Iran: difference

Last week, a woman was hanged in the city of Shirvand.
According to the local news website of Shirvan city was the unnamed woman sentenced for drugstrafficking.
According to this report several people have been hanged in Shirvan during the past weeks. Neither execution was reported in the official media.
According to other reports from the Iranian news agencies, three men were hanged in the southern Khorasan province during the month of Ramedan.
The head of the judiciary Larijani says that normally no people are executed in the month ramadan, but due to seriousness of their charges (rape of a woman),they were all executed in the month of Ramedan.
source: iranhr.net


Zahra Rahnavard expressed her grave concerns about the unjust exile sentences for political prisoners Shiva Nazar Ahari, Zia Nabavi, Ahmad Karimi, Hamed Rouhinejad, Majid Dori, and others.
She writes among other things that exile to a remote prison not only punishes prisoners, but it also punishes their families.
source: persian2english


Vahid Ghodrat, 54 , a Bahairesident from Yazd, is according to authorities detained for anti-regime propaganda.
According to a reporter from RAHANA he was temporarily detained in Yazd Detention Center and is sentenced to one year in prison.
source: HRHI




Laboractivist Behnam(Asad) Ebrahimzadeh who is in solitary confinement in Evinprison has gone on a hungerstrike September 29 to protest his detention in solitary confinement, and the failure to review his case.
source: HRHI





HumanRightsWatch honors 6 human rightsactivists for their effort on humanrightsissues.
The activists are from Cameroon, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and Russia.
The winner for Iran is Sussan Tahmasebi, a civil and women's rights activist and founding member of the One Million Signatures Campaign
source: hrw.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.
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