Jailed Iran rights activist in hospital
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The head of an Iranian human rights group jailed on security charges was sent to a local hospital after collapsing in a prison shower, said his lawyer on Thursday.
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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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Iran on Wednesday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the U.S. to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said.
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Leading Shiite Muslim cleric, Ali Sistani, has left a London hospital where he has been receiving treatment for a heart condition, his spokesman said.
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An Al Jazeera journalist jailed in Spain on terrorism charges related to the September 11 attacks has been released from jail and put under house arrest due to his ill health, the prisoner's wife said on Friday.
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Haleh Esfandiari discusses her interrogation and imprisonment inside Iran.
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For Washington scholar Haleh Esfandiari, the saga is finally over. Esfandiari arrived in the United States yesterday, more than eight months after she was detained in Tehran, interrogated and later jailed in Iran's most notorious prison.
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TEHRAN -- Iran yesterday released liberal intellectual Ramin Jahanbegloo, who was accused of working with the United States to overthrow the government, a human rights activist said. Ramin Jahanbegloo was released from Evin prison after four months of confinement, said Kouhyar Goodarzi, a member of the Student Committee of Human Rights Reporters of Iran. Jahanbegloo was arrested in April but ...
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TEHRAN -- Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said yesterday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and 10 lashes.
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Iran officially confirmed Sunday that it is holding an Iranian-American peace activist, the fourth dual citizen the country has detained in recent months.
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By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI NEW YORK - When Iranian journalist Mojtaba Saminejad was sentenced to two years in prison for insulting the country's Supreme Leader, it was not for an article that appeared in a newspaper. His offending story was posted on his personal Web blog.
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A Boston-based democracy activist jailed in China is seeking a medical parole because of a stroke he suffered earlier this year, his wife says.
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The United States said on Friday it  is concerned Iran has arrested a journalist and stopped him  picking up a rights award in New York in a sign of what it  called worsening violations in the Islamic republic.
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The Iranian President arrives at the United Nations shrouded in controversy
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A Russian opposition activist was committed to a psychiatric hospital before government protests, supporters said Friday Â the latest in a series of incidents suggesting a punitive Soviet-era practice is being revived.
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At her lowest moments during more than three months in solitary confinement in Iran's most notorious prison, Haleh Esfandiari wondered if anyone remembered her or if she had been swallowed without the world noticing.
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An Iranian-American academic detained in Iran will be freed soon on bail, the judge in charge of his case said on Tuesday.