Iran: difficult

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The Student Council of Defense of Human Rights in Kurdistan reported that the political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani, more then two weeks ago was transferred to Section 1 (torture chambers) of the Gohardasht Prison, also called "Dark hole" or "End of the Road".
He also has been beaten there by batons while blindfolded and handcuffed.
Familymembers say that he is on the 16th day of his hungerstrike and his mental and physical condition worsens.
Since the student demonstrations of 1999 he was in prison for short or long periods and the past four years he was imprisoned in Gohardasht prison.
source: eastkurd.blog.co.uk


The International Women’s Media Foundation awarded Iranian journalist Zhila Baniyaghoub with its 2009 prize for Courage in Journalism.
She receives this award for her work as independent journalist who is a managing editor of the website for the Iranian Women’s Center.
In the statement it says that she has ignored the censuring of her reports, and as a result she has been unemployed repeatedly.
source: ihrv.org



ILNA reported that a group of family members of workers who died in the explosion at the Babnizo and Ba-Amiri mines in Kerman province met with a representative in parlement from the cities of Zarand and Kohbenan.
One of the dead workers’ children criticised the authorities and said at the start of the meeting that this is not only about to get financial restitution, but that everybody has lost a beloved person and they demand an answer regarding the incompetence that led to the explosion that cost the lives of 12 miners.
The end of April the explosion occurred in the coalmine and since then the authorities did little to find the cause.
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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