Iran: different games

Today and tomorrow, May 26, this blog will not appear in the Dutch version. (proefondervindelijk).



Mohammadreza Haddadi, who alledgedly committed a murder when he was 15-year-old, is scheduled to be executed May 27th in Adelabad prison of Shiraz .
His lawyer wrote in his blog that Haddadi's father has been informed that his son will be hanged on Wednesday.
source: iranhr.net


Human Rights Watch calls for the Iranian government to immediately release student activist and leading defender of the rights of political prisoners Behrooz Javid-Tehrani.
Behrooz Javid-Tehrani is currently imprisoned in the section they call "doghouse" in Gohardasht prison in Karaj city, with his hands and feet cuffed.
Gohardasht Prison, (also known as Rajavi Shahr), was one of the main sites of the 1988 mass summary executions of political prisoners which killed thousands.
He has been on hungerstrike for 18 days now and his health is in danger.
The first time he was arrested in 1999 during the student protests and was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of "acting against national security."After his release he was arrested in 2005 and has been tortured and illtreated.
He was sentenced by judge Hadad of branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to four years in prison for membership in an "illegal" organization (the Iranian DemocraticFront) that "acts against state security," 40 lashes for "insulting the leadership and the state," and three-and-a-half years on charges of belonging to the Mojahedin'e Khalgh Organization (MKO).
Human Rights Watch says that his life is in immediate danger, in light of the suspicious deaths of political prisoners at Gohardasht prison.
source: hrw.org



Iran's national soccer team will use the Iranian President's plane to fly to Pyongyang to face North Korea's team.
In an interview with newspaper Etemad Melli stated the chairman of the Iranian Football Federation that the team is scheduled to play against United Arab Emirates (UAE) four days later. Therefor they have asked permission to use the presidental plane.
The game against North Korea will be held on June 6.Iran managed to defeat the Korean outfit 2-1 in their previous match in the group, held in Tehran.
Iran plays in group B with Saudi Arabia, South Korea, the UAE and North Korea.Iran is placed fourth.
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