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Monthly Bulletin on Iran

June 2010

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arrests two journalists
AFP, 1 June
Two Iranian journalists working for pro-reform newspapers, were arrested within two weeks of the anniversary of the disputed reelection of President Ahmadinejad, reported Tuesday the site of the opposition rahesabz.net

"Azam and Veisameh ; Mahboubeh Khansari were arrested by intelligence officers about midnight, "reported the site, adding that their homes were searched and their computers confiscated ...



Minister to Visit Iran in the EP triggered an outcry
Deutsche Presse-Agentur - Brussels, 1 June


A visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has sparked outrage Tuesday at the European Parliament in Brussels, with one member calling him "a murderer".
The British Conservative Struan Stevenson launched his verbal attack does Mottaki before the Committee on Foreign Affairs for a hearing in camera. He held a picture of Soltan Agha, a student killed last year during protests against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elected.

A dozen members of the center-right in Italy, Spain and Estonia took part in the protest, but all were repulsed by security abruptly to make way for Mr. Mottaki. A brief scuffle
followed between MEPs and Parliament's guards, but no injuries were reported.
Members and officials of the European Parliament, who listened to Mr Mottaki said he rejected any criticism of Iran on human rights and that he had defended the country's nuclear program, which Western nations fear it may be used for military purposes ...



Hanging two men Shirvan
Shargh Daily / AFP, June 2
Two men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were executed in Shirvan in the northeast. The two defendants were arrested in possession of six kilos of "crystal" (methamphetamine). They were hanged on Monday ...



Arrests of women held for "indecent"
The Washington Post, June 2


The Iranian authorities have begun police patrols in the capital to stop women wearing outfits deemed incorrect. The campaign against the full veil and other signs of modernity comes as opponents of the government calling for protests to mark the anniversary of the disputed presidential election, and critics of the crackdown say it stirs discontent.
But the radicals, the improper veiling is a "security issue" and the "moral laxity" threatens the heart of the Islamic Republic.

The Iranian interior minister has promised a "plan of chastity" to promote adequate held "kindergarten through families, although the details are not clear. Tehran police arrest women for wearing short coats or veils or unfit even be too tanned. Witnesses speak of fines up to $ 800 for an outfit deemed immodest ...



A young hanged in Isfahan
Site Network of Iran, June 2
Said, 25, was hanged in the prison's central city of Isfahan. He was accused of kidnapping and abuse against a student.

ban the burqa: Iran denounces "intolerance" Europe's
AFP, June 2
The Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Wednesday described as "disturbing" and "intolerant" projects of European countries like France or Belgium for a complete ban full Islamic veil ... "We hope that EU leaders will reflect on this, we attach particular importance to the rights of religious minorities," he said, and "we consider the steps taken in some Western countries as worrisome for the country Muslims "...



The new sailing high-tech "Iran's
-Iran Focus Tehran, June 3


While Iran hardens its annual pre-summer crackdown on women in business suits deemed" indecent, "the official Iranian media are promoting a new veil "high-tech fashion. The new sailing
"chador" covered from head to toe is black with 14 ultimate details, as the possibility for women to access their purse from underneath. This web
avant-garde also allows women to adjust the openings of the face and hands when they wear.

It took four years to design and test the chador Jalabib before his presentation on the market. Jahan
site, near the country's intelligence services, has published photos of this creation accompanied an article entitled "The 14 characteristics of a new veil for women."



hanged four men in Yazd
agency Fars / AFP, June 3
Four men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were executed in Yazd in central Iran.
Three men were sentenced for possession of 230 kilograms of various drugs. The fourth run was found guilty of possession of 295 kg of narcotics ...
They were identified by their initials A, Ch Kh., NVM, B. and MM


Five years in prison for a student and his brother
Agency IRAN, June 3


Shabnam Madad-Zadeh, a student activist and his brother Farzad were sentenced to ten years in prison. Accused of acting "against state security" and being in contact with WIPO, Shabnam was arrested February 20, 2009 and imprisoned in Section 209 of Evin prison where she spent 70 days in total isolation. Shabnam and Farzad have undergone severe physical and psychological torture in prison, but they rejected all charges.
The court has sentenced both to 10 years imprisonment ...



Campaign FIDH and RSF to release the "prisoners of conscience"
AFP, June 7
www. rsf-iran.org
The FIDH-International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched Thursday a campaign to free prisoners of conscience in Iran, during the first anniversary of the disputed presidential election in this country ...

According to the FIDH and RSF, there are still hundreds of political prisoners in Iran, while many of those arrested have been released provisionally, of criminal charges still on them.
Both associations are a special focus on 40 "prisoners of conscience", journalists, trade unionists, students, they demand the immediate release.
FIDH and RSF also asked the UN to establish a Commission of Inquiry into Violations of Human Rights after the presidential and discuss the possibility to adopt individual sanctions against those responsible ...

In a report published these days, Amnesty International also denounced an amplification of repression: "The Iranian government is determined to silence all dissent while trying to prevent the international community engages in a detailed examination of the violations. "



14 prisoners executed in one day
Iran Focus, June 8
Fourteen prisoners were hanged together yesterday in the prison-Ghezel Hessar in Karaj (west Tehran).
The names of some prisoners of Ghezel-Hessar were announced. This is Ahmad Shah-Bakhch, Abdol-Hossein Soltan-Abadi, Massoud Amir K. Tachtaki Kazem Mohammad Azarfam, Nader Azarnouch, Sandjar Toutazahi, Baghi Amini, Mohammad Moradi. The hangings took place without the presence of their lawyers ...



Ferrari veiled face of Ahmadinejad in Iran
Le Point, June 9


Laurence Ferrari was the event on Monday evening, when with his head wrapped in a white veil against Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The veil of the journalist was able to move some within the drafting of TF1.

So even before the airing of the interview, the buzz spread Editorial Writing ...



UN adopts a fourth package of sanctions against Iran
Reuters, June 9
The Security Council UN adopted Wednesday by 12 votes for, two against and one abstention a fourth package of sanctions against Iran, accused by the West to pursue a nuclear program for military purposes ... The five permanent members, including China and Russia traditionally restive to punish Iran, have approved the text submitted by the United States and its allies the British, French and German ...

In Vienna, headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Tehran said it would not suspend its uranium enrichment activities.

The resolution provides for new measures against Iranian banks abroad that could be suspected of links with the military or nuclear programs.
It extends the UN embargo on arms sales to Tehran and established a blacklist of companies and individuals covered by sanctions.



Obama calls for support for advocates of freedom in Iran
AFP, June 11


U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday urged the international community to support the Iranians who fight for "freedom "A year after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad



Ebadi:" Do not focus on nuclear, denounce violations of democracy "
AFP, June 11


Iranian Activist rights Human Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Thursday urged the international community to "stop focusing his attention on nuclear power," but to denounce the "abuses of human rights and democracy in Iran" ...



