Iran: commute

In Golestan province, Sunday in a stadion, five men publicly have been hanged.
According to daily Etemaad the men, Khashayar J., Ismail B., Abolghasem H., Ruhollah T., and Hassan B. were sentenced for rape and kidnapping.

A spokesman of Iranian judiciary, Jamal Karimirad,denied that stoning sentences have been carried out recently in Iran.
He said this to a letter by women's rights activists who have called on the head of Iran's judiciary to end the Islamic practice of stoning convicted adulterers to death.
Activists say that May 2006 a man and a woman were stoned to death despite a moratorium.
Karimirad said some courts might have issued stoning sentences but that the sentences have subsequently been commuted.



According to the Iranian advisor and managing director for foreign refugees of the Interior Ministry Ahmad Hosseini one million Afghan refugees are now living illegally in the country.Also 60,000 Iraqis have been documented as living in the country.
Over the last five years, 14,000 Iraqi nationals and 1.4 million Afghans have been repatriated to their countries of origin.
In the current Iranian year 250,000 Afghans have been arrested while attempting to enter the country without valid entry permit.He added that another 10,000 refugees from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan had been arrested while trying to illegally leave the country for Turkey.
500,000 refugees had been scheduled for repatriation to their home states in accordance with the voluntary tripartite repatriation program of the UNHCR, Iran and Afghanistan, but official figures show just 15,000 have been repatriated so far.
Since the war 400,000 Afghans are born in Iran and have now been living here for some 15 years.
The continuing violence, poverty and inability to find jobs in their country are the main reasons why Afghans refuse to avail of the voluntary repatriation program.




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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