Iran: upcoming NewYear

Iran temporarily released Kian Tajbakhsh from prison for Iranian NewYear holidays.
He is one out of more then 100 prisoners who stood trial in August 2009.
Tajbakhsh was convicted for espionage to 15 years in jail, but this was reduced in appeals court to five years in prison.

source: AFP



Seven days after securing bail for the detained journalists Akbar Montejabi, Vahid Pourostad, Ehsan Mehrabi, and Somayeh Momeni, there still is uncertainty abot their release.
According to newssite Kaleme the conditions for these journalists are worsened, and the interrogations intensified.
They have also returned to solitary confinement.
source: persian2english




Reporters without Borders wrote in an article March 12 about "the enemies of the internet": Reporters Without Borders presents the worst violators of freedom of expression on the Net: Saudi Arabia, Burma, China, North Korea, Cuba, Egypt, Iran, Uzbekistan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, en Vietnam.
source: RSF




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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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