Iran: questionable

Tuesday is Javad Shojaei hanged in the prison of Isfahan.
He was sentenced to death for an alleged murder in the year 2000 when he was only 16 years old.
The execution was approved by Iran's superior court.


StopChildExecutions says they had no prior knowledge of Javad's case and his name was not among the recorded list of the 96 children facing execution in Iran. It is feared that many others have also been executed without the knowledge of outside world.


Iranian judiciary will intervene in the case of the death of Zahra Bani Yaghoub.
In october the woman was found dead in her cell after being arrested by morality police.
The authorities said it was a suicide by hanging.
But the family have cast doubt and demanded a full investigation.
The Etemad newspaper also reported on Tuesday that the judiciary officials have agreed to the exhumation of the body.


Twenty students have been arrested at the Industrial University of Shahrood, northern Iran.
More than 3,000 students protested on Saturday and Sunday to ask the government to hear their demands.
Since Wednesday they demonstrated about the gas shortages in Shahrood and the temporary closure of the university.



In Shiraz, Fars province, protested Monday about 500 students against university chancellor. They demanded his resignation.
They called slogans like: "Resign, Resign, we don't want a corrupt chancellor," and "We don't want a Pasdar (a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-IRGC) as our chancellor." .
Protesting students occupied his office so he escaped the compound through the backdoor.


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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