Iran: tuck away

Human Rights Watch has called for the immediate release of six Ahwazi Arab refugees in Syria or "disclose a credible legal basis for detaining them".
There is great concern that the men will be forcibly returned to Iran, where they are at risk of persecution. One of the men has already been sentenced to death in absentia.
Their names are:
Afnan Azizi, 20, a civil engineering student in Damascus
Ahmad Asadi, 28, a student of Arabic literature at the University of Damascus
Ali Bouazar, 24, who fled to Syria after he was sentenced to death, he has been living in Syria since the end of December
Jaber Ebayat, 19, a sociology student at the University of Damascus
Kamal Naseri, 27, who had been living in Syria for eight months at the time of his arrest
Salahuddin Helali Majd, 23, a science student at the University of Damascus

Reports say that Ali Bouazar and Kamal Naseri already have been transferred to Iran.


Ali Farahbakhsh, the journalist who was arrested in November, accused of espionage, on returning from Bangkok to Tehran, is convicted March 26 to 3 years of prison and a huge fine.
During a Kafka treatment: article Inter Press News Agency (IPS) he finally was accused of taking 2,300dollar from "foreigners". This was, due to a typo, noted as 23,000dollar.
He was sentenced to pay 3 times this amount as a fine, meaning he is supposed to come up with 69,000 dollars, even though the judge had admitted that the number was a typo.
Dr. Hadi Ghaemi, a Middle East and North Africa expert at Human Rights Watch, told IPS that the persecution of Ali Farahbakhsh is just another example of the Iranian government's determination to isolate Iranian journalists and activists.


Reporters without Borders reports that nothing is heard since March 10 from two journalists.
Mansur Teyfuri of the weekly Ashiti, who was arrested in the Marivan region near the border with Iraq.
Mohamad Bagher Abassi Samali, the editor of the weekly Salam Jonob (Hello South), who was arrested in Bushehr after saying “even the Prophet of Islam could make mistakes.”
Several demonstrations have been staged outside his newspaper, which has been closed down since his arrest.


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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