Iran: unjustified

According to the newspaper Etemad-e-Melli is in the prison of the city of Isfahan a man hanged.
The man, Hassan M. was convicted for murder.
This morning are 5 men hanged in Evinprison in Tehran.
ISCAnews reported that 10 men should be executed, but 5 men were forgiven by the family.


Adnkronos reports that 75 young people were arrested at a birthdayparty for 'immoral acts'.
Police said the young people were dancing, drinking alcohol and listening to forbidden western music.
While they may not approve of such behaviour at parties, some Muslim clerics consider these kinds of police raids unjustified and an intrusion into people's private lives.


The Iranian parliament speaker,Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel, says in an answer to criticism from president Ahmadinejad, that he has not violated the constitution.
Ahmadinejad criticized the Majlisspeaker for giving a list of approved bills to be published in an official newspaper.
The civil code requires the president to sign, issue, and order the publication of passed legislation within five days of receiving it.
If the president fails to do so, the Majlis speaker is required to order its publication.
According to Haddad-Adel, the three endorsed bills had not been published in the official newspaper for two months after being forwarded to the president.
The laws included 'the agreement for civil and criminal legal cooperation between Iran and Kyrgyzstan', 'the agreement to support mutual investment between Iran and Kuwait', and 'the law for registration of industrial designs and trademarks'.



Reporters without Borders condemns the 11 April decision of a criminal court in Sanandaj, to close the Kurdish-language daily Rouji Ha Lat for good on the grounds that it had received money from abroad.The court decided it broke the law by selling copies across the border in the Kurdish part of Iraq.
Three journalists who had been charged with “activity against national security” Farhad Aminpour, Reza Alipour and Saman Solimani were fined 300 euros.


April 16 has a court in Tehran ordered the suspension of the newspaper Rah Ayandeh in response to a complaint brought by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Orientation’s press department.

The bans on the newspapers Rouzegar en Ashtai are lifted.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl