Iran: prospect

Delara Darabi, who is sentenced to death for a murder which she alledgedly committed when she was 17, is scheduled to be executed in four days.
Daily Etemaad reported that her lawyer told that the only hope is that the family of the offended accept blood money, something they have denied so far.
Delara Darabi is already 5 yeaars imprisoned in the prison of Rasht.
Prisonauthorities denied Visitation rights frequently and the family have sometimes been turned away on arrival.
In 2007, Delara Darabi attempted to commit suicide, but was saved when cellmates alerted prison officials.
source: iranhr.net


The trial against Kayvan Samimi, the managing editor of the banned publication Nameh, was held without him and his lawyer, and he was found guilty.
After the trial, and without sending a notice to Mr. Kayvan Samimi, the court order was sent to an office in charge of serving the issued sentence.
Amir Kabirnewsletter writes that this raises his prospect of possible imprisonment.
source: ihrv.org


April 13 were 20 students at Anoushirvan University in Babol prevented from entering the campus, insulted, and beaten by plainclothes security officers.
Students at the university started an unlimited sit in on 11 April 2009, after they were threatened by university authorities.
The students had requested to drop the disciplinary sentences issued recently against 11 students, to recognize the University’s Islamic Students Association and allow the members to act, and to release their colleagues at Amirkabir University.
The 11 students, Ali Taghipour, Hesam Bagheri, Hamidreza Jahantigh, Mohsen Barzegar, Iman Sadeghi, Ahmad Mohammadnia, Siavash Saliminejad, Nima Nahva, Moein Islamijam, Mohammad Elmi, and Ali Kiani have disciplinary charges and sentences for celebrating National Student Day on 5 December 2008.
The Campaign was also informed that Ali Taghipour, Ahmad Mohammadnia, Hamidreza Jahantigh en Mohsen Barzegar have been on hungerstrike since April 11.
After the first day of the peaceful demonstration has the Supreme Leader’s representative threatened them in his noon prayer sermon.
He said among other things that the students should be permanently expelled.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Wednesday is in Isfahan at the Royan Institute the first cloned goat in Iran born.The goat belongs to a research project which is aimed at creating animals that are able to produce tPA (tissue plasminogen activator).
The institute already cloned a lamb.
The institute says they have also 40 pregnant cows, of which they hope pregnancies will be successful.
source: ISNA



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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