Iran: threats November 6th, 2012

The names of the nine women who started a hungerstrike to protest an  attack on the ward populated by female political prisoners, where the female political prisoners were sent  to the prison’s yard, are: Bahareh Hedayat, Zhila Baniyaghoub, Mahsa Amrabadi, Hakimeh Shokri, Shiva Nazarahari, Zhila Karamzadeh Makvandi, Nazanin Deyhami, Raheleh Zokaei and Nasim Soltan-Beigi .
Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was on a hungerstrike already, has been taken to isolation and authorities threathened the other nine prisoners that they too will be transferred to solitary confinement if they do not end their hunger strike.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com, en.rsf.org



Mehdi Hashemi, the son of former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has been brought to a hospital from a Tehran jail following heart complications.
The daily Donya-e-Eqtesad writes writes after taking an angiogram, he will be taken back to prison.
September 24 Hashemi was arrested, a day after his return to Iran from the UK, where he spent 3 years after the ekections of 2009.
source: iranfocus.com

In an interview Monday night, the Israelian prime-minister Netanhyahu said that he could order an atack on Iran's nuclear facilities if he felt he had no choice.
He said that if sanctions or other international actions failed to deter Iran, he would do whatever was necessary to stop Iran from getting a nuclear bomb, even if he acted against the wishes of the United States.
source: trend.az


The Iran tribunal in The Hague found widespread humanrightsabuses and systematic and widespread murder of political opponents by Ayatollah Khomeini's regime in Iran during the 1980s.
As many as 20,000 people, mainly youths, are believed to have been killed in the state's prisons during that decade.
source: guardian

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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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