Iran: insulted

In Ahwaz, the Iranian authorities have hanged four men in public.
Their names have not been officially released.
They were part of a group Ahwazi who were sentenced to death because of alleged accomplishness to the bombings in Ahwaz, January 2006.

Amnesty International published a statement in which she deplores the executions and calls on the Iranian authorities to halt executions.
According to Amnesty the names of the men are: Khalaf Derhab Khudayrawi, Alireza Asakreh, Mohammad Jaab Pour and Abdulamir Farjallah Jaab.


The Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has a serious flu. This says newsagency Fars.He has therefore cut back on his official programme on doctors' advice.
During last few months rumors in press and on the internet about his bad health kept circulating.



Iran authorities banned the studentmagazine Farhang mobarezeh (the culture of fight).
Editor in chief, Ali Gholizadeh of the university of Shahroud, will also have to stand trial on charges of having offended the state's top authorities.

Last week authorities banned Tame Azadi (the taste of freedom) edited by the students of Tehran's Amir Kabir university.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

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