Iran: opposites

For everyone who wants to see with his own eyes what kind of country this Iran is, Ali Majdfar made a photogallery with beautiful pictures.






Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh and Shadi Sadr are still detained in Evinprison section 209.
According to Farideh Gheyrat, their lawyer, a "Temporary Detention Order" is been issued for them.This means that investigation about them has not been completed and the file is under further review.
She also said that the Head of Tehran Judiciary has said that before Iranian New Year all of the detainees will be released.
Up till now Mahboubeh Abbasgolizadeh did not contact her family.
Omid Memarian, journalist, spoke with her daughter here, (Farsi).






The German, who was in prison with a Frenchman for illegally entering the country's waters has also been released from prison.
In January 2006 they were sentenced to 18 months jail.
Last month the Frenchman was already released.




In Shiraz, March 21 will
World Poetry Day be celebrated by literati and literature lovers, concurrently with the beginning of the new Iranian year.

Various Iranian professors are invited to hold speeches and there are plans to hold a book fair and poetry night and to see in the New Year at great Iranian poet Hafez’s mausoleum






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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