Iran: religion

The appeal of the Iranian Christian Yousef Naderkhani, 35 against his deathpenalty, was rejected on June 28.
He is in prison since October 2009 and is converted to Christianity at the age of 19.
He was sentenced to death by branch 11 of the revolutionary court in Gilan for apostacy and preaching Christianity.
He is also mentioned on page 7 of the 2011 Amnesty International report.
source: HRHI, persian2english, AI


A conservative Iranian lawmaker confirmed that there was raid at a women's public swimming pool in Tehran.
About a week ago, several men reportedly raided the pool where they harassed and filmed the women there.
According to ISNA the conservative member of parliament Fatemeh Alia said that the police arrested some of the thugs.The police denied that an incident took place.
source: rferl.org


Website Khabaronline reported that the Education minister Daneshjoo ordered to study the possibility of forced segregation at universities for men and women at the start of the new academical year in September.
Daneshjoo is a fervent advocate of gender segregation and says that many problems at universities are caused by copying western models in both form and content.
In all Iranian primary and secondary schools girls and boys are segregated following the revolution of 1979.
source: freedomessenger.com

The journalist Maziar Bahari who was covering the elections for Newsweek in 2009 and was arrested wrote a book about his imprisonment.
He was arrested June 21, 2009 and spent 114 days in solitary confinement in Evinprison.
He was beaten and interrogated every day. After nearly 4 months he was released.
source: npr.org

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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