Iran: continueing

In 2011 is Iran hanged an average of one person every eight hours.The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian Parliament and the Judiciary to immediately institute a moratorium on executions and to move swiftly to abolish the death penalty, in the face of skyrocketing executions following unfair trials and judicial proceedings.
Last weekend the Kurdish political prisoner Hossein Khezri was executed.In addition to him, Iranian media have reported a total of 46 executions in 2011: seven in Kermanshah on 1 January, sixteen in Ahwaz on 5 January, one in Asfaryan on 8 January, eight in Qom on 9 January, seven in Tehran on 12 January, five in Khorramabad on 13 January, two in Boroujerd on 14 January.
At least 14 other Kurds are sentenced to death: Zeinab Jalilian, Shirkoo Moarefi, Rostam Arkia, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Rashid Akhkandi, Mohammad Amin Aghooshi, Ahmad Pooladkhani, Seyed Sami Husseini, Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, Hasan Talei, Iraj Mohammadi, Mohammad Amin Abdollahi and Ghader Mohammadzadeh.
source: persian2english.com


Studentactivist Pouria Mousavi who is also the head of the publicity unit of the Ayeen Magazine and a member of the Islamic Front of Iran, was arrested in his fathers house. He was also a member of Mousavi’s Campaign.
Securityagents searched the house and confiscated personal belongings and his computer.
There is no information as to his whereabouts.
source: HRHI



According to reports is the deathsentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiari suspended and she is sentenced to a 10-year jail term.The chairwoman of the Iranian parliament Human Rights Committee wrote this in a letter to the new Brasilian President Dilma Rousseff.
source: payvand.com

Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned humanrights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was released along with Farzaneh Roostaei(an editor of Shargh newspaper).
source: persian2english.com




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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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