Iran: suspended

Wednesday is in the city of Shiraz, Fars province, a man hanged in public.
The daily Etemaad wrote that the man, Nasrollah, 40, was accused of drug trafficking



The stoning of Makroumeh Ebrahimi and the father of her 11 year old illegitimate child was suspended in the last minute by written order of the Head of Judiciary in Tehran.
Worldwide protests were risen following the announcement of the stoning.
Already in 2002 judiciary head Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi issued a directive suspending the practice of stoning.

However, after this date at least two cases of practicing stoning are known.
At the moment there are at least seven other men and women who are sentenced to stoning for having committed adultery.
One of them, Kobra Najjar, who had been forced to prostitution by her husband, a drug addict, is also facing stoning to death after her appeal to the Judiciary Commission for Amnesty and Clemency was rejected for the third time last week.




Iranian State television reported Wednesday, that during armed clashes with drugstraffickers in Sistan-e-Baluchestan province, 26 drugssmugglers were arrested and 5 tons of narcotics has been confiscated.
The area is near the borders with Afghanistan and Pakistan and is a mayor drug route to Europe.



The deputy director of IRIB told Wednesday, that the in April announced English language broadcasts from PressTV worldwide will start July 2nd .
Press TV plans to present news every half hour, round-the-clock.
The network will mainly focus on developments in the Middle East and the United States and analysis of current events throughout the world.
Press TV currently has 26 professional correspondents, and there are plans to hire more reporters.

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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