Iran: system

In the city of Gorgan, Golestan province,a man, named Abolfazl Shahrabadi publicly hanged.
IRNA reported he was sentenced to death for killing two inmates.


A court in Sanandaj, Kurdestan province, sentenced two reporters for attending illegal rallies in 2005 in front of the governor’s office.
ISNA reported that Jalal Ghavami for three years and Saeed Saedi to two and a half years in prison were convicted.
The verdict said they had been ‘acting against the system and national security by participating in illegal gatherings'.
Ghavami was also sentenced for ‘insulting’ officials.
Last month, the court in Sanandaj sentenced a woman activist to six years in jail for attending the same two banned protests.
The lawyer of the reporters said his clients only went to the demonstrations to report on them.


Iranian researchers developed a drug against digestive cancer. The drug is called Spinal-Z and is made from herbs and succesfully tested on 700 patients.
PressTV writes that although digestive system cancers are mostly preventable or curable, they remain the most common cancers worldwide. Each year there are three million new cases and two million people die.
The drug has been approved for sale by Iran's Research Center for Digestive Diseases and is to be mass produced for Iranian and global markets in about two months.

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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