Iran: violence

Somayeh Bayenat, the wife of jailed studentleader Ahmad Batebi was arrested on Wednesday night after denouncing to the international media, that her husband was still in detention despite his poor health. Plainclothes officials reportedly brought the woman to an undisclosed location.
At Global Voices are bloggers expressing their concern about the international situation and the human rights issues in Iran.






At the site of Assyrian International News Agency is an article about the spreading Shia-Sunni Violence in Iran.
The impoverished Sistan-e-Baluchestan province is exactly on the main drug-trafficking route from Afghanistan and Pakistan to Europe. According to the article in Aina, desperate and frustrated locals will go to groups like Jundallah as poverty, the main problem in the province, remains unsolved.Sectarian discrimination is another factor, but those arrested belong to impoverished groups in Baluchistan and have no support among Sunni intellectuals.


The bombing last week in Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchestan province where the people mostly are Sunnimuslims, has been claimed on sattelite-tv and on the internet by Abdolmalik Rigi, leader of Sunnigroup Jundallah, now named: People 's Resistance Movement of Iran.
This statement emphasizes that they have not any kind of relationships and links with Alqaedah, Taleban and other fundamentalist groups, nor any kind of relationships with foreign countries including USA and UK.



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