Iran: pattern

This morning are 8 men are executed by hanging in Evinprison in Tehran.
Kiarash (32) convicted of murder in 2005, Alireza (28) convicted of murder and robbery, Abdolmajid (34) convicted of rape in 2001, Ali Akbar convicted of murder, Mohammad (27) convicted of murder in 2001, Farhad (31) convicted of murder and two cousins Ali and Ali convicted of rape in 2005.
The execution of Behnood Shojaee, Mohammad Fadaei and Davoud Mahdoor was postponed.
In the prison of Sanandaj, Kurdistan province, are June 10, 2 men hanged.
Mohammad Hassanzadeh, 17 is hanged for a crime he committed when he was 14 years old.
Rahim Pashabadi, 60 is hanged convicted of murder.


The execution of Mohammad Fadaie and Behnoud Shojaee, who should be executed June 11, is one month postponed by Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi .
A judiciary official said that in this month the convicts can try to find an agreement with the victims' families.
The stays of execution came after the top UN human rights official, Louise Arbour, asked Iran to keep the also by Iran undersigned international conventions which "prohibit the death penalty for juvenile offenders."
Shojaie and Fadaie were among the four named by Arbour.
The other two were Saeed Jaziie and Behnam Zareh.
According to the judiciary official, Jazie was not in the original executionlist, because his execution is scheduled for June 25.



Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi has published a book on legal structures in Iran and refugees.
She hopes it will encourage other human rights activists in the Islamic world to work for the legal protection of refugees.
"Refugee Rights in Iran" is the outcome of a long collaboration between Ebadi and UNHCR in Iran.
An initial Farsi-language version was produced with cooperation from UNHCR in 1994, and used for years as handbook by the UN refugee agency, is revised by Ebadi and translated into English, donating her rights from it to UNHCR for the benefit of Afghan and Iraqi refugee children.


Mohsen Namvar, 44, a christian leader from a housechurch was arrested May 31 in Tehran.Authorities did not provide any reason for his arrest.
Personal belongings, like a computer, cd's, books and money were confiscated.
His location remains unknown.
His arrest came after arrests of several christians in Amol, 80 miles northeast of Tehran, releasing them over the following weeks.
According to reports these arrests always follows a customary pattern, authorities put them in jail for a few weeks and beat them in an attempt to get information about other converts.
Namvar had been arrested in 2007 for baptizing converts to christianity.
He was severely abused and they told him he would die if he keeps his house open for church.


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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