91 arrests during the anniversary of the re-election of Ahmadinejad
ISNA / AFP, June 13
Eighty-eleven people were arrested in Tehran on Saturday on the first anniversary of the reelection of President ; Ahmadinejad, said Chief of Police of Greater Tehran, Hossein Sadjadinia.
"91 suspects were arrested and brought to justice, "said Commander Sadjadinia without specifying reasons or circumstances of these arrests.
" No fighting has taken place, "he said.
isolated incidents were reported Saturday Tehran between opposition supporters and security forces, particularly on campuses of two universities in the capital.
According to testimony and websites, small opposition groups have also attempted to gather in central Tehran , but were deterred by the massive deployment of security forces.
authorities had banned all opposition demonstration.
The two main opposition figures reformist Mehdi Mir Hossein Moussavi and Karoubi, had in turn called their supporters not to protest to avoid triggering a new wave of repression.
The opposition does not recognize the victory of President Ahmadinejad and said that the elections of June 12, 2009 was marred by massive fraud.


71 women "badly veiled" prevented from flying
Agency ILNA / AFP, June 14
Seventy-one women "mal-veiling" were prevented from flying to Over the last three months while only 33,000 passengers, men and women had to change clothes before boarding according to a police official.

During the 82 days of the Iranian year that began March 21, "border police prevented 71 women badly veiled boarding the plane. They were brought to justice" for non- observance of Islamic veil, said Nabiollah Heydari, the police chief of airports.
He added that "33,029 men and women dressed badly had to change clothes before being allowed to board the plane."
Finally, according to himself, "87,714 women badly veiled warnings were given," while 3,506 others had to give a "written commitment" to ensure the wearing of the veil in the future ...

In recent weeks, the morality police, as every year before summer, spoke to numerous arrests and intimidation of women holding deemed non-compliant with the precepts of Islam, that is to say, leaving see too much hair or too much skin. These women
"badly veiled" may be fined up to $ 1,300 ...



mobilization to free prisoners of conscience
Elle.fr, June 15


A year after the protests against the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009, Tehran is trying to look good in announcing the result of 81 "protest". But according to Iranian site Hrana, more than 300 prisoners are still languishing in Iranian jails, half without any charge. Among them, many women, students and activists of human rights and feminist, as Shiva Nazar Ahari. Aged 26 years, this blogger site Azadizan (women's liberation), cofounder of the Committee of Iranian Journalists for Human Rights, is considered a "dangerous" by the activist government in power. Arrested last summer and then released, she was again imprisoned in December. His crime: having demonstrated peacefully in the street. She is still waiting in a cell in Evin prison in Tehran, a hypothetical trial constantly repulsed.



The Commission on Human Rights UN condemns repression in Iran
-AP Geneva, 16 June

Western countries have criticized Iran over its record on Human Rights Tuesday after an attempt to Tehran and its Muslim allies to block the reading of a joint statement to the Council on Human Rights of the UN.
The United States and Norway urged Iran to respect its commitments to improve the situation of human rights on its territory, drafting a statement which has won support from 27 member countries of the European Union and more than two dozen other states. In total, 56 countries supported it, which is less than a third of UN member countries.
The statement, read by the Norwegian Ambassador Bente Angell-Hansen, acknowledges the concern about the''absence progress in protecting of human rights in Iran ", especially since the wave of arrests and repression against dissidents that followed the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad June 12, 2009.
" We can not allow this Council Meeting Human Rights held without marking the first anniversary of these events this month, "the statement said.



ISSUE ON 17 JUIN 2010
PRICES REMAIN HUMAN
Azam HAJJ HEYDAR


She flees her family to fight the fundamentalist mullahs. There was first the Shah's dictatorship, then of Khomeini and the mullahs ... Azam, Iranian girl, grows in the slums of south Tehran. His father, religious fanatic, a supporter of the hardline mullahs opposed to his schooling. Supported by her mother, a literate and perceptive, she earned her baccalaureate. At 13, she narrowly escaped a forced marriage with a mullah. Refusing to join his brothers in associations fanatics, constantly opposing his father, Azam gets beaten. More and more often. In 1978, Azam 20. Deprived of love, gagged, beaten and oppressed, she escapes and joins the movement of the Mujahideen the people ... Chased by the Revolutionary Guards, she gets arrested. She spent 7 years in prison, eight months squatting, blindfolded, in a cage. Tortured physically and psychologically, Azam did not work.
30 000 women will be executed in the Iranian prisons. In a country where opposition to the government is to oppose God, Azam chooses to resist. A riveting testimony and painful on one of the darkest periods of history, finding disturbing echoes with the horror of Nazi concentration camps.



award of stoning against a woman Mehr
Agency / Site Radio Farda, June 17


Held in Tabriz prison since 2005, Ashtiani Sakineh Mohammadi has been sentenced to death by stoning.
In May 2006 the Criminal Court of the City of Oskou (northwest) sentenced him to 99 lashes for adultery. Having served her sentence, she was released.
Four months later, the 6th Division of the Criminal Court of Azerbaijan was again sentenced to death by stoning for adultery during the marriage.
recent years Sakineh asked for clemency; twice his applications were rejected ...



Two men hanged in Zahedan
Daily Farhang Ashti / AFP, June 19
Accused of rape and murder, a man was hanged June 15 in prison in the city of Zahedan (southeast). The convict was identified as Akbar H.

government daily Iran AFP, June 20
Identified only by his first name Jamshid, was hanged in Zahedan. He was convicted of raping a young woman in April. The date of his hanging was not specified.



Hanging the head of IRNA Jondallah
/ Release, June 20


Abdolmalek Rigi, the leader of the Iranian Sunni rebel group Jundullah, accused of having carried out numerous armed attacks in the province of Sistan -Baluchistan (southeast), was hanged on Sunday morning ...




Neda's murderer must be brought to justice
AFP, June 19
Amnesty International called on Saturday that the murderer be tried Agha-Soltan, the young Iranian killed by gunfire last year during a demonstration in Tehran and whose death was filmed live and put on the Internet triggering a wave of emotion in the world.
"One year after the killing of Agha-Soltan, the fact that his murderer has not appeared before justice is a damning example of the culture of impunity that has spread since the post-election protests in 2009 "Amnesty International said in a statement on the eve of first anniversary of his death ...
Amnesty has also called on Iranian authorities to allow visits of experts on Human Rights. The organization points out that since 2005 no visits of experts on Human Rights UN had been allowed and that at least five requests to visit the UN remained unanswered.



Women "badly veiled": 62.000 warnings distributed in Qom
AFP, June 21


Some 62,000 women "badly veiled" have received warnings from the police in the province of Qom, whose capital 150 km south of Tehran is the main religious city of Iran, local media reported Monday.

Approximately "62,000 women have been hit badly veiled warnings," said Chief of Police of the province, Colonel Mehdi Khorasani, quoted by the daily Tehran Emrouz. It added that military police had also seized a hundred cars "for bad veiling" by passengers.
The police chief did not specify whether warnings were given in the same city or on the roads of the province, nor what was the period in question.

The Province of Qom has just over one million people, concentrated in this city which is the main religious center of the country.
"Encouraging the wrong Islamic headscarves and permissiveness are among the objectives of the enemy," continued Colonel Khorassani.
The question of the fight against women considered "mal-veiled", which is experiencing an annual increase before the summer, especially in large cities, has become a subject for several weeks of debate within the government ...


"For Neda"
The strength of a symbol
Telerama, June 24


Yesterday at La Rochelle, the ball projections of "Sunny Side of the Doc 's is opened with a very moving documentary, produced by HBO. A portrait as a tribute to the late Agha Soltan, Iran in 27 years killed during demonstrations in Tehran in June 2009, has since become the image of a people marching to freedom. Our first shot of heart.

