Iran: demonstrate

Wednesday five men are hanged in
Evinprison in Tehran.
Fars newsagency reported that they were accused of murder.






All women, except three, arrested on Sunday, have been released.
Jila Baniyaghoob, Mahboubeh Abbasgholi zadeh, Shadi Sadr are still in jail.
The reason why is still unclear.
The released women were warned not to attend to International Women's Day, today March 8.
Nevertheless just a few hours after their release some of those arrested staged a rally with some 200 women in front of parliament, to demand that the three still detained in Evin be freed and to celebrate International Women's Day.
Witnesses in parliament's Baharestan square reached on the phone by Adnkronos said police tried to remove the women by force, in vain.
Fatemeh Govarai and Marzieh Mortazi Langharoudi, two of the 31 released from jail, were violently hit with batons by plainclothes officials.




Meanwhile, teachers also gathered in front of parliament in their third protest in a week demanding raises and asking that colleagues fired for political reasons, as many as 1,500 only in Kurdistan, be given their jobs back.
Saturday and Tuesday already hundreds of teachers already gathered in front of parliament threatening to block mid-term exams and not to resume work in rallies called by 30 teachers' unions.
Ali Akbar Baghani, coordinator of the Association of teachers' unions, told in an telephone interview that teachers across the country took part in assemblies despite the threats of school authorities.
Wednesday, only a few hours after this telephone interview Baghani was arrested, together with another 19 members of the teachers' union.
Protests by teachers on Thursday were staged nationwide in cities including Zanjan, Kermanshah, Rasht, Isfahan, Ardebil, Marivan, Mianeh, Shiraz and Sabzevar.


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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