Iran Focus: Berlin, Dec. 29 – Three members of the European Parliament took part in a demonstration outside the Iranian embassy in Berlin in protest to the Iranian regimes practice of stoning people to death. A large number of Iranian exiles yesterday afternoon joined the three The MEPs, Alexander Alvaro, Holger Krahmer, and Alexander Lambsdorff, from the German Free Democratic Party.
German MEPs demonstrate against stoning in Iran
Iranian teenage offender to be hanged in the next few days
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – A young man who was accused of killing a member of Irans security forces when he was a minor is
to be executed within the next few days, according to a Tehran judge who sentenced him.
Iman Farrokhi who was 17 at the time of the offence is currently
on death row in the Tehran Centre for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison).
Iranian teenage offender to be hanged in the next few days
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – A young man who was accused of killing a member of Irans security forces when he was a minor is
to be executed within the next few days, according to a Tehran judge who sentenced him.
Iman Farrokhi who was 17 at the time of the offence is currently
on death row in the Tehran Centre for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison).
2 hanged in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – Two young men were hanged in public in the Iranian city of Mashad (northeastern province of Khorrasan) yesterday and on Sunday after authorities accused them of rape. One of the young men identified only by his first name, Mohammad-Reza, was publicly hanged in Hedayat blvd. in the city-center.
2 hanged in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 – Two young men were hanged in public in the Iranian city of Mashad (northeastern province of Khorrasan) yesterday and on Sunday after authorities accused them of rape. One of the young men identified only by his first name, Mohammad-Reza, was publicly hanged in Hedayat blvd. in the city-center.
Iran: 18-year-old facing imminent execution for crime committed as minor
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 A teenager who is currently in one of Irans Centers for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) is to be hanged to death within three weeks for a crime allegedly committed when he was fourteen. The boy only identified as Mohammad T. was accused of fatally stabbing another boy who was involved in a scuffle with his brother. Mohammad M. died from his wounds in hospital on October 17, 2000.
Iran: 18-year-old facing imminent execution for crime committed as minor
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 28 A teenager who is currently in one of Irans Centers for Reform and Education (Juvenile Prison) is to be hanged to death within three weeks for a crime allegedly committed when he was fourteen. The boy only identified as Mohammad T. was accused of fatally stabbing another boy who was involved in a scuffle with his brother. Mohammad M. died from his wounds in hospital on October 17, 2000.
Tank girls: the frontline feminists
The Independent: As the coalition bombs hit the flat salt plains on the north-eastern border of Iraq, members of a little known, female-led Iranian army huddled in a bunker. While the earth shook, showering dust on their neatly pressed khaki headscarves, 25-year old Laleh Tarighi and her fellow combatants tried to protect themselves.
60-year-old mother sets herself on fire in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 27 A 60-year-old mother of six set herself on fire in Iran, with her family blaming it on stress and her social surroundings.
The elderly woman only identified by her first name, Zahra, lived in the western Iranian city of Ilam with her husband for the past 40 years.
60-year-old mother sets herself on fire in Iran
Iran Focus: Tehran, Dec. 27 A 60-year-old mother of six set herself on fire in Iran, with her family blaming it on stress and her social surroundings.
The elderly woman only identified by her first name, Zahra, lived in the western Iranian city of Ilam with her husband for the past 40 years.
