Iran: further

The lawyer Khalil Bahramian was sentenced to 18 months in prison today and also banned from practising law for 10 years.
He was charged with propaganda against the regime, insulting the head of the judiciary and activity against national security.
source: HRHI



The Bahaicitizens Farhood Aghdasi and Changiz Dargahi from Oroumieh were arrested by securityagents.The reasons are unknown. There is no news about their condition.
source: HRHI




The detained students Bahareh Hedayat, Majid Tavakoli and Mehdieh Golroo were summoned to court to face new charges without their lawyers and without the appropriate court procedures.
In December the three issued a joint statement on the occasion of National Student Day in Iran. The judge told them that if they deny the statements and press charges against the websites that published them, all current charges would be dropped.
source: HRHI

In Qaehmshahr three men were lashed in public. They were sentenced to 99 lashes each in public on charges of ‘illicit relationships’.
source: daughtersofthelight.com


Reuters reported that recently more websites are blocked in Iran.Yahoo News and Reuters.com, both usually accessible in Iran, were unavailable. Other sites, BBC, Facebook and Twitter were already beyond the reach of Iranians using a standard Internet connection.
source: daughtersofthelight.com


Former studentactivist Ebrahim Eskafi of Sistan & Balouchestan University,was summoned to the Zahedan Intelligence Ministry 10 days ago.
Since there has been no news. Since last year he has resided in Tehran and has been working as a translator.
source: HRHI



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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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