Iran: allowed

Two men, Tayeb and Yazdan found guilty of rape, are sentenced to 100lashes each before being cast off a cliff.
The sentence has been confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Iranian human rights activist and lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkha says that although Iranian jurisprudence allows alternative punishments to those prescribed by Islamic law, many judges ignore this.
In recent weeks Iranian courts sentenced several people to punishments that had been in abeyance.


Last year the incidence of AIDS has doubled in the holy Shia city of Qom.
The director of the city's health centre says that the great share of the newly infected have contracted the HIV virus, not through using infected syringes, but through unprotected sexual relations.
Last year the number of those affected by AIDS in Qom has risen from 177 to 324.
Forty per cent of those infected are students from the theological colleges in Qom.


Local police commander in Sistan-Baluchestan province, said security forces launched a successful attack on a terrorist cell.
A number of the terrorists are killed, others detained. They hatched a plot to assassinate prominent clerics in the provincial town of Khash.
He said that plots are aimed at provoking ethnic and sectarian clashes in the province.
The minority of the population in Sistan-e-Baluchistan , fourty percent, is sunnimuslim.
Last month police disbanded another terrorist group.


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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