Ebadi condemns Iran prison regime
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Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi issues a bold appeal to outlaw the use of solitary confinement in jails.
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Iran's President Ahmadinejad warns the US any attack on his country will be "severely punished".
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faced a new round of sharp criticism at home Monday after he said Iran's nuclear program is an unstoppable train without brakes.
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Iranian officials have poured scorn on a  self-styled "savior" who says he will return from exile on  Friday to witness the collapse of the Islamic state's clerical  leadership.
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Iran has condemned a G-8 warning that it could face more sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, the country's official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
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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 condemned on Sunday the awarding of a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted Iran's late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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Angry Iranians torched pump stations and hurled abuse at President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government after the world's fourth-largest oil exporter said it was imposing fuel rationing on Wednesday.
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Iran's foreign minister urges restraint over a new draft UN sanctions resolution, in a BBC interview.
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The regime in an NI prison constitutes the abuse of female prisoners' human rights, a report says.
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Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said Saturday she won't obey a summons by the hard-line Revolutionary Court even though she could be arrested, a challenge to the powerful body that has tried and convicted many intellectuals.
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Iranian President Mahmoud   Ahmadinejad accused the West on Tuesday of abusing the United   Nations to try to deny Iran the right to the peaceful nuclear   technology which Western states enjoy.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi on Saturday criticized some parts of the proposals presented by the European Union (EU) during recent nuclear negotiations, terming them
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U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday said he strongly condemned Iran's detention of American citizens and called for them to be freed "immediately and unconditionally."
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Iran fiercely denies executing juvenile criminals or stoning people to death.
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An Iranian-American consultant detained for months in Tehran's Evin prison told reporters during a visit to the prison Tuesday that he expects to be released soon and that Iranian authorities have raised no formal charges against him.
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Many nations are hells on earth for political and religious prisoners. Among them: Iran, North Korea, Cuba and one of the very worst Uzbekistan under the ferocious rule of Islam Karimov.