Iran arrests Kurd poet and writer Aug. 26, 2010
Behzad Kurdistani, a renowned poet in Kurdistan was arrested yesterday by intelligence agents near his home in the town of Marivan.
There is no information on why he was arrested or his whereabouts.
This Kurd writer was summoned several times before this by the Marivan Intelligence Agency where he was interrogated.
Tehran Prosecutor says improper veiling is a crime
Aug. 25, 2010
The Tehran Prosecutor stressed that improper veiling is a crime and said, “Providing the security of the society should be the main and most important duty of all institutions and supervising organizations and countering crimes related to social security should not be limited to security and judicial apparatuses”…
The Prosecutor of Tehran believes that new technology and the cyber environment is actually more in line with promoting ‘corruption’ than leading to progress.
Jafari also cited seriously dealing with illegal CD sellers and parties which are called ‘immoral’.
“Despite the fact that these kinds of crimes are few in numbers, but even this low number can harm the society’s security”, he added.
Jailed human rights lawyer denied due processAug. 26, 2010
The sentence of Mohammad Oliayi Far has not been announced to him and therefore his case cannot be seen to in a court of review.
The wife of lawyer and prisoner of conscience Shohreh Taqati, said, “My husband has been jailed for close to five months for giving interviews to foreign media on charges of propagating against the government and currently the number of phone calls from prison are very few”.
“In our opinion this charge (propagating against the government) is wrong because there has not been propagation against the government. After my husband had a number of interviews on the execution of children under 18, especially in the case of Behnoud Shojayi, they filed a complaint against him and made a criminal record for him even as he had expressed his views about his profession”.
Mohammad Oliayi Far, lawyer and former head of the Research and Education Unit of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, was arrested on March 8, 2010 after he was summoned to the Tehran Revolutionary Court to serve his one year sentence on charges of propagating against the government by giving interviews to foreign media and insulting the judiciary. He was sentenced to one year of prison on February 7, 2010 by the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of propagating against the government after protesting the execution of minor offender Behnoud Shojayi.
Shohreh Taqati also expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that her husband’s sentence was not announced to him and said, “My husband’s sentence was not announced to him and therefore there is no way for his case to be reviewed in court”.
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