Iran: statements

The newspaper Etemad Melli reported that April 23 a man is hanged for a murder he committed when he was 16.
The newspaper identified him only as Mohammad and said he was 20 at the time of his execution.


The Iranian government distanced itself on Friday from comments made last week by interior minister Mustafa Pour Mohammadi about temporary marriages.
Government spokesman Gholam Hussein Elham said to IRNA that the recent remarks made by the interior minister are not the government's view and that it was said in his capacity as a cleric.
Last week Pour Mohammadi was quoted as saying that the practice of temporary marriage, known as sigheh in Farsi, was a correct way to respond to young people's sexual needs within the framework of an Islamic society.


Iran has told the United States that it has no information of the missing American Robert Levinson. The State Department deputy spokesman told this Friday.
He said that they are going to continue to be pursuing this, but unfortunately the Iranian government's response to this has again been to simply and is not very credible.
Levinson disappered on Kish island on March 8.

Amnesty International asks urgent action for Khaled Hardani, Shahram Pourmansouri and Farhang Pourmansouri, sentenced to death for hijacking an airplane in 2001.
All three were sentenced to death as minors.
The execution of Hardani is scheduled for July 4. Regarding the Pourmansouri brothers Amnesty has no new information. .



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