Iran: confess

Three students out of eight student editors and activists arrested on Amir Kabir University, have spent the past 80 days in jail, the other five have been released.
Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghasaban, and Ehsan Mansuri are charged with inciting public opinion and insulting Iran's leaders.
Rights activists and student groups say the charges are "fabricated," and that the students were jailed in retaliation for a protest against Iranian President Ahmadinejad, who visited the university in December.
The families of the three detained students have addressed an open letter to the head of the country's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi, in which they describe ill treatment and torture that they say is aimed at coercing false confessions.
Not only they are under heavy psychological pressure, but they are tortured also.
The students have been deprived of food and sleep, beaten unconscious, and were forced into "insupportably tiresome" positions for long periods -- including being made to stand on one leg for 18 hours -- and authorities have used threats of murder against the students and their families.
The about 15 students who have been in jail since July 9 are facing similar pressure to confess.



In Iran authorities arrested a number of Iranians allegedly connected to two Iranian-Americans detained on charges of conspiring against the government.
The intelligence minister Gholam Hossein Ejehei, announced this.
He did not say how many people were arrested or give details on their alleged connections to Haleh Esfandiari and Kian Tajbakhsh.
Stateradio said that their names and reasons of detention will be announced later.


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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