Iran: law and parliament

Sunday are in the city of Arak two men hanged.
Former chief of police Abolfazl R was hanged in public on the scene of his crime.
December 2005 he stabbed a man to death and raped his fiancée.
The second man, Abolfazl M was hanged in prison. He was convicted of two murders.




Newsagency ISNA reported on Sunday that in the city of Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchistan province, the right hand and left foot of five criminals are amputated.
The men, identified as M.A. Jalali, A.B. Righi, A. Righi, A.R. Roudini and D. Pahlevan, were found guilty of "mohareb" (acting against God) and "corruption upon this Earth", for taking part in the robberies and taking hostages.
The report did not say whether the punishment was carried out in prison or in public.
Amputations are allowed under Iran's Islamic sharia law.


Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has pardoned up to 2,000 prisoners in Sistan-Baluchistan province.
The pardon did not include murderers, drug dealers, arms smugglers, and those with private plaintiffs.
The fines the pardoned prisoners had to pay added up to $13.32 million , they were to be released without having to pay up.
A hundred of the inmates pardoned by Ayatollah Khamenei are women.
With the release of the 2,000 convicts, the number of prisoners across the province will drop to around 4,000.


Saturday candidates started registering to stand in Iran's March parliamentary elections.
All candidates still have to be approved by the hardline unelected Guardians Council, which has the right to disqualify any candidate it deems to be insufficiently qualified.
In 2004 the Council disqualified more than 2,000 mainly reformist candidates, a move which moderates blamed for their losses.
The Guardians Council's spokesman pledged that the vetting process would be carried out as usual.
Key members of the Guardian Council are handpicked by Ali Khamenei.
Last month said the Guardian Council's chief, that any candidate determined by the committee to be disloyal to the principles of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution would be barred from taking part in the polls.
Former president Khatami has said he will not run in the elections but has begun publicly supporting reformists.
The Guardian Council will announce a final list of approved candidates on March 5, leaving only a week for campaigning.

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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