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GlobalVoicesOnline writes that Iran Revolutionary Guard announced on the site Gerdab (fa) the names of about 90 sites that they closed down on accusation of being involved in pornographic and anti-Islamic activities.
source: GlobalVoicesOnline.org

The execution of Shahriar, which was scheduled for April 3rd, has been postponed with at least a month.
Shahriar is convicted of a murder 4 years ago, but according to the psychiatrists he has been suffering from schizophrenia and was using heavy medication at the time of the offence.
His execution had been postponed already in Februar 2008.
source: iranhr.net

The acting judge told that the Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi has been charged with espionage.
She is suspected from under the cover of reporter contacting certain governmentemployees and gather information and documents and transferred them to American intelligence services.
The deputy prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court said there were documents in her case and that she has admitted to all of the charges.
Her lawyer says that he has not read the file yet and cannot confirm.
source: latimes.com


The fourth international IranOpen RoboCup competition was held in Qazvin from 4-6 April.
321 Iranian and foreign teams competed in robotics, there were teams from Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico and Thailand competing in 19 leagues.
The Iranian teams MRL of Qazvin Azad university and Sourena of Amir Kabir University of Technology shared the first place in The Homeleague.
Rescue Robot and Soccer small size were won by Qazvins MRL team and together with the German WFWolvesteam they shared the first place in Mixed Reality league.
Rescue Virtual Robot League and Rescue Agent Simulation were won by the SBCEteam of Shahid Behesti university.
The German Darmstadt Dribblers won the Humanoid league.
Manual Deminer league was won by Allameh Helli university and the Automatic Demining league was won by Zahedan Azad university.
These last two leagues were launched by the organizors while Iran is a country with a high number of unexploded land mines that inflict heavy casualties every year.
source: Press-TV


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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