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The mother of studentactivist Arash Sadeghi suffered a heart attack after Intelligence agents stormed into her house. She died four days later in the hospital.This occurred just days after Sadeghi was released on a temporary leave from prison.
Sadeghi had not been re-summoned to court nor did he receive a telephone call from the judicial authorities.
Sadeghi is a Master’s philosophy student at Allameh Tabatabai University and member of the Islamic Participation Front of the same university.
He had been sentenced to six years in prison with a three-year suspended prison term.
source: persian2english.com

Journalist Isa Saharkhiz was admitted to the Rajaee Shahr prison infirmery for his low bloodpressure.
His son, Mehdi Saharkhiz says that his father fainted and received treatment in the prison hospital.According to Tahavole Sabz, he has been returned to the prison ward after minor treatment.
A cardiologist has advised that he cannot tolerate and should not be subjected to incarceration. His son says that his father waits for his release from prison so that he can pursue his continuing complaint against Mohseni Ajeyee and to file new grievances against Khamenei and Ahmadinejad.
source: HRHI

Op 10 november heeft Sussan Tahmasebi, recipient of the Alison Des Forges Award for Extraordinary Activism for 2010, dedicated her award to imprisoned lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh and other detained womenrightsactivists:
Bahareh Hedayat, Jila Baniyaghoub, Shiva Nazar Ahari, Aliyeh Eghdamdoust, Shabnam Madadzadeh,Mahdieh Golroo,Jila Tarmasi, Akram Zienali, Fatemeh Masjedi, Maryam Bidgoli,Mahsa Amrabadi, Hengameh Shahidi.
She also urged Iranian authorities to release those who are serving prison terms or are in "temporary detention," including journalist Nazanin Khosravani.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

Iran failed to get a seat on the Board of the new UN body for women after strong opposition of the USA and humanrightsorganizations.
Saudi Arabia, which also faced protests from rights groups, secured a seat.
The new body, UN-Women merges four existing bodies.
source: BBC

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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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