Thursday, August 30, 2007

Iran: expell

The BahaĆ­ organization has published a copy of a letter, sent in 2006, which instructs administrators of Iranian universities to expel Baha'i students.
letter (persian, pdf) of Ministry.
letter (english,pdf) of Ministry.
According to The Baha'i International Community (BIC) the letter was sent to 81 universities.


Sunday is the journalist Farshad Gorbanpour released from Evinprison in Tehran, after paying bail of $54,000.
July 31 he was arrested for publishing "lies" about the ruling system in the Islamic Republic.
The also arrested journalist Masoud Bastani had already been released .


Reporters without Borders joins the families and lawyers of imprisoned Kurdish-Iranian journalists Adnan Hassanpour and Abdolvahed “Hiva” Botimar in urging them to call off their hungerstrike.
They have passed the 47th day of their hunger strike and their condition is very worrying.
The journalists began the hunger strike in July to press their demands for improved conditions of detention and the right to see their family and lawyers.


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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