New York Times: Iran and its European partners pledged Monday to work to overcome their differences and lingering suspicions as they began negotiations for a long-term agreement on nuclear, economic and security cooperation.Iran and Europeans Open a New Round of Negotiations
New York Times: Iran and its European partners pledged Monday to work to overcome their differences and lingering suspicions as they began negotiations for a long-term agreement on nuclear, economic and security cooperation.Teenage sex slave sentenced to death
Daily Telegraph: A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to be flogged and executed for ‘morality-related’ offences, Amnesty International said yesterday. The human rights pressure group has asked Iran’s supreme court to stay the execution. The girl, named only as Leyla M, had suffered a “litany of abuse”, it said. Iran: Girl With Mental Age of Eight Given Death Sentence After Mother Forced Her Into Prostitution F
Amnesty International: A 19-year old girl, Leyla M, who has a mentalage of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for morality-related offences after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.
Mentally-ill girl who was sold for sex faces death penalty in Iran
The Independent: A teenage girl with a mental age of eight is facing the death penalty for prostitution in Iran. The trial comes only four months after the hanging of another mentally ill girl for sex before marriage in a case that has prompted a human rights lawyer to prepare a charge of wrongful execution against the presiding judge. Teenage sex slave sentenced to death
Daily Telegraph: A 19-year-old Iranian girl with a mental age of eight who was forced into prostitution by her mother has been sentenced to be flogged and executed for ‘morality-related’ offences, Amnesty International said yesterday. The human rights pressure group has asked Iran’s supreme court to stay the execution. The girl, named only as Leyla M, had suffered a “litany of abuse”, it said. Hardliners cement power in Iran, nuclear ambitions worry world
AFP: Iran’s Islamic regime remained at the centre of international concerns in 2004 by pressing on with a suspect nuclear programme, testing new ballistic missiles, ousting reformists from office and clamping down on dissent. After an often turbulent experiment with reforms, powerful hardliners marked the Islamic republic’s 25th anniversary by barring allies of President Mohammad Khatami from standing in February’s parliamentary elections on the grounds of their questionable loyalty to the regime. Clashes in northern Iran leave scores injured, security vehicles destroyed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 13 – Workers and local residents in the northern Iranian city of Amol clashed with the security forces, leaving scores injured and a number of security vehicles destroyed. Workers from Amol’s Textile Factory demonstrated outside the local governor’s office after the factory claimed bankruptcy whilst owing the workers back-pay … Clashes in northern Iran leave scores injured, security vehicles destroyed
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 13 – Workers and local residents in the northern Iranian city of Amol clashed with the security forces, leaving scores injured and a number of security vehicles destroyed. Workers from Amol’s Textile Factory demonstrated outside the local governor’s office after the factory claimed bankruptcy whilst owing the workers back-pay … Iran nuke talks launched
Reuters: Three European powers and Iran have begun talkson a long-term agreement on nuclear, economic and security cooperation with both sides seeking to build trust amid continuing suspicion over Tehran’s atomic programme. The meeting between Iranian negotiator Hassan Rohani, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany and EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana followed Iran’s agreement last month to suspend activities that could help make a
nuclear bomb.
Iran: Girl With Mental Age of Eight Given Death Sentence After Mother Forced Her Into Prostitution F
Amnesty International: A 19-year old girl, Leyla M, who has a mentalage of eight, reportedly faces imminent execution for morality-related offences after being forced into prostitution by her mother as a child. According to a Tehran newspaper report of 28 November, she was sentenced to death by a court in the central Iranian city of Arak and the sentence has now been passed to the Supreme Court for confirmation.
