Sunday, March 16, 2008

Iran: result

The journalists Arash Bahmani, Babak Mehdizadeh, Koohzad Esmaili and Ali Anjamrooz are in appeal sentenced to prison and other fines by the Gilan provincial judiciary.
The charge was “publishing lies with the aim of creating anxiety in the public mind.”
Arash Bamani was also sentenced to 1 year of prison on charges of “insulting Imam Zaman” (the 12th Shiite Imam).


Twenty-two university students were killed in a fire when their bus collided with a vehicle transporting fuel. Five students got wounded.
The students were returning from a trip to commemmorate the Iran-Iraqwar, to Mashhad when the accident happened on Pol-e Dokhtar to Andimeshkroad, a road between Khuzestan and Lorestan provinces.
ISNA reported that the reason of the accident was "the speeding of the sleepy driver driving the fuel vehicle."


141 constituencies out of 290 have already been decided.
The Principalist Front, consisting of two major factions, was reported to have won 108 of the total.
The Reformists made up of two major groups known as the Reformist Coalition and the National Trust Party have 33.
Due to the failure of candidates in a number of constituencies to clear the 50% mark, the two top contestants in each constituency will have to run for a second round.
The results for Tehran after counting 621.642 votes are here.
The partial official results are here.

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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