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According to newsagency Fars is one man scheduled to be flogged and hanged in public today.
The man, Yaqub is convicted of stabbing another man to death on the street in October 2010, and sentenced to death by hanging in public on the crime scene. According to this report, Yaqub is also sentenced to 100 lashes for immoral relationship with the fiance of the offended, and 74 lashes for "demonstration of power" with a knife in public..
source: iranhr.net


The youngest son of the Shah, Alireza Pahlavi 44, committed suicide on January 4th in his home in Boston.
He fought depression for a long time. According to the Boston Globe, he was found by police dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
source: BBC


December 30th was another Bahaishop in Rafsanjan (Kerman province) firebombed and threathened. This was the ninth Baha’i-owned shop attacked in the city of Rafsanjan.
They also threw a letter inside the shop that threatened if the Baha’is refuse to sign the enclosed treaty, “they will uproot the base of imperialism in the city”.
All shop owners have taken their grievances to the Kerman Governor’s office, Rafsanjan’s Member of Parliament, National Security Commission, and the Kerman provincial police, but to no avail. Even the insurance companies refused to cover the real cost of the damages incurred by the shop owners.
source: persian2english


January 5th, the prisoners Habibollah Golparipour, Hossein Mirzaei, Ali-Ahmad Soleiman and Ahmad Tamouei,were transferred to the Quarantine Section of the Oroumiyeh Prison.
The reason is unknown.
source: HRHI

January 3rd, 2011 security forces raided the house of one of the Gonabadi derwishes in Foolad Shahr and arrested sheikh Seyyed Morteza Mahjoobi along with 5 others and transferred them to Central Prison of Isfahan.
Supporters from surrounding villages went to the prison and protested. Despite the suppressive forces drew guns at them in an attempt to disperse them, but they resisted and stayed put.
After 5 hours of resistance, prison officials had to free the Shiekh and his son. But others who were arrested are still in prison and their supporters are still going to join the protest gathering in front of the prison.
source: droi.wordpress.com


Reporters without Borders published a statement pointing out to the the foreign ministers of the negotiating countries on nuclear programme that Iran is using the deathsentence of Sakineh Ashtiani and the arrest of the two German journalists to manipulate and divert the worldopinion.
source: RSF


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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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