Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Iran: performance

In the prison of the city of Isfahan is a man hanged.
His name was Hamid Reza Q and he was sentenced for a murder he committed in 2006.
The daily "Ebrat" says (fa) that he was 19 year old. Then he would have been a minor when he committed the crime.
According to the site "Democracy and human rights activists in Iran" Hamid was born in 1986.
Iran Human rights is investigating whether Hamid was or was not a minor at the time of the offense.


Iran Khodro has signed an agreement to export 10,000 cars.The agreement is worth $73 million.
The contract for exporting kits for 10,000 Samand sedans, set to be manufactured in Azerbaijan, was signed between Iran Khodro Company (IKCO), Azerbaijan's Elite Industrial and Trade Group, and the Export Development Bank of Iran.
The factory in Azerbaijan, which was opened in 2006, has an annual production capacity of 5,000 units and manufactures the sedans under the name, AzSamand.



Friday June 27, were more than 200 people arrested in Mellatpark, Mashhad.
They held a demonstration against the high cost of living.
Under those arrested were two students of Ferdowsi university.
Their names are Tohid Dolatshahi and Farzod Hasanzodeh..
Reports say that neither of the students had participated in the demonstration and were attacked while sitting on a park bench.
Security guards dressed in orange uniforms, attacked everyone in the area of the protest regardless of whether or not they were active in the demonstration.
The police also used cameras to record everybody in the park.



Mehdi Mahmoudi, and Sayed Bagher Sajodi,both students from the University of Sistan and Baluchistan were sentenced to 6 months in jail,by Branch 10 of the court in Zahedan.
They were arrested in April after holding a forum to discuss the ninth government’s economic and foreign policy performance.
Yunes Mir-Hosseini, a student activist from Shiraz University,is sentenced to a one-year suspended jail term for the next four years.
He was charged with propaganda against the government, membership in organizations opposing the government, and publicizing on behalf of anti-government organizations.(Source: Amir Kabir Newsletter)

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

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