Iran: reasons

In the prison of Sari were March 11 two men hanged.
The men, Ali Asghar F. en Ismaeil A. were according to the site of the police convicted for drugstrafficking.

source: iranhr.net



Jinous Sobhani,who was arrested in Tehran, January 14th, was released on Wednesday after paying a bail from $70,000.
Sobhani, who works on the human rights office of Shirin Ebadi and is of Baha'i faith, is not allowed by the court to get legal assistance nor have they allowed her lawyers access to seeher file.
According to her lawyer, Abdulfatah Soltani, a member of the Center for the Defense of Human Rights, the reason for her arrest is probably her work with the Center for the Defense of Human Rights and also because she is a Baha’i, although neither of these is a crime, and no other charge against her has yet been announced.
source: iranVNC.com



Reporters without Borders has published a report: "Enemies of the Internet" .
In this report they name 12 countries which have transformed their Internet into an Intranet in order to prevent their population from accessing ‘undesirable’ online information.
These countries are: Burma, China, Cuba, Egypte, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.
The entire report can be read: here (pdf).
source: Reporters without Borders



The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has answered the written questions of Dutch MP's Van Bommel, Peters and Van Dam.
This is in Dutch.
My incomplete and grammatical often wrong translation:
The Minister confirmed that the Iranian government told the Dutch Ambassador in Tehran that Abdullah Al Mansouri is convicted to 30 years in prison.
The Iranian government also told the Ambassador that Al Mansouri can appeal to this sentence.
Whether this was a fair trial is not known, while the Iranian government has not (yet) handed out papers.
Iran will not allow consular assistance, while Al Mansouri in Irans opinion is an Iranian citizen.
For this reason there has been no visit from a Dutch governmental representative to Al Mansouri.
According to Minister Verhagen the Dutch government will do its utmost to ensure Al Mansouri can be visited by Dutch governmental representatives.
source: Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

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