Iran: babbles

Iranian Minorities Human Right Organization asks the Iranian government for immediate release of Azerbaijan linguist and activist Jelil Ghanilou ,who is detained since May 2007.
Amnesty International MDE 13/035/2008 PDF

He has never been charged and is not allowed visits from his family.*

Since June 2007 he repeatedly has been moved between Evin Prison in Tehran and a Ministry of Intelligence detention facility in Zenjan and that he continued to face both interrogation and torture throughout the latter part of 2007 and into 2008.


* See here for a notice about a decree from Hashemi Shahroudi, concerning detention.



Tehran University's chancellor Ayatollah Abbasali Amid Zanjani, is replaced , with a non-cleric economics instructor.
Before this, the chancellor was appointed by the government.
Students at the university dormitory protested several times over the past two weeks, accusing Zanjani and his administration of mismanagement and providing students with poor food and transportation.
During a ceremony Saturday marking the farewell of the cleric, education minister said the replacement was not the result of Zanjani's dismissal or resignation, but Farhad Rahbar was chosen to replace Zanjani because he was "capable, intelligent, a team-worker, persevering and caring.".


The Chief of Tehran Police slammed women who smoke, during the Conference entitled: “Women’s Role in Promotion of Social Health" and asked measures against this social abnormality.
He added that smoking by a few women has somehow turned into a means for them to show off their so-called modernity.
He also said that popular organizations, which have their roots in masses of people can play an effective role in this regard.



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