Thursday, May 17, 2007

Iran: pros and contras

Wednesday are in the cities of Bandar Abbas and Bandar Khamir two men named Abdolrahman and Parviz beheaded.
According to the daily Tehran Emrouz are wednesday in Evinprison three men named Mohammad Safar, Alireza and Behzad hanged.
May 7 is in Bandar Abbasprison a woman named Zahra Nazari hanged.




The Iranian Minister of Education Mahmoud Farshidi survived an impeachment motion by parliament.
Of the 238 votes cast, 132 MPs voted against impeachment, 89 voted to impeach, and 17 abstained.
In April, several members of parliament asked for his stepping down due to his poor performance.




Students of Amir Kabir University demonstrated for the release of their co-demonstrators.
These were arrested last month during demonstrations to end the government-sponsored crackdown on student rights activists.
A New York based "Committee to Protect Journalists" condemned the arrest of four studenteditors.
The arrests earlier this month followed the publication of newsletters carrying articles deemed insulting to Islam.
The editors say they have no involvement in the publications.



Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and two other lawyers from her Human Rights Defenders Center in Tehran will defend Haleh Esfandiari .
The also arrested Parnaz Azima has been released on bail
after appearing in Tehran's Revolutionary Court.
Her case will be resumed in court May 20.



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

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