Iran: promote

For the second time is reformist newspaper Shargh shutdown.
Shargh was ordered to shut after running an interview with an anti-regime poet last Saturday. The poet, Saghi Qahraman, has been accused by the country's Islamic rulers of promoting homosexuality.
The newspaper unsuccessfully attempted to placate official anger by publishing a front-page apology today after withdrawing the article from its website.


The L.G.B.T. (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community has started an online petition asking for legitimate equal rights.
After two months the petition will be given to the United Nations.

You can sign HERE .


Chief Commander of Basij Brigadier Mohammad Hejazi said Basij forces will control the hooligans released from jail.
the police asked Basij to help them supervise hooligans who were released after their arrest.
According to Fars he said that accuracy, rapidity and diligence were the three successful keys in the social security plan. Basij forces also helped police identify hooligans and their hideouts.
They also have made proposals to the police forces to better control the hooligans.
More than 600 offenders have been confronted by the judicial police since the start of the plan. Also, 2,000 stores were closed down for violating regulations.


In one week 3 journalists have been arrested in Iran.
The journalist Soheil Asefi was arrested when he presented himself to a Tehran court on 4 August in response to a summons.
Neither his family nor his lawyers know where he is being held or what he is charged with.
Masoud Bastani en Farshad Gorbanpour, two journalists working the news website Roozonline and pro-reform newspapers,were arrested July 31.
Bastani was released after a few hours whil Gorbanpour is transferred to security section 209 in Tehran’s Evin prison.
Neither was officially charged.


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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