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Daily Iran reported that 19 Augustus two men are hanged in the prison of Isfahan.
The men, Mansour (51) and Meysam (24) were convicted for drugstrafficking and murder.
source: iranhr.net


Thursday the first Iranian ocean liner was launched in a ceremony.
The ship, named "Iran-Arak"was built in Hormuzgan, and is 185 meters long, 30 meters wide and 18 meters tall. It weighs over 7000 tons and loads more then 30,000 tons cargo or 2,200 containers.
It is built by Iran Shipbuilding and Offshore Industries Company (ISOICO) at the cost of $50 million.
Ahmadinejad said at the launching ceremony that Iran is to ban purchase of foreign ships in order to support the domestic industry.
source: payvand.com


August 19 is Ayatollah Boroujerdi, after spending almost nine months out of his ten-year imprisonment in exile, unexpectedly transferred from Yazd Central Prison to Evin Prison.
The dissident cleric has been detained for three years already and suffers serious healthproblems.
Since he in May published an open-letter to the UN Secretary General regarding the illegitimacy of the current Iranian regime and demanding international support to hold a free referendum,he is in solitary confinement.
He also went on hungerstrike and was hospitalized numerous times.
source: hra-iran.net




Freelance journalist and HRAI public relations officer in Ahvaz, Abolfazl Abedini has been arraignedd yesterday for the third time at District 12 of the Revolutionary Court in Ahvaz.
The latest charge is: belonging to an illegal entity, namely, HRAI.
He and his lawyer Mohammad Oliyai Far,pleaded not guilty, maintaining that HRAI is not an illegal group.
This latest charge had already been listed, but is was the first time it was introduced as a separate charge.
This is the third time that Abedini has appeared in a summary hearing at the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court after his initial arrest on July 2nd 2009.
Abedini suffers acute heartproblems and his lawyer asks for his immediate release.
source: hra-iran.org



Sohrab Leghaii, a Bahaii citizen of Ghaemshahr in the Mazandaran province, was arrested July 8,and since then there is no information.
He made a short phonecall to his family but did not say anything about his whereabouts or his condition.
In December, intelligence agents raided and searched his house and confiscated some of his CDs and books.
August 18, in Sari, seven security agents arrested mrs.Didar Hashemi, 24, of Bahaifaith and searched her house.
While the search was going on, the agents refused to show a warrant and behaved in a way that a non-Bahai neighbor intervened and decried the agents’ actions as illegal and contrary to religious norms.
Following this the agents went and returned within the hour with a warrant for the neighbor’s house.
source: hra-iran.net


During Fridayprayers, hardline cleric Ahmad Jannati, who also heads the Guardian Council, asked for the arrest of the leaders of the post-election unrest.
It was a clear reference to defeated moderate presidential candidates Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi.
source: reuters.com


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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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