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Ronak Safarzadeh and Hana Abdi two womans rights activists from Kurdistan province, are, according to an investigationsjudge, charged with taking part in "terrorist" actions and belonging to the militant Kurdish separatist group PEJAK.
The two women were using their activities as women's rights activists as cover for their connections to the PEJAK.
IRNA said that the judge, whose name was not reported, said that the arrest of the women has no link to the OneMillionSignatures campaign. They were carrying out activities as part of the objectives of the PEJAK group.
People have also been arrested in Tehran for having carried out acts in favour of PEJAK under the cover of the OneMillionSignatures campaign.


In the last days are 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops closed down and 23 people detained as part of a broad crackdown on immoral behaviour.
Colonel Nader Sarkari, a provincial police commander said that among the reasons why they have been closed were using immoral computer games, storing obscene photos and the presence of women wearing improper hijab.
Sarkari told the official IRNA news agency that police had inspected 435 coffee shops in the past 24 hours, and 170 had been warned.


The Proscribed Organizations Appeal Commission (POAC) has denied to remove the Mojahadeen Khalgh Organization (MKO),(People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran (PMOI)) from the terrorist blacklist.
A request by the British Home Office was rejected.
The case is now taken to the Court of Appeal.



According to Newsagency Fars MP Ahmad Nateq-Nouri said that the soaring prices are gradually razing those at the bottom of the economic ladder to the ground.
The parliamentarian blamed the economic planning of the government and also the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) for underestimating the rate of inflation.




President Ahmadinejad said that Iran's government is planning to fight the rising inflation by limiting the government's role in the economy and encouraging investments in the oil sector.
He did not give concrete details.
According to official figures, inflation rose by 19,1 % last month, but many ordinary Iranians complain official data does not correspond to price rises they see in shops.


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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