Iran: drill

Friday at a craftshow in a home in Mashhad were 8 Bahais arrested.
Security agents raided and searched the house and noted the identities of those present.
In recent months the Iranian Bahai community was heavy harrassed by authorities.
source: radio Zamaneh



During the 25 Bahman (14 February) protests Gholam Hossein Ghasemi, Hamid Abedini, Ali Azad, Toofan Hatefi, Massoud Kermi, Hamed Aslani, Mohsen Moradi, Mohammad Ali Abdali, Gholam Hossein Azari Najfabadi and Ali Shekarji had been arrested and still not are released.
According to HRHI they are detained in ward 7 of Evinprison, with violent offenders.
To protest this they started a hungerstrike.
source: freedomessenger



In response to the request from former political prisoner and documentary film maker Mohamad Nouri for a letter writing campaign to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, Rohollah Zam has written several letters to Khamenei.
The site Kalameh published the last letter to Khamenei, in which former political prisoner Rohollah Zam talks about the illegal and inhuman methods that are used by interrogators for obtaining forced false confessions from prisoners.
He also describes why he had to fled the country.
source: persianbanoo

The IRGC Ground Force launched massive military drills in Yazd province to improve the combat preparedness of Iranian armed forces in the event of an attack.
The codename for the drill is Val Fajr.
source: en.trend.az

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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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