report on the execution of minors in Iran, Amnesty International said yesterday that at least 71 child offenders are on death row and more than 24 have been executed since 1990, more than in any other country.
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Iranian officials confirm a court has sentenced a young woman to death for prostitution.
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BAGHDAD, 28 September 2004 - Fresh Iraq violence killed 12 people yesterday as an Iranian diplomat was freed after a 55-day hostage ordeal at the hands of the same militant group which is holding two French newsmen.
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Iran has released all but three of 31 women detained during a peaceful protest in Tehran earlier this week, a lawyer said Thursday.
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A woman is sentenced to 12 years in prison for her part in the gang rape of two young sisters.
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A man was convicted of raping four women and a 14-year-old girl &#151; the daughter of one of the victims &#151; in attacks near Rutgers University.
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LONDON, Dec 13 (IranMania) - Iran has acknowledged for the first time it has convicted some Iranian nationals of supporting al-Qaeda, saying the number is fewer than ten.
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Islamic militants beheaded a US citizen and threatened to repeat the gruesome spectacle in 24 hours by executing one of the dead man's two British or American colleagues if female prisoners were not released ...