Iran: statement

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to make public any charges against Kurdish journalist and human rights activist Saman Rasaoulpour, 23 or release him immediately.
Rasoulpour was arrested July 27 in his house in Mahabad by 3 plain clothed officers and taken to the office of Iranian Intelligenceservice in Mahabad.
Since then he was not allowed to contact anybody. He only can contact a lawyer when he is formally charged.
Rasoulpour is a regular contributor to Rooz Online, a Farsi and English reformist news Web site where he has written about the lack of human rights for Iran’s minority Kurds.


The execution of Amir Amrollahi, 18 has been approved by Iran's head of Justice, Ayatollah Shahroudi.
Amrollahi is sentenced to death for the murder of another boy during a fight at the age of 16.
The approval means that Amrollah is in imminent danger of execution.



The according to newspaper Etemad Melli in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan province for homosexuality sentenced to death minors Mehdi Pouran (17), Hamid Taaghi, Ebrahim Hamidi, and Mohammad Rezai denied all charges of the plaintiffs against them and said the plaintiffs made up the story after they got in to fight with the boys because the plaintiffs were vandalizing the agricultural land of Mohammad Rezai's father.
They also say they were beaten and tortured by the police to obtain a confession.
The deathsentences were given based on Iran's Sharia Law which allows such sentencing without sufficient proof or witnesses but only based on "'Judges understanding" (Elme Ghazi) of the case.


During an interview with Mehragency the governor of Central Bank Iran said that Iran maybe removes three or four zero's from the Rial in a bid to revaluate the currency.
The most valuable banknote in the country is the 50,000 Rial bill, worth around $5.3.
People have no choice but to take stacks of money with them.
In Februar the CBI-chief told that Iran might introduce a 100.000 Rial banknote.
Printing money is the least effective of all reform policies.
Analysts think that Iran will act as Turkey did in 2005. That country lopped six zero's of its national currency to overcome a major economical crisis and to create the New Turkish Lira.


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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