Iran: threats

Four men from the city of Khomeini Shahr, province Isfahan have been sentenced to death on charges of gang rape.
In total were nine men on trial.
Three prisoners were sentenced to 50-75 lashes and 5 to 15 years in prison.
Two persons were acquitted and released due to a lack of evidence.
May 14 the men raided a party in Khomeini Shahr, locked all the men in a room, and raped the women.
source: freedomessenger

The hardline newspapers "Kayhan" and "Resalat" called for a new round of media purification in Iran.
They support Ayatollah Khamenei who called the "cultural invasion" of the country's media by the West as the "key threat" to Iran.
In the article "Den of Charlatans" from "Kayhan" of August 10, Hossein Shariatmadari, the representative of the Supreme Leader, holds Iranian journalists responsible for the unrest that followed the controversial June 2009 elections.
In Paris living journalist Serajedin Mirdamadi told RFE/RL that Khamenei has been against freedom of the press since he was appointed in 1989.
source: rferl.org

In a post on the blog Freedom Messenger author Rebwar Kari Wali wonders whether Iran is trying to control Iraq and asks if the Americans liberated Iraq and created a new Iran.
Iran controls at least 70 percent of Iraqi political and human aspects including Kurdistan.
And not only by interfering in every major and minor Iraqi issue, Iran is now trying to reign in by force the only part of Kurdistan that is not obedient to Iran.
source: freedomessenger.com


August 10, the parents of Parvin Mokhtareh, the mother of Kouhyar Goudiarzi, were allowed to visit her in prison.
She told that while she was taking a shower on August 1, four plainclothes agents who had unexpectedly climbed the house’ arrested her. Since, she is in prison in bad hygienic conditions.
She is accused of “insulting the Supreme leader”, “Propaganda against the regime”, and “acting against national security”.
The student, journalist, humans right activist, and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) Kouhyar Goudarzi is according to his mother in Evinprison but this has not been officially confirmed.
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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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