Iran: more August 1, 2012

According to Reuters seven Iranian aidworkers of Iranian Red Crescent in Libia are abducted by an unknown group.
Security officials say that they were abducted from their vehicle in the heart of Benghazi on their way back to their hotel.
The Libyan Red Crescent Association confirmed the incident.
source: cnbc.com

The Chairman of the Ardabil Revolutionary Cour reported that 2 Azerbaijan spies were arrested. He said that currently four Azeri are imprisoned. Two of them are charged with spying, while the other two are charged with drug trafficking.
The poets Farid Huseynov and Sahriyar Hacizada are since May detained in Tabriz, first on drugscharges, later these were changed in spycharges.
source: iranbriefing.net

A bassijcommander said that no one can confront Iran when the country decides to close the Strait of Hormuz.
According to him it is clear that a major part of world energy passes through Strait of Hormuz.
source: iranbriefing.net

Finally jailed humanrightsactivist and deputy head of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre Nargess Mohammadi was temporarily released against a bail of 600 million toumans.
Human Rights Reporters Committee reports that she on Tuesday was released.
Website Melli Mazhabi writes that she has been given a ten-day release to get treatment for her medical condition.
source: radio zamaneh



In a joint statement Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Laureate, International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and the Iranian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LDDHI) said that conditions for political prisoners in Iran are daily deteriorating.
Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are tortured and ill-treated during pre-trial detention, lack access to their lawyers and families and due process, and are subsequently tried under conditions far from international standards of fair trials.A list with names:
Ms. Nargess Mohammadi
Ms. Zaynab Jalalian
Ms. Kobra Banazadeh Amirkhizi
Ms. Sedigheh Moradi
Ms. Nasrin Sotudeh,
Ms. Hanieh Farshi Shotorban,
Mohammad Seifzadeh
Abdolfattah Soltani
Shahrokh Zamani
Mohsammad Sadiq Kaboudvand
Bahman Ahmadi Amou’i,
Anvar Hossein Panahi,
Abolfazl Ghadiani,
Mostafa Tajzadeh,
Kurosh Kuhkan (Kohkan),
Kayvan Samimi-Behbahani,
Sa’eed Matinpour,
Ahmad Zeidabadi (Zeydabadi),
Heshmatollah Tabarzadi,
Abdollah Momeni,
Ghassem Sholeh Saadi,
Hamed Rouhinejad,
Mohammad Hossein Kazemeyni Borujerdi,
Saleh Kohandel,
Siamak Ighani
Mohsen Javadi Afzali,
Ja’afar Eghdami,
Ebrahim (Nader) Babaei,
Arash Honarvar Shojaei.


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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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