Iran: law and culture

In the city of Sahneh, Kermanshah province are two men hanged in public.
The men, Saeed Moradi and Hamid Fallahi are, according to ISNA, accused of armed robbery and murder.



The execution of Makvan Mouloodzadeh,who was sentenced to death for multiple counts of anal rape (ighab), allegedly committed when he was 13 years old, is halted by the Iranian Head of Justice, Ayatollah Seyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi.
The reasons are: the death sentence is in violation of Islamic teachings, the religious decrees of high-ranking Shiite clerics, and the law of the land.



The former Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian has been charged with passing classified information to foreigners, including the British Embassy.
Mousavian was briefly detained in May, again on suspicion of espionage.
The date of his trial is still unknown.



From November 23 till November 25 is the Iran Art Festival to be held in Den Haag.
All information on this website.
Three films by Iranian director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad will be screened.
Also art from designer Reza Abedini, painter Mehdi Hosseini and photographer Kurosh Adim will be shown. There will be lectures on Iranian art.
The festival is being held to introduce Iranian culture and contemporary art to Europeans.



Iran has banned the latest novel by writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "My Melancholy Whores".
Newsagency Fars reported that the initial publication of "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" was a bureaucratic error.
The first edition of around 5,000 copies, which hit bookshops three weeks ago, has already sold out.
The culture ministry refused to issue a permit for the reprinting of the book,and the official responsible for originally authorising the book's publication has been sacked.


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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