Iran: sticks and stones

Agents of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), have arrested a daughter of 1994 murdered christian priest Mehdi Dibaj.


Fereshteh Dibaj, 28 year old daughter of reverend Mehdi Dibaj, was arrested on Tuesday with her husband Reza Montazami, 35, in their home in the north-eastern city of Mashad, the news agency Compass Direct News reported.
The report said that secret agents raided their apartment at 7 am and transferred the couple to a local intelligence branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Their six-year-old daughter was reportedly in the apartment at the time.
The couple lead an independent house church in Mashad.
In 1994 Mehdi Dibaj was murdered together with two other Christian bishops.
Tehran initially blamed and arrested several members of the opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MeK) for the 1994 murders.
Lateron, in the aftermath of the 1997 “serial murders” of dissidents and intellectuals in Iran, it occurred that these murders were political murders, committed by MOIS itself.



Amnesty International September 28th,has published a statement,expressing concern over the plight of seven women in Iran who are at risk of execution by stoning :


AI Index: MDE 13/113/2006
Parisa
Iran
Khayrieh
Shamameh Ghorbani (ook bekend als Malek)
Kobra Najjar (44jaar)
Soghra Mola'i
Fatemeh
Amnesty International is aware of two other women under sentence of execution by stoning in Iran, Ashraf Kalhori (see UA 203/06, MDE 13/083/2006, 27 July 2006; and updates), and Hajieh Esmailvand (see UA 336/04, MDE 13/053/2004, 16 December 2004; and updates).


October 9th,the Mayor of the dutch city of Maastricht, Gerd Leers, will go to the iranian ambassador in The Hague and demand access to Abdullah al-Mansouri, dutch human rightsactivist, who is in prison in Iran after been extradited by Syria.
Amnesty.nl will start a rally near the iranian embassy at Monday, to ask the iranian ambassador in The Netherlands, admittance to Abdullah al-Mansouri.
Several members of parliament, Harry van Bommel (SP), Farah Karimi (GL) en Fatma Koser Kaya (D66) join the action.
Known dutch lawyer Gerard Spong will go to the embassy at October 16th. He said he wants to be attorney of Mr.al-Mansouri.



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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