Thursday, September 20, 2007

Iran: assumability

Yesterday Iran released the American Kian Tajbakhsh,. He was detained since May on security-related charges.
Earlier this month was Haleh Esfandiari who was detained on the same accusations, released and returned to America.
Past Monday, the reporter Parnaz Azima was finally allowed to leave Iran and returned to America. She was stuck in Iran since February.
Kian Tajbakhsh had been detained for more than 130 days and had been held in solitary confinement.
There is still one American, Ali Shakeri, detained at this moment in Iran.
Also there is still no sign of missing Robert Levinson.He got missing on Kish Island.


City officials in New York have denied Iranian President Ahmadinejad's request to visit the site of the destroyed World Trade Center and lay a wreath next week.
CNN reported that the request is denied because workers are rebuilding the foundations of the site, and admittance is impossible. Also there are security risks.


Human Rights Watch urged that Iran should immediately end practices aimed at barring Bahaí students from attending universities.
Some 800 Bahaí students are prevented from obtaining their educational records and completing the university admission process. The test is a national matriculation exam required for admission to Iran's universities.
The deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch says that this week, as universities begin the new academic year, hundreds of Iranian students will be absent from campuses because of religious discrimination.
The 2007 National Entrance Examinations were administered on June 28-30, and the National Education Measurement and Evaluation Organization made the first results available on their site on July 31. Some 800 students of the Bahaí faith logged on to the website, they received an error message informing them that their files were incomplete.
Three of them told Human Rights Watch that authorities at the National Education Measurement and Evaluation Organization did not respond to numerous phone calls and letters requesting clarification about why their test results were inaccessible.
Two other students who inquired in person in Tehran told Human Rights Watch that officials said explicitly that they had been targeted because they were Bahais.


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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