Iran: mental security

The Iranian parliament will discuss a draft bill which could see the death penalty used for promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy on the Internet.
New is that the bill includes "establishing weblogs and sites promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy".
This is a new addition to crimes punishable by death, such as rape, armed robbery and apostasy.
Those convicted of these crimes "should be punished as "mohareb' (enemy of God) and "corrupt on the earth'.
Under Iranian law the standard punishments for these two crimes are "hanging, amputation of the right hand and then the left foot as well as exile".
In recent years, some Iranian bloggers have been sent to jail and many have had their sites
filtered.
If this bill is accepted, bloggers could be legally executed as criminals.
No one has defined what it means to “disturb mental security in society”.
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Sadigh Banai, journalist on the magazine Nasou, is arrested
Thursday for having published reports that were "false and biased" having been accused of "collaboration with counter-revolutionary groups."
Currently there are four kurdish journalists in jail.
Sadig Kabovand who is sentenced to 11 years in prison and Hiwa Boutimar and Adnan
Hassanpour who are sentenced to death.
Reporters without Borders reports that a warrant was issued for the arrest of Mohammad Javad Haghshenas, the editor of Etemad Melli.
The newspaper had published an article, critical of president Ahmadinejad that was previously
posted on a blog.
Rasoul Montajab-Nia, a religious leader and member of the Etemad Melli party, condemned June 30 in a blog president Ahmadinejads comment that the hand of the Mahdi (regarded by Shiites as the twelfth and last imam) was “visible in the management of all the country’s affairs.”


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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