Iran: lenient

Tuesday is in central Iran, a man, named Arash hanged.He was convicted for stabbing another student while he was a teenager.
Saturday two men were hanged in Karoonprison in the city of Ahwaz,Khuzestan province, for murder and armed robbery.
Newsagency Fars reported that Wednesday, a man, Houshang 47-year old, was hanged after 27 years, for the murder on relatives of his stepbrother, committed when he was 20 years old.


Recent reports indicate that the Iranian government is intensifying restrictions on activist students and universities, although Iran's education minister has dismissed reports of such pressure and said the authorities have so far been "lenient" on universities and students.
The pressure has taken various forms: students have been summoned to university disciplinary boards for alleged misconduct, suspended from classes for various periods of time, student newspapers have been shut down, and university directors and professors have been dismissed, and students have been denied entry to graduate schools due to their political activism.
Last category is called "starred" students -- named because stars or asterisks have been placed next to their names on official lists.
The Iranian media have documented several instances of restrictive or punitive measures against students over the past weeks.


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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