Iran: further

Nothing has been heard yet about Dutch efforts to release Vahik Abrahamian, 44 a pastor with dual Dutch/Iranian citizenship, who to be near his aging mother and family choose to live in Iran. He was arrested February 20.
Since then nothing is known.
Not only nothing is known, till today no Dutch media has reported about this case.
This message will be repeated each day until this changes.




Maryam Zia, who was on hungerstrike and transported to the hospital of Evinprison, has been released following a recommendation by prison doctors who did not see her fit to remain remanded.
source: RAHANA



Humanrightsactivist Abdolreza Ghanbari, a teacher who was arrested January 13th, has been sentenced to death by judge Salavati of branch 15 of the revolutionary court on charges of moharebe and connections to groups.
In recent months judge Salavati sentenced several people to death of which two people (Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour),were executed.
source: persian2english


Amnesty International writes that the executions in Iran send a message that Iran uses the deathsentence as a tool to try and quell political unrest, intimidate the population and send a signal that dissent will not be tolerated.
There was a noticeable surge in the rate of executions at the time of mass protests.
In the eight weeks between the June election and the re-inauguration of President Ahmadinejad in early August 112 people were put to death.
source: amnestyusa.org




Since March 28 the water at Gohardasht Prison has been shut off.
The prison is not connected to the city’s water system, but is supplied from an underground water well located below prison level. Starting on March 9, the drinking water at Wards 4 & 5, as well as the women’s ward, became highly contaminated and non-potable, which caused many healthproblems.
source: RAHANA




More than nine months after the June presidential election, five members of the Council to Defend the Right to Education remain in prison some of them are facing long sentences.
The group was formed in 2007 by banned students and students with a star.
In the days before the presidential election, starred students gathered several times to protest Ahmadinejad’s statements.
After the elections 10 members of the group were arrested.
Zia Nabavi is sentenced to 15 years and 74 lasheszweepslagen, he has been beaten and always denied the charges.
The latests reports say that his case has not been sent to any of the appeals court branches, and his family is not capable of paying the $500,000 USD (approximate amount) bail set for him.
Majid Dorri is sentenced to 11 years in prison by branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court in January.
Mahdieh Golroo is imprisoned since December 3. Her case has been referred to branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court, but no trial has been held yet.
Shiva Nazar Ahari has been imprisoned for almost 100 day. In october she was released on bail after spending 102 days in prison.
Peyman Arefi was arrested June 18 in Gilan province. He was released on bail but arrested again March 16th.
He is now in Evinprison where he serves a prisonsentence of 18 months and 74 lashes.
Hesam Salamat, Saeed Jalalifar, Zahra Tohidi, and Alireza Khoshbakht were also arrested in the previous months.
source: persian2english.com

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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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