Iran: numbers

Newsagency Shomal reported that Thursday in the city of Sari, not only Abdollah Farivar who was convicted of adultry was hanged, but also another person.
The name, sex or age was not revealed, but they were convicted of immoral relationship.

February 22 are in Evinprison in Tehran three men hanged.
The men, Mansour (34), Aziz (25) and Hasan (25) were according to daily Iran, convicted for murder.



According to Iranpressnews 16 convicts have been transferred to Evin prison for execution.
Hani Khandar, Aziz Mohseni and Hamid Mohammadi are among those to be executed.
All three are convicted of "corruption on earth".
The prisoners have all been tortured during arrest.



Iran urged Pakistan to secure its borders.
The Iranian Foreign Minister says that bandits and terrorist groups who strive to strain Tehran-Islamabad relations should be seriously cracked down.
The province of Sistan-Baluchistan, which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan, has witnessed a rise in terrorist activities by arms smugglers and Pakistani-based armed terrorist groups, such as Jundullah who murdered 16 policemen last year.
In recent months Iranian forces have tightened security and adopted new security measures along the country's borders. Close to 120 insurgents have been killed and many others arrested.
The Minister als asked Islamabad to to increase its efforts to ensure the release of in November 2008 abducted Iranian diplomat Heshmatollah Attarzadeh Niyaki.



Tehran warned Pakistan about the "silent massmurder" by Taliban in the pakistan border town of Parachinar.
Members of Shia faith are being killed by Sunni Taliban.
Although there was few attention for it in (western)media , there were in recent months in Kurram Agency of which Parachinar is the capital, killings of 25 to 30 people a day, or,like other reports mention, a total of 1,300 people.
An Iranian parlementarian said that except for Shia countries, like Iraq and Iran, nor human rights organizations, nor media has published about this "clear genocide".
Past 19 months the 550,000 residents have been suffering shortages of vital supplies, as all roads connecting the region to Pakistan have come under Taliban control.
Most reliefconvoys did not reach the town,while they came under attack by militants, who generally kill the drivers and confiscate the cargoes of food and medicine.



Some 90 kilometers of the Karkheh River in Khuzestan province is polluted by oil of the Dehloran-Ahvaz pipeline.
Water supplies of the cities near the river were cut to prevent issues of water contamination.
There has been no report on the damage of the contamination.
The Persian Gulf Oil leakage at Iran's Abouzar rig has contaminated the waters of Kharg island.
Emergency workers have been dispatched to the area to prevent the spread of the contamination to the coast of Bushehr province.


The Dutch ambassador in Tehran has got confirmation that Abdullah Al Mansouri is sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Al Mansouri lives in The Netherlands since 1988 and is Dutch citizen.
In The Netherlands he was involved at Amnesty International and the independence of Ahwaz(Khuzestan province).
The Dutch Foreign Minister said that the Netherlands will continue to lobby on his behalf.


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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