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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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 formally charges two Iranian-American academics currently in jail in Tehran with espionage.
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More than 80 Zimbabwean activists are in police custody a day after they were arrested, the opposition says.
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AMMAN -- Jordanian authorities have arrested scores of Islamist and leftist activists critical of US policies, leading opposition figures said yesterday.
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Iran has arrested military officers, nuclear workers and others on charges of revealing its nuclear secrets to Israeli and US intelligence agencies, Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi said.
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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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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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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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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent, Russian media 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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Indonesian police said Saturday that four suspects in last week&#39;s bomb attack at the Australian embassy in Jakarta have been arrested.
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Iran&#39;s intelligence minister says authorities have arrested more than 10 people this year on charges of spying on the country&#39;s nuclear program.
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Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Yunesi announced over ten persons have been taken into custody for divulging classified information to both America and Israel concerning Tehranâs nuclear program.
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Police detained opposition activists Tuesday in a provincial city at a protest that Kremlin critic Garry Kasparov said was thwarted by Russian authorities intent on silencing dissent
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Iranian police have smashed an  antiquities smuggling ring, arresting 36 people and recovering  more than 940 stolen treasures, the Web site of the state  Cultural Heritage Organization said Tuesday.
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Cindy Sheehan and about two dozen fellow anti-war activists were arrested on Monday for refusing to leave the office of a Democratic lawmaker after calling for the impeachment of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.