Iran: society

The Central Bank of Iran announced that the inflation rate in the week ending July 11 increased 45.82 percent compared to the same period last year.
Among the food groups rice, with 238 percent, had the highest rate of inflation.
This group also includes dairies, vegetables, meat and sugar.


Complete text of the draft bill to expand crimes punishable by death to include certain blogging and website activities can be found here (fa) and here (eng).



Ahmed Batebi,the student activist who became "face of Iran’s student protests" in 1999, because of the photo on the cover of The Economist, and was sentenced to death which was changed to 15 years in prison, has fled through Iraq to the United States.

Because of serious health problems following extreme torture he was temporarily released to get medical attention.
In The New York Times is an interview.


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