Iran: judicial - prejudice

Fars newsagency reported that Sunday two convicted drugstraffickers are hanged in the prison of the city of Qom.
M.N. 47, had been sentenced to death for purchasing and keeping 240 grammes of heroin.
The head of the public relations department of Qom’s prosecution office said that the man had been arrested several times for dealing in different types of narcotics since 1985.
Gh.A. 56, was arrested last year for trafficking opium in a truck disguised with watermelons.



Iran Human Rights reports that Behnood 17,is sentenced to death and will be hanged (fa), for a murder he alledgedly committed when he was 17.
The daily Etemad reported that his execution is planned for May 7.
He is convicted for a murder at Tehran’s Vanak park three years ago.


The daily Etemad reported on Sunday that a 17-year-old boy is sentenced by a court in Tehran to death after stabbing a rival for a girl.
The boy, Savar told the court that he killed the other, but not intentionally.
He asked the family of the victim to forgive him, but the father of the victim refused and said that Safar deserved the punishment.


ISNA newsagency reported that the general prosecutor for Iran warned Sunday for the negative impact which Western toys could have for Iranian children.
The ultra conservative cleric said that the mainly illegal imported toys like Barbie, Batman, Harry Potter and Spiderman might cause irreparable cultural damage.
In a letter to the Vice-President he asked to find alternatives for what he called the "cultural offensive.".
Despite the counter-measures, Western articles like toys, music CDs and DVDs of US movies have boomed in Iran, especially on the black market.

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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