Iran: punishment

The imprisoned Iranian trade union leader Mahmoud Salehi was rushed into hospital. According to Amnesty International he was delivered unconscious to the hospital in Sanandaj on December 11. He suffers from a heart disease and chronic kidney disease, for which he requires dialysis. According to the Committee in Defence for Mahmoud Salehi,he was returned to prison December 16, despite being extremely ill.
On http://amnesty.org.uk/actions_details.asp?ActionID=386 calls Amnesty International for urgent action to release Salehi immediately or to ensure he urgently receives appropriate medical treatment.


December 16 is Ebrahim Madadi, vice president of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company,released.
He was charged with “acting against national security by gathering outside Mansour Osanloo’s residence”. According to his lawyer he is acquitted of this charge. He however spent since August 9th, totally unjustly in jail for these charges.
Reza Dehghan, member of the Founding Committee of the Syndicate of Building 's Painters and Decoration's Workers, is released after paying bail of 50,000,000 toman.
He was arrested November 18.


A top cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab should die.
The imam, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, and is the representative of the Supreme Leader Ayatolla Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan, said that he does not understand that these women 30 years after the Islamic Revolution, are still alive.
He said that these women and their husbands and their fathers must die.
Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their "un-Islamic dress".

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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