Iran Focus: The head of the public relations office of prisons in Hamedan province (western Iran) announced today that the local Department of Justice had amputed the fingers of a burglar.
The man had alledgedly stolen from 15 different stores.
Mans fingers amputated: Iran Judiciary
Atefeh Rajabi was 16 when hanged: legal expert
Iran Focus: The lawyer representing the relatives of Atefeh Rajabi, the 16-year-old girl who was hanged last month (Aug. 15th) in the town of Neka, northern Iran, has filed a lawsuit on their behalf. Mr. Shadi Sadr, who was retained to help prove Atefehs innocence, stated that after examining Atefehs documentation he was convinced that she was in fact 16 years old at the time her execution and not 22 as Iranian Judiciary spokespersons had claimed. Judiciary officials have admitted that Atefeh was executed but said she was 22 to justify her hanging.
Atefeh Rajabi was 16 when hanged: legal expert
Iran Focus: The lawyer representing the relatives of Atefeh Rajabi, the 16-year-old girl who was hanged last month (Aug. 15th) in the town of Neka, northern Iran, has filed a lawsuit on their behalf. Mr. Shadi Sadr, who was retained to help prove Atefehs innocence, stated that after examining Atefehs documentation he was convinced that she was in fact 16 years old at the time her execution and not 22 as Iranian Judiciary spokespersons had claimed. Judiciary officials have admitted that Atefeh was executed but said she was 22 to justify her hanging.
Talks Seek U.N. Access To Iran Sites
Washington Post: U.N. nuclear inspectors are negotiating with Iran for access to as many as four military sites that have programs or equipment that could be diverted to development of nuclear weapons, diplomats at the International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the diplomats said the negotiations were sensitive because visits could compromise the secrecy of Iran’s conventional military programs.
U.S., EU trio agree Iran nuke resolution-diplomats
Reuters: The United States compromised with France, Britain and Germany on a toughly-worded U.N. nuclear resolution on Iran that calls for an immediate halt to Tehran’s uranium enrichment programme, a Western diplomat said.
“It’s a text that all six countries can live with,” the diplomat close to the talks told Reuters late on Thursday …
Tell truth on nuclear weapons, US tells Iran
Daily Telegraph: America seized on satellite pictures of a possible Iranian nuclear weapons testing site yesterday to demand that Teheran be given an ultimatum to come clean or face United Nations sanctions.
“This clearly shows the intention to develop weapons,” said a senior United States official …
Iran condemns assassination of its pilgrimage official in Iraq
AP: Iran condemned the killing of one of its civil servants in Iraq and demanded that the Iraqi government punish those responsible, state television reported on Wednesday.
Unidentified assailants killed Labib Mohammadi of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization near the central Iraqi city of Karbala, state television said in a report carried on its Web site. It did not say when Mohammadi was killed or give further details.
U.S. Alarmed Over Suspected Iran Nuke Site
Associated Press: A U.S. official expressed alarm Thursday about a possible nuclear-weapons-related test site in Iran and accused the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency of keeping silent on its own concerns about the issue.
The official a senior member of the U.S. delegation at the International Atomic Energy Agency’s board of governors spoke as U.S and European negotiators moved closer to agreement to censure Iran …
Rafsanjani ready for Iran presidency
United Press International: Former president and powerful cleric Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani Thursday said he was leaning toward running in Iran’s next presidential election.
International Religious Freedom Report 2004 – Iran
In Iran, religious minorities, including Sunni Muslims, Baha’is, Mendelians, Jews and Christians face imprisonment, harassment, intimidation and discrimination based on their religious beliefs.
