Amnesty urges Iran to stop stoning executions
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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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An Iranian woman at the centre of in a notorious murder case is pardoned by her victim's family.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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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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Human rights group Amnesty International calls on Iran to halt the execution of child offenders.
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A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts.
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Amnesty International on Wednesday renewed its call for the United States to set up an independent investigation of the abuse of prisoners in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay and at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
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Iran demanded an end to Security Council "interference" in an offer made public Tuesday in exchange for clearing up suspicions about its disputed nuclear activities &#151; an apparent attempt to head off new U.N sanctions over its refusal to stop uranium enrichment.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council told Myanmar on Friday to prosecute those who committed abuses during a crackdown on peaceful monk-led protests and free Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners.
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TEHRAN -- Iran executed a defendant by hanging after a court convicted him of a bombing last week that killed 11 members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Nasrollah Shanbe Zehi was executed at the site of the attack in Zahedan, capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province in southeastern Iran, the report said. The sentence was ...
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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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A radio reporter being detained in Iran urged the Bush administration on Tuesday to end its vocal campaign for democracy there, saying it encouraged Iran's current regime to curtail its citizens' freedoms.
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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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The U.N. General Assembly approved a draft resolution Tuesday expressing "deep concern" at the systematic human rights violations in Iran, including torture, flogging, amputations, stoning and public executions.
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Iran yesterday denounced as &quot;illegal&quot; demands from the UN atomic-watchdog agency that it freeze all work on uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used for nuclear weapons.
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Amnesty International has urged both US presidential candidates to publicly commit to ending torture and inhuman treatment of detainees in US custody.
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Amnesty International accuses Azerbaijan over its treatment of displaced people from Nagorno-Karabakh.