Iran: more, June 5, 2012

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that on May 21 the Kurdish political prisoner Jahangir Badozadeh transferred to the section of drugstraffickers. Authorities were previously keeping him in solitary confinement.
A source told ICHRI that Badozadeh is in prison since 2004.He was sentenced to death but this verdict was reduced to life in prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Riaz Sobhani,66 currently in prison for financially assisting the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), was denied, a medical leave after his heartsurgery.
He was transferred to the hospital with chains on his hands and feet and guarded day and night. His family only was allowed to visit him  a couple of times.
source: iranhumanrights.org


June 1, it was one year that Haleh Sahabi, 54 after being beaten by security forces at her fathers funeral, died of cardiac arrest.
Sahabi was a womensrightsactivist, religious scholar and member of the group Iranian Mothers for Peace. Authorities reported the cause of her death as emotional distress caused by her father’s death. She was serving a prisonsentence of 2 years.
Her brother told ICHRI about the slow progress of the case with the Judiciary.
source: iranhumanrights.org


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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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