Iran: preparations

ALO president Faleh Abdullah Al Mansouri is imprisoned in Section 209 of notorious Evinprison in Tehran.
Section 209 where high-profile political prisoners are held, is under the control of the Ministry of Intelligence, which conducts continuous interrogations involving torture.


Dr Awdeh Afrawi,humanrightsdefender and psychologist at Ahwaz's Shahid Chamran Hospital has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in Ardabil prison.His trial was held behind closed doors.
His daughter was killed during demonstrations.

Dr. Afrawi and his 17-year-old son were arrested October 2005 following bomb attacks on oil facilities in Ahwaz.
His son was sentenced to death and in March 2006, after a forced confession on Khuzestan tv publicly executed.
Both were charged with "waging war on God", which carries the death penalty.


Colonel Matin-Rad, commander of Iran's State Security Forces in the border city of Abadan, has announced that 1442 people were arrested in the Arab-majority province of Khuzestan in the space of just one month.
During the Iranian month of Shahrivar (23 August-23 September), which precedes ramadan, hundreds of mostly Ahwazi Arab people were rounded up and detained. Security Forces also seized 200 satellite dishes, 120 low-noise block (LNB) converters used to convert satellite signals, 167 relays, 100 receivers and 250 antennas.
Last year, during Mahibis, a popular event performed during iftaar, following fasting in the month of Ramadan, serious clashes took place, where deads occurred.


New daily Ruzegar (The Times), was forced to close just three days after its first edition. It failed to obey orders from the ministry of Islamic culture and orientation, to ignore politics.
"Publishing a daily which has no right to discuss domestic and international politics has no sense, but that is what we will be forced to do if we want to start publishing again," Ruzegar's managing editor Abdol Reza Tajik, told Adnkronos International (AKI).



A court in Sanandaj,province Kurdistan has ordered all assets of Roya Tolouii, feminist activist who is now living in USA, to be confiscated.
The court tried her in absentia and found her guilty of threatening national security.




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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