Iran: more, August 16, 2012

The lawyer of Houtan Kian says that his client has been tortured and transferred to the ward for methadone addicts.
Kian was arrested in October 2010 and has been sentenced to 11 years in prison.
source: freedomessenger



On August 8 Kurdish illegal trader Saleh Baduzadeh,25 from Shivan village in Salmas, has been killed by border guards. Iranian borderguards shoot at illegal traders without warning and it lefts hundreds deaths and their animals in the year.
source: freedomessenger




Several "personalities" from Iranian society wrote a letter to ayatollah Khamenei that apparently suggests moves that could dilute the powers of President Ahmadinejad.
Website Fardanews quotes an unnamed parliamentarian who says that the letter had been received by Khamenei but that he hadn't responded yet.
source: rferl.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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