Iran: to halt

At the UN General Assembly (UNGA) 62nd session in October 2007, a resolution calling for a global moratorium on executions will be introduced as a step towards the abolition of the death penalty.
Amnesty International is mobilising support for the resolution, along with the World Coalition against the Death Penalty (WCADP) and other non-governmental organizations.
The WCADP is running a global petition, based on the 2000 UN petition, that petition has gathered 5 million signatures so far.
The petition can be signed here
The annual World Day against the Death Penalty is held on 10 October; the slogan this year is "Stop the Death Penalty: the World Decides".


NCRi reports that the strike of workers in Haft Tapeh (Saba atlal) Sugar Cane Company sugarfactory in Shoush, Khuzestan province, is ended on October 4 by the State Security Forces (SSF) special units.
They wounded more than ten protesters and a number of participants have been arrested.




IRNA reported that 17 people were killed and 21 injured when a truck <collided with a bus.
The accident happened on a road leading to the village of Ab-Ali
50 kilometres northeast of Tehran.
The truck veered out of its lane due to driver fatigue


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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