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IRANIAN NOBEL WINNER EBADI PRESS CONFERENCE IN TEHRAN
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, answers a question from media during a news conference in Tehran Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2003. Shirin Ebadi demanded that Iran's rulers free all political prisoners and detainees. (UPI/Ali Khaligh)

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UPI Almanac for Friday, Jan. 4, 2013.
Rights experts with the United Nations called on Iranian authorities to release two dissidents who were awarded for their work last week by the European Union.
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HRW worried by Iranian repression
Iran is suspected of executing ethnic Arab men who were accused of plotting against the country, Human Rights Watch said.
UPI Almanac for Thursday, June 21, 2012.
The British government expressed deep concern over Iran's decision to resentence a human rights lawyer to more than a decade behind in prison.
Lawyer who defends Iran activists jailed
Iranian lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who has defended political and human rights activists condemned to death, has himself been sentenced to nine years behind bars amid a crackdown on dissent that has resulted in a sharp increase in executions.
Rights situation in Iran troubles U.N.
Human rights experts reporting to the United Nations expressed concern over the "extremely harsh" sentences given to human rights defenders in Iran.
Human Rights Watch called on Tehran to overturn an 18-year prison sentence given to one of the founders of a banned human rights group.
UPI Almanac for Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012.
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Greek national flags fly over Tiananmen Square during Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras state visit to Beijing on May 16, 2013. Samaras is in China seeking investment and trade deals to help revive his country's recession-battered economy. UPI/Stephen Shaver