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In Ahwaz, capital of Khuzestan province were February 18 three men hanged.
Their names are not known, all three were convicted of murder.


Ashraf Kalhori,who was in 2006 convicted to death by stoning for adultry is according to daily Etemad in imminent danger of execution.
Her lawyer told the newspaper that they halted the execution in 2006 and that they were hoping that she will be pardoned, but are informed that she will be among the first groups being executed in Tehran.


Iran Human Rights has published its annual report about the yearly executions in Iran.The actual number of the executions in Iran is much higher then the reported 282 executions.
Not always are executions announced. At this moment an additional 70 reports of execution are in the proces of being confirmed.
In case of confirming these cases, the actual number will exceed 350.
According to a recent report by Amnesty International, at least 346 people have been executed in 2008 in Iran.
All the news published by Iran Human Rights is based on the verified reports in official Iranian media. Only in rare cases they referred to sources that have proven to be very reliable.
A spokesman for Iran Human Rights network said that the increase in number of the executions is in line with a general deterioration in the human rights situation in Iran.
The complete report can be read here.


BBC reports that 70 students were arrested.
They protested among other things to the re-bury of war dead from the Iran-Iraq War in the grounds of the Amir Kabir university in Tehran.
A group of students carried banners, complaining that their campus was being turned into a cemetery. Others also said the Evin prison in Tehran was being turned into a university - because of the number of students being held there.
Witnesses said there were clashes between the protesting students, members of the security forces and other students loyal to the government.

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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