Iran: disruption

The women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign Rezvan Moghaddam received a suspended sentence of 6 months and 10 lashings for the period of 3 years.She intends to appeal the sentence.
She is one of 32 women who got arrested March 4, 2007.
She was found guilty of illegal gathering and collusion intended to disrupt national security.
Rezvan Moghaddam is the fifth person in this case to receive a sentence.



Mehrnews reported that there was 8% increase in Iran's marriage rate in last Iranian calendaryear(ended March 19, 2008).
There were 798,283 marriages recorded.
There was also a rise of 5% in the country’s divorce rate, compared with the last year.
910,483 divorces were registered.




According to Iran Focus a tornado which struck the village of Bilverdi, East Azerbaijan Province, on Friday, left three women dead.
Several women were travelling from Tabriz to attend a funeral when they were forced to take shelter near a house.
The strong wind forced the wall of the house to collapse leaving six of the women injured.
Three of them died on their way to hospital.



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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