Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Iran: decide

StopChildExecutions in Iran reports that AFP said that the execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, which was scheduled for this morning is postponed by head of judiciary Ayatollah Shahroudi.
His lawyer also said that the Supreme Court has also asked for a review of the case.
source: scenews.blog.com



Iran unblocked Facebook just days after the website was banned.
ILNA said the site is now accessible again. The lift of the ban came a day after Iranian President Ahmadinejad denied he was behind the decision to block the site.
The site has been blocked and unblocked numerous times over the last few days.
source: latimes.com



Iran's Football Federation (IFF) has accepted the US request to hold two friendly matches between the two countries' national soccer teams.
The US Football Federation sent the invitation for October or November at Tehran's Azadi Stadium.
The IFF president said that Iran is interested in holding friendly matches against the United States,and that the first leg of the match will be held in the Iranian capital Tehran and the second leg in the US.
Iranian sports officials said that the Iran-US matches must be approved by the International Council of Iranian Physical Education.
source: Press-TV



ILNA reported that Iranian speaker for parliament Larijani was re-elected today.
241 of the 247 members of parliament participated in the voting.
Larijani was re-elected with 216 voted for and 25 against.
The speaker of parliament is elected every year and the parliament is elected ever four years.
source: news-en.trend.az



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

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