Iran: feelings

Human Rights Watch called on Iran to immediate release of the eight students who were detained between May 3 and June 6 for allegedly defaming Islam in student publications.
In May various Islam defaming texts appeared in studentpublications and although the editors immediately denounced this act and stated that the editions were forgeries, they were arrested.
They are in solitary confinement in section 209 of Tehran's Evin Prison and have been denied any access to their families or lawyers.
The names are:
Ahmad Ghassaban editor of Sahar, member of the students association;
Pouyan Mahmoudian, editor of Rivar;
Majid Sheikhpour, editor of Sar Khat;
Majid Tavakoli, member-elect of the central committee of students association;
Ehsan Mansouri,
Abbas Hakim, and
Ali Saberi, former members of the central committee of students association.


An high-level Iranian cleric said Friday that the religious edict calling for the killing of Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and he warned Britain was defying the Islamic world by granting the author knighthood.
During a sermon at Tehran University, aired live on state radio, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami reminded worshippers of the 1989 fatwa.He did not directly call for the fatwa to be carried out.
In 1989,the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued the fatwa over Rushdie because his book 'The Satanic Verses'.
In 1998 the Iranian government declared that it would not support the fatwa but that it could not be rescinded.


Hundreds of followers of the Prophet Zoroaster are meeting in the cave of Chik Chik to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the Islamic invasion of Iran.
Zoroastrians commemorate every year the anniversary, which marks the end of their faith as the predominant religion in the country.
Only 50,000 Zoroastrians have remained today in Iran out of the half a million who practised the religion before the 1979 Islamic revolution


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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