Iran: further

Two men were scheduled to be hanged yesterday in the city of Sirhan in public.
The men, Esmaeil Fathizadeh and Mohammad Esfandiarpour were convicted for armed robbery.
Familymembers and other people started to chant slogans and threw stones at the security forces.
They succeeded to free the men. A couple of hours later the men and other people were arrested again and the men should be hanged that evening.A lot of people came and clashes broke out with security agents.
Some reports from Sirjan say that the security forces started shooting at the protestors and as a result as many as five people might have been killed and about 30 wounded. Several vehicles belonging to the security forces were sat on fire by the people.
The two men along with those arrested have been transferred to the prison.
De twee mannen zouden samen met andere arrestanten naar de gevangenis gebracht zijn.
BBC reports that the men were hanged later that evening.
source: iranhr.net,BBC



In Isfahan and Nafajabad clashes broke out between security forces and protestors.
Reformist website Rah-e-sabz writes that more then 50 people (fa) are arrested in Isfahan.
The people came to commemorate grand ayatollah Montazeri.
source: nytimes.com



The Supreme Council appointed the poet Ali Moallem Damghani as President of the Academy of Arts.
Mir Hossein Mousavi headed Iran's Academy of Arts since its establishment in 1998.
No reasons were given.
source: PressTV




TimesOnline reports that the missing relatives of Osama Bin Laden live at a secret place in Iran.
There has been uncertainty about the family’s whereabouts for the past eight years, they were thought to have died or joined him with terrorists.
According to Omar Ossama bin Laden, 29, the fourth-eldest son, last month he found out that at least one of his fathers wives, six children and 11 grandchildren live in an heavily secured compound in Iran near Tehran.
He said he had no idea that his brothers and sisters were still alive until they called him in November. They told him that they fled after 9/11 from Afghanistsn over the border with Iran.
They were taken to a walled compound outside Tehran where guards said they were not allowed to leave “for their own safety”.
source: TimesOnline



December 20 are Ahmad Qabel,Mohammad Noorizad.Saeed Haeri,Shiva Nazar Ahari and Koohyar Goodarzi, members of the Human Rights Reporters Committee and Mahboobe Abasgholizade,womens rights activist, arrested .
Abasgholizade has been released the next morning.
They were taken to an unknown place.
source: iranpressnewsblog



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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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