Iran: tendency

Radio Free Europe writes that 50 bloggers inside and outside Iran wrote an open letter(fa) to ayatollah Khamenei.
Theye asked questions about the imprisonment and subsequent death of blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi in prison .
He was sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly insulting Iran's leaders.
Prisonauthorities told his family that he overdosed on sedatives, but the family has said that the circumstances of his death remain suspicious.
The trial against Mirsayafi was held behind closed doors.
In the letter the bloggers write that there is nothing offensive or insulting about Mirsayafi's blogentries. Khatami had said in a speech last year that there is freedom to criticize the leader.
Also Reporters without Borders called for an independent inquiry into the blogger's death and they published Mirsayafi's last letter (fr).
source: rferl.org



According to PresssTV presidents hopeful Mir Hossein Mousavi said at a meeting with religious leaders that he soon will reveal a plan to stimulate Iran's economy despite falling oilrevenues.
He said that he during the next ten days holds meetings with 500 industrialists to discuss the future economic program and that he looks forward to their views on the subject. He was the last prime-minister from Iran and is widely remembered for getting the country away from the economical crisis after the Iraq-Iran war.
He is currently the president of the Iranian Academy of Arts and teaches political science at Tarbiat Modarres University.
The rumours that Karroubi withdraws his candidacy for the election are denied by his party, the National Confidence party.
source: Press-tv

The court sentenced in appeal the brothers Arash and Kamyar Alaei to respectively six years and three years in prison.
They were charged with trying to soft-topple the government.
The trial for both brothers was held in Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court, and it included Mohammad Esmaili and Silvia Hatonian, who were also named as co-conspirators in a scheme to topple the government in a non-violent manner.
source: ihrv.org



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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