- Iranian Judiciary sentenced a man to death in the Southern province of Hormozgan last Friday.The state-controlled daily JAVAN said the man identified by his initials as G. D. was charged with killing an agent of the state security forces in the province.
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Iranian authorities hanged a teenager in public on Wednesday for a crime he had purportedly committed as a child, state media reported.The teenager who was hanged in the morning was identified only by his first name Vaheed.Vaheed had recently turned 18. He was accused of murder.Another teenager, identified as Sina, who had also recently turned 18 had his death sentence suspended at the last minute for a period of two months.After being taken to the gallows and having the noose put around his neck, the relatives of the individual Sina was accused of murdering called for his hanging to be temporary suspended.Under mullah’s ruling in Iran, boys above the age of fifteen and girls above 9, are considered as adults and could be convicted of capital offences. Under increasing international pressure for violations of the rights of the child, the Iranian regime keeps convicted children in juvenile prisons and issues court verdicts only after they turn 18 so as to carry out sentences that would have be handed out if the defendants were adults.
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- Iran's Judiciary sentenced nine people to death in the Iranian western Province of Balouchestan and Tehran.
The state owned daily Keyhan, carrying the hardline views of Iran's Supreme Leader said that seven out of nine detainees who have been sentenced to death are in Balouchestan. They have been identified by their first initials only.
In Tehran a 40-year old woman and a 19 year old man have been sentenced to death. The Supreme Court in Tehran upheld Zahra's death sentence.
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During her trial, Shahla Jahed consistently upheld her innocence. In December 2004, on being told of a previous Supreme Court ruling in the case, Shahla Jahed reportedly said, "Everyone knows the conditions under which I confessed".
Amnesty International is concerned that Shahla Jahed's confession may have been made under duress.
Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases as the ultimate cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, in violation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The organization has recorded 108 executions in Iran so far this year, including those of two women, although the true figure may be much higher.
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- The Iranian consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra came under attack early Tuesday, Iraqi police and British officials said.
Two rockets crashed into the outer wall of the Iranian consulate while a third hit a police vehicle guarding the building, Basra police said, adding that there were no casualties.
Police said they then foiled a second rocket attack on the compound.
"We found and defused two rockets laid on top of a car," said one Basra police officer.
In mid-June, thousand supporters of Sheikh Mahmud al-Hassani al-Sarkhi, an Iraqi Shiite cleric, attacked the consulate and tore down its flag in protest at criticism of their leader broadcast on Iranian television.
Two rockets crashed into the outer wall of the Iranian consulate while a third hit a police vehicle guarding the building, Basra police said, adding that there were no casualties.
Police said they then foiled a second rocket attack on the compound.
"We found and defused two rockets laid on top of a car," said one Basra police officer.
In mid-June, thousand supporters of Sheikh Mahmud al-Hassani al-Sarkhi, an Iraqi Shiite cleric, attacked the consulate and tore down its flag in protest at criticism of their leader broadcast on Iranian television.
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-More than a dozen people were killed on Wednesday as a minibus slammed into a truck in south-eastern Iran, state television reported.The accident occurred on the Ravar-Mashad Highway in the province of Kerman at approximately 4:30 am local time.At least 13 people were left dead and 16 others injured in the crash.The report said that the 21-seater minibus was carrying 34 passengers.The head of Iran’s traffic police Brigadier General Mohammad Rouyanian announced in June that the expected death toll from accidents on Iran’s highways for the current year stood at 31,000.Iran's highways are the most dangerous in the world. In the last 5 years some 100,000 people have been killed, 3 death an hour.
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- Simultaneous with the UN general assembly in New York, Iranians took part in a rally across the street from the UN headquarters expressing Iranian people's anger and frustration at Ahmadinejad's presence in the United Nations General Assembly, and offering support for the Mojahedin of Ashraf.
Dozens of US lawmakers of different committees including foreign relations, homeland security, armed and judicial committees offered support for the Iranian rally in New York stressing that Mrs. Rajavi represents the Iranian people's struggle for democracy.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian resistance in her message to the New York rally said: "Iranian people will never tolerate the shame of being represented by a murderer and a criminal in international assemblies.
The Iranian Resistance's President Elect addressed the world leaders at the UN General Assembly on behalf of the Iranian people and the Resistance and said: "If a firm policy is not adopted against the Iranian regime, if the policy of appeasement, negotiation and installing continues, then the world would inevitably face a fundamentalist and a tyrant regime armed with nuclear weapon, similar to the experience the world had with the fascist Hitler that finally resulted in the WWII.
Dozens of US lawmakers of different committees including foreign relations, homeland security, armed and judicial committees offered support for the Iranian rally in New York stressing that Mrs. Rajavi represents the Iranian people's struggle for democracy.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian resistance in her message to the New York rally said: "Iranian people will never tolerate the shame of being represented by a murderer and a criminal in international assemblies.
The Iranian Resistance's President Elect addressed the world leaders at the UN General Assembly on behalf of the Iranian people and the Resistance and said: "If a firm policy is not adopted against the Iranian regime, if the policy of appeasement, negotiation and installing continues, then the world would inevitably face a fundamentalist and a tyrant regime armed with nuclear weapon, similar to the experience the world had with the fascist Hitler that finally resulted in the WWII.
