Iran: "harde maatregelen" = crackdown translated in Dutch

The journalist Yussef Azizi Bani-Torof will stand on trial Monday 27 August for "threatening national security" on charges relating to his reports on the indigenous Ahwazi Arab uprising more than two years ago.
Bani-Toorof was arrested in April 2005 and released in June 2005 with a $22,000 bail.
In August 2006, he was arrested after giving a lecture at a journalists' conference and his bail was raised to $ 90,000.


More than 650 Iran-based human rights activists and intellectuals have issued an open letter to condemn what they describe as increasing pressure on students, journalists, and workers.
The statement claims that an increasing number of students and political activists is facing "false" accusations of disrupting public order, insulting sacred values, or involvement in what officials have called a "creeping coup."
The letter's signatories are calling on Iran's leaders to prevent further arrests and to release those who have been detained in recent months.


Tehran police have closed two dozen barber shops and hairdressers in a fortnight in the latest phase of a '"morals" crackdown, after being identified as purveyors of decadent "western" culture.
Eleven women's hair-stylists were told to stop trading for offering customers' tattoos.This is popular amongst many young Iranian women.
13 barbers were closed for giving customers excessively eye-catching haircuts and plucking men's eyebrows.
Since last May the crackdown on islamic dresscodes, behaviour and public safety started, thousands of people are warned or arrested, and at least 30 people were executed.



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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