Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Execution in the eye’s of people

Fariba davoodi Mohajer, Carrying out executions before the public eye has become the norm in the Islamic Republic (IR). Every year individuals convicted of different crimes including drug-related crimes, theft, murder or rape, are hanged in public in various Iranian cities.

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Verdicts through history

This is Shiraz, one of the oldest cities in Iran. It is a city near the palaces of the oldest Iranian royal dynasty, the Achaemenids. Takhte Jamshid (Jamshid’s Throne) is known by foreigners as the Persepolis. It is well known that Cyrus, the Achaemenian King,

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The right to education, a forgotten right

The right to education, one of the rights noted in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has been violated by the Iranian government for years. Shortly after the 1997 revolution, the group that had taken over the government decided to filter the dissident professors and students out of universities.

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Fires at girls’ schools

At the beginning of winter, oil burning heaters are lit to heat the cold classrooms and sometimes girls are burned by the fire. The latest incident happened some weeks ago in a poor Iranian area. According to the website HRANA,

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