Iran: religion

According to the public relationsite of the judiciary in Khuzestan was yesterday in Karounprison in Ahwaz an amputationsentence carried out at a person. The man Shoghi Z. and was convicted of armed robbery and Moharebeh.
The report did not say which bodypart was amputated, but moharebeh can be sentenced with amputation of the right arm and left foot.
Official Iranian sources say that this is the fifth case of amputation in the city of Ahwaz during the last 12 months.
Also was in Lalehsquare in the city Sosangerd ( province Khuzestan,) a man lashed.
The man, Mehdi H. was convicted of disrupting the order.
The report did not mention how many lashes the person was punished with.
source: iranhr.net


Womansrightactivist and member of the Onemillionsignatures campaign Mahboobeh Karami has been arrested March 2 by security agents who also searched her house and confiscated personal belongings of her and her brother Mohsen Karimi.
According to her brother the agents presented a warrant that was dated March 26, 2009 and cited participation in riot and illegal gatherings as the reason for arrest.
This is the 5th arrest of Mahboobeh Karami, who was arrested twice in relation to 1999 student protests.The third time was June 13, 2008 for acting against national security and she was released 70 days later.
March 26, 2009 she was arrested along with 11 other members of the Campaign as they were on their way to pay a Nowruz visit to the family of Zahra Bani Yaghoub. They were released 13 days later.
She was acquitted of all charges.
There is still no information on her whereabouts.
source: RAHANA



March 1 were the houses of 5 Bahai families in Marvdasht in Shiraz searched and people were arrested.
Farahnaz Ashnayi, Tayebeh Fallah, Jahanbakhsh Bazrafkan, Hasan Bazrafkan and Nozar Fallah have been arrested and personal belongings were taken.
Ighan Shahidi, who is denied university admission for being from Bahai faith is arrested in Kermanshah.
Sama Nourani, an expelled student from Sahand University has been arrested March 3 in Shiraz.
CHRR reports that 6 agents in Sari searched the house of Dorsa Sobhani, an activist from the OneMillionsignatures Campaign and took a number of items. The agents were not able to arrest Sobhani who was not home.
The whereabouts of Ighan Shahidi, 21 and Sama Nourani 20, are unknown and there is no information of the reasons of their arrests.
source: RAHANA

Reverend Wilson Issavi, the Assyrian leader of the Evangelical Church of Kermanshah has been arrested February 2. His house was searched , his church was sealed and his parishioners became under watch.
His wife says he is detained in an unknown prison at the Old Shahin-Shahr Road.
She only was allowed to visit him once. She told that he had visible marks of torture on his body and was in a dreadful condition.
He is accused of baptism and s well as converting muslims to christianity and is "awaiting his trial and his death sentence".
February 28 intelligence agents raided the house of Hamid Shafiee and his wife Reyhaneh Aghajari, two of Isfahan’s wellknown house-church leaders.
They were arrested and transferred to an unknown location and a number of their personal belongings were seized by the agents.
In the past few months under government’s pressure the Assemblies of God Church had to stop Friday evening meetings and the Assyrian Pentecostal church of ‘Shahre Ara’ in Tehran was forced to close its doors.
source: RAHANA



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