Iran: position

The website "Activists for democracy and human rights in Iran" writes that the names of the yesterday in Isfahan executed men are Hamid Babaei (35),Mohammad Gorgi (25),Omid Noori (27)Yasin Jafari (27)Abbasali Ghasemi (30).
Three of them were convicted for drugstrafficking, two were convicted for murder.



The lawyer of the minor Rahim Ahmadi told that the execution is postponed after a direct order of the head of justice.
He was scheduled to be executed today.




The blog "Forever under construction" of Homeyra has published 3 links to short video's of Iran by travel writer Rick Steves shown January 26th in California.






Near Lake Parishan, Fars province, are in the lasts months thousands of tortoises, birds, snakes and other animals burnt to death.
Employees of the Iranian Ministry of Transport purposely have burned out the territory around the lake to lay a road between Shahringan and Parishan villages.
The distance between both villages is 5 km, in total 28 hectares of woods were burnt out.
The ministry announced that fire took place in 800 square meter territory to reduce consequences of fire.


Reporters without Borders condemns the travelban of a freelance journalist and staunch free speech activist, Abolreza Tajik.
As he was about to board a flight to Spain at Tehran’s Imam Khomeiny airport yesterday, security agents seized his passport and summoned him to appear before a revolutionary tribunal.
A member of Human Rights Defenders Centre said that Tajik was travelling to Sevilla to attend a 2-days seminar. The seminar was entitled "Iran and 30 years of Revolution." .
Tajik was a regular contributor to Bahar (suspended in 2001), Hambastegi (suspended in 2003) and Shargh (suspended in 2008).


The Iranian bank Mellat has sold about half of its offered five percent shares to private investors.
Because of the bank's upcoming privatization, 393 million of shares should have been sold,but around 340 million shares were sold at a price of about (11 cents).
The head of Iran's Privatization Organization said that Tehran Stock Exchange approved the deal, adding that the rest of the bank's shares would be sold on Saturday.
Bank Mellat plans to offer another 20 percent of its shares to the private sector within a year.


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl