A Children’s Right activist arrested in Tabriz

HRANA News Agency- Saied Shirzad, Children’s Right activist, was arrested last night in Tabriz and was taken to an unknown place.

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Saied Shirzad Children’s Right activist was arrested at his workplace in Tabriz Refinery. Continue reading “A Children’s Right activist arrested in Tabriz”

6 prisoners including a woman were hanged during passed 3 days

HRANA News Agency – There have been 6 prisoners hanged in 3 different prisons during 2nd, 3rdand 4th of March.

 

According to a report by Iran Newspaper, 4 prisoners were hanged in Bandar Abbas prison on March 2nd. Continue reading “6 prisoners including a woman were hanged during passed 3 days”

A child died in an execution game

HRANA News Agency – Mohammad (Marvan) Ashoubi (son of Abdullah) a seven years old Feyshouri children, from the suburban of Fars province, has died in a game, by mimicking execution.

 

According to Feyshour website, in a report from Feyshour, Mohammad (Marvan) Ashoubi (Son of Abdullah Ashoubi) was killed, in a tragic accident.

 

According to this report, after the recent execution of two Feyshouri citizens, in Shiraz’s Adel Abad prison, the curiosity of this innocent child drove him to a deadly game, which ended to his death.

 

Sadly, this child was playing and dangling on a rope that was used for drying clothes on the yard while a toy-car was under his feet which moved and caused choking and losing his life.

 

None of the official Medias did not publicized this news yet.

 

A Juvenile prisoner will be hanged in a week in Uremia

HRANA News Agency – A prisoner who committed murder while he was a juvenile will be hanged next week in Uremia central prison.

 

According to the report of the Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Ahmad Shafiekhani the prisoner in Uremia prison is from Boukan and sentenced to execution in 2010 on charge of murder as he was arrested in 2009. Continue reading “A Juvenile prisoner will be hanged in a week in Uremia”

A juvenile prisoner is going to be executed

HRANA News Agency – Bahaoddin Ghasemzadeh who was arrested on charge of murder, when he was 16 is confronting with death penalty after Supreme Court’s confirmation.

 

According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), a prisoner with the name of Bahaoddin Ghasemzadeh, who has committed murder on his juvenile, is now confronting with death penalty and likely to be executed, after reaching to legal age. Continue reading “A juvenile prisoner is going to be executed”

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Juvenile offender on death row is in danger of more torture

HRANA News Agency – Juvenile offender Baha’uddin Ghasemzadeh has been transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department in Urmia to be interrogated more.  His family fears for his safety as he might be tortured once again.  Despite his initial confession taken at age 15, Ghasemzadeh denied committing the murder at the trial, and the case against him appears to have many problems such as lack of motive.

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Corrections – The case of the eight-year-old juvenile offender

HRANA News Agency – On July 4, 2013, Shargh Newspaper published a short news story inviting its readers to attend the debut of a play to save the life of an innocent child who was to be executed the following week.  The story appeared on page 16 of the issue numbered 1773 and identified the name of the play, the Blue Sensation of Death, as well as the location and time of the debut.  The news story indicated that the proceeds from the play was to be used towards the retribution demanded by the family of a victim who was killed by the child.

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A cab driver sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl

HRANA News Agency – A cab driver has sexually assaulted a six-year-old girl multiple times.  Last year, a cab driver who was hired to take three little girls to school every day began abusing one of the children sexually after awhile.

According to a report by Iranian Students News Agency (ISNA), the driver owns a Ford Festiva, is visually impaired in one eye and had taken the girl to an abandoned building near the school.  The mother of the child says that she has no hope of recovery for her daughter.  “It has been years since my daughter has been potty trained, but she is having accidents now because of what has happened to her,” the mother says.

The mother has also reported that the cab driver assaulted her daughter for weeks by taking her to the abandoned building under false pretenses of wanting to play games.  “My children say the driver has a yellow knife that he keeps under his seat,” the mother adds while crying.  “He has threatened my kids.  When two of them weren’t there, he abused my daughter, Freshteh.  He threatened to cut her parent’s heads off if she didn’t keep quiet.”

“Freshteh is now undergoing psychiatric therapy and has been taking sedatives.  She is easily agitated and even fears her father and brothers,” the mother says.

 

141,000 kids are deprived of education in Iran

HRANA News Agency – The head of the statistics and ICT department of education ministry says “There are 141 thousand children between the ages 6 and 11 who are not attending schools in Iran.”

 

According to a report of Kaleme website, Yousef Nouri said “The intention of statistics is to extract the total number of the ones deprived of obligatory study rule in education ministry that supreme council of education ministry determine it.” Continue reading “141,000 kids are deprived of education in Iran”