Iran: rulings

A 4-year-old child that 10 days ago severely abused was admitted in Tehran to the Mofid Children’s hospital, has been released and delivered to his abusive father.
Upon arrival at the hospital,his body showed injuries from severe beatings from his parents who burned various parts of his body. At first he told the staff that his father has beaten him, but later he said that he did not know what happened.
The President of the Academic Association of Social Workers in Iran told ISNA that according to the law a father may refer to the Judiciary any time he wishes to collect his child, but even though the legal proceedings have allowed for the child to return to his father, must be known how the presiding Judge came to the decision that the father is qualified to care for the child.
According to him welfare workers have not conducted enough investigation into the case.
source: persian2english



May 14 the Revolutionary Court of the northern city of Bandar Anzali acquitted twelve Protestant Christians of the specific charge of “forming a society with the intent of disrupting national security.”


1. Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad (Pastor of Bander Anzali church)
2. Anahita Khademi (Pastor Ali-Haghnejad’s wife )
3. Mahmoud Khosh-Hal
4. Hava Saadetmend (wife of Mahmoud Khosh-Hal)
5. Amir Goldoust
6. Mina Goldoust (Amir and Mina are brother and sister)
7. Zainab Bahremend (grandmother of Amir and Mina)
8. Fatemah Modir-Nouri
9. Mehrdad Habibzade
10. Milad Radef
11. Behzad Taalipasand
12. Amin Pishka
Several other members of the Church of Iran that still face prisonterms, include Pastor Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani, Parviz Khalaj, Amin Afshar Manesh, Mehdi Forutan, Mohammad Baliad, and Nazli Makarian.
Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is sentenced to death for apostacy. He has appealed this deathsentence. Apostacy is not a crime under Iranian law.
source: iranhumanrights.org



The husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh said that she told him that she heard that plans for transferring them to Gharchak, Varamin, have been canceled for now.
Earlier was said that all female political prisoners who are now in the Methadone Ward of Evinprison, will be transferred to Gharchak prison.
How, when and where this decision is taken is not known.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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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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