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Thursday, January 27 were in Ghezel Hesar prison of Karaj 7 men hanged.
The men, J. A. convicted for smuggling 370 grams of crack in prison, M. D. for posession of 4980 grams of crack, Gh. B. for buying, selling and keeping 4900 grams of crack, K. N. for trafficking of 49 kilo and 70 grams Hashish (cannabis), D. S. for consuming and keeping 397 grams heroin in prison, K. B. for keeping and consuming 310 grams crack in prison and M. T. for trafficking 61 kilo and 300 gram crack and consuming opium.
According to IRNA were 3 people hanged in the prison of Orumieh.
They were not identified and were convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net


In the prison of Orumieh has Farhad Tarom from the village Lavark in West-Azerbaijan been hanged.He resided 3 years in iraq Kurdistan and was arrested one month after his return to Iran.
He was sentenced for the membership of Democratic Party of Kurdistan.
After hearing about his death, the residents of Oroumiyeh and Oshnavieh gathered in front of prison and demanded that the authorities return his body to his family for proper burial.
Instead, 10 of his familymembers were arrested:
Touran, his mother, Zeinab, his wife, Rana, his sister-in-law, Saleha, his cousin, Fakhreddin, his brother, Latif, his cousin, Golpiaz Tarom, Bahaeddin Khandehpour, Seifeddin Khandehpour and Shahram Khandehpour.
source: HRHI



The Bahai Siamak Iqani, serves a prisonsentence of 3 years in the prison of Semnan.
He has suffered from three respiratory attacks so severe that each time he had to be revived with the help of oxygen supplies and sublingual tablets.
There is a ward in the prison with smoking restrictions, and though Siamak has requested to be transferred to that ward, the guard in charge of the ward has stated that Siamak may only be transferred if he converts to Islam.
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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