Iran: further

The newspaper Mashregh reported that January 26th in the Karounprison in Ahwaz a man has been hanged.
The man, Ali Ghorabat aka Saed, was convicted for apostacy for "claiming to have contact with the God and the 12th Shiite Imam".
The spokesman of the Iranian judiciary reported that in the cities of Birjand, Karaj and Tehran several people were hanged.
Reports say these people all were convicted for drugstrafficking.
The exact number nor the identities of those who were executed is reported.
source: iranhr.net


The humanrightsactivists Kaveh Kermanshahi and Navid Khanjani are sentenced to 5 years and 12 years in prison respectively.
Kermanshahi was charged with activity against national security” through membership in Kurdistan Human Rights Organization and “propaganda against the regime” by giving interviews to the media about families of political prisoners and victims.
Khanjani is Bahai and banned from higher education. His sentence of 12 years is the heaviest prison term handed to a human rights activist.
source: HRHI


Dutch television yesterday announced that executed Zahra Bahrami in The Netherlands in 2003 also was convicted for smuggling 16kg cocaine.
The Dutch lawyer of Bahrami said on television that he asked the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to make a payment for an Iranian lawyer.
But in November 2010 this request was refused by The Hague.
Iran told the West not to interfere with the executions and they said 80 percent of those hanged are drug smugglers.
source: onlydemocracy4iran, rferl.org

The Iranian parliament Tuesday voted over the dismiss of Minister of Roads and Transportation. According to Fars newsagency the parlementarians who voted over the dismissal of Hamid Behbahani by 147 for, 87 against and 9 abstentions. They accused him of failing to improve Iran's poor record in transportation.
source: en.irangreenvoice.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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