Iran: question

February 28 a man is hanged in the prison of Orumieh.
The man, Mehdi Ghasemzadeh was convicted for "moharebeh", (which often means that he was involved in armed struggle against the authorities) .
He had been in prison since 2004 and was member of a group called "Ahle Hagh".


The correspondent from newspaper NRC reports that human rights defender Mohammad Ali Dadkhah said that the prisonterm for Abdullah Al Mansouri is 30 years and not 11 like he said before.
The lawyer said that the error was made, due to the fact that he has a client with the same surname, but a different first name, who also fled Iran in the 80's.
Information about Al Mansouri is not known to him.


Reports say that Iranian-American journalist Roxanna Saberi 31, is arrested February 10 in Tehran.
She is raised in Fargo, North-Dakota and in 1997 crowned to Miss North-Dakota.
She is working as a journalist in Iran for 6 years.
More than a year ago her press credentials were revoked by the authorities in Tehran, but she still was allowed to write short stories.
The reasons of her arrest are unknown.


An Iranian newspaper reported that Mehdi Karoubi, the reformist Iranian candidate for president, protested against the demolition of the Sufi house in Isfahan.
In a letter to Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, he asked under what right the place of worship was destroyed. He wrote that the Gonabadi dervishes are Shiíte moslems and are under pressure and restrictions.
The sect is not illegal in Iran, but many conservative clerics don't approve.
Sufimoslems and their form of mysticism arouses suspicion among orthodox Muslims, both Shiite and Sunni for centuries.


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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