Iran: accusations

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that it had arrested three individuals involved in a string of bombings more than a year ago in the city of Ahwaz.
The men are accused of having links to "foreigners". The Iranian government claims to have confiscated three pistols, two Kalashnikov rifles and some 2,000 rounds of ammunition.
The Iranian newsagency Rajanews wrote in a article (Farsi) that the British secret intelligence service had set up the British Ahwazi Friendship Society (BAFS) to instigate ethnic unrest in Ahwaz, in collaboration with Wahhabist (Sunni fundamentalist) groups.
The BAFS denies this accusations.


The three imprisoned students from Amir Kabir university,
Ehsan Mansouri, Ahmad Ghassaban and Majid Tavakkoli are sentenced to terms from three, a two-and-a-half, and two year prison.
Their lawyer Mohammed Ali Dadkah said that they are convicted for "insulting Islamic sanctities and its authorities". All three students belong to the Office for Fostering Unity — Iran's biggest reformist student organization.
They were arrested this spring after the appearance of an article, insulting to Islam in a studentnewsletter.
They all three always denied having anything to do with this.
The students will have 20 days to appeal the sentences.


In the city of Hamedan has a young woman hanged herself while being in police custody.
The daily Etemad wrote that the woman, named Zahra, apparently committed suicide on Saturday while in the city’s police detention centre for those accused of moral crimes.
A judicial spokesman said that the young woman was committing an offence in one of Hamedan’s parks and was arrested by police.
The father said that they told only that she was apparently with a young man, an employee of state television, who is still in detention.
Zahra’s family have asked for an investigation into her death.

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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