Iran: fiction and reality

Amnesty International reports that Mohsen Abdolkhani and Hamid Karimnia, despite the fact that European Court of Human Rights Tuesday ruled that they had been arbitrarily detained in Turkey still are not released.
Abdolkhani and Karimnia are two ex-members of People’s Mojahedin Organization in Iran (PMOI), and would face a real risk of death or ill-treatment if returned to Iran or Iraq. They are recognized as refugees by UNHCR.
They are imprisoned for over a year.
source: amnesty international



GlobalVoicesOnline report that human rights activist and blogger Shiva Nazar Ahari, is released on bailbond from Evinprison after 100 days.
She spent 33 days in isolated confinement.


Converted christians Maryam Razandi, Ashraf Onidi, Mehdi Mohammadi, Mobina Lak, Nariman Sharifi, Shahin and Shahnam Yar-Mohammad Tosaki are released on bail September 2nd, after being arrested July 29th in Tehran with 25 other christians.
Most were released after “extensive interrogation” but the seven converts were transferred to Evin prison.
September 16 they were tried for "apostasy".
They could face the death penalty for “apostasy” as they abandoned Islam.


PressTV reports that Ahmadinejad in New York at a meeting with students said that religious minorities are not persecuted and can live freely in Iran.
Under the constitution it says that recognized religious minorities have the right to elect representatives of their own.
source:PressTV


Akbar Ganji wrote a comment for CNN about the elections in Iran and the aftermath.
He writes among other things that Iran's leaders must be charged for denying democratic freedom to their citizens.
He also says that worldleaders should avoid any recognition of Ahmadinejad and that the Iranian people reject Ahmadinejad's claim to represent them.
Akbar Ganji is a leading Iranian dissident and pro-democratic activist. Hij was six years jailed in Evinprison of Tehran for his reporting on human rights violations in Iran
Since his release he lives in the USA.
He is the author of the book "The Road to Democracy in Iran" (MIT Press, 2008).
source: CNN


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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.
Poster amnesty.nl