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In the prison of Qazvin were October 20 oktober 3 men hanged.
They were convicted of murdering a 39 years old man.
Names and ages were not revealed.
source: iranhr.net


Three days before the release from prison from Pastor Behnam Irani, authorities extended his prisonterm by five years by invoking a suspended sentence from 2008.
Irani is member of the evangelical group Church of Iran and the leader of a housechurch in Karaj.In 2006 he was arrested for the first time.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Detained lawyer and humanrightsactivist Nasrin Sotoudeh has been denied visits for refusing to wear the chador (long open cloak worn by Iranian women on top of their hijab). She says that it is a violation of her rights.
Last month the Iranian Judiciary announced that the requirement for women to wear the chador in court had been annulled.
Nasrin Sotoudeh is member of Defenders of Human Rights, One Million Signatures Campaign to Change Discriminatory Laws Against Women, and Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child.She has been convicted in appeal to 6 years in prison and a ban to be a lawyers for 10 years.
source: persian2english.com

Detained blogger Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki is still in Evin’s ward 350 suffering with a kidneydisease after undergoing 2 surgeries in the past six months.
Human Rights House of Iran reports that ithe order of chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi to transfer him to a hospital was issued two weeks ago.
His physical condition is dangerously deteriorating.
source: freedomessenger


The state newspaper Iran reported that reformist journalist
Abdolreza Tajik is sentenced to 6 years in prison.He was charged with propaganda against the state and cooperating with Centre for the Defence of Human Rights, a banned organization, founded by Shirin Ebadi.
He had been arrested in June 2010.
source: freedomessenger.com


Thursday-afternoon sank an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf,and five people were drowned.
Newsagency Fars reported that 60 people were rescued. 72 people were on board as it left the offshore oil rigs in the Persian Gulf to Iran 's southern Assaloyeh port.
The cause is unknown.
source: xinhuanet.com



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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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