Iran: parallels

Yaghoub Mehrnahad, student-journalist who was arrested in April, is Monday sentenced to death.
He is accused of having had contact with the armed group of Jondollah.
The trial against him took place behind closed doors without legal representation or his family.
According to the student site of the Amir Kabir University of Technology in Tehran,he was arrested last April at the end of a debate organised in Zahedan.
His family last saw him in Zahedan prison last December saying his body showed obvious signs of torture.
His younger brother said it was being said that his brother had died in prison after being tortured and his trial and death sentence was only a way to hide the truth.



Ronak Safarzadeh, Hana Abdi, and Yasser Goli are transferred to prison,after spending three months in holding cells at the bureau of the intelligence services in Sanandaj.
Their families were finally permitted to visit them.
All these months their lawyers are still waiting for the completion of investigations by the intelligence services and the judiciary.
Only after the investigations are complete will the lawyers be able to access the files.
Meanwhile, the media indicate they were having relations with armed opposition groups, groups which, according to the Iranian government, carry out terrorist attacks and that they took part in recent bombings in the city of Sanandaj. No group (including the group that the defendants have been accused of working with) has claimed responsibility for the bombings.
Because of the extensive activities of Islamic extremist groups (also known as "Salafis") in the region, many believe that these groups are in fact responsible for the bombings.
It seems that the officials have no interest in finding the truth or in finding the identity of those who ordered or carried out the attacks; they would rather avoid confronting these extremist Islamic groups in Kordestan, powerful groups that wield significant influence.

An interview with the lawyer of Ronak Safarzadeh, Hana Abdi, and Yasser Goli and with the head of the Women's Group they are members of can be found here.

After the interview took place, it was found out that Mrs. Fatemeh Goftari (Yasser Goli’s mother), after going to Sanandaj Headquarters of the Security and Intelligence Agency to collect the personal belongings of her imprisoned son, was arrested.


The Guardian Council has qualified 280 previously-dropped candidates, allowing them to run in the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The demands are:
Belief in and commitment to Islam and the Islamic Republic of Iran, allegiance to Iran’s Constitution and Velayat-e Faqih, having good physical health, holding at least a master’s degree or its equivalent, lack of criminal record and aged between 30 and 75.


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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