"For Neda" begins as a portrait of a young woman. Rebel since childhood (the burqa, for example), Neda loved to dance. Coquette, she wanted to go to class without undergoing the cleansing rule imposed by an army of militia at the gates of the university. Neda liked to travel - she had made several trips to Turkey. She loved the foreign literature (from Siddhartha to Hundred Years of Solitude highly subversive books in the Islamic Republic of Iran).
British director Anthony Thomas, after a proper investigation, reconstituted these moments where everything changes. Images taken at mobile phone first show of peaceful Iranians. Then come the police reprisals, they beat up people with batons ... Before opening fire. One of the protesters seized the moment Neda is killed.



Rally and diplomatic success for the Iranian Mojahedin
AFP-Taverny June 26


The People's Mujahedeen gathered Saturday tens of thousands of opponents of the Iranian regime near Paris, winning a diplomatic success with the presence of personalities such as former U.S. ambassador to the UN John Bolton.
"No to fascism in turbans, not stoning, executions and amputations, to sail non-compulsory, the compulsory religion, the government imposed", proclaimed in Persian Maryam Rajavi, the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), whose main component is the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).


"The Iranian people will continue their resistance until the overthrow of the dictatorship. It resists such as France and European countries have resisted Hitler. The only solution is the Iranian crisis is the third way: neither war nor appeasement, but democratic change by Iranian people and resistance, "she said in French, dressed in an elegant blue together green and wearing his usual veil.
Before her, a forest of purple umbrellas housed supporters cheering, chanting "Azadi, Azadi" (freedom, freedom), one year after the repression of popular demonstrations against the controversial re-election Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


At the stadium entrance, a poster warned participants, revealing photos of a dozen people presented as "intelligence agents" of the Iranian regime. As if in response, a huge billboard next to the podium bearing the portraits of hundreds of Iranians, "fallen hero for freedom."
Dozens of elected officials from across Europe attended the gathering.
"I support your struggle for freedom and democracy. The Iranian people have suffered enough. It demands and deserves a better government that respects people's dignity and ensures fundamental freedoms, "said former English Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar.
" The Iranian regime has been founded and maintained by shedding the blood of Iranians since 1979 until today. The international community should increase pressure on the Iranian regime, but sanctions are not enough, Iran deserves a change of regime, "he added.
Even more significant was the presence of John Bolton, widely acclaimed at the rally , while the People's Mujahedeen on the list of terrorist organizations of the United States.
"The Iranian regime has become a military dictatorship, fascist and repressive. But the crackdown that followed the rigged elections of 2009 showed how the regime is criminal and the powerful opposition. Iran is more than ready for democracy, "said the former diplomat, urging his country to remove the PMOI from its list of terrorist organizations.
At the rally, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, Vice-President of Parliament Europe, presented a statement of support for the NCRI signed, he said, by a majority of MEPs.
Nearly 100,000 people were expected, organizers said. Members of the Iranian diaspora have come from all over Europe North America and Australia including many young people, but many supporters are not of Iranian origin. The gathering took place in a festive atmosphere, between Persian music, booths selling political books and CDs.


Demonstration outside the Embassy of France in Tehran IRNA
/ AFP, June 28
Hundreds of people demonstrated Monday outside the embassy of France in Tehran chanting "Shame on you, Sarkozy" and "Death to France "to protest against a gathering near Paris, supporters of an Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin ...
few plastic bottles and eggs were thrown at the embassy but at the request of the organizers, these jets were arrested, according to an AFP photographer on the spot.
Hundreds of police were mobilized to prevent any overflow, but access to the embassy had been closed as a precaution.

The demonstrators also shouted "Death to America", "Death to Israel" and "Death to Monafeqin (hypocrites term used by authorities to designate the PMOI). "France was complicit in the crimes of Monafeqin" could be read another placard.



Imminent execution of Zeinab Jalalian
CSDHI, June 29


The Kurdish political prisoner Jalilian Zeinab was transferred to a special section of the prison, his execution may be imminent. According to the site
Street Journalist, if the news of the imminent execution of Zeinab is not confirmed officially, but suggests she is in danger: A
unconfirmed report on the imminent execution of Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian running since this morning.
this regard, Kurdish Perspective states that following the confirmation of his conviction to death by the court of appeal, his case was sent to the executive branch of the Revolutionary Court.
arrested two years ago, Zeinab is accused of cooperating with the PKK.
She was tried without the presence of the lawyer she had chosen and the trial lasted only a few minutes.
Calling Zeinab was recently rejected by the court and his death sentence was confirmed.

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May 1: clashes in Tehran
Iran Focus / CNRI, May 1


On the eve of May 1, on the Ferdowsi Square in Tehran, clashes erupted between the population and a cloud of repressive forces.
recent invaded the floor to prevent movement of solidarity between the people and workers. The clashes began at 18:30 when the crowd began to boo the officials.
The crowd, about 700 people, who stood at no great distance began to shout "Death to Khamenei" and clashes erupted with the regime's agents.

At least 48 people were arrested after protest rallies in front of the Labour Ministry in Tehran, and 36 people were injured in the square Toupkhaneh.



Three protesters were sentenced to death
Daily Khorasan / Iran Press News Channel, May 3
Three women were sentenced to death for participating in demonstrations. Massoumeh Yavari, arrested during protests in the election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Motahareh Bahrami and Reyhaneh Haaj-Ebrahim, arrested the protests of Ashura. Mother of two children aged 4 and 11 years, Massoumeh is accused of sending text messages and holding photos of the leaders of WIPO in its computer.



Youth Olympics / Soccer - Iran is working on a suitable place for his players
ISNA / AFP, May 4


Iran is working in consultation with FIFA, held on a special for the players of his selection of women's soccer compete at the first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Singapore in August, said Tuesday an Iranian official.
He said the Federation International Football Associations (FIFA) had recently lifted a ban for Iranian football, participating in the YOG. The ban, prompted by the wearing of headscarves by joyous, was taken in October 2009, according to Iranian media.
The president of the IFF, the decision to lift the ban was made after his meeting last month in Geneva, with FIFA president Joseph Blatter ...
FIFA has "announced shortly after that veiled women could participate in competitions," he said, without specifying the date of lifting of the ban.
FIFA confirmed Tuesday in a statement, reinstatement of Iranian women's team under 15 YOG but has nonetheless made some nuances.
"This decision (to reinstate the team) was taken after the written confirmation of the IFF and the Iranian National Olympic Committee to accept a solution whereby the players will not Islamic hijab during matches competition, "FIFA said.
"Instead, players may wear a head covering on their hair but that should not go below the ears or cover their necks," she says. This solution respects the rules and regulations of FIFA and the Laws of the Game "...



Iran, in the heart of the NPT Review Conference
The Iranian president's speech at the UN boycotted
Le Monde / AFP, May 3 and 4


Meeting in New York, States parties want to strengthen the effectiveness of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was preparing to take the spotlight, Monday, May 3, opening in New York of the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Single head of state to make the trip, it was a long speech in his country camping victim of a nuclear order world that Tehran considers discriminatory.

Many Western delegations, including the United States, France and Great Britain, boycotted the speech by Iranian President, Monday, May 3, leaving the room when he arrived at the podium at the opening of follow-up conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at the UN.



Run at Dezful
Site Justice Department of Khuzestan, May 5
Accused of murdering a man, Rahman A. was executed Tuesday by hanging at dawn in the detention center of the city of Dezful (South).

