Iran: continue March 7 2013

News agency Mehr reported that on March 2 in Torkmanchai area of Mianeh 2 prisoners were hanged in public.
The prisoners, A. R. and S. N. were convicted for murdering a man in 2011.
In the prison of Sari is a man hanged on February 28. The not named man was convicted on drugsrelated charges.
source: iranhr.net


March 6, weekly Aseman, monthly Tajrobeh and monthly Mehrnameh were closed, and security agents arrested the newspaper’s license holder Mohammad Mehdi Emam Naseri and political desk editor Alireza Aghaee Rad from daily Maghreb.
source: iranhumanrights.org




The mother ofp incarcerated blogger Sattar Beheshti who died in prison in November 2012, has vowed to take her own life if authorities fail to bring to justice those responsible for her son’s suspicious death.
Despite promises by officials that the case would be sent to the courts before mid-February, this did not happen. Security officials have put his mother and other family members under close surveillance and have told them not to speak to the media or international rights organizations about the case.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com, hrw.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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