Iran: ban

Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi has issued a decree prohibiting the detention of suspects without being charged.
The announcement comes less than a week after Shahroudi ordered that no public executions would take place in Iran without his prior approval.
The decree, reported by a number of Iranian newspapers including the Hemayat, is according to Shahroudi made because of the importance and the necessity of fully abiding by and carrying out the prosecution regulations.
The text says:
"Refrain from summoning people without pressing charges. Refrain from holding people under arrest without pressing charges. Refrain from pressing bail without setting charges,refrain from summoning people without sufficient proof.


According to Washington Post, a grandson of ayatollah Khomeini, Ali Eshraghi, is banned by the Guardian Council from running for parliament next month.
He told the Kargozaran newspaper that the neighbors told him they were questioned about his private life, including whether he shaves, prays or fasts or smokes.
A cleric said he had been rejected from running for parliament but was allowed to stand as a candidate in the same day's by-election for the Assembly of Experts.
Those disqualified include three ministers, a dozen provincial governors, and scores of former parliamentarians, deputy ministers and ministerial directors who worked under president Khatami.
Mohammad-Reza Aref, a former first vice-president, withdrew yesterday in protest at the disqualifications, even though he was one of the few senior reformists who had passed the vetting procedure.
Last month the interior ministry disqualified most reformist candidates in the first round. The Guardian Council, this week upheld the government decision and barred more nominees.
Disqualified candidates can appeal, but it is unlikely that many will be reinstated.
Some reformists candidates want to boycot the elections, while others want to compete where possible.



Now five underseas internet cables seem to have been cut.
The causes are unknown, although there are rumours, varying from cuts by ships anchors to fishtrails and saboteurs.
Although connectivity to some sites in Iran is slower, there is internet as usual.




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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