iran: million

April 24, sentenced the Sixth Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran Nusheen Ahmadi Khorasani, Shahla Entesari and Parvin Ardalan to three years imprisonment for collusion and assembly to endanger the national security, under article 610 of the Islamic Penal Code.
The court ordered Khorasani, Entesari, and Ardalan to serve six months in prison, but suspended the remaining two-and-half years of their sentences.

The same court sentenced two other womens rights advocates to prison terms on April 18. It sentenced Fariba Davoodi Mohajer to four years imprisonment, three of which are suspended, also for collusion and assembly to endanger the national security.

The court sentenced Sussan Tahmassebi to two years imprisonment, with one-and-a half years suspended, for acting against national security.

A week earlier, Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran sentenced Azadeh Forghani, also a womens rights activist, to a suspended sentence of two years for acting against national security by participating in an illegal gathering.

In all of these cases the judge can implement the suspended sentences if he determines that the defendants have broken any law during the next five years.



All six women supported the recently launched campaign,'Change for Equality', to collect 1 million signatures demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in the Iranian law.
The past year the Iranian government has substantially increased its persecution and prosecution of women's rights activists.
April 18, the Iranian minister of information, Gholamhussein Mohseni Ezhei, alleged that the enemies of the government are pursuing their plans through the women�s rights movement.




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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