Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Iran: move

Since there are no indications that the execution of Saeed Jazi(Jazee), 21 is postponed, it is believed that his execution will take place on June 25th in Evinprison in Tehran.
Saeed Jazi was already transferred to the Evin prison from the Rajaee Shahr prison two weeks ago.
Saeed Jazi is sentenced to death for a murder he allegedly committed when he was 17-year-old.


British parliament formally removed People's Mujahedeen of Iran from U.K.'s list of banned terror groups.
The judge of the Appeal Court ruled in May that the organization should no longer be listed.
The british Home Office Minister said that the government had unsuccessfully appealed against the Court of Appeal's decision.
The organization was listed because of the violence it showed since the 70's in the struggle against the Iranian regime.
The PMOI is considered a terrorist organization in the U.S. and European Union, but supporters of the PMOI said they now expect the EU to review the PMOI's status.
The spokesman for the Iranian government asked UK to rethink its decision.

Grand Ayatollah Hossein Nouri-Hamedani warned the Iranian government over soaring consumer prices.
During a meeting with the Iranian Minister of Commerce he said that government officials must endeavor to provide justice, welfare and low commodity prices for all Iranians.
At another meeting with Iran's Parliament speaker he said that the government and the parliament should join hands to find solutions for the country's runaway inflation.
Another Iranian cleric, ayatollah Naser Makarem-Shirazi also had called on the government earlier to take immediate action and avert the economic crisis.
President Ahmadinejad said Monday that the government has taken measures to control runaway inflation.
According to the latest figures released by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), the country's annual inflation rate surged to 25.3 percent in the twelve months to May 20.


Near Quetta at the border near Pakistan are 30 Pakistani arrested by Iranian security forces and handed over to the Taftanpolice.
Pakistani police officials said that the people were crossing the border without any legal documents and wanted to proceed to some European countries via Iran.

Iran seized less than half of the 2,500 tons of drugs that entered the country from Afghanistan in 2007.
The police confiscated 900tons of drugs. Iran has lost hundreds of police killed in clashes with drug smugglers in recent years . Also there is a lack of funding and support from the West to combat the traffickers.
The total volume of Afghan drugs transiting through Iran fell to 31 percent in 2007 from 42 percent in 2006. The volume itself was unchanged due to a major rise in Afghan production.
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime has said that Afghanistan accounts for 93 percent of global opiumproduction.

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

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