Iran: prizes and price

An eartquake measuring 4.3 on Richter scale jolted Central Iran in the night to Thursday.
Head of Disaster Management Organization in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province reported that 10 people got injured in the city of Boroujen.
About 70 houses in the village of Nassirabad in the Gandoman region have reportedly been damaged.
Rescue and maintenance teams were immediately dispatched to the region to provide the quake-stricken people with blankets and preliminary facilities.


Iranian Intelligence forces in Sanandaj, province Kurdistan has announced the arrest of four members of a terrorist group.
Over the past few weeks they were, according to authorities, involved in intimidating and kidnapping people, drugs trafficking and campaigns against the government.
A huge cache of weaponry was confiscated along with drugs and documents that revealed their acts of sabotage and blackmailing.


State radio reported that Iran banned five websites commenting on current events because they were disturbing public opinion ahead of March parliamentary elections.
The names from the sites are not revealed but a broadcaster identified one of them as Nosazi, or which is considered a hardline one.
Earlier in February, Nosazi criticized a grandson of ayatollah Khomeini for his opposition toward barring reformist candidates from the election.

There are hundreds of privately set-up Websites in Iran that comment on Iranian news and political developments.



The daily Etemad reported that head of justice Hashemi Shahroudi overturned the execution verdict against Shahla Jahed and ordered a fresh probe into the case after finding flaws in the original investigation.
Shahlia Jahed is accused of stabbing to death of Laleh Saharkhizan, wife of Nasser Mohammad Khani, a former top footballplayer, in June 2002.
Nasser Mohammad Khani lived with Shala Jahed under a temporary marriagecontract (sigheh).
Initially Shala Jahed pleaded guilty after an 11-month silence in custody but then maintained her innocence.


Iranian women's rightactivist Parvin Ardalan won the the 2007 Olof Palme Prize ($75.000) for "making the demand for equal rights for men and women a central part of the struggle for democracy in Iran".
Parvin Ardalan is one of the co-founders of the One Million Signatures Campaign.
In April 2007 she was sentenced to three years in prison after being declared a threat to national security for criticizing the state of women's rights in Iran.
She has appealed the verdict and has yet to serve time in prison.
The news in Farsi.


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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