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Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) are carrying out a nationwide crackdown primarily targeting youths and women. The government-ordered clampdown is taking place under the guise of combating “trouble-makers” and “ma l-veilers”.Click below to watch a film showing the police brutality in Iran.
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=11375
The clip which was aired on Simaye Azadi, Iranian resistance satellite television was captured by a bystander using a mobile phone and smuggled out of Iran. Simaye Azadi said it obtained the video from supporters of the People’s Mojahedin (MeK).The nationwide clampdown began in April. Some images of the crackdown have been aired daily on state television in what numerous Iran analysts believe is to spread fear in society. So far neither the European Union nor the United States have expressed condemnation of the government-orchestrated crackdown.
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An Islamic court in Iran sentenced two men to death by being thrown of a cliff, the official state daily “Iran” reported on Thursday. The sentences were issued in the central Iranian province of Fars. The two men were identified only by their first names Tayyeb and Yazdan. They were accused of rape.Iran’s Islamic penal system regularly practices centuries-old sentences for petty crimes, such as amputation of limbs, eye gouging, stoning to death, and throwing prisoners off a cliff in a sac.
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Two people were stoned to death in Iran and sentences of flogging, amputation and eye-gouging continued to be passed, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Wednesday.In Iran "the human rights situation deteriorated, with civil society facing increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms of expression and association", Amnesty International said in its 2007 annual report. "Two people were reportedly stoned to death. Sentences of flogging, amputation and eye-gouging continued to be passed", the report said. "At least 177 people were executed, at least four of whom were under 18 at the time of the alleged offence, including one who was under 18 at the time of execution. The true numbers of those executed or subjected to corporal punishment were probably considerably higher than those reported."Scores of political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, continued to serve prison sentences imposed following unfair trials in previous years. Thousands more arrests were made in 2006, mostly during or following demonstrations. Human rights defenders, including journalists, students and lawyers, were among those detained arbitrarily without access to family or legal representation. "Torture, especially during periods of pre-trial detention, remained commonplace", the report added.
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Iranian regime’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country won't give in to Western requests to halt uranium enrichment, one day after the release of a UN atomic agency report which triggers new sanctions on Iran.A report by the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency transmitted to the Security Council yesterday said that Iran was defying UN orders to stop its enrichment program. The report will pave the way for discussion by the Security Council for a new round of sanctions against Iranian regime.
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Iran has arrested more than 15 people for calling for a demonstration in the northwestern city of Tabriz to mark the anniversary of the publication of a cartoon offensive to the Azeri minority, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday. The news agency said that the individuals arrested in East Azarbaijan province were inspired by foreign agents bent on stirring trouble to mark the first year since the government Iran newspaper published the cartoon. "In the past few days, a number of opportunists, who were guided from outside Iran, distributed pamphlets to call for a gathering in Tabriz for the first anniversary," said Tabriz chief prosecutor Yusef Firouzi. "In recent days, 15 have been arrested and we are currently interrogating them," he said. The Iran newspaper in May 2006 published a cartoon depicting an ethnic Azeri as a cockroach, sparking days of clashes between police and thousands of people which left four dead. Azeris form a majority in East Azarbaijan, West Azarbaijan and Ardebil provinces. They are Shiites who speak a Turkic language and are well integrated into Iranian society.
