Iran: explanation

Dozens of Sufis got wounded or arrested Saturday, when the police and special forces stormed a Sufi- house after a clash between Sufis and members of a nearby Shiite mosque. This all happened in Boroujerd, Lorestan province.
Reports from the event differ.
A local journalist said that the violence began Saturday morning when Sufis attacked a nearby mosque, injuring several Shiite Muslim clerics who had previously urged their followers to shut down the Sufi temple because it was "illegitimate."
According to the town governor were some 80 people injured and a part of the Sufis' temple was destroyed during the clashes.180 Sufi members were arrested.
The independent news website Advarnews said some 100 Sufis were injured and another 500 arrested after an unidentified group captured the lodge and setting fire to it.
Although Sufism as part of the Islamic religion is tolerated in Iran, Sufis have had increasingly uneasy relations with Iran's clerical regime in recent years.


The lawyer of Delaram Ali says the country's judiciary has temporarily suspended her sentence for two weeks.
This is because the judiciary decided whether to review the case.
The lawyer hopes that in the next two weeks during which the implementation has been postponed, there will be a reconsideration and she will be found not guilty



In a interview on the site we-change has Ayatollah Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi,the General Secretary of the Organization of Researchers and Scholars of Qom Seminary claimed that the women's protest on 12th of June, 2006 was legal and according to the law.
Also he said that discriminatory laws against women can be reformed, and he has condemned the sentence issued in the case of Delaram Ali.
Furthermore he claimed that the charge of "actions against national security" is a political strategy intended to discredit people. Governments cannot charge citizens with this crime for the simple act of political and social activism.
The original interview in Farsi is here.


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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