Iran: values

The father of Fariba Payooh, a journalist/blogger who was arested August 22, tells that his daughter still is in solitary confinement. He says that solitary confinement is the absolute psychological torture. It is a violation of human rights.
An interview with him is here.
Faribah Payooh worked as a journalist for ILNA and Etemad Melli. She also kept a personal weblog (“Beyond the Rain”).
She is detained in ward 209 of Evin prison.
source: hra-iran.net



Ebrahim Goudarzvand Changini has stabbed as a 17-year-old boy during a fight the 17-year-old Valiollah Pirmardvand Changini.
He is sentenced to death for this and the verdict is going through final approval stages .
Thursday, the HRA arranged a meeting between the family of the victim in their house in Louchan-Roudban and Fridayprayers imam of Louchan, members of the City Council and several members of Mothers for Peace.
The meeting was organized in an effort to get family’s consent and save the life of the young death row inmate.
Despite all the efforts, the victim’s family maintained they wanted the Qisis to take place.
source: hra-iran.net



August 27 is the body of Mohammad-Javad Pornadakh buried in Gilan-Gharb in Kermanshah.
Kurdistan Human Rights Defense Organization reports that he was a student in the field of Petrochemicals in Isfehan University,andis killed during post-election violence.
Unconfirmed sources report he was killed after his arrest and sometime later his body was moved to Isfehan’s coroner office and was identified by his family members.
His family members have been put under pressure to hold no mourning ceremonies and the publication of any news regarding his death, but have been advised to give a traffic accident as the cause of their son’s death.
source: ihrv.org


The Iranian Central Bank, (CBI), predicts that by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2010) . the inflation rate will be below two digits.
The bank announced in August that the annual point-to-point rate of inflation had gone down to 14 percent from 29.5%.
The inflation rate is calculated from the prices of 395 goods and services.
Early September, CBI announced that liquidity growth rate fell from 15.9 percent in July 2008, to 6.5 percent in July, 2009.
To achieve this the bank had pulled in "bonds and traveler checks with no back up" to reduce "liquidity growth rate .
source: PressTV


At the fourth trial in branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Salavati, held against detainees arrested during post-election events were as ISNA reported, Mohsen Mirdamadi, Mohsen Safaei-Farahani, Saeed Shariati, Behzad Nabavi, Abdullah Ramazanzadeh, Faizullah Arab-Sorkhi, Kian Tajbakhsh, Mohsen Aminzadeh, Syed Mostafa Tajzadeh, Sadegh Norouzi, Shahab Tabatabaei, Hedayat Aghaei, Hamzeh Ghalebi, Saeed Laylaz, Ali Tajernia, Mohammad Ghochani, Masoud Bastani and Mohammad-Reza Jalaipour on trial.
This, in spite of the publication of an article indicating the issuance of orders for Mohammad Ghochani and Jalaipour’s releases.
Ghodratullah Alikhani, a member of Parliament’s special committee said the action is illegal.
source: ihrv.org


Yesterday threatened Khamenei during Fridayprayers to arrest Karroubi.
The website rahesabz.net quoted Rafsanjani, who said that Khamenei already issued an order for Karroubi's arrest.
An anonymous source confirmed the report, but said the order was issued at least two weeks ago.
source: NY Times





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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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