Iran: more

Human rights lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh refuses to participate in his upcoming trial.
His wife told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that her husband will not appear at this court session again for the same reason as before–he does not recognize the Revolutionary Court as qualified to review this case. He should be tried in the Tehran Province Criminal Court, in the presence of a jury qualified to review press and political charges.
Seifzadeh was arrested in April 2011.
source: iranhumanrights.org


April 4th, student-activist and member of Iran Freedom Movement Payman Aref has been released.He had been on a wet hunger strike since 21 March in Evinprison.
He had been arrested on March 14th on charges of the head of Evinprison that Aref implicated him in carrying out his October 2011 illegal flogging.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Imprisoned human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh has been deprived of furlough and telephone contact with her family during the Persian New Year.
She is already 2 years detained and she and the other women in her ward were not even allowed to make telephone calls to their families during the holidays.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian minister of Energie told IRNA that Iran soon will soon launch a plan to transfer water from the Caspian Sea to its central regions.
He also said that the plan has been developed based on the idea of connecting the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf.
source: en.trend.az


All 27 crewmembers of a Chinese ship that was hijacked in the Sea of Oman by Somalian pirates were rescued by two Iranian warships who were in the area. The Chinese ship, Xianghuamen, has been rescued and is in repair now. Later the ship will sail to the Iranian port of Gask, about 112 km away from where the hijacking occurred and 322 km away from the vessel's destination.
source: englespeak.us


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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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