Iran: held or hold

According toIRNA is in the prison of the city of Amol a man hanged.
The man, Mohammad S. (also known as Fattah) was convicted of keeping 472 grams of heroin.
The age of the man and the exact date of execution was not mentioned.
source: iranhr.net


Yesterday evening the program Nova on Dutch television broadcasted a taped interview with Mehdi Karroubi.
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Norway accuses the Iranian government of confiscating the Nobelprize from Shirin Ebadi. The Norwegian foreign ministry says that the gold Nobel medal and her award diploma had been removed from her bank box together with other personal items.
Authorities also froze the bankaccount of her husband Javad Tavassolian.
source: Reuters, AFP




November 24th started the acton (fa) "I am Atefe". Atefeh Nabavi is the first woman to receive a prisonsentence for participating in protests following the Presidential elections in June. 2009. She is sentenced to 4 years in jail.
The call is for all those who participated in protests following the elections, especially the June 15th protest,to write in support of Atefeh and in objection to the harsh sentence issued in her case by the Judiciary.



Nahid Keshavarz and Sarah Imaninan members of onemillionssignaturecampaign, were acquitted on the charge of actions against national security through a ruling issued by an appeal court.
Initially they were sentenced to a suspended sentence in jail
source: we change


International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that scores of students are arrested throughout the country, prior to National Students Day, December 7, 16Azar.
Arrests are reported from Isfahan, Babol, Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari, Shiraz, Ilam, Kermanshah, Ghazvin, and in Tehran in Azad University, Tehran University, Amirkabir and Elm-o-Sanaat.
The Iranian judiciary doesn't inform relatives about the grounds for the arrest or about the place of detention.
According to the Amir Kabir newsletter are more then 60 students arrested in the past month.

A not complete list:

16 November: Lida Mohammadi, Sorveh Vaisi, Amaj Rahimi, Ahmad Esmaieli, and Pakhshan Azizi, were arrested.

17 November: Neda Eskandari and Khadijeh Ghahremani, students at Shiraz University were arrested.

19 November: At least 18 students are reported arrested in Tehran.
Abbas Hakimzadeh was arrested at home. Seven members of the Liberal Students group, including Sorena Hashemi, Alireza Mousavi, Farzan Raoufi, Sina Shokuhi, Alborz Zahedi, and Ehsan Dolatshah are arrested, agents of the Information Ministry attacked Ehsan Dolatshah’s house.
Six students of Alameh Tabatabai in Tehran, including Hamid Ghahvechian, Alireza Mousavi, Ahmad Mirhaheri, Alireza Zargar, Amir Kazempour, Tina Shokuhi, and Yaser Masoumi, are arrested in a coffee shop in Tehran.

That same day were two students, Rasoul Alinejad and Behrouz Faridi of Azad University in Tabriz, arrested.

20 November: Twentyfour students at Ferdowsi University in Mash’had were summoned to the Disciplinary Committee for participating in the protests of 4 November.

22 November: Eight students at Mazandaran university are each sentenced to 6 months in prison and 15 floggings.The students are Milad Hosseini Koshtan, Ali Nazari, Siavash Safavi, Ali Donyari, Maziar Yazdani Nia, Shoaneh Merikhi, Ali Abbasi, and Rahman Yaghoubi.
Also at 22 November, 20 students at Gilan University are summoned to the Disciplinary Court for participating in a protest against former Culture Minister cultuur Safar Harandi at 9 November,
and 50 students at Azad university in Najafabad, Isfahan province are summoned to the Disciplinary Committee for participation in the November 4th demonstration.

23 November: Mehdi Arabshahi, is summoned to the court in Tehran. In Ilam are students arrested, including Arash Khandel, Morad Basereh.

Qazvin University: Payam Heydar Ghazvini, Farhad Fathi, and Saieed Sakakian were arrested.
18 students at Shiraz University are arrested.
Banaie, Jalalli, Saied Rezaie, Zahedi, Zohourian, Aref, Pourfathi, Taheri, Safarpour and Poursultan are in Adelabad prison.
Dr. Masiholah Haghighatjou was arrested 4 November. Ali Saleh Pour, Kazem Rezaie, Yahya Tavousi, Neda Eskandari, Khadijeh Ghahremani, Nazari, Shirvani, and Bagheri are held in a detentioncentre of the Information Ministry.
Ten students of Shahr Kurd University in Chaharmahal-o-Bakhtiari are summoned to appear at the local office of the Information Ministry and 23 students are summoned to the Disciplinary Committee for participation in the November 4th demonstration.
source: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran


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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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