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UNwatch today called on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to denounce the government of Iran for sending Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, as its representative to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi is credibly believed to have been involved in the murders of thousands of political prisoners, writers, and dissidents in Iran.
It is not the first time Iran sent a human rights abuser as representative.
In June, Iran's delegation to the inaugural session of the new UN Human Rights Council included Tehran Prosecutor General Saeed Mortazavi, who stands accused of the 2005 torture and murder of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zarah Khazemi.




September 21st were Mostafa Evezpoor, 25years, his brother Mohammad Reza Evezpoor, 14years an 13 others, arrested during a demonstration in West-Azerbaijan.
Meanwhile, another brother and several other people have been released.
Amnesty International said October 11th in a statement Fear of torture and ill-treatment and asks for urgent action.



About 300 security forces in the northeastern Iranian city of Gonabad, Khorassan province, surrounded the residence of a prominent Sufi leader on October 10 after he refused an order to leave his city of birth.

Dr. Nurali Tabandeh, also known as Majzub Ali Shah said he has no intention of altering his plans to remain in the city until October 13.
Nurali Tabandeh has been returning regularly to Gonabad from his home in Tehran during the Ramadan to meet with followers and pilgrims from all over Iran.

For more than a century, the leaders of the Nematollahi Gonabadi dervish order have lived and been buried in Gonabad.
In February, a Sufi house of worship was destroyed in Qom and hundreds of Sufis were detained and in May a court sentenced 52 Sufis and their lawyers to jail terms and lashings.
Many conservative clerics see sufi as a cult and a danger to islam.
Since hard-line President Mahmud Ahmadinejad took office last year, harassment of Sufis has significantly increased.



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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