Five Kurdish rebels including two women killed in an ambush

agency Fars / AFP, May 5
Five Kurdish rebels including two women were killed in a clash with members of the Guard revolution, the military elite of the regime, in the province of Kermanshah (west).
The clash occurred Tuesday when elements of the Revolutionary Guards have tended "ambushed a group PJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, ie) in the region Dalahu, killing five of them including two women, "said the commander of this elite force Akbar Ali Nouri.
Kurds represent about 7% of the population in Iran ...




Two thousand students protesting against the hijab
Iran Focus, May 7
Seeking to create a climate of fear to block the development of movement opposition, where women play a major role, the Iranian regime is using increasingly repressive measures, particularly in clothing. On May 5
over 2,000 students of Tehran University gathered to protest against the requirement to wear the black maghna'eh (a strict hijab).

This movement was triggered after security guards at the university, have prevented students from wearing shawl or scarf to go to university. The students were then torn and trampled regulatory notices pasted on walls and doors.
At the Faculty of Arts, they began to manifest in chanting slogans against the regime. The boys came to support them in the protest which lasted four hours.

On the other hand, the regime announced that after prayers Friday, May 7, it will launch a manifestation of militia and Revolutionary Guard against "mal-veiling" outside the main entrance of Tehran University to the square Enghelab.



Six traffickers executed in Karaj
agency Fars, May 8
Six drug traffickers were executed at dawn Saturday in the prison near Tehran Ghezel Hessar. The defendants were identified as Arsalan Assadi, Mohammad-Ali Fakhri Abbas Gueravand, Rahman Biabani, Parviz Taghizadeh and Said Mikaeli.


80 young people arrested during a "concert illegal "in Tehran
Kayhan Daily / AFP, May 8
Police Friday arrested 80 young people" drunk "in a villa in Tehran where they attended a" concert illegal.
"On the basis of an information and after obtaining a warrant from the judicial authority (the police) intervened in this place where a concert was held unlawful, "the Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi.
" Eighty boys and girls who were drunk and improperly dressed were arrested, "he said adding that police also confiscated alcohol also imported and locally manufactured, whose consumption is forbidden in Iran.
"Five other people were selling tickets for this concert between 30 and 35 dollars apiece, were also arrested," he added ...



The works of the poet Farrokhzad banned a book fair
ILNA / AFP, May 8


The Iranian authorities have removed the works of Forough Farrokhzad, a figure of Iranian poetry twentieth century, the Book Fair Téhéranqui runs from May 5 to 15
Exposure of poetic works of Forough Farrokhzad was prohibited the book fair and publishers have been unable to display posters on it.
Forough Farrokhzad, who died in 1967 at age 32, is one of the major poets of Iran ...



Iranian authorities monitor all publications and artistic productions prior to their release. Many publishers complain development of censorship since the election of ultra-conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as President of the Republic in 2005.

books of another Iranian writer renowned HooshangGolshiri (d. 2000) had also been banned from the Tehran Book Fair.
In recent years, the country's cultural authorities have banned many books, some published for a long time because it viewed the "promotion of decadence" or they "insult" to religion.



Heavy prison sentences for a student leader and a journalist
ISNA / AFP, 9 May


Iran's judiciary has sentenced on appeal a student leader, Abdollah Momeni, a journalist and reformer, Hengameh Shahidi, given heavy prison sentences. Near
Mehdi Karoubi, journalist HengamehShahidi was sentenced to six years in prison for propaganda against the regime, participation in illegal gatherings and actions against national security.





five people hanged in Tehran IRNA
/ AFP, 9 May


Five people, including a woman, accused of committing bombings and having links with " anti-revolutionary groups "were hanged on Sunday in Evin Prison, according to a statement from Tehran prosecutor's office ...
According to Iranian websites collecting information on the situation of human rights in Iran, Mehdi Eslamian, 30, arrested in May 2008 on charges of links with the monarchist movement of the Assembly of the Kingdom (Tondar), was the brother of MohsenEslamian, one of three men executed April 10, 2009 for bombing a year earlier against a mosque in Shiraz (south).

The four other convicts executed Sunday were apparently militant Kurdish separatist movement linked to armed PJAK, PKK near the Turkish and responsible for numerous attacks in Iranian Kurdistan.
ShirineAlamhouli, aged 28, was arrested in Tehran in 2008 and decided in December 2009 for alleged links with the PJAK, according to one of these websites.



The Iranian embassy in Paris to take part by opponents
AFP, May 9
Opponents of the Iranian regime in Paris, protesting against five executions announced in the morning by the prosecutor of Tehran, have loudly protested outside the Iranian Embassy, committing some damage, the AFP found there.
The event, drawing on a hundred people, lasted about twenty minutes, then the police intervened and cordoned off the embassy ...



A lawyer jailed for criticizing the execution of minors in Iran
Amnesty International, May 10


AI urges the Iranian authorities to release a lawyer specializing in human rights, arrested after denounced the execution of one of its customers during interviews with international media.
Olyaeifard Mohammad was detained on 1 May 2010 for "propaganda against the regime" and began serving his sentence of one year in prison. Yet, in violation of Iranian law, her lawyers were not informed of his sentence.

Before being arrested, Mohammad Olyaeifard said his conviction was based on an interview with VOA Persian shortly after his client, the juvenile offender BehnoudShojaee, was hanged for a murder committed when that He was 17.



Amnesty International condemns execution of five political prisoners
AI, 11 May


http://www.amnestyinternational.be/doc/article16154.html
Amnesty International condemned on Tuesday the execution in Iran of four political activists Kurdish and Iranian national fifth, all convicted of mohareb (enmity against God). Mehdi
Eslamian and the four Kurds - Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydarian, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Holi - were hanged Sunday, May 9 in Evin prison in Tehran.

Shirin Alam-Holi, the only woman among five tortured, was accused of belonging to another Kurdish group, the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), an armed Iranian banned in Iran ...
In a letter written in prison, Shirin said she had nightmares because of abuse inflicted by his torturers.
She was beaten repeatedly, including on the soles of the feet, she was kicked in the stomach which caused internal bleeding and was force-fed using nasal tubes - that it was lifted in protest, injuring the nose. She said she recorded a confession on video after receiving an injection, once hospitalized.

Prisoners are often kept in isolation for long periods in detention beyond the control of the judiciary, what makes them run a serious risk of being tortured or otherwise mistreated ...




One victim identified Ashura
Voice of America, May 13


Shabnam Sohrabi, 34, mother of a 6 year old daughter, is one of the victims of the uprising of Ashura. She was crushed by a vehicle of security forces. Shabnam was buried in the cemetery of Behesht Zahra south of Tehran 20 days after his death under the control of the authorities. Shabnam's mother did not dared to reveal the murder of his daughter.



Confirmation of death penalty opponents six
AFP, May 15
The court upheld the death penalty against six opponents arrested during the post-election unrest in 2009 and accused of belonging to the organization of the People's Mujahedeen, the main armed opposition group to the Iranian regime, the prosecutor said Saturday in Tehran.
Three of them were arrested during riots in December, according to Mr. Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi which identified them as "Daneshpour Ahmad Moghadam, Mohsen Moghadam Daneshpour and Alireza Ghanbari.



Unemployment up
BBC Website, 15 May
The Iranian Ministry of Employment has announced an increase of 11.9% unemployment compared to last year. Iran has three million unemployed. More de800 000 people arrive every year on the job market but most can not get a job.



