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Journalist Hengameh Shahidi is hospitalized in the hospital of Evinprison.
October 28, she was temporarily released after being granted a medical leave of absence. However, on 15 November she was returned to Evin prison after the medical leave of absence was not extended despite undergoing medical treatment.
She began her hunger strike immediately to protest this.
A source told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that when the family went to visit her,they after waiting for four hours were told that they weren’t able to see her due to a deterioration in her condition and her being hospitalised in the prison clinic.
source:en.greenvoice.com


More dan 100 prominent political activists sent an open letter to secretary-general of the UN Ban Ki-Moon, in which they urge him to use all his "international prerogatives and good offices" for the release of 80-year-old political prisoner Ebrahim Yazdi and other “innocent political prisoners” currently held in Iran.
Among the signatories are Shirin Ebadi(nobel laureate), Abdolali Bazargan (writer, Political activist), Abdolkarim Soroush (Philosopher, Professor), Rajabali Mazrooei (former MP, Political activist), Ahmad Sadri (Professor), Mahmoud Sadri (Professor), Mohsen Kadivar (Senior Cleric, Professor), Ayatollah Mohajerani (former Minister of Culture, writer) and Hasan Yousefi Eshkevari (Cleric, writer).
source: en.greenvoice.com




After signing a petition titled "“Form a Fact-finding Committee to Review Election Events”, 11 political prisoners from Evinprison were summoned to court and interrogated and charged.
They were also threatened that if they don’t denounce their petition, they will be charged with publishing lies and inciting the public, and new prison terms will be added to their previous sentences.
Kaleme reported that a group of 350 prisoners in Evinprison issued a statement calling for the formation of a fact finding committee to uncover the truth about the presidential election and its aftermath.
Following this, the prisoners were questioned at length by the interrogators and were threatened to be exiled to remote prisons.
Among them were Majid Dori, transferred to Behbahan Prison, and Kouhyar Goodarzi, transferred to Rajai Shahr prison, while Ali Parviz was released after completing his one year prisonsentence.
Mohsen Aminzadeh and Mohsen Mirdamadi, members of the Islamic Participation Front and undersigners of the petition, protested against these illegal interrogations of prisoners.
Bahman Ahmadi Amouie, Saeed Milad Asadi, Ali Tajernia, Mohammad Davari, Amir Khosro Dalirsani, Mohammad Farid Taheri Ghazvini, Keyvan Samimi, Ali Malihi and Abdollah Momeni are other signatories who were interrogated for hours last week.
source: persian2english

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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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