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The student of industrial management in the Independent University of Qazvin, Hood Yazerlo was exiled to Raja’i prison in the city of Karaj after confirmation of his sentencing.
He was sentenced to a three-year jail term in exile, after being summoned on May 24, 2008, before the court.He spent nine months in section 209 in Evin Prison.
His mother, Nazila Dashti received the same sentence.
Both were charged with supporting an anti-regime party.
source: ihrv.org


On March 5, Maryam Rostampour, 27, and Marzieh Amirzadeh, 31, were detained in Tehran and have been held in the women’s section of Evin Prison since then.
Both women were converted to christianity.
They are charged with attempts against national security and propaganda against the regime by promoting Christianity.
Under Islamic law this is heresy and punishable by death.
source: ihrv.org


Security forces have arrested 104 people accused of being devil worshipers, seizing drugs and alcohol during a party in Shiraz.
Mehr agency reported that the Revolutionary Guards had been investigating the group, whose members cut themselves and sucked their blood, leading to the arrests on Sunday.
source: nytimes.com


Iran's Oil Minister said that the country has reached self-sufficiency in producing oil and gas pipelines.
During the past four years the country invested 66 million dollars in the pipeline producing sector to meet its domestic demand.
Some 45,000 kilometers of pipelines have been laid across the country to transit gas and oil to the cities and villages.
87 percent of urban areas and 30 percent of rural regions have access to gas in the country, the government wants to increase these figures to respectively 90 and 40 percent.
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.
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