Iran: words

In the city Ahvaz is Sunday a man hanged in public.The man A. Sh. was convicted for the smuggle of 496 gram heroine.
ISCAnews also reported that Sunday in the city of Kerman 3 men were hanged in prison.
The men, Abbas Y., Rohollah B. and Mohammad Naeem Sh. were convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net



The prosecutor of Babol issued a travelban to Adeleh Ziaei for writing I am sorry in the weblog of her husband.
Her husband, artist, singer and writer Arya Aramnejad was arrested in March 2010.
Adeleh Ziaei wrote that she is sorry that she did not believe him when he said that the words Law, Freedom, Dignity and Justice were merely words in Iran.
source: HRHI


Leila Tavassoli is sentenced to two years in prison for participating in protests and giving interviews to BBC and radio Farda.
She witnessed a hit-and-run by a policecar during the Ashuraprotests.
Her husband, Farid Taheri is since Januar 13 detained. The court upheld his sentence to 3 years in prison.
source: persian2english


In the city of Mahabad are in recent days Kambiz Ebrahimzadeh and Nader Sharifi arrested.
It is said that the reason for their detainment is collaborating with Kurdish parties.
In the village of Shamshir near the city of Paveh are July 15 Kamil Ghaderi, Milad Yousefi and Adnan Zahedi summoned by the Ministry of Information and arrested. They were sent in isolation immediately.
source: HRHI



Since more then 7 months there is no information about Aziz Mohammadzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner who is sentenced to death.
According to several reports he went on hungerstrike, other unconfirmed reports suggest that the political prisoner was killed under torture.
source: persian2english

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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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