Iran: legal

Amnesty International asks for urgent action for Makwan Moloudzadeh,21 years, who is sentenced to death for lavat-e iqabi (anal sex) with a 13-year-old boy when he himself was 13.
Under Iranian law, children (boys of up to 14.7 years) are to be flogged for lavat ("homosexual acts"). The judge decided there was penetration and sentenced him to death.
His death sentence has been passed to the Office for the Implementation of Sentences and he is due to be executed in public, near his home.
He was arrested October 2006 in Paveh and sentenced to death in July 2007.


IRNA reported that Iranian police killed seven drugssmugglers in Khorassan Razavi near the Afghan border. They also captured seven men and seized 132kg of opium.
Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan agreed in June to launch a joint crackdown on drug trafficking.





Prominent reformist cleric Hadi Ghabel was released against bail from $54,000 from jail in Qom today, after being imprisoned for more than a month on security-related charges.
There have been several sessions of his trial for the Special Court for the Clergy , they took place behind closed doors, and he was not given access to a lawyer.




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