Iran: ratio

May 27 is a man hanged.
The man, A.Gh. was convicted for a murder he committed in 2005, when he was 19-year-old.
ISCA reports that the execution of two other men is postponed.
source: iranhr.net


According to the site "Iranian activists for human rights and democracy" is execution of Mehdi Mazroei postponed.

source: iranhr.net


Various newsagencies in Iran report that plain-clothed agents found a bomb in the toilets of an airplane shortly after it took off from the city of Ahvaz.
After the plane made an emergency landing it resumed its flight after the bomb was defused.

source: BBCnews


The presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi said that he supports womens rights.
During an election speech in Tehran he said that laws that are unfair to women should be reformed.
His wife, Zahra Rahnavard and the wife of Mehdi Karroubi, the other reformist candidate, both are taking an active role on the campaign trail.
source: BBCnews



Campaigning for the Iranian presidential elections is going as far as You Tube.
Global Voices Online has videos.
The first video compares Mir Hossein Mousavi and president Ahmadinejad and does so on the tune of the old song: "Anything you can do, I can do better".
In the end the text says that Mousavi is more rational than Ahmadinejad.




A controversial video shows how former president Khatami told an ethnic joke about an Azeri from Ardebil who did something stupid, although his intention was to show that the Ardebilis are geniuses.
Over this video protested some hundred Azeri students against Khatami for making this joke.
They asked Mousavi, who is Azeri himself, to condemn Khatami. Khatami has claimed the film is a fake montage.

Another video shows reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi and his supporters forcefully broke through the gates of Amir Kabir University when he was banned by university authorities from delivering speech.


Global Voices online also writes that Khatami through internet (Face Book, Twitter and Yahoo Messenger)takes part in an internet discussion.
Blogger Sahel Salamt writes (fa) that these elections are the first where a high- ranking politician answers directly questions on the internet.


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