Iran: 25 Bahman

In the city of Lorestan, province Khoramabad 2 men have been hanged in the yard of the "Lorestan profession training complex".
According to reports, the men, Noorbakhsh A. and Ali Heydar Z. were convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net


In an open
letter to the UN Secretary General, a group of prominent Iranian academics and intellectuals living abroad, strongly condemned the wave of recent executions in Iran.
The undersigned are:
Abghari Siavash,Abghari Shahla, Afshar Haleh OBE, Afshari Reza, Ashouri Daryoush,Alamdari Kazem,
Baghi Heibatollah, Barati Mehran,Darvishpour Mehrdad,Dastmalchi Parviz, Farhang Jahanpour,Farhang Mansour, Farhi Farideh,Ganjbakhsh Amir Hossein, Gorji Ali,Gregory Julian,Haghighatjoo Fatemeh, Hashemi Nader, Jahanbegloo Ramin,Kangarlu, Alayar,Karimi-Hakkak Ahmad, Karimi-Hakak Mahmood,Keshavarz Fatemeh,Keddie Nikki , Khosrokhavar Farhad,LAHIDJI Abdol-Karim, Mahdi Akbar, Moaddel Mansoor, Mohammadi Majid, Monshipouri Mahmood, Mousoli Reza,
Navab Mohamad,Niroomand-Rad Azam, Ottinger Richard L.,Parsa Misagh, Paivandi saeed,Rakei Ali, Rahni Davood, Rahnema Saeed, Sabetian Manoucher, Talattof Kamran, Tohidi Nayereh,Vahdat Farzin,
Ziai Hossein
source: iranhumanrights.org


Ahead of 25Bahman the authorities sent SMS messages to people. Among other things read the SMS: we know you are under the influence of anti-security propagation of media affiliated with foreigners.
This morning, policecars blocked the street leading to Mousavi's house, probably aimed at preventing them from participating in the protests in support of the Tunisia and Egypt uprising.
His website also reported that his telephonelines were cut.
The US State Department started February 13 the account USA darFarsi to tweet.
Iranian student organization, Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat supports the Bahman 25 demonstrations and urges the government to confirm its support for the recent popular uprisings in the Arab countries by allowing the Bahman 25 rally to be carried out calmly and peacefully.
source: rferl.org, HRHI

Anti-riot police forces are being deployed in Tehran in preparation for the planned opposition protests at 3pm local time today.

Live blogging about 25Bahman:
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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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