Iran: fact, fiction

Irna reported that Monday in Markazi province. three drugstraffickers were hanged.



According toReuters Tuesday 14 people will be hanged in the citypark, convicted for the bombings in Zahedan last May.
Fars newsagency reported that familymembers of the victims were invited.
Fars reported also that one of the convicted men to be hanged, is the brother of Abdelmalek Rigi.
The same Fars newsagency reported June 6 already that this brother was hanged.
PressTV also reports about the executions.
source: in.reuters.com



Mohammad Reza Haddadi is on the executionlist of July 16.
In 2004 he was sentenced to dead for a murder he committed when he was 15 year old.
He confessed to the murder, but retracted the confession during his trial, saying he had confessed only because his two co-defendants had offered to give his family money if he did so. His co-defendants later withdrew their testimony that had implicated him and were sentenced to yail.
Haddadi was sentenced to death but the execution was postponed.
May 27, the Head of the judiciary halted the execution again and ordered a review of the case.
Although, according to an interview with Mohammad Reza's brother in dayly Sarmayeh no trial sessions have been held, the execution was nevertheless scheduled for 16 July.
StopChildExecutions urges everybody to write to the responsible authorities in Iran.
source: StopChildExecutions


July 12, 26 days after he disappeared during a demonstration on 15 June, the authorities told the mother of Sohrab Aarabi 19, that he was killed by gunshots on June 15.
His mother, Parvin Fahimi, a member of the Mothers for Peace organization,was summoned by the Revolutionary Court and referred to the Investigatory Bureau (Agahi), and asked to identify Sohrab from among several photographs of corpses.
His body had arrived at the coroner’s office on 19 June, five days after his disappearance.
Aarabi died of a gun-shut wound on his heart but it is not clear if he was first injured and taken to a hospital and died later or that he died on the street on 15 June.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran asks what happened in this and similar cases of disappeared people and calls for an independent investigation and a full account of the causes of Sohrab Aarabi’s death, and appropriate follow-up by the Judiciary.
source: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran


Reporters without Borders reports that after a month of unrest onrust, 41 journalists are detained in Iran.
Five most recent arrests are: photographers Tohid Bighi and Majid Saidi , and journalists Henghameh Shahidi,Somaieh Nosrati and Said Matinpour.
Like all the others their families have had no news of their condition.
source: RSF



.Green brief no.26




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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