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		<title>Political Leaders under House Arrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the eleventh presidential election in the Islamic Republic of Iran, two of the candidates from the previous election remain under house arrest. Ahmadinejad’s main opponents were Mir Hossein Mousavi who was the Prime Minister of Iran for ten years in the 1980s and Mehdi Karroubi who was the speaker of the third [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hunger Strikes in Prison</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 04:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Going on a hunger strike is probably the last method a prisoner chooses to be granted their basic rights. Currently, there are three political prisoners on hunger strikes in Iran. -One of these prisoners, Mehdi Khazali, was arrested for the sixth time in recent years on October 30th 2012 and was sent to Evin prison. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise in harrasment  of Deravish</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5219</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 13:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer, The Gonabadi Dervishes are among the minority groups who are under attack by the intelligence and security organizations of the Islamic Republic of Iran. A Gonabadi Dervish is a follower of Sufism, which is considered by the Islamic Republic rulers as a diversion from Islam. In recent years, a number of Iranian [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crackdown against independent attorney in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5210</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer, Defense Attorneys&#8217; Day was on February 25th. It coincided with the 60th anniversary of the independence of the Iranian Bar Association. The day passed even as eight official attorneys, Narsin Sotoudeh, Mohammad Seifzadeh, Mostafa Daneshjoo, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, Abdolfattah Soltani, Hutan Kian and Ali Eslami, are in prison. These attorneys have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Execution in the eye&#8217;s of people</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5207</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 00:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba davoodi Mohajer, Carrying out executions before the public eye has become the norm in the Islamic Republic (IR). Every year individuals convicted of different crimes including drug-related crimes, theft, murder or rape, are hanged in public in various Iranian cities. Recently, two young men aged 20 and 23 years, who had been sentenced to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Verdicts through history</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5203</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Shiraz, one of the oldest cities in Iran. It is a city near the palaces of the oldest Iranian royal dynasty, the Achaemenids. Takhte Jamshid (Jamshid’s Throne) is known by foreigners as the Persepolis. It is well known that Cyrus, the Achaemenian King, wrote the first Human Rights Declaration in history and held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The right to education, a forgotten right</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5199</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The right to education, one of the rights noted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has been violated by the Iranian government for years. Shortly after the 1997 revolution, the group that had taken over the government decided to filter the dissident professors and students out of universities. This effort continues to today, thirty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fires at girls’ schools</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5196</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the beginning of winter, oil burning heaters are lit to heat the cold classrooms and sometimes girls are burned by the fire. The latest incident happened some weeks ago in a poor Iranian area. According to the website HRANA, on December 5th an oil burning heater in a fourth grade classroom at the Islamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with criminals and gangsters and the necessity of holding fair trials</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5192</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 04:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer, The deputy police chief of Iran announced that the second phase of the “anti-criminal and gangster plan” would be executed soon. Following the passing of the “Social Security Enhancement Act” by the Cultural Revolution Council, the “anti-criminal and gangster” plan was sent to the police for implementation. The judiciary, IRGC, the ministry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinema under the Sword of Suppression</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the 1979 revolution, when Islamists affiliated with Ayatollah Khomeini took over political leadership in Iran, a number of religious fundamentalists were determined to shut down Iranian cinema forever. Referring to some pre-revolution movies, they claimed that cinema causes moral corruption and it needs to be dealt with. Although they did not manage to close [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolidation of Iranian women restriction in trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer On Tuesday November 13th, 2012 the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Majlis (Iranian parliament) passed a bill that makes it mandatory for single women under the age of 40 to have permission from their “custodian” or a warrant from the “Sharia Ruler” (Islamic court judge) to receive their passport. