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Foreign Policy

Anti-Iran human rights resolution at UNGA politically-motivated: Spokesman

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Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has censured as politically-motivated and unjustified the adoption of a resolution against Iran in the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly over alleged human rights violations.
Judiciary

Senior Iran judicial official: Afghan prisoners to be extradited to own country

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The Deputy Minister for International Affairs and Human Rights of Iran's Justice Ministry announced that within the next two months, a thousand Afghan prisoners will be returned to their country from Iran.
Judiciary

Iran executes man who raped 200 women

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An Iranian man convicted of raping over 200 women was hanged on Tuesday in the western city of Hamedan.
Judiciary

Several sentenced to death in Iran for spying for Israel

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Four people in Iran have been sentenced to death for spying for and collaborating with the Zionist regime of Israel.
Judiciary

Iran Judiciary chief orders review of pardon request for 2 detained journalists

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The spokesperson for Iran’s Judiciary announced that two detained Iranian journalists, convicted of collaborating with enemies in the case of the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman whose death sparked nation-wide unrest and deadly riots in Iran in 2022, have submitted a pardon request.
Judiciary

Iran hands death sentences to 3 Israel spies over their role in nuclear scientist assassination

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An Iranian court has sentenced three individuals affiliated with Israel to death after they were convicted of procuring equipment used in the assassination of top scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in November 2020, according to the country's judiciary.
Judiciary

Judiciary: Jamshid Sharmahd dies before execution of death sentence

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A spokesperson for Iran’s Judiciary announced that Jamshid Sharmahd, leader of the “Tondar” terrorist group and member of the so-called “Kingdom Assembly of Iran,” passed away before his execution.
Judiciary

Former Iran football federation chief sentenced to 15 years for cryptocurrency fraud

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Shohreh Mousavi, former director of Iran’s Football Federation, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison as part of the high-profile “King Money” case involving widespread economic disruption and fraud.
Judiciary

Ringleader of terror group Jamshid Sharmahd hanged by Iran

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Jamshid Sharmehed, the ringleader of the US-based Tondar (Thunder) terrorist group, who for years planned numerous terrorist operations against Iran, was executed.
Local

Judiciary spokesman clueless if Mousavi and Karroubi’s house arrest has ended   

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A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary says it has no information about whether the house arrest of former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi and the latter’s wife Zahra Rahnavard has come to an end. 
Judiciary

Iran hangs four in Alborz province for selling deadly alcoholic drinks

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The death sentence of four main convicts in the case of selling bootleg alcoholic drinks that led to the death of their clients was carried out on Wednesday in Alborz province, near the capital Tehran.
Judiciary

Iranian Judiciary: Journalists not pardoned due to security cases

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The Iranian Judiciary addressed on Tuesday rising questions regarding the exclusion of several journalists from a recent amnesty granted by the Leader, clarifying their cases have security aspects.
Judiciary

Prominent communication scholars urge Iran Judiciary chief to halt sentences of journalists

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A group of renowned journalism and communication professors has written a letter to Iran's Judiciary chief, calling for the revocation of prison sentences of journalists, highlighting the recent case of two female journalists.
Judiciary

Female Iranian journalists ordered to turn themselves in for prison sentence

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Lawyers for two Iranian journalists say they have received notices to report to prison within five days to begin serving their five-year sentence despite having been pardoned by the Leader.
Judiciary

Lawyer: Iran’s Supreme Court overturns death sentence for female labor activist

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The Supreme Court of Iran has annulled the death sentence previously issued against labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi, Shargh online website reported.
Foreign Policy

Iranian president criticizes Western double standards on human rights

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Iran’s President Massoud Pezeshkian has slammed the US and some European countries for their double standards on human rights, highlighting their silence regarding the atrocities committed by the Zionist regime in Gaza and Lebanon.
Judiciary

Iconic singer of Iran protests and deadly riots says pardoned, his case closed

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Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour, who was accused of spreading anti-government protests in Iran in 2022 with his catchy “For” song, says he has been pardoned in a general amnesty.
Judiciary

Iran releases Austrian detainee on humanitarian grounds

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Iran has released an Austrian national who had been detained for crimes committed in Iran's northwest, according to the Chief Justice of the Iranian province of West Azarbaijan.
Judiciary

7,000 Iranians die annually of suicide: Judiciary official

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Gholamabbas Turki, Iranian Deputy Prosecutor General for Public Rights and Crime Prevention, revealed that around 130,000 suicide attempts occur in Iran annually, resulting in 7,000 deaths.
Judiciary

Iranian minister says Judiciary to look into detained students 

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Iran’s Minister of Science, Research and Technology Hossein Simai Sarraf says the Iranian Judiciary has promised to form a working group to review the cases of students and university lecturers who got implicated following the September 2022 unrest in the country.
Local

Brother: Iranian political activist Abdollah Momeni released after Supreme Court overturns ruling

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Abdollah Momeni, a well-known Iranian political activist, has been released from prison following a Supreme Court decision that overturned his original sentence, says his brother.
Human Rights

Iran wants top gambler Sobhani extradited from Spain

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The secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights and deputy head of the Judiciary has asked the Iranian Foreign Ministry to push efforts for the extradition of Sasha Sobhani, an Iranian national from Spain, on a variety of charges including child abuse and money laundering.
Judiciary

Initial court ruling on Iranian singer Hajipour annulled

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An initial court verdict on Iranian Grammy Award-winning singer Shervin Hajipour has been declared null and void in an appeals court, according to the Iranian Judiciary’s Media Center.
Judiciary

Envoy: Kuwait to transfer 22 prisoners to Iran

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Iran’s Ambassador to Kuwait Mohammad Tootoonchi says the Iranian government has convinced the Kuwaiti side to let 22 Iranian nationals jailed in  the Arab sheikhdom be transferred to their country to serve the remainder of their prison term.
Judiciary

Iraq’s Kurdistan hands over 19 Iranian prisoners to Iran

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The head of the Convicts Transfer Committee of Iran’s justice ministry says 19 Iranian prisoners were repatriated to Iran by Iraq’s Kurdistan region.
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