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ISCA reported that in Rajaeeprison of Karaj November 25, a man is flogged 80 times and after that is hanged.
The man, Mohammad A. (25) was convicted from rape and consuming alcohol.
source: iranhr.net


Amnesty International, Physicians for Human Rights and the International campaign for Human Rights in Iran urged in an open letter to the Speaker van Iran’s Parliament Ali Larijani and the Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi for an independent and transparent investigation into the death of Ramin Pourandarjani(26).
The letter also urges the Iranian authorities to allow international forensic experts to participate in order to insure the integrity of the investigation into the young doctor's death.
Rahim Pourandarjani, who was a doctor in the Kahrizakprison was found dead on November 10 in an office in the Tehran Police Headquarters.
Authorities put out multiple versions of what occurred to Dr. Pourandarjani.
At first they told his father that he had a broken leg and died of heartfailure.Then they said he was poisoned. Finally it was reported that the doctor had committed suicide and suggesting that a note about his depression was found near the body.
source: amnestyusa.org


A total of 140 patients have lost their lives due to Mexican flu/swineflu/A H1N1 .The total of patients was November 25, 3.672. In the past seven days 444 new cases were reported.
Within the next ten days vaccin will be imported from France.
The Healthminister said that although reports indicate that there are 3672 H1N1 cases, infectious disease doctors believe that now more than one million people in Iran are infected with the virus.
She said that already 2.8 million vaccins are imported and according to a plan more than 200,000 vaccines will be imported each week to prevent a black market.
source: mehrnews.com



According to a plan which was made between the Ministry of Education and seminary representatives in Qum 4200 elementary, middle and high schools will be transferred to the care of the seminaries for five years. The ministry will remain in charge of providing the learning environment in the form of the school buildings, whilst the seminaries will provide the principals, administrators and the cultural and religious content.
The plan also indicates that the professional staff will be paid for by the Ministry of Education, while the expenses of the schools will be the responsibility of the seminaries.
source: payvand.com

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran writes that new charges are made by commanders of the Revolutionary Guards against Kian Tajbakhsh.
Earlier this week, Tajbakhsh was brought in front of the Third Branch of the Security Court, which is a new court created and controlled apparently by the Revolutionary Guards to prosecute dissidents.
He was charged with new allegations of spying based on e-mails he wrote to Middle East specialists on the Gulf 2000 list, which includes hundreds of experts, diplomats, and journalists.
The Campaign has information that high Revolutionary Guards commanders initiated the new charges. He is currently held in solitary confinement in Evin prison.
He has already been sentenced to 15 years in prison by a lower court, on charges of espionage.
Tajbakhsh has been denied access to an independent lawyer and the authorities appointed a lawyer, Houshang Azhari.
source: iranhumanrights.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.
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