Iran: goal

In the city of Birjend, Khorassan Jonoubi province are 5 men hanged.
Newsagency Mehr said that they were charged with drugs smuggling.




The kidnappers of the Japanese student Satoshi Nakamura have moved him out of the country, probably to Pakistan.
Government spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham said he was in good health, and that Japan now had to contact with Iran's neighboring countries to resolve the case.




Iran's police are to keep up their moral crackdown through the winter months.
Ahmad Roozbehani, the head of the moral security police, said that his forces would be targeting "inappropriate" behaviour by couples in public, be they married or not.
He did not give further details on the kind of behaviour, but any kind of intimate cuddling between couples in public, let alone kissing, is a social taboo in Iran.
The police would continue to focus on clothing and make-up.
The police chief said also that ski resorts in Iran -- which are often the scene of liberal behaviour and loose dress reviled by conservatives -- would also be targeted.


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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