Iran: threats

The General Prosecutor of Iran said that Iran will not allow threats against national security.
He told IRNA that no one is questioned or tried on the basis of having a different religion or belonging to a different sect, the only thing that the government will not allow is an activity that threatens national security.
If any group breaches the law, the judiciary system will oppose it and the government will not allow any country to interfere in the process.
About the seven Bahai' he said that although they have undertaken many illegal commercial activities, this group is going to be charged with threatening national security.
Earlier he said that members of Bahai'sect were respected as human beings but not as spies, or a political grouplet supported by Britain and Israel to create disturbances in Iran.


Human Rights Watch writes that Iran should immediately release 10 arrested students of Amir Kabir university.
At a protest against reburial of dead Iran-Iraq war soldiers on campus grounds, February 23, were 70 students arrested. Two remain in detention, but their names have not been released.

Also four students who were arrested at home, Nariman Mostafavi, Abbas Hakimzadeh, Mehdi Mashayekhi, and Ahmad Ghasaban, all belonging to the Islamic Student Organization (Anjoman-e Islami-yeh Daneshjooyan) or the National Organization for Unity (Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat) are still imprisoned.
Also Hossein Torkashvand, Majid Tavakoli, Korosh Daneshyar, and Esmail Salmanpour were arrested at the public ceremony in Tehran commemorating the first Prime Minister in Iran after the revolution of 1979.
All students are detained in Evin prison and are not allowed to contact their families or lawyers.


A Pakistani security official will Saturday hold talks with Iranian officials about the rise in terrorist activities by arms smugglers and Pakistan-based armed terrorist groups, such as Jundullah.
Last year Jundullah abducted 16 policemen and executed them on camera. Also an Iranian diplomat was abducted by unidentified gunmen.
The Iranian government asked Pakistan to increase its efforts to release the diplomat.


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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