Iran: morals and ethics

June 12 are in the prison of the city of Mashhad four men hanged.
The daily Khorasan (fa) says that the four were convicted of rape.
There was no mention of any other evidence, testimony or report of prior crimes and assaults by these 4 men, except identification of a young woman that they assaulted her.
Their names are: Sadegh, Hamid, Esmaeil en Alireza.


The daily Etemad (fa) writes that in the city Haj Adad near Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan province, a man as a "honour killing" hanged his sister because she wanted to marry a man, the family did not approve on.
In anger because she had run away he hanged and stabbed her.
Since the parents of the victim file no complaint, he is not going to be punished as a murder and he is most probably going to get a 3-5 years prison sentence.




About 3,000 students at the university in the northwestern city of Zanjan staged a protest against the attempted sexual harassment by a vice chancellor against a girl while she was in his office to resolve a problem with the committee of conduct.
The daily Etemad reported that they broke into the vice president's office and handed him over to security after finding out that he had sought to (sexually) harass a student.
The report furthermore says that he had on several occasions tried to shut down the "students' Islamic association" while its "members have moral problems and do not have an Islamic behaviour".
The university's head said that they thank the students for their alertness and they have always supported students in removing any kind of corruption.


Reuters reports that the newspaper Farhang-e Ashti writes that Iranian police have launched a wider crackdown which has started from Saturday on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes.
According to the newspaper police will not only confront those who appear in public in an indecent way but will also seal off shops selling un-Islamic dresses.
The police will seize women with tight coats and cropped trousers but also men with Western-style hair cut will be arrested.
Barber shops that gave them such haircuts were sealed off on Sunday.

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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