Iranian rape case woman pardoned
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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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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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A young Nigerian mother sentenced to death by stoning for having sex outside marriage was acquitted and discharged by an Islamic appeals court on Thursday.
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Iran has released all but three of 31 jailed women's rights activists, ordering them not to attend a protest to mark International Women's Day in front of the Iranian parliament, one of the women's lawyers said Thursday.
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A former US prison commander in Iraq is acquitted of aiding the enemy, but sentenced to two years for lesser charges.
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Three officers of the Shiite-dominated police force have been cleared of allegations that they raped a Sunni woman in their custody, a government statement said Tuesday.
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TEHRAN, Iran  -- An Iranian-American academic imprisoned for months before being released on bail in August was permitted to leave Iran and was reuniting with her family in Austria, her daughter said Monday.
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MOSUL, Iraq -- A second Iraqi woman emerged yesterday leveling charges of rape against Iraqi security forces, breaking a taboo here about disclosing sexual violence and further undermining public perceptions about the security forces.
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An Iranian judge quashes the death sentence given to a woman who killed the wife of a former football star.
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Iran will complete its investigation of the Americans imprisoned or detained in Tehran this week and decide whether to try them for "crimes against national security" or free them, the spokesman for Iran's judiciary said yesterday.
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JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia, Dec. 17 -- Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has pardoned a gang-rape victim whose sentencing to 200 lashes and half a year in prison caused an international outcry and angered many Saudis.
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U.S.-Iranian reporter Parnaz Azima has been given her passport back and is free to depart, after months of being prevented from leaving Tehran, her employer and Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi said on Tuesday.
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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.
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An Iranian-American journalist held in her native country for months and accused of security-related offenses was permitted to leave Iran, her employer said Tuesday.
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21 September 2004 -- A Russian Army colonel convicted of kidnapping and murdering a young Chechen woman withdrew his request for a pardon today after public demonstrations of outrage in Chechnya.
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WASHINGTON -- Iran will complete its investigation of the Americans imprisoned or detained in Tehran this week and decide whether to try them for "crimes against national security" or free them, the spokesman for Iran's judiciary said yesterday.
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A Canadian-Iranian writer freed after   four months in an Iranian jail for allegedly endangering state   security was quoted by an Iranian news agency on Thursday as   saying he had been duped into aiding U.S. organizations.