Iran: signed

Delara Darabi,the minor childoffender who is scheduled to be executed in a couple of days, has made paintings in prison.

They are shown on the site SaveDelara.com.
source: GlobalVoicesOnline




The reformist candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi announced his motto for the upcoming elections to more than threethousand supporters in Ahwaz.
He said that his motto is "A progressive Iran with law, justice and freedom".
Thursday he told at a gathering of a group of Iran's major producers and businessmen in Tehran the economic plans he will implement if he wins the upcoming elections.
His campaignsite Kalemeh reported that the continuously changing policies in Iran are posing major problems to economic activities in the country.
This instability even in Iran's foreign policy, has hindered Iran's trade with foreign countries and has wasted the country's economic opportunities.
He also said that the private sector has a keyrole in increasing production and job opportunities in the country. He added that the expansion of Iran's middle-classes would be an effective method to help the country's deprived and poor classes.
source: Press-TV


Iran's Statistics Center announced that the Iranian unemployment rate has reached 12.5 percent during the past winter months, this is a raise from o.6% compared to the previous year.
The center says that the number of people out of work has also grown by 0.3 percent in winter compared to fall.
Every year, 750,000 people enter the labor market. For years now, Iran fights against the relatively high unemployment rate.
Allthough it seems that president Ahmadinejads economic politics reduced unemployment figures, it has drawn criticism for the increasing inflation rates.


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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