Iran: report

Mehrnews wrote that on July 30 a man was hanged in the city of Qom.
The man, S.H. was sentenced to death for the murdering of an 8-year-old boy.
The newspaper Khorasan writes that on July 31 in the city of Mashhad a man was hanged for the rape in 2008 of a 16-year-old boy.
The report says that the man was 19 years old, but it was not clear from the report whether he was 19 at the time of the alleged crime or when he was executed.
source: iranhr.net



The Japanese company Tadano stops selling executioncranes to Iran.
This decision was made after heavy pressure of UANI (United Against Nuclear Iran), who condemned Tadano and Furukawa UNIC for providing mobile cranes to Iran. The report included graphic evidence of the cranes being used to hang Iranian citizens.
bron: freedomessenger


The health of the Secretary-General of the Democratic Front of Iran and spokesman of Unity Council for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran, the political prisoner Heshmatollah Tabarzadi is in danger as a result of severe chest pains. He is imprisoned in Rajaei Shahrprison in Karaj.
Here a petition to sign.
source: Persian2english


The Zoroastrian Mohsen Sadeghipour started to serve his 4,5 years prisonsentence. He was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, 74 lashew and a moneyfine for insulting the Supreme Leader, disturbing public order, anti-regime propaganda by propaganda for the Zoroastrian faith and organizing ancient ceremonies.
He was arrested during the Ashuraprotests along with his wife Negar Shahpari and his brother in law Abolfazl and Mohammad Javad Shahpari.
His cousin Mojtaba Ahmadi is sentenced to 6 years in prison and has been held in prison since last year without prison visits or prison leaves.
source: HRHI



The humanrightsactivist Saeed Jalalifar (member of CHRR) was arrested yesterday when arriving at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran to prevent the reversal of his bail.
Judge Moghiseh of the Revolutionary Court has ordered that Jalalifar be kept at Evin’s ward 350 until a trial date has been issued.
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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