Iran: violations

Friday, the UN stated in a report that restricting the flow of information on the Internet is a violation of human rights and international law.
France and the UK are called to revise their legislations aimed at cracking down on copyright infringement on the Internet.
According to UN Special Rapporteur, cutting off access to the Internet can never be justified, including on public safety or national security grounds.
Impeding this right is a violation of Article 19 paragraph 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The rapporteur published this rapport on June 1st, the same day that the Internet Monitoring Agency reported that two thirds of the population in Syria have suddenly lost access to the Internet.
During the past two years, Iran has many times blocked or limited access to the Internet in order to stop the disclosure of events taking place in the country.
Meanwhile the army commandant Pourdastan told that the Iranian Army is prepared to be present in cyberspace to counter any possible cyber attacks.
source: HRHI, tehrantimes.com


More then 15 years the residents of some of the villages around the city of Pol Dokhtar have been fighting with officials to address recurring oil leaks from a pumping station and oil pipes nearby that have polluted the underground water system and the springs in the area.
The authorities never reacted on their complaints.
Payvand shows a series of photos.
source: payvand

In Qom Seyed Mohammad Salehi and Hossein Goudarzi members of Moussavi’s Clerical Staff each have been sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of acting against national security and publishing lies.
They were sentenced by a Special Clerical Court for the making of a documentary named: ‘By the Name of Kahrizak’.
source: freedomessenger



Thursday June 2nd, prisonguards in Rajayi Shahr Prison attacked and abused young prisoners under the pretext of searching their belongings.
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.
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