Iran: conversation

Amnesty International urged Iran to release journalist Emadeddin Baghi, who is sentenced to a total of seven years in prison, including six for recording an interview with a reformist cleric.
Baghi, the head of the now banned Association for the Defence of Prisoners' Rights (ADPR),who was released on bail in June, and was told on Wednesday of his conviction for "propaganda against the system" and "gathering and colluding with the aim of harming national security" while attending a trial session for another case.
source: amnestyusa.org



Last wednesday familymembers of a group political prisoners visited Hashemi Rafsanjani, the head of the Experts Assembly on Leadership and the State Expediency Council.
The families included those of prisoners Abdollah Momeni, Mohsen Mirdamadi, Mostafaj Tajzadeh, Mohammad Noorizadeh, Abdolreza Tajik and other political, media and student activists who had been arrested because of the post-2009 election events.
The visit took some 3½ hours.After the meeting Rafsanjani said that he is not sure he will get a positive response and in fact this may produce the opposite response.
source: droi.wordpress.com

The released UScitizen Sara Shourd had a meeting in New York with president Ahmadinejad to request to release the other two imprisoned Americans.
Shourd was released earlier this month against bail, but her fiancé Shane Bauer, and their friend Josh Fattal are still in Evinprison..
source: rferl.org

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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