Iran: rights

The Iranian authorities refused to hand over the body of Ali Saremi to his familymembers.
They also arrested a number of his family members on the day he was hanged. They were finally forced to release them last night.
The lawyer of Ali Saremi told ICHRI that he has a meeting with the prosecutor of Tehran where he hopes to be able to find an appropriate answer for this sudden execution.
The daughter of Ali Saremi said already that the family was not informed about the execution.
source: freedomessenger.com, iranhumanrights.org


Three more senior Iranian clerics have come out with criticisms of government policy.
Ayatollah Ali Mohammad Dastgheyb, member of Assembly of Experts, said December 28, according to website Kaleme during a meeting wit familymembers of jailed Mostafa Tajzadeh that the current regime is neither a republic nor Islamic.
Ayatollah Yusef Sanei, a senior reformist cleric in Qom, said that placing prisoners in solitary confinement for a long time and violating their rights is against Shari'a law.
Ayatollah Vahid Khorasani, December 27 said that a confession of a person who is in prison has no validity, and a judge who issues a sentence merely based on such a confession is not qualified to judge.
source: rferl.org


Several supporters of Ayatollah Dastgheib are sentenced to exile and heavy prisonsentences for guarding the Qoba Mosque against the attack of the plainclothes agents.
Hojjatoleslam Karimi, Hojjatoleslam Khoubyari, Hojjatoleslam Zakeri, are sentenced to 2 years in prison, 4 years in exile and a 10 year ban from cultural activities.
The leader of the attackers has received a much lighter sentence comparing to the 3 clerics who were trying to protect the Mosque.
Omar Esmaeilpour, Ebrahim Esmaeilpour and Sadigh Khosravi, labor activists and member of Coordination Committee for Founding Labor Unions, are summoned to appear for the Oroumiyeh revolutionary court.
Yesterday, the journalist Hadi Heydari,and Mohammad Shafii and Alireza Taheri two political activists, were released from Evin Prison.
Another activist Fatemeh Arabsorkhi, who was arrested at the same time, still remains in custody.
Adel Mohammad Hosseini, member of the youth branch of Islamic Participation Iran was arrested yesterday and charges against him have not been announced yet.
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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