Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Iran: appearance and reality

The judiciary spokesman confirmed that in December two men were stoned to death for adultery , while a third managed to escape from the stoning hole.
In 2002 the Head of Judicary, Shahroudi, imposed a moratorium on such executions.
Alireza Jamshidi said that judges are independent and they are likely not to act to the judiciary chief's advice" as long as law remains unchanged.


An American senator says that the since March 2007 in Iran disappeared American Bob Levinson is being held in a secret prison there.
His wife said that this information were the first she had heard about her husband's possible whereabouts.
Hillary Clinton, Obama's choice for secretary of state said this would be an extraordinary opportunity for the government of Iran to make such a gesture to permit contact.


A ship of the Iranian Crescent Moon with humanitarian goods for the people in Gaza was stopped 20 miles off the coast.
The Iranian Crescent Moon Society says negotiations are underway with the International Red Crescent to unload the supplies onto the coast of Gaza.
if negotiations fail, the ship will sail to Cairo.
Another 30 tons of humanitarian aid Iran has sent to Gaza via Cairo still remains in al-Areesh, only kilometers away from the strip.



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

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