Iran rapped over child executions
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Human rights group Amnesty International calls on Iran to halt the execution of child offenders.
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Analysis: It's doubtful the Iranian President  really wanted to visit. What he really wanted was just what he got: a ferocious reaction
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Iran's Supreme Leader condemns remarks on Islam by Pope Benedict, as protests continue around the world.
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The State Department accused Iran on Friday of detaining at least four student activists and called for their release.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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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 opened a conference on Monday to examine the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers to kill Jews, drawing condemnation in the West and criticism from Iran's Jewish community.
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Amnesty International urges Iran to drop death by stoning, a fate the rights group says awaits 11 people.
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Iran responded to fresh EU criticism of its human rights situation by saying it was concerned by what it alleged were violations in Europe and a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment in the Netherlands.
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Iran Tuesday condemned the kidnapping of two French journalists in Iraq stressing such actions were regrettable and unacceptable.
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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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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 detention of eight Iranians in Iraq by US troops -- along with TV images of the detainees being led away blindfolded and handcuffed -- drew swift condemnation yesterday from Tehran officials.
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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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The US expresses grave concern over what it calls the worsening human rights situation in Iran.
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Iran staged a conference on Monday to debate the Holocaust and question whether Nazi Germany used gas chambers, prompting charges it was encouraging the denial of the killing of 6 million Jews during World War Two.
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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.