Iran: more

Reporters without Borders reports press freedom violations in Iran in real time (from 1st January 2011).
Last week, September 12 was Ebrahim Rashidi a blogger and journalist at the weekly Bayram, arrested by security agents in the city of Ardabil. He has been arrested several times before in recent years.
Abolfazle Vesali, a journalist at the weekly Saghi Tabriz and former editor of the banned daily Nedai Azarabadegan, has been released September 12th after being arrested in May to serve a prisonsentence of 6 months from 2005.
source: rsf.org

Pakistan looses $40 million annually owing to smuggling of fruit to Iran.
The CEO of Harvest Tradings says that the illegal trade has also drastically reduced the legal trade of fruits with Iran.
It is reported that Iran has also serious concerns over the transport of unhygienic fruits through land routes.
Earlier exported Pakistan about 60,000 to 80,000 tonnes of kinnow annually to Iran, around 40 percent of its total kinnow export.
source: thenews.com.pk


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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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