Iran: transfers

Mehrnews reports that 380,000 children between 10 and 14 year-old work as permanent childlaborer and about 360,000 children work as seasonal workers.
In reality, more then 600,000 children work as childlaborer in Iran.
Additional to the physical and psychological damage these children suffer because they are actually banned from working based on current laws and rules, they are not covered by the Labor Law and social services.
These statistics are added to thousands of other children undoubtedly working unofficially in Iran.
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com



Hashem Khastar's wife told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that despite the prisonsentence from her husband of 2 years had been ended on July 26, he was not released.
Instead he was taken to court and tried on the new charge of “creating public anxiety.”
Khastar wrote three letters to Head of the Judiciary regarding the inhumane conditions and secret executions at Vakilabad Prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Shirin Ebadi criticised the limitations imposed on Iranian political prisoners including allowing them furlough or in-person visits with their families.
She says that according to Iranian laws, the Prosecutor, the Head Warden, or any other judicial official are not authorized to arbitrarily deprive a prisoner of his legal rights.
source: iranhumanrights.org



The member of Islamic Iran Participation Front and one of the 7 leading reformists who filed a lawsuit against several commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for their intervention in the elections Mostafa Tajzadeh is transferred Tuesday to the Methadone ward in Evinprison.
Kaleme reports that at the methadonward, where the female political prisoners were formerly held has no access to fresh air and also has no communication with the other political prisoners.
He was transferred after a brief furlough along with a former cellmate who suffers from severe psychological problems.
source: persian2english

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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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