Iran: investigation

The Supreme Court of Qom remanded the case of the deathsentence for apostacy of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani to the Eleventh Branch of the Criminal Court of Gilan Province.
This, because there is no clear evidence he ever actually was declared and practicing Muslim.
According to the Supreme Court apostasy is a valid criminal charge in Iran, despite the fact that no written legal provision on the matter exists.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Fivehundred womensrightsactivists and supporters made a statement demanding an end to violence on women in Iranian society.
They protest to the “systematic violence against women,” “constant insults and humiliation,” and “the blaming of victims for acts of sexual violence against them” by government authorities, and defends a woman’s right to choose their clothing.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, deputy head of the Association of Iranian Journalists and spokesperson of Society for Freedom of the Press, who is summoned to serve his prisonsentence of 16 months in Evinprison wrote a letter to his collegues. In this letter he writes that journalists in Iran have to pay a price in order to protect the independence of journalists and to practice professional journalism in this country.
source: HRHI




Concerns have risen if there were changes made in Karounprison in Ahwaz. Following the letter written by Zia Nabavi to the head of the judiciary about the the inhumane conditions of Karoun prison, he and other prisoners were transferred to another prison.
There are reports that 10 of these prisoners were returned to Karounprison and that Nabavi and the others also were returned to Karounprison.
Although it has been said that a new ward has been added to the Karoun Prison, reports indicate that no such ward has been constructed yet, and that the returned prisoners are held in the same poor prison conditions.
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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