Iran: uncertainty

The wife of Robert Levinson, the American who vanished on Kish Island last March, is planning to visit Iran herself to search for him.
The Iranian government has denied any knowledge of the missing man. The details of Robert Levinson's trip to Kish remain vague. Levinson met with Dawud Salahuddin, an American fugitive living in Iran who is wanted for the assassination of a former Iranian diplomat in Maryland in 1980.
Salahuddin says he was arrested by the police after visiting Levinson and that Levinson had disappeared when he(Salahuddin) was released.



Human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari.told Adnkronos International (AKI) in a telephone conversation that as for executing people, the situation could become even worse.
Several thousand people have been arrested over the past three months, all charged with the vaguely defined crime of 'hooliganism', or described as 'socially dangerous elements'.
All these people risk the gallows after a summary trial in which they won't be allowed to use a lawyer to defend them.
The term 'hooliganism' has been used to describe offences ranging from drinking alcohol, to extortion, sexual harassment and abuse. People accused of engaging in homosexual acts have also been charged with 'hooliganism'.
The relatives of these young people, sentenced to death for such unclearly specified crimes, are only informed once their son, daughter or relative has been hanged.
She also told that many of the young people arrested in over the last three months are being held in the Kharizak detention centre situated on the outskirts of the capital.


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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