Iran: risky

The fate of Abdullah Al-Mansouri is still unknown .

Yesterday in the city of The Hague, another demonstration at Iranian Embassy took place.
Among others, Gerd Leers,Mayor of the city of Maastricht, had a meeting with the Iranian Ambassador. No information came out.
Next week, lawyer Gerard Spong and Amnesty Nederland director Eduard Nazarski will see the ambassador.
Abdullah Al-Mansouri is jailed somewhere in Iran.
Abdullah Al-Mansouri is president of Ahwaz Liberation Organization (ALO).


In British daily The Times an article is written about coming executions and (show)trials in Khuzestan province (Ahwaz).
At the moment 16 people fear imminent execution for insurgency.
Two of those people, Abdolreza Nawaseri and Nazem Bureihi were in jail when they were alleged to have been involved in bomb attacks.
Three others, Hamza Sawa- eri, Jafar Sawari and Reisan Sawari say that they were nowhere near the Zergan oilfield the day it was bombed.
Since last year 50 Ahwazi Arab activists have been charged with insurgency. They are accused of being mohareb or enemies of God, which is a capital crime. Other allegations include sabotage and possession of home-made bombs.
All face possible execution.
In the past year, 25,000 Ahwazis have been arrested, 131 executed and 150 have disappeared, reports AHRO( Ahwazi Human Rights Organisation ).



Human Rights Watch wrote letters to Dutch and Swedish authorities,saying that states cannot return people to countries where they face torture, ill-treatment or death.
This is due to the fact that both countries, The Netherlands and Sweden, want to send back lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender asylum seekers.
Both governments imposed a moratorium on the deportation of rejected gay and lesbian asylum seekers to Iran in 2005 after reports of executions there for homosexual conduct.
September 29th, Sweden announced that it would resume deporting gay and lesbians fleeing from persecution in Iran.

Almost immediately, the Swedish Immigration Department decided to return a gay man to Iran, despite evidence from medical experts that he had previously undergone torture there. The case is under appeal.
In The Netherlands deportations were 6 months stalled, awaiting an nearer investigation. That review is currently being completed.

Article 111 of Iran's criminal code, the Code of Islamic Punishments, states that lavat (sexual intercourse between men) "is punishable by death."
Articles 121 and122 of the Penal Code, tafkhiz (non-penetrative "foreplay" between men) is punishable by 100 lashes for each partner and by death on the fourth conviction.
Article 123 of the Penal Code further provides that, "If two men who are not related by blood lie naked under the same cover without any necessity," each one will receive 99 lashes.
Articles 127 to 134 stipulate that the punishment for sexual intercourse between women is 100 lashes; if the offense is repeated three times, the punishment is execution.



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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