Iran: development

Yesterday is Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi released from Evin prison.
The verdict of eight years in prison is by an appealcourt reduced to a two-year suspended term and a ban from working as a reporter in Iran for five years.
There are speculations why the appealcourt the charge of espionage changed to "possessing classified information" , and reduced the sentence.
A press adviser to Iranian President Ahmadinejad said when asked whether Saberi's release was intended as a sign of goodwill toward President Obama,that people has to draw their own conclusions.
Saberi did not leave Iran yet.
source: Washington Post



Ex-political prisoner and an associate in the Coalition of Human Rights Advocates in Iran Jafar Aghdami has been sentenced to five years imprisonment.
He was released in 2007 after spending four years in the Rajae Shahr Prison, and he was arrested again in September 2008 after participating in a ceremony held in Khavaran Cemetery to pay tribute to prisoners who were mass murdered in 1988.
He spent seven months in solitary confinement in Section 209 in Evin Prison.
source: ihrv.org




The newsagency ANP reported that mayor Leers of Maastricht (The Netherlands) has heard (Dutch) from the Iranian Embassy that the prisonterm for Abdullah al-Mansouri may be reduced from thirty years to fifteen years.
It is three years ago that Abdullah al-Mansouri was captured in Syria and extradited to Iran.Last year he was convicted to thirty years in prison.
Amnesty International claims that al-Mansouri did not get a fair trial.
Soon future Leers has a conversation with the Iranian Ambassador about al-Mansouri.
source: Dagblad De Limburger


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