Iran: refusals

June 7, USA urged in a pressrelease Iranian authorities to release immediately the Americans in their custody, as well as return the passports.
They additionally call on Tehran to cooperate in the case of American citizen Robert Levinson, who has been missing in Iran since March 8.



The journalist Ali Farahbakhsh, who is serving a three years prisonsentence in Evinprison, Tehran is severely ill and is being refused proper treatment by the prison authorities.
According to his family he suffers from digestive problems but now, because of the water he is drinking in prison, he has kidney problems as well.
The prison authorities have been refusing to give him his medicine since the start of May


On March 14, 2008, the first automated election in Iran will be held.
The parliamentary elections, to choose the eighth parliament since the Islamic Revolution will be held just a few days before the Iranian New Year holidays that begin on March 19-20 and continue for several weeks.
It is a time when the majority of Iranians stop working, with many traveling to visit friends and relatives.
Politicians are concerned that holding elections at that time would affect public participation and it might affect the ability of candidates to complain about possible discrepancies.
Moreover, a good part of Iran's state bureaucracy and media winds down for the holidays at that time.


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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