Iran: pressure

According to newsagency Fars are in the Karounprison of Ahwaz on September 20th 3 men hanged.
The report says that Gh. A. was convicted for selling 1,24 kilos and keeping 985 grams of heroin, and S. F. was convicted for selling and posession of 146 grams of heroin.They were sentenced to death by the revolutionary court in Abadan.
Gh.J. was sentenced to death for murder.
source: iranhr.net


Human Rights and Democracy Activists reports that Dutch-Iranian Zahra Bahrami is under intense pressure by the interrogators to confess to the false allegations.
She is charged with drugsale and drug possession.
She appeared in front of Judge Salavati of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court, on September 8 and September 11.
As her lawyer, Nasrin Sotoodeh is in prison she refused to speak in court and the trial has been postponed.
The next court hearing for Bahrami will be held on September 23rd.
The interrogators and judge Salavati have threathened her that she will be sentenced to death or life in prison.
source: HRHI


Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband Reza Khandan and her lawyer Nasim Ghanavi are threathened by the Ministry of Intelligence with arrest if they give any interviews to the media.
source: persian2english




The journalist Siamak Ghaderi, is detained on July 27th, 2010 for administering a blog by the name of “IRNA-yeh Maa” (Our IRNA) and publishing articles in regards to the green movement and the post-election protests. His blog was filtered 12 times but he managed to fix the problems.
He worked as an editor, a reporter and a journalist for IRNA for the past 18 years.
Jaras reports that he is deprived of basic prisoners rights and he is under intense pressure.
source: HRHI



Since yesterday there are rumors that blogfather Hossein Derakhshan will be sentenced to death.
November 1st, 2008 Derakhshan was arrested and is in solitary confinement since in ward 2A of Evinprison.
He is charged with anti-regime propaganda, blasphemia and administrating obscene websites.
He is in bad psychological and physical condition.
source: HRHI



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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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