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorneys alongside defendants</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5183</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian female attorney who recently went on a hunger strike. She was a member of the Defenders of the Human Rights Center and has close ties with the Noble Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. During her work as an attorney, she has represented many political, ideological individuals and juvenile defendants in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death in Iranian Prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5177</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 02:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Death in Iranian Prisons Young Iranian blogger Sattar Beheshti is the latest victim of Iranian prisons. Currently, Iranian Farsi-speaking media is filled with opinions and speculations about the death of Sattar Beheshti, whose body was returned to his family a week after his detention. The incident started on October 30th when the website HRANA reported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parallel Civil Society</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer, One policy of Iranian intelligence organizations is to create a parallel Iranian civil society. This parallel civil society is created by Iranian authorities who understand that while they strive to control and suppress independent civil society, other organizations and clubs need to be established to fill the gap. These organizations are controlled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Analysis of Ahmed Shaheed’s Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reporter from beyond the borders From the moment Ahmed Shaheed was designated as the “Rapporteur” of the Human Rights Council of the UN, to report on human rights conditions in Iran, it was clear that he was going to have a tough time. Generally, Iranian officials consider human rights a political tool for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recognizing “Bloodshed Stopping” and the Ongoing Violence against Women</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5165</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer, “Bloodshed Stopping” is a custom in some parts of Iran, according to which if a family or tribe member is killed by a member of another family or tribe in a conflict, a girl from the family or tribe of the murderer will be married to a relative of the victim to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other Drug Victims in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5161</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2012 13:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few days pass without the Iranian media publishing news about arrests, trials and executions related to drug trafficking. The announcement that 10 people were executed on Monday, October 22nd 2012, was the latest news of this kind. Reporting from the Mehr news agency and based on case files, the website Melli-Mazhabi (National-Religious) stated that drugs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>23 Upcoming Executions in Iranian Prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5159</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from September 3 to 9, 2012 Amnesty international (AI) asked Iranian officials to immediately stop all executions that are soon to be implemented. AI reported that around 23 prisoners are at risk of being executed. This well-known international human rights organization informed that 22 death row [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UN General Secretary Alarmed by Vast Human Rights Violations in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5156</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 03:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from August 25 to September 2, 2012. UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, criticized the Iranian government’s violations of human rights during his participation in the Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Iran and asked the government to take serious steps toward proving the peaceful goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mourners of Azerbaijani Earthquake in Iran Arrested</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5153</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Aug 2012 13:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report of Human Rights Violations from August 12 to August 19, 2012 Security forces attacked a gathering of Tabriz residents who had organized a commemoration for the recent earthquake victims in Azerbaijan on August 15. This peaceful gathering was held in Eialgoli Park in downtown Tabriz city. Four people were detained and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Letter to Ban Ki Moon to meet with Mir Hussein Mousavi, Mehdi Karoubi and other political prisoners upon his visit to Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5150</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August 25, 2012 Dear Mr. Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations Your imminent visit to Tehran to participate in the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) conference shall provide a unique opportunity to assess the dire conditions of human rights in Iran first hand. Although your brief visit will not allow a thorough examination [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Universities and the Cultural Coup against Women</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5145</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer Female students, who will be admitted to universities in the new academic year, are facing the worst conditions of gender discrimination. The constraints and limitations based on gender are unprecedented in the history of Iranian universities. In Iran, gender segregation was applied in approximately 60 subjects at 600 universities. In fact on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>State-run TV Inconsiderate towards the Victims of the Azerbaijani Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5142</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 15:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from August 6-12, 2012 The earthquakes which occurred in the north-west of Iran caused huge destruction and human casualties mostly in Haris, Varzeghan and Ahar city in Azarbayejan Sharghi province.Based on some reports, between 200 and 300 people were killed in this natural disaster which measured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop execution of Gholamreza Khosravi, a political prisoner</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5138</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Center to Defend Families of Those Slain and Detained in Iran published the interview with Khosravi&#8217;s mother as follow: Bigom Jamaloei, is the mother of Iranian political prisoner, Gholamreza Khosravi. She is 70 years old, in poor health and her husband died five years ago. Below is an English translation of parts of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ordinary People in Iran &#8211; Hostages of the Government</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5134</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi Mohajer Ordinary Iranians are facing heavy pressure from governmental forces these days. Police forces and plain clothes security members were assigned duties to suppress and crackdown on the public sphere. Clothing styles and the behavior of people are under the control and observation of these forces. In recent weeks, the presence of these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increased Police Patrols in