Iran: stones

For the first time in five years Iranian authorities confirmed a man has been stoned to death.
Some weeks ago Jafar Kiani was stoned to death in Aghche Kand, Qazvin province, convicted for adultery.
On June 20 the stoning sentence of him and his partner Mokarameh Ebrahimi, was postponed because of great international pressure.
It is not known when or if the stoning of the woman has taken place.
Amnesty International has started an urgent action for the woman.
The couple has spent the last 11 years in prison and has two children.
The judiciary spokesman Alireza Jamshidi
said the verrdict was implemented because it was "definitive."
In 2002 the head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi, declared a moratorium on stonings.


Newsagency Fars reported that the judicial spokesman Alireza Jamshidi said that new evidence is uncovered against Haleh Esfandyari and Kian Tajbakhsh who are accused of spying.

Therefore the Iranian intelligence department has started new investigations.
This means that the release of the two Americans is still far away.


Today an earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted Ardebil province.
The quake was felt in several provincial cities including Ardebil, Nayyer, Namin, Parsabad, Bileh-Savar, Khalkhal and Meshkin-Shahr and caused panic among residents.
There are up till now no reports of material or personal damage.

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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