Iran: circumstance

An earthquake of 5.7 on Richterscale occurred Friday near the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh in Razavi Khorasan province. At least 110 people got injured.
Saturday an earthquake of 5.8 on Richterscale jolted Kerman province.
At this moment it is not known if people are injured.
source: bellinghamherald.com, irsc.ut.ac.ir


At least 17 political prisoners of ward 240 started a hungerstrike after they were transferred to isolation.
Their names are:
Ali Malihi, student activist and member of Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat (student alumni organization).
Bahman Ahmad Amouie, journalist.
Hossein Nourinejad, journalist and member of Participation Front (reformist party).
Abdollah Momeni, student activist and spokesman of Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat.
Ali Parviz, student activist.
Hamid Reza Mohammadi, political activist.
Jafar Eghdami, civil activist.
Babak Bordbar, photographer.
Zia Nabavi, starred student and member of Council to Defend the Right to Education.
Ebrahim (Nader) Babaie, civil activist and wounded veteran from Iran-Iraq war.
Kouhyar Goodarzi, humanrightsactivist and blogger.
Majid Dorri, student activist.
Majid Tavakoli, student activist.
Keyvan Samimi, journalist
Gholamhossein Arashi, arrested during Ashura protests in Teheran.
Payman Karimi, gearresteerd during Ashura protests in Tehran.
Mohammad Hossein Sohrabi Rad, political prisoner arrested in relation to his follow-up activities on deaths and torture in Kahrizak prison and a member of Mehdi Karroubi’s election campaign. He received 74 lashes and was sentenced to four years in prison.
source: persian2english.com

Amnesty International said in a statement on July 30 that Iran must release the three American hikers immediately. Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal and Sarah Emily Shourd are imprisoned for over a year without charges..
Also American president Obama urged Iran to release the three hitchhikers immediately.
source: amnestyusa.org, rferl.org


Iranian will engage all bases for a massive, weeklong drill.
The drill is named Fada'eyan-e Harreem-e Vellayat (Devotees to the Sanctity of Religious Leadership) and among other air vehicles, 43 warplanes, including F-4, F-5, F-7 and Sukhoi Su-24 fighters, and unmanned airvehicles (UAVs) take part.
source: en.rian.ru




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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.
Poster amnesty.nl