Iran: sounds

The daily Kargozaran wrote that Salah Ghaseh is now transferred to the Sanandaj prison for execution.
He is sentenced to death for a murder he committed when he was 15 year old.
He is now 18-year-old.




Amnesty International issued a statement UA 169/08 (pdf) for the womans rights activist and journalist Mahboubeh Karami, who was arrested along with 200 others in relation to a protest held in Mellat Park.
Karami was traveling on a bus past the location of the protest, when she and the other female passengers, were removed from the bus and taken into custody.
The protest was not related to women’s rights or the One Million SignaturesCampaign.
The protest was about the arrest of Abbas Palizdar, who had accused several senior Iranian officials of financial corruption.
The current whereabouts of all, including Mahboubeh Karami, are unknown and they are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.


The daily Tehran Emrouz is banned after publicizing articles critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
According to Press-tv the daily published a special issue on the third anniversary of Ahmadinejad's election that contained numerous articles critical of the government's economic policies.
One article in particular questioned Ahmadinejad's earlier policies during his term as Tehran's mayor.
The newspaper published an apology Saturday, but the editor was summoned to a court on Sunday to answer charges of "printing pictures and editorial material insulting to the president and propagation of lies with the intention of agitating public opinion".
18 months ago the newspaper was launched and it was seen as being close to Tehran Mayor Mohammed Baqer Qalibaf,a conservative political rival of Ahmadinejad.


From June 22 to 24 will be held the third annual Women's Music Festival at several locations in Tehran.
Participants will compete and present their works in the categories of pop, traditional, regional, percussion, choral and solo performance.
In the jury are several renowned artists including Maliheh Saeedi, Mehrbanoo Tofiq, Hengameh Akhavan, Nasrin Nasehi, Shahla Milani, Tamara Dolidze, Arfa Atrayi and Fariba Vakili.




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