Iran: more

In Kerman January 19th is a man hanged in public.
Website Khabaronline wrote that the man, Majid Samimi,31 was convicted for rape.
source: iranhr.net



Iran says that information of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been used in the murder on the nuclear scientist last week.January 11th was Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran assassinated after a magnetic bomb clinging to the door of his car exploded.
According to Irans Deputy UN ambassador there is a "high suspicion" that information via the IAEE was used to commit the murder.
source: rferl.org



For years graves and cemetaries of Bahai in Iran get destroyed.
In december 2011 authorities raided in Sanandaj 12 houses of Bahai and confiscated books, computers, cd's and other belongings. It looks like the fate of the cemetery has already been decided.
Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan called upon authorities on January 17th to tolerate other beliefs.
source: news.bahai.org



Two days ago, the journalist Peymon Pakmehr was arrested in Tabriz.
He is the 4th journalist who was arrested last week.
source: iranbriefing.net



Iran warned Gulf states not to co-operate with western efforts to isolate the country.
The Iranian foreign minister said that Gulfstates, cooperating with the West are in a dangerous position.
The warning came after a meeting of European ambassadors in Brussels failed to agree on the details of an EU oil embargo.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who moved to Paris, France last year, caused a scandal by posing topless for a magazine and post the photo on her Facebookpage.
The actress says that Iranian authorities told her not to come back.
source: rferl.ord

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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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