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This morning 17-year-old Alireza Mollasoltani has been hanged in public in Karaj, near Tehran.
Hij was sentenced to death for stabbing the Iranian champion of weightlifting Ruhollah Dadashi .
Several human rights organizations and the Norwegian government had called the scheduled execution "unlawful" and against the UN convention on the Rights of the Child,that has been ratified by Iran.
source: iranhr.net


September 3rd arrested womanrightsactivist and member of One Million Signatures Campaign Fereshteh Shirazi has been denied prisonvisits and telephone contact with her family.
So far there has been no information made available on her charges or the reason behind her arrest.
source: persian2english.com

Four days after the member of reformist party Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization and former vice-minister of commerce in the Khatami-administration, Feizollah Arabsorkhi has been released, he was called back to prison, because his release had been a clerical error and he had to return to jail to complete his sentence.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com



The lawyer of the two Americans in Iran said that the two will be released Wednesday September 21st.
Josh Fattel and Shane Bauer paid a bail of $1 million.
According to their lawyer he will meet the two Americans today in prison and then they will be handed over to Swiss diplomats.
source: ajc.com


Iranian parliament deputy Laleh Eftekhari has criticized female defendants who appear in court wearing the compulsory chador.
She said that most guilty female defendants do not believe in the full-body Islamic veil and have to be forced to wear one when they appear in court.
Eftekhari also said that Iranian Prisons Organization, which requires women to wear the veil in court, should ask them instead to drape themselves in "bed sheets" or "a piece of cloth with the prison's logo."
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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