Iran: health

Although a World Health Organisation (WHO) official last week said that 10 cases of cholera had been confirmed in Iran, an official of the Iranian Health Ministry said Saturday that the total number of confirmed cholera cases has reached 43.
Most cases are located in Kurdistan province.
ISNA reported that those affected had been commuting across the border with Iraq.
Except people fleeing from Iraq, also a lot of pilgrims travel to Iraq.


IRNA reported that Iran will reopen its five bordercrossings with Kurdish-run northern Iraq. September 24 those were closed after the arrest of an Iranian by US military.
Mohammad Jafari, a senior security official said the decision to reopen was taken following a two-day meeting between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdish officials.



Mohammad Hassan Fallahyia, Ahwazi Arab journalist, who since November 2006 is detained in Evinprison and April 2007 was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.
Among other things he asks attention for the position of minority groups in Iran.
Amnesty International called in May for an urgent action for him and has concern for his medical condition.
He suffers from sickle cell anaemia and has heart problems.


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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