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The appeal of Kurdish journalists Hiwa Butimar and Adnan Hasanpour is rejected and they are sentenced to death by Branch one of the Revolutionary Court in Mariwan city for the second time.
They are accused of selling arms to Kurdish guerrilla fighters and connections to the PKK.
According to sources in Kurdistan Hiwa Butimar has been in solitary confinement more then a year and has been tortured.
On the site of Mideastyouth is a template letter which can be sent to Iranian authorities.



The daily Kargozaran reported that at clashes in a electoral district in Ilam province, five people are killed and thirty people were wounded.
The riot started Friday when supporters of a candidate gathered in front of the town hall to demonstrate against rumours that the results would be changed in favour of one of his rivals.
The rumours turned out to be false and the candidate was re-elected to parliament



The Iranian police detained in Gilan province 37 illegal immigrants and deported them immediately to their home countries. The illegal immigrants came from Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Russia, and Bangladesh.
According to official estimates,there are currently two million illegal immigrants in Iran, of which 1.5 million are from Afghanistan.


The commander of the Tehran Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) said that at an action on April 20, more than 1,300 kilograms of opium were seized. The drugs were hidden in a oiltanker.
One man was detained in connection with the trafficking, and police is hunting down the remaining suspects.
Since the beginning of the Iranian New Year, more than two tons of narcotics had been confiscated, and 51 drug dealers were taken into custody.

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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