Iran: enclose

A 21-year-old woman from Mirabad-Naghdeh, Kurdistan province, Ameneh Salam has been sentenced to death in Bookan, for having an extramarital affair and childmurder.
She spent the last 30 months in jail.
The man she had the affair with is sentenced to 95 lashes.



The three journalists,Tala't Taghinia, Mansoureh Shojaie, and Farnaz Seify, who were arrested at Khomeini Airport in Tehran have been released.They have to appear in Court in two months.
They were on their way to New Delhi to a journalism workshop organized and paid through Radio Nederland Trainings Centrum, a division of Wereldomroep in Hilversum.
Ms. Shirin Ebadi, Ms. Leila Alikarami and Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh have accepted to defend them in court.




Iran has closed several border crossings to Iraq.
This happened because of Sjiïte holy day Ashura, January 30.
The measure is taken to prevent Sjiïte pilgrims to cross the border of Iraq to the holy city of Karbala 'without legal papers'.
There is indication not all border crossings are closed and some pelgrims were allowed to cross elsewhere. .





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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