Sunday, March 18, 2007

Iran: unclear

Political activists along with social and cultural figures in an open letter expressed support for the teachers’ demands.
In this letter they're backing the legitimate demands from the teachers “It is your right to protest against low wages, rising inflation, lack of job security and lack of access to healthcare...it all being unjust.“
Amnesty International calls Iran to release all arrested teachers.
Many have been released but everal teachers’ leaders continue to be detained, including AliAkbar Baghani, Secretary General of the Teacher’s Union; Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, the union’s spokesperson; and Alireza Hashemi, Secretary General of the Teacher’s Organization.
Amnesty International has received the names of eighteen others arrested on 14 March: it is not clear if they are still detained.


The offices of two Iranian NGOs, Raahi legal center and Nongovernmental Organizations Training Center, were shut down by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court’s agents Thursday evening.
Both NGO's are (co)founded by Shadi Sadr and Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh.
They were informed during the interrogations that they should prepare $200,000 for their bail as a condition of their release, Sadr and Abbasgholizadeh told their families on a phone call yesterday.
The bail should be in the form of a property worth $200,000 and the relatives of none of these women’s activists can afford it.
Farideh Gheyrat, Abbasgholizadeh and Sadr’s attorney said that she went to the judge Haddad’s office today to get a discount on the $200,000 bail for Abbasgholizadeh and Sadr. Judge Haddad, the case-judge, emphasized that no decision has been made to release them yet.


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

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