Iran: further

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran says October 13th that the Iranian parliament should immediately abolish cruel and inhumane punishments, such as limb amputation, stoning, and flogging.
Recently an increasing number of flogging sentences have been issued for post-election protestors.
According to Mohammad Javad Larijani Iran does not consider such punishments as torture and that they are culturally justified.
Hadi Ghaemi, spokesman of ICHRI says that there is nothing about Iranian culture that sanctions such cruelty and it is time for the UN to establish a monitoring mechanism to hold Iran accountable for grossly violating its international obligations.
source: iranhumanrights.org


October 13th, the ophthalmologist, writer, and critical blogger Mehdi Khazali is arrested.
Khazali openly criticises Ahmadinejad in his blogs, he was unable to receive qualification as an ophthalmologist in the Iranian Medical Association due to critical material he has written about the government.
He also was not allowed to participate in Iran’s Parliamentary elections.Recently he wrote a critical blog about Ahmad Jannati,head of the Guardian Council.
After his arrest he was transferred to an unknown location.
source: iranhumanrights.org


October 11, students of the Water and Electricity University, gathered in front of the students cafe. They demand to investigate the following problems:Closing down of one of university publishing place and reduction of publications, Unsettled situation of education and bad behaviors of university employees, unknown situation of university, to which ministry it belongs, unclassified situation of course, bad status of food and health.
source: droi.wordpress.com



September 15 Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, according to MehrNews held a speech in which he announced that Iran has granted furloughs to 20 political prisoners. He did not mention any names.
He also said that an inmate of ward 350 attempted to give his visitor his diary that he had packed in a bottle of milk.
Since this incident restrictions on political prisoners in ward 350 dramatically increased.
Last week website Kaleme revealed that the diary referenced by Dolatabadi belongs to Majid Dorri.
The website Kaleme published a letter from Majid Dorri smuggled out of prison with the help of anonymous sources.
source: persian2english




The lawyer Mohammad Oliyaeifar who is serving his one year prison sentence in ward 350 of Evinprison has been diagnosed with leukemia by a doctor from Evinprison, after observing several lumps on his body.
He needs to be transferred to a specialty clinic outside prison immediately.
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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