Iran: permit

July 23 are two men hanged in the prison of the city of Shiraz.
The newspaper Khabar Jonub reports that one man, H.A. who is sentenced for kidnapping and murder of a younger boy in the city of Marvdasht, was probably a minor(novajan).
Further details are not available.
The other man (22), was sentenced for murder.


The Egyptian police has closed down the bureau of satellite tv network Al-Alam in Cairo.
The head of the Cairo bureau says that the closure is because the network had no licence to operate in Egypt.
According to Press-TV Hassan Abedini, Al-Alam newsroom Chief, told Fars newsagency that there are still talks with Egyptian media and security officials to return to the normal activity of the network.



Iran has banned the evening edition of the newspaper Hamshahri. The reason was that the newspaper published news aimed at damaging the economy.
The newspaper is run by Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, a critic from president Ahmadinejad and a potential candidate for the presidential election of 2009.


The managing director of Interior Ministry's Bureau for Aliens and Foreign Immigrants Affairs (BAFIA), Seyed Taqi Qaemi said Tuesday that 12,5% of Afghan population is official living in Iran as refugees.
2,000,640 Afghan refugees settled in Iran in 1983.
Most of them live in urban areas, with less than 3.3 percent living in camps.
All these people have access to education and health care.
In 1990 101,820 Afghan children were educated at Iranian schools, in 2008 some 199,346 Afghan children were educated.
The UNHCR bureau in Iran had a budget of $12.8 million in 2007.
According to Qaemi this is far from sufficient.
Afghan refugees cost Iran $6 million per day.



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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