Iran: necessary need?

The Iranian police have arrested more than 1,000 "thugs" in a new morality crackdown.
This doings led to widespread criticism especially about the handling of arrestants.
In some cases the perpetrator was paraded through the streets, and pictures by Fars newsagency and several dailies showed a man, barefoot and stripped to the waist, with two plastic watering cans used for lavatory ablutions round his neck, being grabbed by a police officer.
Sarmayeh, a reformist economic daily, said in its headline that "putting a watering can around the neck of criminals has no legal justification."
Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a human rights lawyer,told the press that according to the constitution, no authority has the right to take away people's legal freedoms.


The construction of a ventilation system for the metro and the establishment of a station in Tehran threatens a schoolbuilding from 1936, Anoushirvan High School, which was registered on the national heritage list in 2002.
The ventilationsystem will be located in the yard of the school and for installing the system over an area of 18 meters long and three meters wide, the school wall should be demolished.
Experts believe that the project will damage the foundation and the main façade of the structure.

Female members of the moderate Hezbeh Mosharekat Eslami (the Party of Islamic Cooperation) founded by the brother of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami have abandoned the party and plan to found a new party.
The women, including member of the direction of Mosharekat, Fatemeh Rakei, have announced the upcoming constitution of the new party to be called 'Society of Islamic women of the new vision'.
They say to have abandoned Khatami's party for being sexist.


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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