Iran: insight

The newspaper Etemaad-e-melli writes that Sunday May 11, five men are scheduled to be executed in the city of Qom.
They are part of a group of 10 men who are sentenced to death for rape and murder of a girl with the name Narges.
They are convicted to be thrown of a cliff and hanged to death.
According to the family of the convicted some of the men have never confessed to the crime and there has not been enough evidence supporting the judge.
However the judge has come to "insight" that the men are guilty.


According to the newspaper Etemaad the first mediation session with the family of the victim failed and they continued to insist on the execution of Behnoud Shojaee.
Shojaee was sentenced to death for a murder he committed when he was 17.
May 7, the head of the judiciary postponed the execution for one month, to mediate.
The victim's family insists on death penalty for Behnoud.
According to Islamic sharia laws in Iran, victims' families can either demand the implementation of the death sentence or receive blood money retribution instead.


Press-tv writes that an Iranian Ministry of Commerce official told Fars News Agency on condition of anonymity, that rice imports from countries such as Pakistan and Thailand have increased to help reduce prices and stabilize the domestic market.
The price of US long-grain rice - the global benchmark - has risen by almost two-thirds since the start of this year. The price for the Thai variety of rice, a benchmark for Asia, is also going up by similar amounts.
The prices of wheat and other basic foodstuffs such as maize and soya have also risen sharply, as demand has been increasing by continuing population growth.
The cyclone in Myanmar, the world's sixth largest rice producer, will also led to a shortage of global supplies.
The Asian Development Bank has warned that rising food prices may plunge more than a billion people in Asia into extreme poverty.
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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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