Tehran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5131</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from July 30th to August 5th The security atmosphere has intensified in Tehran since some unknown groups and individuals have called for demonstrations to protest the increasing inflation and corruption. They spread their demands through mobile text messages. Police and plain clothes security personnel have appeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian authorities hold political prisoners hostage</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5128</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joint Public Statement Shirin Ebadi &#038; Human Rights Organisastions: 31 July 2012 Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) said in a joint statement today: Conditions of prisoners in Iran are deteriorating by the day. Political prisoners and prisoners of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restrictions on Academic Freedom Underscore Events at Conference for Iranian Studies</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5125</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(New Haven, USA; with reporting from Istanbul, Turkey) &#8212; The ninth biennial conference of the International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS) began today with a series of panel discussions featuring social scientists, artists and literary scholars who study Iran. This year the ISIS conference was staged in Istanbul, Turkey in the interest of providing accessibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new wave of Detention in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5121</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Aug 2012 17:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from July 22 to 29, 2012 The Iranian government has increased the number of arrests and punishments in order to contain dissent by the suffering Iranian population. In the past week twenty Kurdish activists from Mahabad were sentenced to a total of 67 years imprisonment by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unprecedented Inflation and the Hardships of Daily Life</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5118</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:13:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from July 15 to 22, 2012. The high rate of inflation is rooted in the poor management of the economy and foreign sanctions. It is unbearable for many people in Iran as some even have problems to buy bread. According to the news agency Iran Khabar, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Execution for Drinking Alcohol: Religious Concern or Political Tool? Fariba Davoodi</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5114</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Iran, a high ranking judiciary official announced that two prisoners were condemned to death because they drank alcohol for the third time. In the previous two sentences, a religious punishment was applied on them and now according to law, their sentence is execution. Their execution should have taken place on June 24 but for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Media Banned on Reporting about Sanctions</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5110</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from July 9th to 16th 2012 In the past week, unilateral sanctions by the US and EU moved forward and Iranian authorities reacted in several ways to control the negative effects and prevent the spread of fear in Iranian society. One significant reaction was the warning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Narrative of Death in Iranian Prisons</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5108</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2012 03:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from June 25th to July 1st Last week Vice-President of the Iranian organization Defenders of Human Rights Narges Mohammadi wrote a letter to the Tehran prosecutor which described her illegal detention in Zanjan prison. She stated, &#8220;I urge and solemnly declare that this kind of behavior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Workers in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5105</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fariba Davoodi, During the Islamic Revolution, an incident happened in Tehran that was lost in the political ruckus of those days. A group of people attacked a neighborhood where prostitutes lived and burned it down. Reportedly in this attack, a number of female prostitutes were beaten up and some were killed. Later, a number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protests Increase As Do High Prices</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5102</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from June 10th to June 17th, 2012 Last week, representatives of 10,000 workers submitted an open letter to the office of Abdolreza Sheikholeslami, the Minister of Labor and Welfare, to protest the poor economic conditions in Iran. This letter also criticized an amendment to the Labor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Women Are Deprived of Security in Society</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5100</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from June 4th to June 11th 2012 Since the implementation of the “Moral Security Plan”, an increase in murder, rape and harassment in the street have become serious issues for women and girls. Recent instances included numerous cases of murder or rape. Women are shouted at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing the Field of Study “Women Studies” to the “Rights of Women in Islam”, Fariba Davoodi Mohajer</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5097</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 17:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Iranian universities, “Women’s Studies” has been changed to the “Rights of Women in Islam.” This decision was made by the Council of Specialization and Promotion of Humanities, overseen by the Council of the Cultural Revolution, and was passed by the same council on May 24th 2012. After the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei commented on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Appeal by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and three human rights NGOs</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5094</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prisoners of conscience could die in Iranian government jails Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), its Iranian affiliate (the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights) and Reporters Without Borders firmly condemn the inhuman treatment that