Iran: orders

In the prison of Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchestan province, is July 29 a man hanged . IRNA reported that the man was convicted for drugstrafficking, but did not identify him by name.
Fars newsagency reported that July 29, 2 men are hanged in the prison of the city of Isfahan.
Yaser K (22) and Mahmood (33) were convicted for murder.
According to ADNkronos are July 29, three men were hanged in Qom.


Saeed Jazi (Jazee) is released from prison, July 29.
He was sentenced to death for a murder he alledgedly committed when he was 16 years-old.
Saeed Jazi was scheduled to be executed in June and later in July, but both times his sentence was postponed after order from the head of the Iranian judiciary, Hashemi Shahroudi.
He spent five years in jail.
The victims parents forgave him and he has been released.


The daily Etemad reported that according to new orders for retirement, based on a new set of changes by Tehran University authorities, professors over 70 must retire, but professors between the ages of 65 and 70 can continue teaching if granted permission by the university.
At the University of Tehran some below this age are forced to retire or put on a wait-list for a teaching-position.
The professors Iraj Goldozian (criminal law), Amir-Naser Katozian (civil rights), Dr. Mahmood Erfani (commerce law), and Abulghasem Gorji (Islamic law) were forced to retire. Furthermore, Mohammad Ashori (criminal justice), Dr. Jamshid Momtaz (international law), Dr. Azatullah Iraqi (labor law) and Dr. Nejad-Ali Almasi (international law) did not receive official retirement orders but have had their teaching positions wait-listed for the next term..



Ali Reza Jahnashahi, an Iranian cleric, who protested walking from the southern Iranian city, Sirjan to Tehran, is two weeks ago arrested, shortly after he started.
The cleric protested against corrupt land appropriation in Sirjan, and complained the government was not doing enough to stop it.
Several conservative Iranian and pro-Islamic Republic bloggers have declared their support for his protest and have called on authorities to release him.
According to reports he was arrested because his actions are against the statute of clerics.
Through Global Voices Online one finds links to mostly Persian-language blogs, who write about the protest.

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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