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At the annual Chaharshanbeh-Souri fest on the last Wednesday before Iranian newyear (March 21) are according to Fars Newsagency 1100 people injured and 1300 people arrested.
On this fest bonfires are built and people jump over them.
IRNA reported that Tehran Revolutionary and Public Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi Wednesday said that about 300 hooligans had been obligated to participate in different sports activities such as football and volleyball in Saei Gymnasium.
He noted that 60 distributors of explosives were detained days before Chaharshanbeh-Souri.
According to him 129 tons of dangerous explosives and 210 kilos of acryl and syringe, packed in 500-gram boxes were confiscated by the police.



Kurdish activist Shahed Fathi arrested 50 days ago by plain clothes officials in his home, was found dead on Friday, his body reportedly bearing the signs of extensive torture.
A few days earlier, his parents had reportedly received a call from the local office of the intelligence ministry asking them to file a written request to meet their son in jail.
In the past two decades at least 100 politicians, clerics, intellectuals and regular citizens are believed to have been executed without trial.
Among them are writers Saiidi Sirjani, Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Jaafar Pouyandeh; Christians Mehdi Dibaj, Tatavous Mikaelian and Hapek Hospian; tenor Hossein Sarshar; and politicians Kazem Sami, Dariush Forouhar, Parvaneh Forouhar, Siamak Sanjari and Khosrow Ghasghaii.



Zahra Kamalfar and her two children Anna, 17, en Davood, 12, Friday arrived in Vancouver, Canada, after living for more than nine months at Moscow Airport.

Canada agreed last week to accept Kamalfar and her two children after she was granted refugee status by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.


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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