Iran: judiciary

According to Fars Newsagency the 4 men who were executed yesterday were named: Mohammad Ghassemi, Alireza Barahoui, Gazav Mahmoud Zehi, and Abdolrasoul Ghorbanzadeh.


A top officer in the judiciary said that Kian Tajbakhsh soon will be released on bail.
Tehran's deputy chief prosecutor in charge of security crimes, Hassan Hadad, said that as soon the ongoing investigations are completed, Mr. Tajbaksh will be released on bail.
He did not give any information over when the bail order could be given.



The Iranian Minister of Justice Gholamhossein Elham said in a speech that the government's drive against economic corruption will not bear any fruit without the judiciary's assistance.
He said so Tuesday in Khuzestan. Furthermore he said that unfortunately Khuzestan did not make as much progress as it should have after the Iran-Iraq War.



According to a statement of the Ahwaz Human Rights Organization (AHRO) the trial of Mr. Yusef Azizi Bani Torof on Tuesday 28/08/2007 in the Revolutionary Court branch 15 of Tehran, was delayed.
The reason is the fact that the court did not invite Mr. Saleh Nikbakhat who is the lawyer of Mr. Yusef Azizi Bani Torof since the year 2005.
Also the court did not ask for the two other lawyers of Mr. Torof, Mr. Abdul Fattah Sultani and Mrs. Mahnaz Parakand.



UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has Monday met in Tehran with several human rights activists, including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi.
Ebadi told Radio Farda that police used force to prevent the families of some political prisoners gathered in front of the UN office from meeting with Arbour.
They had brought letters in which they described the conditions in which their relatives are being held.
Shirin Ebadi told that she informed Mrs.Arbour about the names of the people and handed the letters to her.
Arbour has traveled to Iran to attend a Non-Aligned Movement conference on human rights and cultural diversity.


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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