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Ayatollah must retract Iran election comments | Amnesty ...
29 October 2009

Amnesty International is calling on Ayatollah Ali Khamenei toimmediately retract his statement on Wednesday that criticising theoutcome of June’s presidential election ...

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Iranian refugees released from detention in Turkey | Amnesty ...
27 October 2009

Two Iranian refugees who were refused access to the asylum system inTurkey and unlawfully detained for more than a year have been released.

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Iran must release scholar held for peaceful criticism of election ...
27 October 2009

Dr Mohammad Maleki has been held incommunicado since his arrest in August. Amnesty International has expressed grave concern for his health as he is suffering from ...

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Iran: Fears for life of detained Iranian scholar: Dr Mohammad ...
26 October 2009

Dr Mohammad Maleki, a 76-year old Iranian scholar and former Chancellor of Tehran University, has been incommunicado in Tehran's Evin prison for 40 days. He is ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/113/2009

Mass arrests during prayer service for activists in Iran | Amnesty ...
23 October 2009

Up to 68 people are said to have been arrested during a prayer service in support of activists detained following protests after June’s presidential election.

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Iran: Further information: Student activist on trial
21 October 2009

Mohammad Pour Abdollah, a male student arrested in February in Iran’s capital, Tehran, is now on trial, apparently on charges related to national security for his ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/108/2009

Iran: Further information: Stay of execution for Safar Angooti
21 October 2009

Safar Angooti, now aged 20, was due to be executed on 21 October, for a crime committed when he was 17, but received a one-month stay of execution.

Urgent Action       MDE 13/111/2009

Iran: Seven men at risk of execution in Iran
21 October 2009

Seven men, members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority, are at risk of imminent execution in Ahvaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province. They were convicted in an ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/109/2009

Iran must overturn sentences issued by post-election 'show trial' ...
21 October 2009

Iranian-American academic Kian Tajbakhsh has been sentenced to 15 years in prison bythe Revolutionary Court in Tehran, for his alleged part in the protests following ...

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Iran: Woman may face imminent execution by stoning
21 October 2009

Kobra Babaei, an Iranian woman, is feared to be at imminent risk of stoning to death after her husband Rahim Mohammadi was hanged for “sodomy” on 5 October. The ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/110/2009

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