Iran: chances

In the prison of Sirjan, Kerman province, is a man hanged.
The man, Reza was convicted for a murder eight years ago.
source: iranhr.net


The recommendation of the head of Iran’s judiciary Shahroudi, to grant amnesty to Ashraf Kalhor who was sentenced to 15 years in prison and stoning of adultery and accessory to murder was rejected by the Judicial Commission for Amnesty and Clemency.
According to this recommendation it was assumed that her stoning sentence had been cancelled. But two years later the Judicial Commission for Amnesty and Clemency decided the implementation of the verdict.
source: Change for Equality



In an interview with the newspaper Hammihan Maryam Behroozi, chairwoman of Zeinab Society,that according to a Parliament approved bill which is currently under review by the State Expediency Council, women can run for office of the president.
Women’s presidential candidature has been forbidden due to a legal interpretation of the term, “rejal,” a qualification for candidacy, as applying to only men.
There has been controversy about the issue in the past.
If the bill is approved women’s human rights will be considered more seriously and they will be treated the same as men.
source: Change for Equality



GlobalVoicesOnline writes that Iran has around 60,000 active blogs and up to 20 million people are connected to the internet.
Iranian authorities filter the access to thousands of sites, worldwide.
Not only pornographic sites, but also political or social blogs and websites.
Iran has no clear red line of what needs to be filtered or not.Also Islamic websitesites are filtered.
In the top filterranking are:
BBC Persian, AmirKabir, a student news publication, and Balatarin, a popular citizen media portal, Women’s rights activists, student movements, anti-government, political, anti-filtering and human rights blogs, Social networkingsites as Flickr and Orkut.
In the last two months Iranians have been able to access Facebook and YouTube, they also can access MySpace and Twitter.
source: GlobalVoicesOnline


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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