Iran: questionable

Mostly reformist candidates have been disqualified for the elections.
The final list of approved candidates will be announced on March 5.
Also 20 sitting MP's have been disqualified by the Guardian Council for running the election of March 14, including one of the Presidents most outspoken critics, who has already served two terms in Parliament.
Reformist parties said they will have an emergency meeting on Wednesday.



On the Radio Farda website is an interview with Mermoushe Solouki, who was allowed to leave Iran last week.
In this interview she tells about her arrest, detention and the fact she was not able to leave Iran.
The reason for her arrest lies probably in the fact that she filmed a part of Khaveran Cemetary which contains a mass grave of regime opponents executed in the summer and fall of 1988.



The US State Department joined a Iranian rights group in calling for a full investigation into the death of a 27-year-old Kurdish law student Ebrahim Lotfallahi. who died after he was detained on January 6.

Also the sudden death of 27-year-old Zahra Bani-Ameri, who died in October while in custody, must be examined.

In both cases, officials said the cause of death was suicide.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl