Tag: Iranian

  • Iran: Hundreds of schoolgirls poisoned to stop them from getting education

    A top Iranian health official informed the semi-official said on Sunday that a recent wave of widespread illnesses at girls’ schools in Iran were brought on by intentional poisoning using “chemical chemicals.”

    Iran’s deputy education minister, