Iran: unauthorized

In the city of Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchestan province is a man hanged.
The man, Nader Kalbali , a drugstrafficker, was convicted for carrying 2 kilograms of heroin.



The Iranian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence against Kurdish journalist Adnan Hasanpour, 27.
Hasanpour is sentenced to death for taking up arms against the ruling Islamic establishment, having unauthorized contacts with foreigners and helping several Iranian dissidents illegally escape abroad.
Hasanpour worked as a journalist for the Kurdish magazine Asou, until it was banned in 2005.
He also worked for foreign news media including Voice of America and Radio Farda.

French-Iranian filmmaker Mehrnoushe Solouki is being hold in Iran for almost a year. She came to Iran to shoot a documentary about the burial rites of Iran's religious minorities.
She says the authorities were told in advance of the locations where she wanted to film, and that they were aware that the subject dealt with the cemeteries of Iranian minorities.
When she came on an area at the Khavaran Cemetery in Tehran, which appeared to be a mass grave of regime opponents summarily executed in 1988, she was arrested and transported to Evinprison.
She was released after about a month, but authorities confiscated her French passport, withholding her from leaving the country.
November 17 she is due to go before an Iranian court. She faces charges of intending to make antiestablishment propaganda, which she denies.
The proceedings will take place behind closed doors.


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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