Iran: moves

Iran announced plans to try 26 US officials for human rights violations including terrorism, drug trafficking, torture and other war crimes.
Reuters reports that the Americans are to be tried in absentia and their files passed to international tribunals.
Iran says that the USA in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan committed human rights violations.
The officials were not named, but they are probably including Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and military commanders at U.S. detention centres Abu Ghraib in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
source: examiner.com

The shippingcompany Maersk announced that they will cut all ties with Tidewater Middle East Co.
This company exploits seven Iranian ports and is owned by the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards.
Maersk said it will stop business to and from the Iranian ports of Bandar Abbas, Bandar Khomeini and Asaluyeh.
source: ifw-net.com

In an interview with Mehr News the Tehran policechief told that 102 known thugs and hoodlums were arrested. Also 5 women were detained.
This is part of the 2nd phase of Neighborhood-based Security Plan.
According to him they distributed illegal drugs and were threatening, intimidating, traumatizing and bullying the public. Also amounts of narcotics, alcoholic drinks, obscene CDs, various weapons and firearms were confiscated.
source: freedomessenger.com



Sunday is Mehdi Abedi Bakhoda, a political prisoners of the 80's arrested. Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran, say that intelligence agents climbed over the wall of Bakhoda's estate and arrested him forceably and despite the protests of his familymembers they transported him to an unknown location.
His computer, mobile phone and other personal belongings were taken.
source: freedomessenger.com


Journalist Kamal Sharifi was arrested in 2007 and sentenced to 30 years in prison in exile. He is in prison Hormuzgan and already 40 days on hungerstrike.He protests the inappropriate prison conditions and being held in the same cell as dangerous criminals.
His father told HRHI that they have been denied prison visits for the past 4 years and the last time he contacted them was 45 days ago.
According to his father , they are currently awaiting the appeals court decision regarding the case.
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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