Iran: further

Iranian border guards have reportedly shot dead six Pakistanis and wounded two others after they strayed across Iran’s border.
source: rferl.org


The head of Justice in Bushehr announced that the perpetrators of the incident in the town of Abpakhsh will be publicly hanged.
The Public Relations Office of the Bushehr Judiciary said that the case is pursued by the court in Bushehr and were they sentenced to public hanging which sentence is confirmed by the Supreme Court.
source: freedomessenger



According to reports in Gohardashtprison inhumane pressure on political prisoners have increased.The reduction of food worsens.
The dinner was one egg, one potatoes and one piece of bread. This has been replaced by 15g halva and a small, thin piece of factory bread .
The quantity of all other meals given to prisoners has been lowered as well.
The head of Gohardasht Prison said that if sanctions were increased, the first people that would have to pay were political prisoners.
source: freedomessenger



January 21 security agents forced the door to the house of Bahai author and poet Enayatollah Sanai and searched the place. They took prayerbooks, cd's and cassettes.
Sanai was not at home and could not be arrested.
The arrestwarrant they used was expired.
source: HRHI


Human Rights House of Iran reports that interrogators of the cyber intelligence unit of IRGC gave an ultimatum at Saeed Malekpour to make a televised confession, in exchange for being transferred to Evin’s public ward and avoiding execution. Malekpour is sentenced to death for having a website with adult content.
He is already 3 years in jail.
source: HRHI


Shirin Ebadi called to a international campaign for the release of the 3 oppositionleaders Zahra Rahnavard, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mehdi Karroubi.
She also invited all her compatriots to boycott the staged elections on 2 March.
source:iranhumanrights.org

Podcast 46, Iran’s assault on free expression, an interview with Mehrad Vaezinejad and Niousha Masoumi

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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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