Two feminist sentenced to 74 lashes and 6 years in prison
ILNA / AFP, May 16


Two feminist activists, and ShadiSadr Mahboubeh Abbas Gholizadeh, located at abroad, were sentenced to prison terms.
's lawyer Shadi Sadr has been sentenced to six years in prison and 74 lashes for action against national security and disturbing public order ...
Gholizadeh Mahboubeh Abbas was sentenced in turn two and a half years prison and 30 lashes for action against national security and disturbing public order.



Agreement between Iran, Brazil and Turkey on the nuclear
The world, May 17
The international community remains cautious after the conclusion of an agreement, Monday, May 17, between Iran, Turkey and Brazil for an exchange of uranium on the Turkish territory. Just like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called in the evening to Iran to confirm in writing the agreement.



Reiss just released, the questions multiply
Le Monde / AFP, May 17


The controversy did not arise soon after arrival on French soil of the young scholar about the conditions of his release by the Iranian regime or its possible membership in the DGSE. A return which has also fueled suspicions exchange with two Iranian engineers were detained in France. The French
Reiss arrived Sunday at the airport of Villacoublay (Yvelines). The young woman of 24, held in Iran since July 2009 for having participated in anti-government protests in June 2009, was able to leave Iran after a ruling ordering it to a fine of 285,000 dollars (230,000 euros). ..
The question is: the expulsion of the assassin of Shapur Bakhtiar is it related to the release of Reiss?



Agreement between Iran, Brazil and Turkey on the nuclear
Le Monde, May 17


The international community remains cautious after the conclusion of an agreement Monday, May 17, between Iran, Turkey and Brazil for an exchange of uranium on the Turkish territory. Just like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which called in the evening to Iran to confirm in writing the agreement.

text, the result of mediation by Brazil and Turkey, was signed by foreign ministers of three countries in the presence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Brazil, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and Prime Minister of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It provides for the shipment to Turkey by Iran of its 1 200 kg of low enriched uranium to 3.5% to be exchanged within a maximum period of one year against 120 kg of fuel enriched to 20%, required to nuclear research reactor in Tehran, said spokesman for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ramin Mehmanparast.



Washington announced an agreement with UN on new sanctions
Le Monde, May 18


Washington has taken the hand Tuesday, May 18 in the controversy over Iran's nuclear program by announcing a agreement between the major powers for new sanctions against Tehran. "I am pleased to say today that we have registered an agreement on a strong project with the cooperation of Russia and China," said Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, before the U.S. Senate ...



Two executions and convictions whip
Site Asr-e-Iran/Iran Focus, May 18
Two prisoners, Morteza and Azizollah, aged 35, were hanged in the enclosure the central prison in Isfahan.

addition a man was flogged in public in the main square City Ramhormoz in south-western Iran. These Gholam Reza D.
He received 74 lashes. The torture took place last April 26 but was announced today at the official site of the prosecutor of the province.



Paris urges Iran to renounce executions of opponents
AFP, May 18


France calls on Iran not to proceed with the executions of six opponents arrested during a post- election of 2009, while the Iranian judiciary has confirmed their sentence death, said Tuesday the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"France is deeply concerned by these sentences of capital punishment part of the policy of brutal repression carried out by the current Iranian regime to its citizens against those who aspire to democracy and respect for their freedoms," added in a press spokesman at the Quai d'Orsay, Bernard Valero.
"France, like its European Union partners, opposes the death penalty in all circumstances," he said.
Justice confirmed Saturday the death penalty against these opponents, accused of belonging to the organization of the People's Mujahedeen, the main armed opposition group to the Iranian regime.
Three of them were arrested during riots in December, according to the prosecutor of Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi which identified them as "Daneshpour Ahmad Moghadam, Mohsen Moghadam Daneshpour and Alireza Ghanbari.
Jafari Dolatabadi also said that "the death sentences against Muhammad Ali Saremi, Jafar Kazemi and Mohammad-Ali Haj-Aghai, (...) have been confirmed," saying they were arrested in September.



two men hanged in Isfahan
Kayhan Daily / AFP, May 19
Two men sentenced to death for drug trafficking were hanged in the city of Isfahan (central).
The two men, identified only by their first names, and Morteza Azizollah, were hanged in the city jail.



Major powers contrent Turkish-Brazilian initiative on the Iranian nuclear
Le Monde, May 20
At the UN, an agreement was reached between the Western powers, Russia and China on a draft tougher sanctions against Tehran. The major powers have inflicted a blow to Brazil and Turkey, who tried to mediate with Iran. They filed to the Security Council of the United Nations Tuesday, May 18, a draft resolution condemning Tehran. The new sanctions, backed by Russia and China, were presented after an agreement with the Iranian regime by Brasilia and Ankara, which claimed a diplomatic breakthrough for the postponements of punitive measures.



The mothers of three Americans held in Iran plead for their release in Tehran
Le Monde, May 20


The mothers of three hikers American detained for ten months in Iran on charges of espionage, pleaded Thursday, May 20 the authorities to free them. They had traveled to Tehran to meet for the first time since their arrest in July 2009.



public hanging of a man in Ahvaz
agency Fars / AFP, May 20
A man convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in public on Tuesday in Ahvaz in southwestern Iran .
The man had been arrested with 1.375 kg of heroin in his possession, said Fars.



Hanging a man for murder
Agency Fars / AFP, May 21
A man convicted of killing a woman and then burned his body was hanged in Iran Thursday. The man, named Mohammad, was convicted of murdering Shokat, a woman to whom he owed the sum of $ 4,700.
Information, from the judiciary of the province of Esfahan (central), does not specify the place of execution.



Hanging brother's head movement Jondallah
AFP, May 24
Iran has hanged Monday in Zahedan (southeast) Abdolhamid Rigi, brother of the leader of the movement Sunni rebel Jondallah Abdolmalek Rigi who was captured in February during a spectacular hijacking operation, official media reported.
"Abdolhamid Righi was hanged in prison Monday morning," said the official news agency IRNA as saying that "families of victims of terrorist attacks" were present at the execution ...



The Iranian filmmaker JafarPanahi was released on bail
Le Monde / AFP, May 25


JafarPanahi Iranian filmmaker who was arrested on March 1, was released on bail Tuesday, said his wife TaherehSaeedi, confirming a statement from the prosecutor's office in Tehran. According to the prosecutor's office in Tehran, Mr. Panahi has had to pay bail of 2 billion rials (164,000 euros).

Paris welcomes the release of Panahi and denounced his detention


The French Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Culture, Bernard Kouchner and Frederic Mitterrand, welcomed Tuesday's release of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi stressing that he would never have been imprisoned.
"We are pleased that Jafar Panahi has regained his freedom today, a freedom he never should have been private, "say the two ministers in a joint statement." We regret that once again he was not able to attend the 63rd Festival Cannes as a jury member, where he was eagerly awaited.
"We hope he can resume as soon as his artistic activities that bring honor to
Iranian cinema," concluded the two officials who had called together for the release of filmmaker May 12 last.
Near the opposition to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the filmmaker, 49, was released Tuesday bail almost three months after his arrest, which raised a wave of international outrage.
The Iranian Ministry of Culture had said in mid-April that the arrest was related to the fact that the director "was preparing a film against the regime on the post-election events" - in reference to the events that followed the disputed re-election Ahmadinejad in June 2009 - that Mr. Panahi has denied.



