Iran: inquiries

June 20, 3 men have been hanged in public in the city of Zabol.
Baboddin Barkazaei, Mohammad Poudineh and Vali Allah Mir were sentenced to death for rape and armed robbery.
source: iranhr.net

The Freedom House has applauded the appointment of Ahmed Shaheed as UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
Yesterday, an Iranian MP said Iran would deny Shaheed's entry into the country.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

A list of prisoners who died in custody:
1. Zahra Kazemi – 10 July 2003
2. Akbar Mohammadi – 30 July 2003
3. Mohammad Rajabi Sani – October 2004
4. Valiollah Feiz Mahdavi – 6 September 2006
5. Zahra Baniyaghoub – 14 October, 2007
6. Ebrahim Lotfollahi – 15 January 2008
7. Hossein Heshmat Saran – 6 March 2008
8. Kaveh Azizpour – 16 May, 2008
9. Abdulreza Rajabi – 28 October, 2008
10. Hashem Ramezani – January 2009
11. Omid Mirsayafi – 18 March 2009
12. Amir Javadifar – arrested in a post-election protest on 9 July, 2009
13. Mohammad Kamrani – arrested in a post-election protest on 9 July, 2009
14. Mohsen Ruholamini – arrested in a post-election protest on 9 July, 2009
15. Ramin Aghazadeh Ghahremani – arrested in a post-election protest on 9 July, 2009
16. Mohsen Dokmehchi – 28 March 2011
17. Hassan Nahid – April 2011
18. Hoda Saber – 10 June 2011
source: ICHRI


Political prisoner Zahra Jabbari, who is detained in Evinprison, and was having problems due to the psychological pressure in prison was transferred to Amin-Abad Mental Hospital.S
he was arrested on QodsDay 2009 and sentenced to 4 years in prison.
source: HRHI


Journalist and humanrightsactivist Emadeddin Baghi has been released from prison.He completed his one year prison sentence and was on the third day of a hunger strike to protest the killings of Hoda and Haleh Saberi.
After his release he visited the families.
source: HRHI



Bahai Afrouz Farmanbordari and Noushin Khadem were arrested during the raid on the Baha’i University.
Since then they were held incommunicado.
All the other detainees have contacted their families at least once.
source: freedomessenger

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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.
Poster amnesty.nl