Iran: criticising

In Fars province, two men, were sentenced to death by being thrown of a cliff.This was reported by the daily Iran.
The men were identified only by their first names Tayyeb and Yazdan. They were accused of rape.



Human Rights Watch reported the disappearance of another US citizen believed to have been detained during a visit to Iran.
Ali Shakeri is a businessman from Irvine, California, who has not been heard from since he left for the airport.
Hadi Ghaemi, Iran analyst for Human Rights Watch, says that Mr Shakeri probably is arrested.
According to friends Shakeri made one call from Tehran to his family to say he had been detained.
Familymembers went to the airport and were told his luggage had been pulled from the plane's cargo and his ticket had been cancelled.
According to Ghaemi, they haven't seen this kind of kidnapping for a decade , if so, they have taken many steps backwards."



Amnesty International has called an urgent action for release of Mohammad Hassan Fallahiya, a journalist, who is sentenced to three years of imprisonment for criticising the Iranian government.
Since November 2006 he is in jail in Evinprison.He suffers from sickle cell anaemia,and has a heartcondition. He is reportedly being denied medical treatment.





On the blog Inside Iran is a log with photographs about police brutalities during the 'bad hijab' action in Tehran. Ordinary people, walking in an ordinary street.
The photos have been made by an anonymous photographer.





















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