The "morality squads" are rampant in Iran
Iran Focus, May 26


Forces of State Security (ESF) launched an offensive against women 'mal-veiling' in Tehran and provinces. In Isfahan, the operation began immediately after the warning issued by the imam of Friday prayers in his sermon at women and girls in their sails "floating".
These days, patrols of the "vice squad" had been seen trying to question or arrest many women kept their "un-Islamic."

authorities plan to Mashad (northeast) announced fines of up to $ 1,000 for " mal-veiling ".


Zoqi Mahmoud, the prosecutor of Mashhad, said that in recent weeks many women had been fined up to $ 1,000 "for the crime of being mal-veiling". Zoqi added that "being badly-veiled is considered a crime by law". The prosecutor
Mashhad added: "These fines will also affect men whose behavior is contrary to public morality. "

Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Guardians of the plan, said in Tehran on Friday that stronger action was necessary against the student. Speaking to university officials, Jannati added: "Universities and their students are at your disposal. Put in place conditions on the registration of students. They try to get good grades, so they have no choice but to bow to the law. "



" True Copy "will not be released in theaters in Iran
AFP, May 27


Iran will not release in theaters last film of Abbas Kiarostami presented at Cannes "copy".
"This film is not bad" said Vice-Minister of Culture JavadShamaqdari.
"But because of the clothing Juliette Binoche he will not be shown in cinemas." "But it can be shown in some universities and private clubs," he added ...
Shamaqdaria said he had not seen "True Copy" to Cannes, "a room in Paris." "There were 35 spectators in a hall with 300 seats, mostly the elderly," he said.
"The film shows the loneliness of a certain age because of the situation of families linked to the freedoms that exist in Europe," he analyzed.
"It would not have a large audience here, only the Iranians who have a Western lifestyle," he added, considering that Mr. Kiarostami "does not seek to distribute his film in Iran."
In addition, he noted, "this film has an American distributor, and in general we do not show films that have foreign distributors' ...



WIPO calls for international action to commute the execution of six of his supporters
Europa Press, May 27
The People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI) called for immediate action the international community to prevent the execution six opposition supporters - including the recognized political prisoner by Amnesty International Mohamad Ali Saremi - whose sentences have been announced in the last 15 days by the Attorney General of Iran.



The mother of Majid Tavakoli joined the hunger strike
Site Jaras / Iran Focus, May 28


While the health of young Majid Tavakoli, strike the dry hunger worsens, his mother call for international solidarity to save his son.
Ms. Tavakoli said: "My son is an ordinary student and apparently, no politician wants speak in favor of the prosecutor and the court does not hear the voice of a mother who has waited months to address the media. I have no other choice but to ask the people to come to our aid. "Madam
Takavoli, who has not eaten since she heard of the hunger strike of Majid, said she will continue her hunger strike ...



Iran continues its persecution against the Baha'is
Le Monde, 28 maiPar FoadSaberan
The Islamic Republic of Iran continues its relentless persecution against the Baha'i community, one group which even children are being abused planned by the Ministry of Education ... For
destruction of Baha'i cemeteries, the burning of their homes, destruction of holy places and their sanctuaries, deprivation of employment, denial of access to higher education, plus more often followed by a string of arrests or without bail (exorbitant amounts of money, like all prisoners of conscience in Iran). Sign that it is beliefs that are at issue, nothing else: whatever the charges, often serious, they will disappear if the Baha'i agrees to sign a confession of conversion to Shiism.



Activists court
Iran Focus, May 29


Ahari Chiva-Nazar, 26, journalist, activist, human rights, blogger and reporter Committee member of reporters Human Rights appeared on May 23 before a court that the judge for a charge punishable by death.
KouhyarGoudarzi, another member of this committee is still in jail without trial, says "Italian Peace Reporter."


Amnesty International has described the two activists' prisoners of conscience, detained for the year their right to peaceful expression and free association. " They have been detained since December 2009.
The two activists were accused of being linked to the group's main Iranian opposition, the Mojahedin.
Kouhyar told her family last February that the Iranian intelligence services were pressuring him to confess to having had links with WIPO. He was placed in isolation after having protested against the mistreatment of prisoners.



An Iranian aid pipeline to Afghanistan
JDD, May 30
The Afghan Taliban are Iran training and weapons to fight NATO forces, said Sunday the leader of the international forces in Afghanistan, U.S. General Stanley McChrystal ...

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Several journalists are seriously ill inmates in the prison of Evin
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Reporters Without Borders is very concerned about conditions of detention in unworthy which are held prisoners of conscience in Iran today, including many journalists. When they are sick, very weak physically and psychologically, they are detained arbitrarily. "The lives of many journalists are now in danger. Baghi, Badrolssadat Mofidi, Mehdi and Mohammad Sadegh Mahmudian Kabovand are seriously ill. We call for their final release and unconditionally. We call on Iranian authorities to act in order not to continue to expose those lives. We will hold them responsible if they happened misfortune. "


Amnesty International: 112 executions in Iran in two months
AI, April 2

In its annual report on the death penalty worldwide, the advocacy organization Human Rights said that Iran executed 112 people in both months after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009 and before his inauguration in August. In addition, the report accuses Iran and Saudi Arabia of violating international law by executing people - at least seven in total for both countries - for crimes committed when they were minors.
"Freedom of expression of association and assembly remained subject to severe restrictions. Activists of civil society, including human rights defenders in general and the rights of women and minorities in particular, have been crackdowns. Some were arrested, jailed and tried, often in unfair trials. Others were prevented from leaving the country and had their meetings disrupted. He was aware that prisoners are mistreated and tortured with impunity. Sentences of flogging and amputation were identified. At least 346 death row inmates were executed, the actual figure is probably higher. Two men were stoned. Eight prisoners executed were juveniles at the time of the crimes they were accused ... "



The website of the channel France 24 inaccessible in Iran
AFP, April 2
The French public channel for international news 24 France said Friday that his website was no longer available from Iranian territory, denouncing the "censorship" of the Islamic Republic.



Poverty Line
ILNA / BBC Radio, April 2
The Iranian government does not want to comment on the poverty line. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his ministers see no need to publicize the poverty line in Iran . The Minister of Labour, Abdolreza Cheikholeslami interviewed by the agency ILNA responded not knowing that threshold ...



still held prisoner in an isolation cell
Rights Activists of the rights in Iran, April 3

According to testimony, the activist for Human Rights Safari Marjan who was arrested March 2, 2010 and enclosed in block 2A, controlled by the Corps of the Revolutionary Guard is still in an isolation cell after more than a month.

She was accused of having committed "crimes Internet 'by the Tehran prosecutor and had allowed only one visit from his family.



A political prisoner in an isolation cell for over three months
Activist of Human Rights in Iran, Zahra Bahrami
April 4, 45, is kept in an isolation cell for over three months, at block 209 of Evin prison.
It is forbidden to visit. Zahra had been arrested during protests in Ashura (January 27, 2009). Since his arrest in an isolation cell, she was interrogated several times since. She is sexually harassed and tortured physically and psychologically during the long hours of interrogations in order to force her to make false confessions to give television interviews.
Bahrami's family said she lived in Holland and she was just visiting his family in Iran.



