Iran: furthermore

The Iranian filmmaker Morteza Farshbaf has won one of the top two honors at Asia's largest film festival, South Korea's Busan International Film Festival.
He received the prize for his film "Mourning".
Organizers issued a statement expressing "serious concern" about the recent arrest of six Iranian filmmakers.
source: rferl.org


1.6 million Iranian families are not paying their gas and electricity bills to the National Iranian Gas Company. The spokesman of the energy committee of Iranian parliament said that the revenues of the new subsidy reformplan did not materialize and the budget deficit already came from the outcome of the population’s evasion of gas bills.
The deficit is likely to have an impact on the monthly cash payments of around $40 to ordinary citizens, which began after the controversial subsidy reform plan was implemented in December 2010.

source: irangreenvoice.com




The son of Riaz Sobhani gave an interview to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
Sobhani was arrested four months ago on charges of providing financial assistance to the Baha’i University in Iran. He has been in Evinprison since.
According to his son, his fathers bankaccounts have been blocked since his arrest.
He was allowed only three weeks after his arrest to contact his family an spent the first 2 months in prison in isolation.
source: iranhumanrights.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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