human rights activists, journalists, netizens and other prisoners of conscience are receiving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Executions Increase in Iran</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5092</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report of Human Rights Violations in Iran from May 28th to June 3rd, 2012 Following an increase in the number of executions in Iran, last week the EU warned the rulers of the regime and asked them to suspend the death sentence. Reuters reported that a spokesperson for Catherine Ashton, the European Union&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>House Arrest and Hostage Taking by the Iranian Government, Fariba Davoodi Mohajer</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5088</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2012 03:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the establishment of the Islamic Republic (IR), one form of dealing with dissidents and political critics became house arrest. This method is used more frequently on the people who were once some of the closest allies to the regime, played roles in forming the Islamic Republic or those that were clerics at the highest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protestors against the Drying of Orumieh Lake Arrested</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5086</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 18:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from May 21st to May 27th 2012 Last week following protests about the drying of Orumieh Lake and on the sixth anniversary of protests by Azerbaijanis against a cartoon published in an Iranian newspaper, a large number of people, especially in Tabriz and Orumieh, were arrested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cut back of 100,000 workers from 1000 industrial units in a year</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5084</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 May 2012 21:52:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report of a week of human rights violations in Iran from May 14th to May 20th 2012 Industrial units of the country are in crisis. So deep that Islamic Republic newspaper quoted the secretary general of the Workers’ House on Sunday and announced that during the past year “One hundred thousand workers have been fired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The verdicts of the Islamic Republic judiciary violate human rights</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5082</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report of a week of human rights violations in Iran from May 7th to May 13th 2012 Last week once again a verdict far from the spirit of justice in the Islamic Republic created controversy and became the headline of most domestic and foreign news agencies. The 25 lash sentence for the cartoonist Mahmoud Shokrayeh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Children of Prisons, Fariba Davoodi Mohajer</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5079</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 17:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The deputy of Management and Expansion of Prisons stated that currently 70 children live in prisons because their mothers are imprisoned. However, there are different statistics on the issue. Even though these children have not committed any crimes, they are kept in prisons because their mothers are imprisoned, and no one outside is able or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Puzzling Executions and Policing in Iranian Society, Fariba Davoodi</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5077</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past few weeks a new wave of executions in Iran started and is growing. These executions are for various convictions such as drug possession and trafficking, armed robbery and murder. In the past few days, three people were executed in Ghezelhesar prison. They were 26-year old Ali Shokuhi, convicted of transferring 25 grams [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women Restricted by Government Imposed Regulations</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5074</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 00:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from April 30th to May 6th 2012 Headlines in Iranian news about women included issues such as the poor conditions of female prisoners, opposition to increased political participation by women in parliament by the head of the women’s issues and family center, unemployment of 35,000 midwives, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Authorities Increase Sentences of Political Prisoners</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5071</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from April 23rd to April 29th 2012 Last week Iranian Supreme Leader Seyed Ali Khamenei responded to fatwa requests concerning social media websites such as Facebook and anti-filters by announcing that “compliance to the laws of the Islamic regime is a religious necessity and people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wartime Crisis Is the Excuse for Official Restrictions on the Press</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5068</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:04:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from April 17th to April 22nd 2012 During the past week, a new set of regulations from the Ahmadinejad administration forced news agencies to disclose their news sources and banned them from publicizing information concerning the closure of a media outlet or its filtering. As head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Central Bank Says 22.5 Percent of Iranian Families Are Unemployed</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5065</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from April 9th to 16th 2012 Last week following the release of official statistics, the Central Bank announced that 22.5 percent of Iranian families do not have jobs. According to employment statistics in the year 89 in most families, among people over the age of 6, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Iranian Cinema under the Sword of Censorship, Fariba Davoodi</title>
		<link>http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=5060</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the few past weeks, Iranian art and cinema has been under a lot of pressure. On Sunday, April 8th a group who call themselves “Hezbollah People” gathered in front of Sepidrood cinema in Rasht and protested the screening of the movie “Gashte Ershad” (Morality Police Patrol). This group entered the cinema and forced the [...]]]></description>
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