Iran: stuck

Ahmad Batebi's picture, taken at the studentsdemonstrations in 1999, appeared on the cover of The Economist, as a result of which he was foltered imprisoned to fifteen years.
After he fled Iran he was granted asylum in the USA. He gave an interview to "60 minutes" from CBSNewsonline.




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source: cbsnews.com





According to Reporters without Borders currently not only Roxana Saberi, but seven other journalists and two cyberdissidents are imprisoned in Iran.
Among them are:
Mohammad Sadegh Kabodvand,imprisoned since 2007 in Evinprison. In appeal the court upheld his 11-year jail sentence for creating a human rights organization in Kurdistan.
Mohammad Hassin Falahieh Zadeh, a journalist who worked for the TV station Al-Alam while freelancing for many Arab news media. He was arrested in 2006 and sentenced in 2007 to 3 years in prison and a huge fine. He is since Februar in solitary confinement in Evin prison and suffers from thalassemia, a hereditary condition that causes anemia.
Massoud Kurdpoor ,a Kurdish teacher and journalist who was sentenced to a year in prison in 2007 on a charge of “anti-government propaganda in interviews for foreign and enemy news media.
Online journalist and cleric Mojtaba Lotfi was arrested in Qum after posting a sermon of an opponent of president Ahmadinejad.A special court for the clergy sentenced him on 29 November to four years in prison.
Kaveh Javanmard of the weekly Karfto was in 2007 sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Bahman Totonchi, a former contributor of Karfto has been held since 18 November 2008 in Sanandaj prison, where he still has not been formally charged.
The blogger Hossein Derakhshan is since November 1, 2008, held in a unknown place.
His arrest was officially confirmed in December.
source: rsf.org




The president of Iranian Bank Melli Iran is replaced by the former president of Bank Sepah, another state bank.
This is the third change during the Ahmadinejad's term.
Reports say that Bank Melli is dealing with severe financial problems due to the sanctions as well as lending over $5 billion to support the government's plans to create jobs.
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.
Poster amnesty.nl