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• Iran's Ahmadinejad arrives in Rome for food summit: agency

  - 2008-06-03

  ROME AFP — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Rome on Tuesday to attend the UN food agency summit amid protests from Jewish groups and Italian activists. Ahmadinejad's plane touched down at Rome's Ciampino airport shortly after 9:00 am, the airport news agency reported. The Iranian leader said...

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• Iran leader says open to criticism

  - 2007-10-10

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's supreme leader said the country's political establishment should be open to criticism, following a rare protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, state radio reported on Wednesday. "We should be wary of the day when our young people in universities do not have the motivation to raise...

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• Iranian activists oppose military attack on Iran -- dissident

  - 2007-09-24

  UNITED NATIONS AFP — Iranian pro-democracy activists strongly oppose any military attack on their country but want the world to condemn Tehran's human rights violations, Iranian dissident journalist Akbar Ganji said in a petition seen Monday. "We categorically reject a military attack on Iran," the high-profile dissident said in...

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• Iran jails dissidents, student activists

  - 2006-03-15

  TEHRAN AFP — Iran's hardline judiciary has handed eight student activists and political dissidents jail terms for setting up and belonging to "an illegal group". Members of Iran's liberal opposition, Hoda Saber, Reza Alijani and Taghi Rahmani were sentenced to eight months in jail by a Tehran revolutionary court...

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• Iranian Nobel Peace laureate summoned by hardline judiciary

  - 2005-01-13

  TEHRAN AFP — Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi said she has been summoned to answer questions by the country's hardline judiciary or else risk arrest. "I have received a summons to a revolutionary court," the human rights activist and lawyer told AFP. ...

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• Iran cracks down on Internet: rights watchdog

  - 2004-11-09

  NEW YORK AFP — Iran is cracking down on Internet communications, one of the country's last forums for free speech and a crucial tool for local social activists, Human Rights Watch said. According to the New York-based watchdog, the Iranian authorities are arresting activists and "bloggers," or weblog writers,...

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• Nobel Peace laureate Ebadi cites human rights progress in Iran

  - 2004-10-12

  OSLO AFP — Iran's Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi said that human rights had improved in her country but stressed that activists were still being harassed. "We have made positive steps in the right direction," Ebadi told reporters in Oslo almost a year to the day after she was...

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