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French student Clotilde Reiss is arrested July 1st at Khomeini airport in Tehran on charges of esspionage.
She had photos of demonstrations on her cell-phone and sent them over the internet.
She is in Evinprison.
France's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Iranian ambassador to press its demand for her release.

source: guardian.co.uk


This week Dutch military arrested 5 Iranians on suspicion of smuggling humans.
They cashed large amounts of money, smuggling people from Iran to the Netherlands and then to UK or Canada.They also were probably drugstraffickers.
When their houses were searched, a kg of opium, fake documents, a fake gun and lots of pass photos were confiscated.
source: Trouw



The workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Companywent on strike July 5.
Due to weatherconditions (duststorms) they requested closure of the factory till better weatherconditions.
After a meeting with the manager who said that in order to shut down the company they need a higher level permission,the protestors went back to work.
The whole Khozestan province and its surroundings provinces,are under a cloud of dust that exceeded by 15% the limits of healthy standards and visibility became less than 60 meter.
source: hra-iran.net



International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that as many as two thousand individuals, including more than two-hundred prominent personalities, are under incommunicado detention in Iran.
Reports of extensive use of solitary confinement and torture against the detainees are increasing.
The Iranian Judiciary has announced a directive to criminalize cooperation with satellite television programs and “opposition” internet communication.
Since June 23 more then 20 journalists have been arrested.
Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the head of Iran’s Judiciary, has issued a directive for prosecution of individuals cooperating with satellite television networks and or active in organizations entrenched in Internet sites, on the basis of articles 498, 499, 500, 504, 508, and 510 of the Islamic Penal Code. According to this directive, the distribution of any piece of information or news through Internet or satellite networks would be considered a crime.
source: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.



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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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