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The investigation into the death of Zahra Bani Yaghob is considered closed and put in the archives by the public prosecutor’s office of Hamedan’s Revolutionary Court, Branch 3.
The lawyer for the family, Shirin Ebadi, stated that they will appeal the case.
She submitted a request to the office of Ayatollah Shahroudi, to transfer the case to Tehran for a fair trial, because the officers and authorities involved in this case,are associated with Hamedan’s judicial office.
The request to transfer the case to Tehran was accepted, and a letter was sent to Hamedan. After this nothing happened.
Zahra Bani Yaghub was found dead in her cell the morning after she was arrested by the moral police. According to authorities, she committed suicide by hanging herself. Shirin Ebadi says she has reasons that show this was not the case.



Two days after confirmation of the deadsentence for the Kurdish teacher
Farzod Kamangar is July 14 another teacher in Kurdistan province
sentenced to dead.
Hosein Panohi is charged for mohareb (enemy of islam) and activities against national security.
He was brought to the jail of the Information Ministry in Gharaveh. He has been tortured and went into a hungerstrike to protest. After this he was transferred to Sanandaj.


July 17 four activists of the Movement for the Rights of South-Azerbaijan,
Sajad Radmekhr, Aydin Khajai, Daryus Khatami en Feraz Zekhtab, were arrested.
They were detained at the entrance to the Tabriz university and their flats were searched.
They are transferred to an unknown place.



Thursday, 70 teenagers were by the moralpolice from Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Bassij arrested on a party in Shiraz.
The warrants for searching the premises and arresting the participants were provided earlier by the judicial authority.
The participating juveniles resisted arrest , but 70 of them got arrested.
The files for the seventy juveniles have already been referred to Shiraz prosecutor's office for action.


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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