Iran: more March 1 2013

In Gachsaran were on February 28 4 prisoners hanged in public.
They were convicted for rape in 2007. The youngest man was 22 when he was executed.
Iran Human Rights is investigating this matter.
The names of the executed were identified by a local website as: Kianoosh Anbazpour, Yahya Bei’atpanah, Sajjad Soltani and Shahzad Basiri.
In the prison of Semnan is 1 prisoner hanged. According to the judicial website the man, R. Kh. was convicted for possession of 1163 grams of crack.
According to Iranian statemedia is on February 27 in the prison of Kashan a 31-year-old man hanged. He was convicted for trafficking of 3 kilograms of heroin in 2010.
source: iranhr.net

After one month of demonstrations against the government's diversion of water from central Isfahan Province to other regions, protesters in the Iranian town of Varzaneh clashed with police.
Witnesses report that dozens were injured.
The protesters say that a pipeline is diverting water from the Zayandehrood River and is leaving their area.
bsource: 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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