Iran: choose May 4, 2012

Today Iran holds the second round of parliamentary elections to decide 65 seats still outstanding in its 290-member legislature.
The new parliament, will like the old parliament, mainly conservative, but how that conservative force is configured, is not clear yet. The very little support for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the current parliament will be further eroded.
Important is the battle for the position of parliamentary speaker between Ali Larijani and Hadad Adel.
source: dailystar.com

Iranlaborreport writes that   Iranian workers’ requests for a march or for celebrations on Mayday were flatly turned down for the fifth consecutive year this year. Even the official labor organizations were denied permits.
Around May 1 were several little gatherings with speeches about the economic situation and the ban on Maycelebrations.
source: iranlaborreport


Radio Zamaneh writes that Reporters without Borders on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day,May 3rd, Iran has ranked as “one of the world’s biggest prisons for journalists”
Iran has been ranked at 175, or fifth from the bottom.
source: radiozamaneh





After spending 80 days in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz 5 christians were interrogated by the revolutionary guard. After interrogation they were brought back to prison.
Their names are : Fariba Nazemian, Mojtaba Hosseini, Homayoun Shokoohi, Mohamad-Reza Partoei (Koroush) and Vahid Hakkani. The reason for their arrest is still unknown.
source: worthynews.com


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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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