Iran: to write about, or not

An appeal court in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, reduced journalist Ako Kurdnasab’s sentence from three years to six months. The conviction on a spying charge was overturned, but the court upheld his conviction for “trying to overthrow the government by means of journalistic activities.”.
The journalist is detained since July 21 and has not been allowed any visits since his arrest.
Another Kurdish journalist Ejlal Ghavami of a weekly closed since 2004, Payam-e Mardom-e Kurdestan, is been held since 9 July, and sentenced to three years in prison for “inciting the population to revolt” and “activities against national security.”,
Meanwhile more than 160 Iranian journalists have signed a statement calling for the release of journalist Emadeddin Baghi,who was arrested October 14.
The signatories are to participate in a demonstration for his release, tomorrow in Tehran that has been organised by his family and friends.



Etemad newspaper reported Thursday that students have staged gatherings at six universities across the country this week against rising pressure from the authorities.
Students at provincial universities in Ahwaz, Isfahan, Shahroud and Sistan-Baluchestan staged demonstrations to criticise the climate prevailing in their academic institutions.
About 100 Amir Kabir students and professors on Monday cancelled classes and called on university officials to "use their authority to support and follow up the case of fellow student Massoumeh Mansouri. According to a report she is been kept in detention for an unnamed period, the report said, adding that the faculty had been looking for news about her situation "over the past 18 days without any result."
None of the demonstrations had been reported by official or semi-officiial media.


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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