Iran: further

Kurdish prisoner Farshad Kamangar has been hospitalized after 29 days of hungerstrike in the ICU of the hospital in Bijar. He is in critical condition.
Farshad Kamangar has been imprisoned in Kermanshah, Marivan and Bijar prisons for two years on alleged financial crimes.
Although he has served his full prison sentence, he remains behind bars because he is unable to pay a fine .
July 25 he and political prisoner Hassan Akhtar Samand started a hungerstrike to protest to being exiled to Bijar.
source: freedomessenger


August 18 is christian convert Abdolreza Ali Haq Nejad arrested in Rasht.
The first time he was arrested in 2006, and then in 2010 because of his evangelical activities in the church.
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com




On August 16 the poet de Hila Sadighi was sentenced by judge Pirabbasi to 4 months in prison , to be postponed for five years.
Sadeghi is known for her critical and political poems.
She had been arrested in 2010 and been interrogated for 10 to 12 hours a day.
source:iranhumanrights.org

In the past week Tehran Police Special Operations together with plainclothed agents raided houses in Tehran's Saadat Abaden neighborhood and collected satellite dishes.
Policecommando's used ropes to climb onto balconies and enter people’s private homes.
During the raid, forces tried to intimidate and frighten the neighborhood residents.
Several residents who were not home when police forces entered their dwellings alleged that their gold, jewelry, and valuable household items had gone missing.
source: iranhumanrights.org

August 21st a directive was sent by the Iranian Ministry of Education stating that the mingling of boys and girls is forbidden at preschool classes.
Its only allowed to teach them together in schools where the number of students does not reach the required minimum.
source: rferl.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.
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