Iran: transferable

Sunday is activist, blogger and journalist Yaghub Mehrnehad (Mirnahad) hanged in the prison of Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchestan province.
He was sentenced to death in Februar 2008 for moharebeh (enemy of god) and membership of the Jondollahgroup.
Abdolnaser Taheri, was also hanged, he was convicted of the same charges.
The report of the executions was announced in many Iranian newspapers.




August 3 started XVIII International Aids Conference in Mexico.
Arash and Kamiar Alaei were to attend this conference. Both doctors are known for their pioneering work on HIV/AIDS.
Physicians for Human Rights published a video on YouTube in which they ask for the release of the two physicians who got arrested last month on charges of plotting a "velvet revolution".
Together with Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights, sixteen of the top Aids-doctors in the world have written a letter to the Minister of Health and Medical Education in Iran on behalf of the doctors, asking their release.
(photo rfe/RL)


President Ahmadinejad appeared in parliament today to defend his proposed changes for the posts of economy and finance, the interior, and roads and transport ministers.
The parliament decides today if they give their vote of confidence.




Three oilraffineries in Tabriz, Bandar Abbas en Lavan will be privatized soon.
Monday, the Oil Minister said that currently papers are been prepared to hand them to the Privatization Organization.



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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