Iran: rumors and facts

October 25th, 23,47 local time, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5 on Richterscale, occurred near the port of Kong, Hormuzgan province.
Reports say that 8 people got wounded.



Amirkabirnews report that political activist Mohammad Ali Mansouri is sentenced to 17 years in prison in exile in Gordasht for having participated to commemmorate the political prisoners massacre in 1988.
In september 2007 he was arrested, three days after the memorial.
He spent 4 months in solitary confinement in Evinprison section 209.
According to members of his family he has been subjected to violence during his detention.



The September 12 in his Tehran house arrested Hasan Rahimi,a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, was released from Evin prison October 16, after paying a bailbond.He was last detained along with eighteen other well-known activists from Azerbaijan during a fast-breaking session.
Ninety days ago the ethnic rightsactivist Sajad Radmehr was arrested. Reports say that he has a bad medical condition as a result of physical and psychological torture.
judicial and security authorities have not given any information about his charges or the location where he is being kept.
He is an ex-member of Islamic Society in the Technical University, a member of the Paper Media Review Board in Azerbaijan, a central council member of Sahand Literary Society in Tabriz University, and the managing editor and editor of a number of university publications.
October 14 ended the two-months detention of Amir Mardani, a student active on ethnic issues.
However he was not released and judicial authorities have not taken any action to release him or extend his detention.


PressTV reports that former Iranian foreign minister Ali-Akbar Velayati will not run in the upcoming presidential elections.
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has also confirmed that he will not stand for election.
At the moment only secretary-general of Iran's National Confidence Party, Mehdi Karroubi, is the only candidate.
Whether the former president Khatami will run in the elections, is still unclear.
Maybe the major of Tehran Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf will also run for presidency.
President Ahmadinejad himself also can run for another term, he did not confirm yet that he will participate in the election.



According to CNN president Ahmadinejad is ill from exhaustion. An aide told that it is not as serious as political opponents suggest,
Various reports say that the president is ill, but Saturday he attended a religious ceremony in Tehran and today state TV also showed him.
Monday he turns 53 years.



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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