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The Islamic Parliament

Kamangir | July 24, 2007 | Category Humour, Iran, Islam, Islamic Republic

It is a fact that the official title for the Islamic Republic parliament is “The Islamic Council of Discussion”. That might clarify why there are so many clerics in the parliament, but it definitely does not explain why one of them can actually sleep there.

Source: Iranews.

Student Activist Executed as Gang-Member (Updated)

Kamangir | July 24, 2007 | Category Human Rights, Iran, Islamic Republic

Meisam Lotfi (میثم لطفی) was reportedly executed for being a gang-member. He is in fact a student activist. Shahrzad News, a reputable independent website, talked to his mother, before he was executed.

It was 1am when they woke up with a knock on their door. The 25-year-old son tried to escape from the Police, but was shot at with 17 bullets, two of which hit his leg. He was then sentenced to execution. Before we managed to find and publish his pictures he was executed.

Meisam spent six month in the infamous Evin Prison after the July 1999 student riots. His sister was also attacked by the Police and received 40 stitches. Meisam had spent 55 days in solitary confinement after he was accused of setting tires on fire during the protests which followed the fundamentalists’ raid to the dormitory of University of Tehran.

For more pictures published anonymously at the night he was arrested see here.

Update: A Persian blog claims Fazel Ramezani (فاضل رمضانی) and Haajat Morad Mohammad (حاجت مراد محمدی) were among the executed men. The blog claims they were political activists.