Saturday, January 19, 2008

Iran: the "safety"of custody

Reuters India reports that jailed journalist and human rights activist Emadeddin Baghi is released on parole. Baghi was sentenced to one year in prison.
Newsagency ISNA wrote Friday that he was released on health grounds.
Baghi was transferred to a Tehran hospital last month after heart trouble in jail and later returned to jail.
His lawyer told ISNA that because of his heart problem, Baghi was released on parole and he was transferred to a Tehran hospital for treatment

Human Rights Watch released a press statement in which she Iranian authorities should investigate the sudden deaths of two people while in custody in northwestern Iran.
Ebrahim Lotfallahi,27, died between January 9 and January 15 in Sanandaj.
January 6 he was arrested, three days later he told his brother that he was well and would be released.
January 15, authorities told the family that he committed suicide and that they buried him.
The family was not allowed to see the body and the authorities covered the grave with concrete.
The family plans to ask the authorities to exhume the body for a forensic determination of the cause of death.
The second case is Zahra Bani Yaghoub, 27, who was arrested by moral police on October 12 in a park in Hamedan and who, according to authorities committed suicide in custody.
According to her brother, he spoke telephonically to her 30 minutes before the reported deathtime and she seemed fine.
Her family says her body was bruised and calls for an autopsy.
Shirin Ebadi represents the family in their lawsuit against the officials responsible for her arrest and detention.

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

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