Iran: inspiration

May 25 and 26, this blog will not appear in the Dutch version. (proefondervindelijk).


Last Wednesday were in the prison of Shiraz four people hanged.
A woman, Afsaneh (29),convicted of extramarital relationship and murdering her husband in 2006,
An Afghan, name and age not given, convicted of raping a woman in 2005,
A man, Rasoul, convicted of keeping drugs,
A man 20, convicted for a murder, committed in 2006.
Following this information, the man was a minor when he committed the crime.
Iran Human Rights is investigating about this case.
source: iranhr.net

Iran blocked the social networksite Facebook.
ILLNA reported that the move was made to stop supporters of reformist candidate Mir Hosssein Mousavi to use the site for campaigning.
His page on Facebook has more than 5,000 supporters.
source: BBC News


Roxana Saberi,the released Iraanian-American journalist has after a short stay in Austria, returned to the USA.
Al-Jazeera reported that singing of the American national anthem helped her during her time in prison. She thanked everybody who supported her , President Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the secretary of state, North Dakota politicians, human-rights groups and the Japanese government.
Press Tv reported that everybody got thanked except for President Ahmadinejad who wrote a letter, where he insisted on a fair legal treatment.
source: english.aljazeera.net


Saturday is a 32-year-old woman arrested who is deemed to be the first Iranian serial killer.
The woman, Magan has been charged with the murder of six people including five women in Qazvin.
In her confessions said that she had taken patterns from Agatha Christie books.
The motivation for the killings was money, and the victims, most elderly women were drugged with fruit juice and strangulated.
Two male accomplices of the woman have also been arrested.
source: Fars Newsagency.


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