Iran: visible

Payvand did a little survey among the readers of her site where one of the questions was if people believe that Iranian government has tortured its people in the recent months since 2009 election.
The answers made clear that 9 in 10 people believe so.
Also was asked if people believe torture is a viable technique for information gathering.
This question was answered with "no" by 72% of the people.
Complete raw data of the survey is here.
source: payvand



Iranian police warned against the use of mannequins without hijab, or showing bodily curves.
Display of bow ties and neckties, and the sale of women's underwear by men are also banned,
These are part of a crackdown on Western influences and enforcement of islamic dress codes.
source: BBC



GlobalVoicesOnline reports that different blogs and sites (like parlemannews) report [fa] that two important blog services in the country are in trouble.
Persianblog is filtered and BlogFa has "technical problems".

Iran Human Rights Voice reports a conversation with rapevictim Ebrahim Sharifi.
Sharifi is student Computerscience and Italian, and in the electioncampaign of Mehdi Karroubi he was responsible for surveying voting centers.
He recently left Iran.
RadioFarda did interview him. youtube
source: ihrv.org



Syed Mehdi Niaki, a journalist and weblogger is arrested September 14 and transferred to an unknown location.
He worked for various reformist newspapers, compiled prior to the election news for Kalameh and under Khatami's presidency he was chairman of pressorganization Sinapress, which organization is forbidden by president Ahmadinejad.
His mother knew about his arrest and was threatened not to tell anybody.
She hasn't heard any news in six days.
source: ihrv.org


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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