Iran: possibility

February 19 in the prison of Sari Abdollah Farivar Moghadam has been hanged.
Originally Moghadam was sentenced to death by stoning for adultry, but this verdict was changed in death by hanging.
Shadi Sadr, lawyer of the Stop Stoning Campaign, told that this was the first time that someone sentenced to death by stoning has been hanged.


Reports say that Amir Khaleghi (18), who is sentenced to death for a murder he alledgedly committed when he was 16-years-old, is scheduled to be executed in Tehran’s Evin prison on Sunday February22.

Hossein Toranj , who was sentenced to death for stabbing a man during a fight in 2003 when he was 17-years-old, has been pardoned by the victims family and after the bloodmoney is paid, he will be released soon.


February 18, members of the security forces, police, and plainclothes agents destroyed a Sufi house of worship in Isfahan.It was located next to the tomb of the great poet and dervish Naser Ali at the historical Takht-e Foulad cemetery.
Because more and more Sufi houses of worshipping are destroyed in Iran, several of the local dervishes were spending nights at the house to keep watch.
They were detained and transferred to a police station and their mobile phones were taken away.
One of the dervishes told RFE/RL that water and electricity were cut off and the walls of the tomb were destroyed with a bulldozer.
They also destroyed the library and took carpets and other properties.
In recent years Gonabadi dervishes are under heavy persecution of conservative clerics and the government.
Accusations are that Sufism is a deviation from true Islam.Sufi's have been arrested and been sentenced to lashings.


Bahrain stopped negotiations about a gasdeal with Iran after an Iranian member of parliament had criticized the shah for giving up Iran's right to its 14th province, which is now Bahrain.
Following, Bahrain left the negotiations and people of Iran are prevented from traveling to the country.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Iran respects the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of all neighboring and regional countries and has no claim on Bahrain.


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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