Lourdes charges
Agency IRAN, April 4
Mahdieh Golrou, student activist, was found Sunday in the 26th house of Revolutionary Courts in Tehran without the presence of counsel.
arrested last year during a sit-in student at Alameh University, she has been detained in Evin prison.
She is accused of "propaganda against the regime" and "plotting against state security" ...



Children threatened
Site Tabnak, April 6
A member of the Association of Child Advocacy is concerned that the statistics on the age of drug addicts, criminals or victims of marriage forcésoient alarming. These social ills are starting to hit even very young children.



veiled polemic around football
agency Fars / Le Figaro, 6 April

The Iranian footballers they will compete in Singapore in the month of August? Selected for the Olympic Youth, their participation is reflected today in the heart of a true controversy between Tehran and Lafif (Federation Internationale de Football). Not because of their competence - widely acclaimed in previous games - but held their veiled ...

According to new rules in force since 2007 in FIFA, "the uniforms of the players should not wear any sign of political, religious or personal." In other words, to play, Iranian must remove their hijab. Impossible, meet Iranian officials.

In a letter sent to five international organizations, Bahram Afsharzadeh, secretary general of the Iranian National Olympic Committee calls for a revision This new law as discriminatory, otherwise the Iranians will forfeit their participation. "The hijab is linked to Islamic culture and without veils, Muslim women can not participate in social activities," he says.



Washington and Moscow show a united front on Iran
AFP, April 8

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama did on Thursday in Prague common front on the issue of Iran's nuclear program, citing both the prospect of a new round of UN sanctions against Tehran.



Baluchi A prisoner died in prison
Radio Farda, April 9
The inmate, Shir Mohammad Bakhsh Shah, has died in a detention center in Zahedan (southeast). Arrested for his relationship with a Baloch activist, Shir Mohammad is the second political prisoner died last week in this center ...



Running five traffickers in Mashhad
agency Mehr / AFP, April 10
Five people convicted of drug trafficking were hanged Saturday morning in a prison in Mashhad (northeast). No indication was
given on the identities of five people executed, the Mehr news agency stating simply that their traffic was for "tens of kilos of heroin and opium.



The government wants to encourage five million people to leave Iran (Ahmadinejad)
Agency Meh / AFP, April 11
The Iranian government wants to encourage some five million people to leave Tehran to gradually reduce the impact of a possible earthquake, according to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

"We can not order people to empty the city (...) but we must take action. For example, we can give loans to 4% of land to people who leave Tehran (...) At least five million people to leave Tehran "that the power to manage the consequences of a possible earthquake Ahmadinejad said.



Three executions Taïbad
Agency IRAN / Quds Daily, April 11
Three people were executed by hanging Thursday, 9 April prison in the town of Taïbad (east). They were sentenced for drug trafficking.



Three traffickers hanged in Isfahan
agency Fars / AFP, April 12

Three people convicted of drug trafficking were hanged Sunday morning in the central prison of Isfahan (central), Monday announced the agency Fars.
The three convicts, identified only by their first names Morteza, 40, Ghader, 32 years and Gholamreza, 38, were convicted of having bought and sold several pounds of different drugs.




Public executions in Khuzestan
Agency Pana / Street Journal, April 13

Two men charged with drug trafficking were executed publicly, one on the Town Hall Square to Chadegan and the other on the square in the town of Ghadir Behbahan (south).



$ 2.1 billion (1.5 billion euros): this is what Iran spends in cosmetics and body care
Le Monde, April 13
This is what Iran spends on cosmetics and body care, according to a study by the private research institute TMBA. With its 74 million inhabitants, the country is the seventh consumer of cosmetics in the world ...



Sarkozy calls for sanctions against Iran "in April or May "
Le Monde, April 13
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said, Tuesday, April 13, hoped that sanctions be taken against Iran at the UN over its nuclear program in April or May , not later. "" The moment of truth approaches, "he told Mr Sarkozy during a press conference closing the Washington summit on nuclear security.



Beijing ready to work with Washington to punish Tehran's nuclear dossier
Le Monde, April 13

Barack Obama and Hu Jintao have sought Monday turn the page after several difficult months for Sino-US relations. Washington claims to have received approval from Chinese President to work for stronger sanctions against Iran. According to a U.S. official, China shares the U.S. concerns about Iran's nuclear program, and directs its representatives on the UN to work towards a resolution punishing Tehran. President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao talked at length about this, the first day of the Washington summit on nuclear security ...



Public execution and amputation
Agency Fars / AFP, April 14
A man sentenced to death for armed robbery was executed by hanging in public. The man identified as Adnan Albouali, was hanged Tuesday in the main square of the city Mahshahr (south).

One of his accomplices, Morteza A., was amputated. "The amputation of a hand and a leg of another member of the group was formed in the walls of the prison," said prosecutor Mahshar.



thriller The Persian "Tehran"
JDD, April 14

By Alexis Campion-Critics' Prize at Venice, an inspiring dive into smaller trades to Tehran. A thriller prohibited Nader Homayoun.
"Even if my film is not for distribution in Iran, I have made a positive review and I am ready to discuss with the authorities." Calm and precise, Nader T. Homayoun is not only an extremely promising filmmaker, is a born diplomat. Having spent his early childhood in Paris, he speaks fluent French.

In 1978, he was ten years old when his parents, opponents of the Shah, returned to the country responsible hopes. "I went seamlessly and the Casimir Goldorak the Islamic Revolution," he says. Except that his father, intellectual Democrat propelled few months as Vice-Minister of Culture, was soon disillusioned seen several of his friends get shot or go into exile before being imprisoned himself four years ...



public executions Babolsar
Iran Daily / AFP, April 15
Three men convicted of raping 13 women were publicly hanged in the city of Babolsar in the north.
The three accused, identified by their first name only Ali (26 years), Rahmatollah (27 years) and Amir Hossein (33 years), were hanged on Wednesday one of the squares of the city ...



FatemehKhoramlu accused of espionage by the regime
Iran Focus, April 16
women rights activist, Fatemeh Khoramlu was arrested Feb. 6, 2010 on charges of spying and giving interviews to foreign radio stations.
Despite having paid 100 million toman ($ 100,000 deposit), the authorities denied his release on bail and remains in jail a state of despondency.
She was transferred to block 209 of Evin Prison after his arrest and then transferred to cell block women. She was forbidden to see a lawyer during that time.
This mother is the guardian of the eldest son of the family who is mentally handicapped in need of mothering. Also, she takes care of one of those girls who divorced with her 6-year old living with her.



Paris asks the filmmaker Panahi is released to go to Cannes
PARIS, April 16

The Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who was arrested March 1 in Tehran must be "immediately released" in order to be able to participate in May at the Cannes Film Festival where he was invited, said Friday the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
At a regular press briefing, spokesman Bernard Valero said that Paris had always condemned "the arrest and imprisonment of one of the most eminent representatives of the Iranian cinema of today."
"We call for his immediate release, we believe it should be free to move and to carry on business creation," continued the spokesman, in response to a question on his fate ...



arrested supporters of the football team Tractor Sazi
Street Journalist, April 18

The police and security forces arrested 25 supporters and supporters of the football team Tractor Sazi (team of Tabriz) Friday, April 16 and released (s) after several hours of questioning. According Says Salvan, during the match between Persepolis and Tractorsazi Tehran Friday, April 16, police attacked supporters of the team that had gathered on the hills around the stadium to watch the game Sahand with their families.



