Iran: continued (persecution)

Amnesty International published a 57 page report about the abuse against the human rights of the Kurdish minority in Iran.
Among other things this report states that Kurdish regions have been economically neglected,
Kurds were forcibly evicted and their houses were destroyed.
Baby's with certain Kurdish names are banned from registration, and the using of Kurdish language in schools is often thwarted.
Kurdish human rights activists and journalists are harrassed and arrested for arbitrary reasons, people are imprisoned for their peaceful expression of opinion.
Others suffer torture, unfair trials and the death penalty.
This report is published by Amnesty to draw attention to the ongoing repression of Kurds in Iran.
Amnesty calls upon the Iranian government to take concrete measures to end the discrimination and associated human rights violations.
Iran has not permitted Amnesty International access to Iran to investigate human rights for more than 28 years.
Some recent cases:
Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydariyan and Farhad Vakili,are all three sentenced to death.
Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand is sentenced to 11 years of prison.
Hana Abdi is sentenced to five years of prison.


The free-lance journalist Saman Rasoulpour is arrested in his home, two days after some 200 Kurds staged a peaceful demonstration in Mahabad to demand the overturning of the death sentences against Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydariyan and Farhad Vakili.
Reporters without Borders calls upon authorities to explain why they arrested Rasoulpour and demand his immediate release.



According to National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI) have July 26 plain clothes agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) raided a Christian homechurch in Malak near Isfahan.
They arrested some worshippers, eight men, six women and two children and transferred them to an unknown location.
There were also two elderly people , believed to be in their sixties, who later were admitted to the ICU of Shariatyhospital in Isfahan.
The house was also searched for forbidden Christian books and literature.


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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