Iran: ongoing

Reporters without Borders publicized February 1 her annual report.The Middle East annual report is here (pdf).
The situation for journalists in Iran has increased to the worse.
During 2006 many journalists were arrested for criticising the regime, some for long, some for shorter periods of time.
All kinds of newspapers got a ban.
Turkish journalist Ayfer Serçe was killed in late July by the Iranian army. The circumstances are still unclear.
Also the repression of bloggers seems to have declined in 2006. At the moment, filtering the internet blocks more than a million internetsites.



At the largest Shipbuilding and Shiprepairing Company in Iran, Sadra (SADRA- Iran Marine Industrial Co.) have workers closed the gate and went on strike .On January 30 approximately 150 workers closed the gate, they were protesting the sacking of 38 of their colleagues as well as the short temporary contracts.
There has been an ongoing labour dispute in the company. Just very recently, about a month ago, more than one thousand workers of Iran Sadra were returned to work and they received a portion of their unpaid wages.




On January 31 Nazanin Fatehi has been released, here some pictures of her at home.
An Iranian rights group said on Friday that a Tehran appeals court upheld the death sentence against Delara Darabi, 20. She allegedly killed a cousin three years ago when was minor.
In January, Delara's mother told Tehran daily Etemad that her daughter had tried to kill herself at the capital's Evin prison where she is detained.
Worldwide attention she got since Delara's story caught the attention of the international media after a journalist who had been following her story, organized a show with paintings.



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