Sunday, November 26, 2006

Iran: loss

According to newsagency Fars is Sunday a man publicly hanged in Kerman province.
Mohammad Reza Rafie, nickname Mohammad Khan, has been convicted of adultery and kidnapping.





In newspaper The Guardian tells an article about a video showing the hanging of two men, past July in Broudjerd, Lorestan province.
Alireza Gorji, 23, and his friend Hossein Makesh were hanged publicly, officially accused of "immorality".
However, anti-government campaigners and human rights activists say that they had been involved in anti-government protests and that everyone who watched, knew this.
The secret videorecording is obtained by The National Council of Resistance of Iran.
Wednesday, at the House of Commons, it will be shown to cross-party MP's together with documentation about execution of more than 20,000 political victims, including evidence for the involvement of President Mohammad Ahmadinejad.



The head of Gilan police told that last week 26 people were killed and 210 injured in 196 road accidents in Gilan province.
43% of the accidents involved motorcycle riders.
Over 4,000 accidents occur on 175,000 kilometers of Iranian roads annually, killing more than 30,000 people.
Material losses make about 4% of the gross domestic product,on the country's economy.






In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

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