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Amnesty International calls for urgent action (pdf) for
Sohrab Bawi (alias Imad)33, en Mohsen Bawi,35.
The brothers were sentenced in 2005 to serve long prison terms (Imad to 25 years, after originally being sentenced to death and Mohsen to 30 years) over the bombattacks in Ahwaz/Khuzestan in 2005.(UA 233/05, MDE 13/051/2005).

Following the execution of their brother, Zamel Bawi,(29 January 2008) they were given leave from prison to spend time with their family.
February 16, they fled to Iraq, but got arrested on the border in Basra.
Since then they are detained and have appeared various times in court, charged with illegal entry.
Amnesty International fears they are both at risk of being imminently returned to Iran where they would face torture and new charges could be brought against them, resulting in possible death sentences.


According to IRNA, Fars newsagency has been exposed to a temporary ban of three days.
An official with the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance said Sunday that the temporary ban was for broadcasting false reports disturbing public opinion.
Although he did not elaborate, Foxnews reported that the ban is because Fars carried a report that the head of Iran's Central Bank had been replaced.
Authorities later denied the report of the replacement, and Fars reported the denial.

Amir Yaghoubali, member of One Million Signature Campaign has been sentenced to one year mandatory prison term on May 25.
According to his lawyer, Nasrin Sotoodeh, he has been found guilty of actions against national security through the spreading of propaganda against the state.
Yaghoubali was arrested July 2007 in a public park in Tehran while collecting signatures for the One Million Signatures Campaign.
Because collecting signatures is not considered to be an illegal act by any of the laws, and as such is a totally legal activity, he and the other two lawyers, Ms. Shirin Ebadi and Ms. Leila Alikarami, intend to object to the court’s decision and appeal the ruling.



A new law passed by parliament last Tuesday, will make Iranian women who suffer injury or death in a car accident, be entitled to the same amount of insurance compensation as men.
Under Islamic law in Iran, anybody who kills another person has to pay blood money or "diyeh" to the victim's family.
Until now the blood money paid for a woman has been half of that paid for a man.
Also (obligatory) vehicle insurances have to pay by that rule.
Meanwhile, both sexes pay equal premiums.
The bill still has to be approved by the Guardian Council.
The spokesman for the Judiciary said clearly that this law would only apply to insurance claims for people involved in traffic accidents and not to compensation in other areas.
The blood money rate, which is calculated annually in Iran, has been set at about $59,000 for the current year from March 2008.





Iran human rights activities says that the newspaper Etemaad (fa) reports that execution of
Behnood Shojaee and Mohammad Fadaei is scheduled for June 11.
The execution of Saeed Jazi is scheduled for June 25.
All three are sentenced to death for murders they allegedly committed when they were minors.



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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