Iran: how many?

This morning were 10 men hanged in Evin prison in Tehran.
The names of those executed are not known, but Fars newagency reports that they all were convicted murderers.
The execution of one man was postponed for one month, since the family of the man he was convicted of murdering, were not present.He watched hanging of the other 10 men before he was being taken back to his cell.
Reports from ISNA say that in the prison of Yazd six men were hanged.
Ch. R. convicted of armed robbery, A.B. and A.S. convicted of rape, and three other unidentified men convicted of drug trafficking.
The journal Qods reports that January 20th in the Ghezal Hesar prison in Tehran a man named Gholam hanged for the selling of drugs in prison.
In the prison of Isfahan are January 20th Jan Mohammad M. (41) and Reza M (34) hanged for drugstrafficking.

The judiciary in Fars province denied the news from January 13th in daily Kayhan that two men with initials M.R. and M H.A. were hanged in the city of Jahrom.
According to the newssite Jahromnews were the hangings executed in January 2008.


The daily Etemad reports that the Iranian judiciary is to free two sisters sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, after they were cleared of the charges in a retrial.
The sisters Zohreh, 28, en Azar Kabiri, 29 were arrested in February 2007 after the husband of one of them presented a film allegedly showing them with other men.
In August 2007 the two received 99 lashes for an "illegitimate relationship'' and were then freed.
They were later rearrested and sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
Iran's judiciary chief Ayatollah Shahroudi halted the verdict and said the video was not sufficient evidence for the ruling and that their living conditions had not been considered in the trial.
The lawyer of the women said the defendants could not be tried twice for the same offence.
The husbands of the women had withdrawn their complaint, declaring that the women in the video footage were not their wives.

According to their lawyer Arash and Kamiar Alaei are convicted to respectively 6 years and three years in jail for taking part in a plot to overthrow the Islamic republic with a "velvet revolution".
Their lawyer says he will appeal and ask for their release as there is no evidence proving their accusations.
The identity of the other two convicted remains still unknown.

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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