Friday, June 01, 2007

Iran: troublemakers

In a joint statement Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the International Federation for Human Rights, Reporters Without Borders and Nobelprize winner Shirin Ebadi urge Iran to immediately release of the arrested Iranian-Americans and ending the harrassment of dual nationals.
Kian Tajbakhsh and Haleh Esfandiari are detained inside Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
Ali Shakeri is probably arrested too, but his whereabouts are unknown.
The government has confiscated the passports of Parnaz Azima and Mehrnoush Solouki preventing them from leaving te country.

About Robert Levinson the American who went missing early in March while on a visit to the Iranian island of Kish is nothing known yet. USA thinks he is also arrested.
Iran has denied this.






Thursday, USA gave a travel warning to US citizens against travel to Iran, citing hostility against Americans.
‘Some elements of the Iranian regime and the population remain hostile to the United States, American citizens may be subject to harassment or arrest while traveling or residing in Iran,’ the department said in a statement.




In Qazvin province Iranian State Security Forces (SSF) have arrested 32 “trouble-makers” .
Newsagency Fars reported that they have been arrested as part of the nationwide “National Security Plan”, a part of the nationwide crackdown primarily targeting youths and women under the guise of combating “trouble-makers” and “mal-veilers”.


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

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