Iran: punish January 20, 2013

The two men who were last week sentenced to death after a video appeared on Youtube with footage of the men violently robbing a pedestrian were this morning hanged in public.
The men, Alireza Mafiha, 24 and Mohammad Ali Sorouri, 24 had been convicted for moharebe and corruption on earth.
source: dailystar.com.lb

On January 18 were in Pakdasht 2 men hanged in public.
Fars newsagency reported that the men, "Siyavash" (27) and "Mahmood" (28) were sentenced to death for rape.
ISNA reported that in Urmia on 19 January a man has been hanged in public.
The man, Hamed, 23 was convicted for murdering an other man.
Last week were the flogging sentences of four men carried out publicly in Sabzevar and Akman (near Semnan).
source: iranhr.net

The wife of Abolfazl Ghadyani told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that judge Salavati plans to transfer her husband to Ghezel Hessar Prison. On January 14 he was denied visitors and also now he is banned from having visitors because he will be transferred to another prison..
Ghadyani a member of Central Council of the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization, was arrested on January 9th, 2010 and sentenced to six years in prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org

In the last laborstatistics in Iran the Statistical Center of Iran changed two fundamental definitions (that of “work,” and that of “employment),to lower the official unemployment rate.
These new definitions allow children under the age of 15 to be added to employment statistics, thereby lowering the official unemployment rates.
These new definitions go against both Iranian and international labor laws.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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