Iran: activists

Tala't Taghinia, Mansoureh Shojaie, en Farnaz Seify, three women's rights activists, journalists, and members of the Women's Cultural Center, are arrested on
Khomeini Airport in Teheran.
They were about to leave for New Delhi to attend a journalism training.
After their arrest securityforces confiscated computers, books and other personal belongings.
They are transferred to Evinprison ward 209.





Iran's top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri has urged authorities to release political prisoners and open the political arena to opponents of the regime.
During a meeting with an organization to defend the right's of political prisoners he asked if it not would be better to avoid extremism and open the political space, now the country faces international pressure.
According to AFP he also said that unfortunately there are still academics, students, intellectuals and ordinary people jailed for false or political reasons and that the wise thing to do is to release them in these sensitive times.
84-year-old Montazeri was tapped as the successor of Khomeini but fell from grace in late 1980s after he became too openly critical of political and cultural restrictions.
He was put under house arrest in 1997 and was freed in January 2003 on health grounds.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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