Iran: stop

The Russian State Fisheries Committee urges a ban on sturgeon fishing in the Caspian Sea.The committee spokesman said that Russia is ready to announce a moratorium. Russia will formally propose the ban to the other four Caspian Sea states of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan soon.
The reason is because the sturgeon is about to disappear. Russia was not able to fish its annual quota of 50 tonnes of sturgeon last year because overfishing and poaching had depleted stocks.
The international environmental watchdog WWF warned earlier this year that the population of Caspian Sea sturgeon, including the osetra, servruga and beluga species, had fallen by as much as 70 percent in the past few decades.
According to official data from the EU, between 2000 and 2005 almost 12 tonnes of illegal caviar were sold in Europe.
Experts believe that is only a fraction of the caviar poached from the Caspian Sea.


Trade Unionleader Mahmoud Salehi is still not released from prison.
His sentence ended March 23.
Protesting to new charges, short for his releasedate, he went in hungerstrike.
Familymembers and friends protested outside the jail in Sanandaj, a protest which was violently ended by Iranian security forces and one participant, named Behrooz Sohrabi, was arrested and harassed and reportedly beaten. After protesters demanded his release they freed him a couple hours later.
Judicial authorities said they would release Mahmoud Salehi March 26, but they did not.


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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