Iran: car

January 27th were four men hanged in the prison of the city of Mashhad, Khorasan province.
The men were unidentified but daily Qods reported that they were convicted for kidnapping and rape of a boy.

In the prison of the city of Kazeroun, Fars province, is according to ISCAnews, on January 27th a man hanged.
The man, Hassan A. (28) was convicted of a murder 6 years ago.


Four months ago, September 2008 is Bulgarian truckdriver Zhivko Roussev, from Gulubovo, Bulgaria,
arrested in Iran on charges of carrying 135kg of heroin.
Iranian authorities told the Bulgarian embassy in Tehran that in Iran, anyone caught with more than 100g of heroin faces the gallows, regardless of nationality.


The Iranian Cartoon House has invited artists from around the world to participate in the country's Car International Cartoon Web Contest.
Cartoonists can send their work to cartoonscar@gmail.com until Feb. 18, 2009.
Selected works will be exhibited online.
Press-TV also reports that the contest will be sponsored by Saipa and Citroën.
There will be two sections on the themes of 'Car' and 'The future Car'.
More then 1850 artworks from 40 counties have been submitted and organizers estimate the number of countries to reach over 60.
Totally there are five prizes to win in the categories.
There will be an exhibition of the selected works in Tehran art galleries.


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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