Iran: showing off

Statesecurityforces in the city of Hamedan announced a crackdown
on people eating in public during ramadan.
Flyers,distributed across the city by the SSF and the Ministry of Justice state that anyone spotted to be eating food in public would be arrested and handed over for prosecution.


September 25th, Amnesty International made a Public Statement concerning the ongoing crackdown against peaceful critics.
AI has deep concern about the new arrests and detentions of human rights activists, minority community activists and others peacefully exercising their rights to freedom of expression and association.

During the last days Iranian Azerbaijanis advocating a schools boycott and at least 10 people who sought to demonstrate against the imminent execution of four women were arrested.
Also a prominent human rights defender Ali Akbar Mousavi-Kho’ini, is detained for over 100 days, without charge or trial.
The detained Azerbaijani include Esedullah Selimi, Iskender Mirza’i, Mehdi Vahidi, Eli Sediq Beyreq, Chengiz Bekhtaver, Gholamreza Emani, Hassan Ark, three brothers, Mostafa, Morteza, and Mohammad Reza Evezpoor, Fereydun Mehdipour and Mohammad Hossein Pourghorban.

Three men were hanged in Zahedan prison at Sunday .

Semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported Ali Karimi, Gholam Koohkan, and Khodamorad Lashkarzadeh were executed for drug trafficking.
In Zahedan This weekends total executions make 7.


In the city of Abadan ship workers
have held a 72 hour strike in protest for not being paid for six months.

The strike ended after the management agreed to pay the workers.
However, according to ILNA, workers have yet to be paid.
The trade union movement in Ahwaz's ship and oil industries are an important base for Ahwazi Arabs.




In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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