Friday, February 24, 2012

Iran: more

Iranian borderguards have seized1.5 million various types of petroleum related products from January 21 to February 21.
The smuggle was done by several vehicles, boats and tankers .Also 25 people were detained who crossed the borders illegally during the aforementioned period.
source: en.trend.az



Dariush Jalali, student at Yasuj university is according to reports arrested.
Over the weekend he sew his lips together and chained himself to the gate of the university.
Last year he was sentenced to a year in prison and later banned from university.
He wrote in a statement that his action was meant to protest the injustice.
source: rferl.org



The Kurdish student Shirzad Karimi has been sentenced by the revolutionary court in Sanandaj to 4 years in prison with a 3 years suspension on charges of “propagating against the regime,
He and several other students and members of Kurdish Students Democratic Union were arrested and released on a bail later.
The spokesman for the Union, Souran Daneshvar is sentenced to one year in prison with a suspended 2 years and Milad Karimi, the deputy secretary from the Union, to 1.5 years in prison, which was reduced to 6 months in appeal.
source: iranbriefing.net

The website of statetelevision in Azerbayan has been attacked on February 22nd by a hacker.
The homepage of state airline AZAL was also hit by cyberattackers.
Azerbaijan officials say the attacks originated from Iran.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian opposition calls for a boycot of the elections on March 2nd.
This year already 100 people have been detained for non-violent activism around the elections.
Two people have reportedly died in custody.
source: iranbriefing.net

EAWorldView



In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

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