Iran: basic

Ghazal Omid wrote an article in Global Politician about 31 political prisoners on hungerstrike.
On April 7, 2007 they started a hungerstrike protesting the brutal conditions in which they are being held.
Prisoners in these nine prisons (Evin and Raji Shahr prisons in greater Tehran; Bandar Abbas; Isfahan; Birjan; Semnan; Ahwaz, Oromieh in Tabriz; and Khorasan in Mashhad) have vowed to continue their hunger strike to expose these intolerable conditions.
Omid writes that this hungerstrike is necessary because the United Nations, Amnesty International, and the International Red Cross/Red Crescent have obviously ignored their official obligations to frequently inspect prisons to ensure basic human rights including medical treatment and visitation rights.

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Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi says that Iranian authorities were acting against the law when they took the passport of Parnaz Azima.
Azima told she had turned down a suggestion that she should work with the intelligence services.This is the second time her ability to travel has been restricted, last year authorities prevented her for three weeks from leaving the country.



Saturday, the yearly crackdown starts on women and men whose dress is deemed to be out of line with the Islamic laws.
The deputy head of Tehran's police Hossein Sadjedi-Nia warned that women "dressed up like models" with overly short mantos (coats), tight outergarments and inadequate headscarves would face being apprehended.
He said that the crackdown is not different from the campaigns of previous years. The women will be taken to four centres. They will have to give a written engagement not to repeat the offence and can then leave when their family brings the appropriate clothing.
He said that the crackdown will also target men "who wear clothes with offensive slogans and chains with certain insignia".

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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