Iran: more October 18th, 2012

Securityprisoner Mohammad Amin Agoshi, 53 who is in Zahedanprison,started a hungerstrike to protest the lack of medical treatment and his illegal exile.
He was initially sentenced to death, but this sentence was later commuted to ten years in prison. Following the hunger strike, he was transferred to solitary confinement.
source: iranbriefing.net

Securityforces in Fars province arrested the leaders of 4 Christian housechurches.. According to official Iranian media reports, the home-based churches conduct religious propaganda by Christians and missionaries.
source: iranbriefing.net




The Iranian judiciary chief said on Wednesday that in Iran only drug traffickers, murderers, armed robbers, and rapists are being executed and that no one is executed in Iran for his/her political views.
He said this in response to a report issued by Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human rights in Iran.
source: freedomessenger.com

The Revolutionary Guards rejected there is a plan to damage an oil tanker in the Street of Hormuz to create an environmental disaster.
Deputy commander General Hossein Salam sayd the force does not need such scenarios to accomplish its mission.
source: nowlebanon.com

In Yazd province are 2 textilefactories shut down with at least 50 workers laid off.
According to the head of the Union of Islamic Work in Yazd are tensions in the foreign currency market and the unrestricted imports of foreign textile the cause of closing Iranian factories.
source: irandailybrief.com


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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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