Iran: freedom of expression

Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations, called upon the Head of Iran's Judiciary, Ayatollah Shahrudi to suspend the sentence for human rights activist Delaram Ali.
November 4, Branch 36 of the Appeals Court in Tehran sentenced her to two-and-a-half years in prison and a flogging.
It is not clear whether her sentence still includes lashing.
She has been ordered to begin her sentence on Saturday.
In the past month, the authorities have arrested at least two other women's rights campaigners
On September 25, Ronak Safazadeh,and on October 23, Hana Abdi who both were arrested in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province.
These women are also active with the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality.


Thursday is Ali Nikunesbati, spokesman for the Office for Strengthening Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat) arrested in his fathers house.
Officials did not inform the family why Nikunesbati was arrested or where he was being held.
He is the sixth student activist who was arrested in the past 10 days in Tehran.
Before, another student leader, Ali Azizi was detained on November 4.
Both students have been vocal critics of the government's crackdown on peaceful student activists.
October 16, security forces in the city of Ahwaz arrested five studentjournalists and activists on the campus of Chamran University Roozbeh Karimi, Javad Tavalli, Javad Alikhan, Mehdi Mansouri, and Raee Nikzad.
The deputy of the Prosecutor's Office of the General and Revolutionary Courts in the city of Ahwaz,claimed that the government carried out the arrests to preempt the students from distributing fliers that insulted Islamic sanctities. Article 513 of the Islamic Penal Codes of Iran criminalizes insults to any of the Islamic sanctities.


Human Rights Watch called on the Iranian government to amend or abolish provisions that impose criminal penalties for the free expression of ideas, such as Article 513 and 514 of the Islamic Penal Codes, as well as vague security laws that unduly restrict the right to peaceful association and assembly, such as Articles 500, 610 and 618.


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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