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IRAN: Death sentence of young Kurdish man becomes definite

Heyman - Uraminezhad

The  Iranian  jidiciary has finalized the death  sentence that had been  handed down  to  a young  Kurdish man.

Who  was  under the age of 18 at the  time of attributed crime.

This young man is currently held in Sanandaj Central Prison waiting for his sentence to be carried out.

Heyman is currently 21 years old and was convicted on premeditated murder by the Sanandaj Prime Court.

Iran under the rule of the clerical regime is one of the leading executioners of juvenile offenders,.

There have been over 2,300 executions in Iran since Hassan Rouhani has been in office, more than in any similar period in the past 25 years.

Women's News-Iran:Between 200 and 250 dhildren live with their mother in prisoons

250 children live with their mothers in prisons

Between 200 and 250 children live with their mothers in prisons across the country.

This news was announced by Asghar Jahangir, head of the Iranian Prisons Organization. He also admitted that no budge has been ratified for establishment of kindergartens in prisons.

Women's News Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery

Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery

A young woman was given the wrong gas instead of Oxygen after giving birth to her twins in a Tehran hospital.

The news has just recently leaked out that on the morning of January 17, 2016, a young woman refered to Tehran's Chamran Hospital because of having pain. Doctors in the emergency room diagnosed that she needed to undergo C-section, so they had her taken to the operation room.

After giving birth to healthy twins, the mother was in need of receiving Oxygen, but she suffered severe burns as soon as the Oxygen mask was put on her face because she had been given N2O and CO2 instead of Oxygen.

Women's News Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner and human rights activists

Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner and human rights activists

18 human rights activists including families of political prisoners and martyrs were sentenced each to 91 days imprisonment and 74 lashes.

They had participated in a peaceful gathering outside Tehran's Evin Prison on November 21, 2015, demanding abolition of death sentence for prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, and freedom of all political prisoners.

The 18 convicted activists included Mrs. Simin Aiyvazzadeh (mother of political prisoner Omid Ali-Shenas), Azam Najafi, Parvin Soleimani, Sara Sa'ee, Farideh Toosi and Zahra Modarres Zadeh. They were charged with "illegal gathering disrupting public order."

Iran: Khamenei's ‘election’ fatwas reveals his fear of popular boycott

Iran: Khamenei's ‘election’ fatwas reveals his fear of popular boycott

NCRI - As the Iranian regime’s sham election is being ignored and faces popular boycott, Ali Khamenei has resorted to issuing ridiculous fawas to at least get the regime’s discouraged forces to partake in the elections.

In a series of fatwas published by the state-run Fars New Agency, Ali Khamenei declared: “Participation in the elections is a religious, Islamic and divine duty” and an “obvious obligation”. He insists in his fatwas that casting blank votes is ‘haram’ (proscribed by Islamic law). Concerning women he stipulates that “husband’s consent is not needed to participate in the elections”. This is while according to fatwas by Khomeini, the founder of the regime, and other state clerics, a woman “should not leave home without the permission of her husband even if to see her relatives, pay a visit to her sick father, or to participate in her father’s funeral”.

Iraq: West Must Learn the Bitter Lessons of Ramadi in Mosul

Struan Stevenson

Press release by the President of the European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA), Struan Stevenson, 12 February 2016

The European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA) calls upon the UN, US and EU to learn the lessons of Ramadi and not allow the wanton slaughter of the Sunni population of Mosul in the looming battle to liberate that city. Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has conducted an international tour to bolster support for the impending battle for Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, which was captured by ISIS (Daesh) in June 2014. Abadi visited Washington DC, pleading with Obama for more US airstrikes and for US military personnel to train Iraqi forces. He also wants military equipment and cash. Abadi also visited Erbil in Northern Iraq, where he asked Kurdish President Masoud Barzani to pledge assistance from the Peshmerga in the forthcoming battle to liberate Mosul.

Mosul is in Nineveh Province, Northern Iraq; it is home to over two and a half million people. Strict restrictions have been placed on the local population with only trusted traders being allowed to leave and return to the city. The remaining, largely Sunni population has been held hostage. Daesh captured vast quantities of modern American weaponry when the Iraqi army fled and the city has become an almost impregnable fortress. US military commanders who are advising the Iraqis estimate that it may take another year before Mosul can be recaptured.