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Seven-year-old Amir-Hossein Kazemi of Tehran was awarded the Merit Certificate prize at the United Nations International Children’s Art Competition.
Children from around the world created paintings depicting various aspects of poverty and proposing ways to eradicate it.
The 50 best artworks will be displayed at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in a special exhibition commemorating the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17, 2007.
The text of the drawing is:
"Here is a big farming village. The villagers are trying hard to improve their life and welfare. It is green and fresh everywhere and poverty cannot reach them here.".

IRNA reports that drug-related crime is the main cause of jail sentences in Iran, and most prisoners continue receiving drugs through smuggled supplies once inside.
According to prisons organisation chief Ali Akbar Yasaghi nearly half, 47%, of all male prisoners in the country are being held for drug-related crimes.
Based on the existing statistics, about 50% of the prisoners have a history of addiction.
Due to the latest available figures from August the total number of prisoners in the country is 158,351,
The world's average rate is 144 prisoners per 100,000 people, in Iran its 225 per 100,000 people.
As for women, crimes related to moral issues account for 15.14% of the cases, second to drugs," which scores 61%.
Irans prison system consists of 130 run-down jails, while 41 new prisons are currently under construction. "Using substitute punishments and reduction of the prisons population is one of the main plans of the judiciary system of the Islamic republic," Yasaghi said.
He also invited international judicial officials and institutions to visit the country's prisons.


More than 100 students scuffled with police and hardline supporters of president Ahmadinejad on Monday on Tehran University campus and chanted "Death to the dictator" , "Revolutionary president, we support you," the hardline students shouted back.
Inside Ahmadinejad held a speech for the opening of the current academic year.Statelevision, broadcasting the event, made no mention of disturbances outside.
Police, dressed up in riotgear, gathered outside campus. Students, trying to leave campus were briefly hold up by them.


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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