Monday, October 22, 2007

NEWS))))))

Iranian authorities hanged eight men and a woman in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.Six of the men were identified by their first names Babak, Seddiq, Morteza, Kiyan, Behzad, and Hamid.All nine were hanged Wednesday morning, the official daily “Iran” wrote. The woman was identified as 30-year-old Fakhteh. The names of the other two men were not given.All nine were accused of murder.Separately, three other men were hanged in public on Wednesday in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state media reported.The men were called Vahid E., Mohammad A. and Ahmad E., the government-owned news agency Fars quoted Jaber Baneshi, the public prosecutor of Shiraz, as saying.They were accused of kidnapping and disrupting public order among other charges.Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a maximum security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions.


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Javan state run daily reported on Saturday Oct. 20, that regime of Iran is going to hang three people in Tehran. They are Sirous Gh. 38, Mohammad Ali- 31 and Hussein A. Their sentences have been approved by high court of the regime.
Elsewhere in Iran, the mullahs’ regime hanged publicly three persons in Shiraz and sentenced three youths to death in Tehran. The three individuals who were executed in Shiraz were Vahid A, Mohammad A and Ahmad A. The death sentence of three youth by the names of Nassrollah, 26, Hassan, 24 and Ahmad, 30 were also released. Their verdicts have been confirmed by the mullahs’ Supreme Court and will be carried out soon.

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Five people were hanged in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, state media reported on Sunday. The executions took place in the city of Birjend, the news agency Mehr reported.


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The misogynous regime in Iran has interrogated more than a 1,000 women and young girls on the streets under the pretext of mal-veiling since April only in the Southern Khorasan Province.Mansour Sabbagh Gol, a State Security Force commander of the province announced these figures. He also reported of street interrogations of 8,624 youths for baseless reasons.


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The head of Iran's law enforcement agency warned Friday of a renewed crackdown on Iranians who adhere to Western cultural ways. Los Angeles Times reported that Esmail Ahmadi-Moghadam, chief of Iran's security forces, said pressure on "thugs and gangs" over the last six months had proved successful, and told Iranians to expect tougher enforcement of the Islamic Republic's moral codes. In the near future, he told worshipers before Friday prayers in the capital, security officials would crack down on vendors selling Western CDs and movies, small-time drug peddlers, reckless motorcyclists who dart in and out of traffic and knife-wielding "vagrants." "Thanks to enforcing law and order, we are witnessing a dramatic reduction in homicides," he said. "Despite the nagging of the West-toxified critics who want Iranians to abandon their Islamic and national values and embrace rotten Western values, the wrongdoing of the thugs has decreased."


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The global human rights group Amnesty International launched an urgent appeal on Thursday to save the life of a young man who is sentenced to be executed for a crime he allegedly committed while still a minor. Amnesty International said that 21-year-old Ali Mahin Torabi is currently being held in Raja'i Shahr Prison in Karaj, near Tehran, and his death sentence could be carried out “at any time”. A court had sentenced him to execution for the February 2003 fatal stabbing of a student during a playground fight at the Bani Hashemi High School. Torabi was only 16 years old when he allegedly stabbed fellow student Mazdak Khodadian.“Iran is the only country in the world that still executes child offenders - people convicted of crimes committed before they were 18. Over 70 child offenders are currently facing execution in Iran”, Amnesty said in a statement. “Executing someone is cruel and inhumane, whatever the circumstances. But the execution of child offenders is particularly sickening”, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said.


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The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described Ali Larijani’s ouster as the chief nuclear negotiator of the mullahs’ regime on Saturday, a major purge within the clerical regime as the regime is amid the downward spiral of disintegration. She added that Larijani’s ouster which followed the removal of Maj. Gen. Rahim Safavi, the Commander-in- Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and a number of other members of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet, reflect the depth of the crisis within the regime. This will be followed by more resignations and dismissals in the future, Mrs. Rajavi said. She added that owing to the acute nature of the regime’s internal crisis, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had two choices, either to get rid of Larijani or Ahmadinejad. He had no choice but to oust Larijani, whom he was using in order to engage in negotiations and deceive the Western countries. Replacing Larijani with Saeed Jalili, a low level figure in the regime’s hierarchy, is at the same time indicative of Ahmadinjad’s hegemony over the regime’s nuclear policy. One of Ahmadinejad’s close confidants and a veteran of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, Jalili was a graduate of, and a lecturer at, Imam Sadiq University, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).