Iran: judiciary

Reports of Ward 7 of Gohardasht prison say that Mahnaz Akbar Tehrani, 22 committed suicide to to escape “unbearable torture” by prison guards.
Human rights activists say that she was taken to the Protection and Security Department in prison and severely tortured to a point that she had to be helped to walk to her cell and was left with a bloody face.
Female prisoners in solitary cells get one ration of food per day and are kept hungry.
There have been reports that female prisoners are being raped by guards as a means of torturing them.
The activists who requested anonymity said that they are only allowed to use the bathroom twice in 24 hours, are banned from taking a shower, and live in inhuman hygienic conditions.
source: IranFocus



All four main Iranian presidential candidates have indicated their readiness to reveal their personal assets to the country's judiciary.
Saturday president Ahmadinejad made the suggestion in a television electiondebate with his rival Mehdi Karroubi.
The head of the Karroubi campaign headquarters said that he and all the members of Karroubi camp would provide lists of their personal assets.
Also the personal secretaries of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mohsen Razaei said they are ready to announce their camps assets.
Thousands extra police forces have been tasked with maintaining public security as votes go to polls on Friday.
Thursday hooligans attacked the Center for Strategic Research following a nationally-televised debate.
source: Press-TV


In Koy-e Khajeh city , Sistan-e-Baluchestan province, 2,927 kilograms of opium and 1,780 kilograms of morphine were seized by the police.
More than 3,500 Iranian security personnel have been killed fighting drug smugglers since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
source: english.farsnews.com



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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