Iran: more May 24, 2012

May 13 The Voice of America held a Kurdish interview with IHRDC Executive Director Gissou Nia
source: IHRDC

The vicepresident of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and president of the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI), said that Iranian authorities have launched a new wave of repression against ethnic minorities, such as Baluchis, Arabs and Azeris.
They are acting in complete defiance of the recommendations made by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its August 2010 concluding observations, where the Committee strongly criticised the denial of rights of the ‘Arab, Azeri, Baluchi, Kurdish communities and some communities of non-citizens’ in Iran and called on the authorities to take measures to protect them effectively.
source: iranbriefing.net


The member of parliament Mostafa Kavakebian backed Ali Motahari, in his allegations that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) interfered in the recent parliamentary elections.
Other members of parliament strongly criticised Motahari.
source: iranbriefing.net


Youtube shows a videoclip with a yoing man, being whipped in public.
The site said that it was filmed last Sunday in the village of Miane. Witnesses said the young man had been arrested for allegedly drinking alcohol.
source: freedomessenger


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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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