Iran: reason(s)

Journalist Kaveh Javanmard, of the weekly Karfto was jailed for two years by a court in Sanandej (Iranian Kurdistan) on 17 May and will serve his sentence at a prison in the northern town of Maragheh, more than 300 km from his family home.
He was tried in secret and was not allowed to have a lawyer.


The weekly Ayaran was shut down May 21 by court officials in the southeastern province of Sistan-o-Baluchistan and will be prosecuted for printing statements by Sunni leaders that were “inaccurate” and “likely to inflame the public” and “spread separatist ideas".




The French-Iranian journalism student Mehrnoushe Solouki is banned from leaving the country.
February 17 she was arrested in Tehran and brought to Evinprison for filming the families of the victims of violence in the 1980s in the aftermath of the war between Iran and Iraq.
Her films and notes were confiscated and after paying €80,000 bail, she was released March 19.
But her passport was retained.


Students of Amir Kabir university in Tehran announced that they will hold a rally on campus on Monday calling on authorities to release seven of their arrested fellow pupils.





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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