Iran: August 5 - 14mordad

Global Voices Online reports that today, August 5, is the day Iranian bloggers express their support for the jailed students.
More then 350 bloggers rename their blogtitle today in August 5 - 14mordad.
Kamangir writes that Akbar Ganji, the journalist and activist published an open letter(farsi) to Iranians asking for their help to release the imprisoned Iranian students.
He reminds everyone of the years he spent in jail and the crimes the Islamic Republic has committed under the name of holiness.
He writes that “women rights’ groups and labor syndicates receive support from abroad because there are related organizations everywhere. Students, on the other hand, do not have a counterpart in the West and are more vulnerable.
Hamidcity(farsi) published photo's of imprisoned students and aktivists.


The Iranian police arrested more than 200 people in Karaj last Wednesday in a raid on a underground rock concert.
The daily Tehran-e Emrouz says that according to prosecutor Ali Farhadi, invitations had been sent out via the Internet and that people from Britain and Sweden were among those held.
150 bottles of alcoholic drinks, 800 "obscene" CDs and different kinds of drugs had been confiscated by police, as well as "inappropriate" dresses that those behind the event were giving to female guests as gifts.
He also said that 20 video cameras had been seized and that the organizers had planned to blackmail girls after filming "inappropriate and obscene" videos of them.

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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