Iran: democracy

In the prison of Bojnord, North Khorasan province is February 1st a man hanged.
The man, H. H was convicted for drugstrafficking.




The woman rightsactivists Nafiseh Azad, Bigard Ebrahimi and a third person were arrested Friday in the mountains of northern Tehran while collecting signatures for the One Million Signature Campaign.
The investigative judge ordered that Azad remains detained and is charged with actions against the state through the spreading of propaganda against the state.
Expectations are that Ebrahimi and the third person will be released after bail is set.
Azad objected to the arrest order and the charges against her.


The womans rightsactivist Alieh Eghdam Doust who was sentenced in appeal to three years in prison is transferred under guard supervision to the Office of Implementation of Sentences at the Revolutionary Courts.
She was sentenced to three years and four months in jail plus 20 lashes for her participation in the woman's protest from June 12th 2006 in Tehran.
The appeals courts upheld three years of the mandatory prison sentence.
According to Nasim Ghanavi one of the lawyers in this case, her only option is to request a judicial review which is allowable through amendment 18 of the Law Regulating Public and Revolutionary Courts.


January 31st started in Iran the first of ten days celebrating the 30 years
anniversary of the islamic revolution which started the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The festivities highlight the homecoming of Ayatollah Khomeini, whose return to Iran after 14 years of exile led to the topple of the regime of the shah in 1979.
Churches and school bells rang out mixing with train and boat sirens at 9.33 local time, the time that the airplane with Khomeini landed.
Government buildings in Tehran were draped in green, white and red bunting of the Iranian flag.
President Ahmadinejad said Saturday in a speech that the revolution is moving forward stronger than before.
Reformers say they were still having to fight for some of the goals of the revolution.


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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