Iran: spreading

According to his wife the writer Yaghub Yidali is jailed for some 40 days in the city of Yasuj, Kohkiluyeh and Buyer Ahmad province.
He has been charged with spreading lies in connection with two of his books that were published several years ago with the approval of Iran's Culture Ministry.
Emad Baghi from Iranian human rights group Society Defending The Rights Of Prisoners, says that Yadali has been charged with insulting one of Iran's minority groups in the two books.
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The Guardian of April 18 has published an article by Peter Tatchel titled "A progressive perspective" about the speech (pdf), made March 20 by Sheik Mohammed Kazem al-Khaqani at the House of Commons.



Preparations for flooding of the Sivand dam have started which will cause in the near future the inundation of more then 130 historical and archeological sites in Bolaghi Gorge.
The closing of the discharge tunnel of Sivand Dam has been started. This way the reservoir of Sivand Dam will be filled with water.
From various sites are protests made against the flooding.
Archeologists from different countries tried to save as much as they could from the historical places.
Also Pasargadae, an ancient capital built by Cyrus the Great sometime after 550BC that holds his tomb and Persepolis with a grand double stairway rising to a wide, terraced audience hall with 72 columns are in danger of being damaged by the increased humidity.


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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