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Blogger and studentactivist Alireza Firouzi,who was charged in the sex-scandal at Zanjan university, was arrested Monday April 6, 2009, by the Zanjan prosecutor general and taken to the Zanjan prison.
The prosecutor has made a second charge to him based on Firouzi's writings on his weblog.
Firouzi, member of Zanjan University Muslim Society and the Center for Strengthening of Unity, Human Rights Activist in Iran, and writer of articles for national newspapers,is also charged in the case of 15 students who tried to stop a university official from taking advantage of a female university student.
The official was sentenced to 30 lashes and payment of retributory fees, while the fifteen university students have been denied their education, and some have been arrested and placed in prison.
source: hra-iran.org



Ali Nejati, President of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Union,who was arrested March8 and brought to an unknown place, is imprisoned in the Intelligence Detention Center in Ahwaz. His wife visited him on 6 April 2009 for a few minutes.
His lawyer told that he learned on April 6 that Nejati was being held in solitary confinement in the Intelligence Detention Center in Ahwaz for a case filed by Branch Two of the Security Prosecution Court in Shoush.
Nejati and four other members of the Executive Board of the Union, was previously prosecuted on 17 and 23 February 2009. The attorney has yet to be officially informed of the results of their trial.
In the past years is the pressure on independent trade-unionist movements in Iran has increased.
Iran Human Rights Organization asks the Iranian government to respect national and international labor rights and release all imprisoned trade unionists, including Ali Nejati, Mansour Osanloo, Ebrahim Madadi, Mohsen Hakimi and Farzad Kamangar.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Iran plans a new approach to punish drug dealers and control the drug plague in the country.
There will 11 hard labor camps be established as a complementary approach to prisons.
The commander of the police says the convicts will not learn any skills in the camps but the pressures of hard labor will be a part of their punishment.
Around the country 140,000 persons between 24 and 32 years are in prison for drugsrelated charges.
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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