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In the prison of Bojnord, North Khorasan province are 6 men hanged January 25th.
According to IRNA the men were not identified, but the prosecutor said they were all convicted of drug smugling, rape, drinking alcohol, stealing and kidnapping.

In the prison of Arak were January 15, 4 men hanged.
The men, , A.N. (35), M-A. N (48), M.A. (25) and A.A. (24) were according to website Nameh Amir convicted of drugstrafficking.



January 29th is, according to newsagency one woman scheduled to be hanged in the prison of Rafsanjan, Kerman province.
The woman caused an accident, in which her husband was killed.
The lawyer of the woman says he has written a letter to the Head of the Iranian judiciary, asking him to use his power to halt the execution.



According to reports in different news-media, one of which Press-TV, Sundaynight ten police officers engaged in clashes with gunmen near the city of Zahedan, Sistan-e-Baluchestan province got killed.
How many armed gunmen were killed is not known,the surviving gunmen escaped to Pakistan.


Monday the EU officially removed the Mujahedeen Khalq Organization (MKO) from the list of international terroristic organizations.
Iran says in a statement that the EU move comes despite the fact that the intention of the MKO has not been changed.
The MKO has taken responsibility for carrying out numerous terror attacks against Iranian nationals and is accused of assisting Saddam Hossein in the nineties to kill thousands of Iraqis.
According to the US State Department were in the years prior to 1979 at least six American nationals killed by the MKO.


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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