Iran: shake

An earthquake, measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Shahdad, Kerman province.
The quake occurred on Saturday at 16.21 GMT.
There are no reports about casualties or damages.


The Supreme Court confirmed the execution orders for four individuals accused of hooliganism.
According to the deputy prosecutor for the country, stated who confirmed these four death sentences, these people have prior arrest records and have been kept in jail with a hefty bail bond.
He added that the execution will be soon.
This decision has ramifications for Hany Khandar and Hamed Akbari, both of whom are arrested in Tehran last year at the crackdown for social security and accused of the same crime.
After being arrested among more than 1,000 people who are still being kept in jail,they spent four months in Kahrizakprison.From here they were transferred to a section of Evinprison, policed by members of the Information Ministry.
Khandars mother happened to find out that her sons name is on the list with 27 names of people on death row published by the prison’s security guards.


In Iran the value added tax (VAT) will be implemented.
A bill was presented by the Iranian government five years ago, but implementation will end the decades of waiting for a tax reform.
President Ahmadinejad directed the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance to implement the new tax law for a 5-year trial period, now it has been determined that the country among other things can meet computertechnology necessary to put the VAT into action.
Difference to a salestax is that VAT is calculated at each stage of the production proces.
This reduces the likelihood of nonpayment of taxes or other tax fraud.
The new VAT-law consists of 53 articles which cover the supply of all goods and services as well as imported and exported goods.


Global Voices Online writes that the blog Digiaktiv writes that about 100 Iranian bloggers undersigned a declaration that condemns filtering and call for freedom of speech.
The blog Booyekhak (fa) published the the declaration and other bloggers supported it and signed it.


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