Ahmadinejad approves several new uranium enrichment sites
Le Monde / AFP, April 19
President Ahmadinejad has approved several sites for the installation of new uranium enrichment plants, has his adviser said Monday. "The president has approved the locations chosen for new nuclear sites," said Mojtaba Hashemi Samareh ...



Two major parties and a reformist newspaper banned
Iran Daily / AFP, April 20 The
Iranian authorities have banned any activity Monday in two major reformist parties that supported the losing candidate Mousavi for president in 2009, and a leading reformist daily, reported the media.
The Participation Front of Islamic Iran (FPII) and the Organization of Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution (OMRI), bringing together personalities close to reformist former President Khatami, have been banned from any further activity pending a court decision.

Similarly, the supervisory board of the press under the Ministry of Culture, announced the ban the daily Bahar for "publishing false news, and insults to the institutions and organs of the regime," according to the Fars news agency.



Time Bomb: Solana, Straw, Fischer and de Villepin have much to answer
The Wall Street Journal, April 20 By Alejo Vidal-Quadras

The European Union has been one those most responsible for facilitating Iran's nuclear progress. In particular, former High Representative for foreign policy, Javier Solana, and former British, French and German Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer, who have much to be ashamed ...




Turkey and Brazil are united on Iran
Mode, April 22
their mediation efforts with Tehran thwart the project of Western sanctions at the UN rapid. South-South diplomacy is taking shape on the Iranian nuclear issue. The opening match of a duet of "emerging" countries, Brazil and Turkey on the issue of proliferation, treated for years by the group called "5 1" (U.S., UK, France, Russia, China, Germany), is a fact new and striking.
The joint Turkish-Brazilian thwart the plans of Westerners seeking to adopt sanctions against Tehran to the Security Council of the UN before it is chaired, in May, Lebanon.



Iran renounces to run for a seat on the Council for Human Rights UN
AFP, April 24
Iran, reprimanded by the West for its record of compliance human rights, withdrew his candidacy for a seat on the Council for Human Rights, a UN body based in Geneva, said a diplomat AFP Friday.

Bandula Jayasekara, Deputy Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the UN, said Iran had informed the Asian Group at the UN it will not participate in the secret ballot for new members to designate Council. The vote is expected next month ...



Divorce up
AF / BBC Radio, April 26

The number of divorces has been steadily improving in Iran in recent years. The divorce rate has reached nearly 13.8% during the last Iranian year (March 2009 - March 2010), against 12.5% last year, according to official figures.
According to media reports, this rate rises to more than 25% in Tehran and in major cities.
According to official figures, 37% of the 74 million Iranians are between 15 and 29 years, which represents 26 million people age or just before the age of marriage.
few days ago, an Iranian cleric had said that the increase in illicit intercourse was the cause of the increased number of earthquakes.

"Many women badly dressed (not respecting the Islamic dress, ed)" corrupt youth, and the increase in illicit sex is increasing the number of earthquakes earth ", said Ayatollah KazemSedighi, imam of Friday prayers in Tehran
Sexual relations outside marriage are officially banned in Iran but have grown in recent years among youth, according to media reports.



diplomatic offensive to avoid sanctions
Published April 27
Tehran wants to win the support of non-permanent members of the Security Council. While the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are engaged in military exercises in Gulf waters, claiming to have successfully tested five missiles in response the "nuclear threat" from the United States, Tehran is conducting a desperate diplomatic offensive to prevent the Security Council adopts UN cons him a new set of sanctions.

scrutinized for over six years by the international community, its civilian nuclear program is actually suspected of aiming to acquire nuclear weapons.



Two men executed in Mashhad
Quds Daily, April 27
accused of committing immoral crimes, two men were executed in prison in Mashhad (northeast) in the presence justice officials and police.



A man hanged in Dezful
AFP, April 27
A man convicted of murder was hanged in Dezful (southeast), reported Fars news agency on Tuesday.
No details were given about the crime committed by Rahman R, who was executed in prison in the city.



Unemployment among women
Agency ILNA, April 27
Maliheh Mahboubnejand, the Board of Directors of the National Union of Women, ÅWARNING on the rise in unemployment among workers according to Iranian it may cause "unrest in society" ...



Mrs. Ahmadinejad: West encourages illicit sexual relations
Agency IRNA / AFP, April 28

The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , accused the West of using the UN to encourage sex outside marriage and "debauchery" in Muslim countries.
"Westerners are using the UN framework to promote illicit sexual relations (...) in Muslim countries by presenting their programs inappropriate (for the wife and family) as progress against discrimination, "said Azam al-Sadat Farahi, at a seminar of Muslim scholarship.
" The family, which is the foundation of any company, collapsed in the West and Westerners are trying to spread the same in Muslim countries through programs that encourage debauchery, "she added.
The president's wife said he had to encourage" family culture "to cope.



Ahmadinejad request the Iranians to have more children
Agency ISNA / AFP, April 29

The présidentAhmadinejad reported for the third time in one week he was hostile to the policy of birth control, asking the Iranians to have more children.
"Some say it takes only two children per family, this means that in 40 years there will be nothing left of the Iranian nation (...) We see the danger and we caution" against an aging population said Mr. Ahmadinejad ...
The Iranian president denounced "those inside the country have copied the West by saying that two children were enough."
"40 years ago, Westerners were in favor of birth control and felt that with fewer children had a better life. But today, their population has aged and they encourage families to have more children by offering financial rewards, "he added.
The rate of population growth is currently 1.6% against 3, 2% after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
The government distributes free condoms and pills and the newlyweds are forced to attend classes about contraception before obtaining a marriage certificate.
Iran's population, currently 74 million, was only 36 million when the Islamic revolution of 1979. She has more than doubled in 30 years ...
Currently 70% of the population within 35 years.
President Ahmadinejad's statements were criticized by those who believe that the country lacks the economic means to cope with population growth.



Press Freedom: Iran in the league
Channel Radio Farda, April 29
According to a recent report by the organization Freedom House's Freedom of Expression in the world, Iran occupies the 185th place on 187, behind Eritrea and Burma.
Iran aperdu 6 seats compared to 2009 ... report


Clinton called Ahmadinejad does not disrupt the NPT conference
AFP, April 30

The head of American diplomacy, Hillary Clinton warned Thursday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad against the temptation to "divert attention "of the follow-up conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which he intends to participate in May ...




Ashton calls for Beijing to sanctions against Tehran
AFP, April 30

The chief diplomat of the European Union said Friday Ashton Beijing had discussed with Chinese leaders the issue of economic sanctions against Iran sought by the United States and the EU.
In a meeting with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao on Thursday, "I specifically wanted to reinforce the message that we need an approach on two fronts": the continuing dialogue with sanctions, said to Journalists EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
"Sanctions alone will not solve the problem but to solve the problem you need sanctions," she said.
"Recognition of sanctions is an important element," she also said.
Ashton noted that "a number of messages were from Iran in recent days indicating they (the Iranians) wanted to start talking," while the threat of sanctions is growing.
"The sentiment that the sanctions could occur has led them to want to start talking (...) This is good news," she added, refusing to comment on China's position.
However, a source familiar with the matter, the Chinese response was "positive." After the meeting between Wen and Catherine Aston, "we feel they are more committed to support sanctions if they are smart, effective, not sanctions that would affect the huge population, "the source said ...

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