Iran: bother

Iran has together with Japanese experts started to make some of its major oil refineries in Tehran, Tabriz and Bandar Abbas quake-resistant.
Safety evaluations were conducted in the refineries, oil depots and oil and gas- pipelines and measures are being implemented to improve the resistance of the oil and gas installations in the face of possible quakes.


Fardablog says that according to Sobh Sadegh, a weekly magazine published by Revolutionary Guards, two Japanese citizens were arrested in the city of Yazd.
The weekly wrote also that photos of military bases were found in their cameras.


Akbar Ganji received December 4 in Ottawa, Canada, the John Humphrey Freedom Award .
He made a speech, titled, “Bloody Frontiers and the Anti-Human Rights Double Standards”,
which is here (English) and here (Farsi).


The Article-90 Commission of Majlis(Iranian parliament) has 24,690 complaints received since the start of the current parliamentary term.
Of those were 4,000 rejected because of lack of documents and evidence. 6,000 complaints were handed to the judiciary for further investigation.
According to Mohammad Madani, a MP from Gonabad, 14,600, mostly economic, complaints are scrutinezed.
Some of the most important dossiers were a case related to infected blood and problems of teachers who were not paid as well as repealing the contract related to Imam Khomeini International Airport.
Majlis Article 90 Commission investigates complaints by citizens against any of the three branches of power.


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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