Saturday, July 14, 2012

Iran: more July 14, 2012

Human Rights Watch urged Iranian authorities to stop immediately the mistreatment of two imprisoned journalists.
Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand is serving a prisonsentence of 10 ½ years. In March he started a hungerstrike to protest the denial of his repeated requests to visit his son, who suffers a bloodcondition.
Bahman Ahmadi-Amoui, a journalist of numerous reformist publications, who is serving a prisonsentence of 5 years in the same ward, was transferred to a prison in Karaj on June 12, as punishment for marking the anniversary of the death of another hunger-striking prisoner.
source: hrw.org



Azerbaijan poets Farid Huseynzade, 23 and Shahriyar Hajizade, 21 were arrested May 3 when they returned from a festival in Tabriz . Since then,  the foreign ministy in Baku sent five formal notes requesting an explanation to Tehran.
In a telephonecall with familymembers they told that they are accused of entering the country illegally, while Iran media reports suggest they might have been spying for Israel.
source: iwpr.net

The manager of SAFRA announced Friday that on July 23 the largest Iranian made oil tanker will be launched.
source: en.trend.az

Cartoon 15 Larijani, the farmer

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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