Iran: furthermore

On July 26, the Baluch Mohammad Mandazahi, son of Dadkha, has been hanged in the prison of van Kerman.
He was sentenced to death for drugstrafficking after spending 6 years in prison without the presence of an attorney or his family at the trial.
source: freedomessenger



Blogger Behnam Darvishian who was arrested in 2010 and is sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of anti-regime propaganda and acting against national security by keeping a blog. His sentence was upheld by the appeals court.
Another contributer to the same blog Ali Shafie was also arrested last year.
Darvishion has been deprived of prison visits for the past 8 months and has only called them once last week.
source: HRHI


Poet and human rights defender Laleh Hassanpour, writer and journalist Seyed Massoud Hosseini Lavasani, and PhD student Ehsan Abdeh Tabrizi, spend another of their birthdays behind bars.
Hassanpour has been sentenced to one year in prison and 4 years of suspended inprisonment.She is summoned to serve her 1 year prisonsentence in Evin prison.
Lavasani is sentenced to 8½ year in prison and Tabrizi who was arrested when returning from his study abroad, was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
source: persian2english


The deathsentence of political prisoner Abbas Tavakoli Borazjani, 38 has been confirmed by the Supreme Court.Currently he is in ward 1 of Rajai-Shahr Prison.
He was arrested in June 2008 along with his brother for beating a policeman and carrying a weapon.
His brother, Amir Hussein was killed under torture in Tehran’s Shapour Detention Center.
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