Iran: sum up

Shirin Ebadi said that criminals are treated better than political prisoners. The fact bail for an accused rapist was set 50 times lower than for a detained reporter reflected political interference in the judiciary.
Parnaz Azima a journalist of Radio Free Europe/Radio Farda is released, but is not allowed to leave the country.
In a letter to the head of the judiciary, Ayatollah Hashemi Shahroudi, Ms Ebadi complained that a confessed rapist had been treated more leniently than Ms Azima, who has been accused of producing propaganda against the Islamic state.
Bail was set for the Radio Free Europe journalist at $500,000 50 times that of a rapist, and she had her passport confiscated.

She still has not been able to see her other client.the Iranian-American Haleh Esfandiari.




Also Mehrnoushe Solouki is still being hold in Iran for unknown reasons.
She wasreleased after payment of 80,000 euros in bail, and her French passport was returned to her after the French embassy intervened.
But the Iranian authorities are still holding on to all her notes and a portable hard drive.
Of course, the online petition can still be signed.



In Iran is a crackdown on dissent under way. Not only 4 American-Iranians are detained on charges of espionage, also students, teachers, woman's rightactivists, unionmembers, workers, human rights activists, members of ethnic or religious minorities and others are harassed or persecuted.
Also books which have been on the permitlist for years are forbidden.
Newspapers have a list of banned topics, including the rise in gasoline prices or other economic woes like possible new international sanctions, negotiations with the United States over the future of Iraq, civil society movements and the Iranian-American arrests.
At least 3 prominent NGO's on broader legal rights or civil society have been shuttered outright and hundreds of others have been forced underground.
Professors have been warned attending overseas conferences or having any contact with foreign governments.


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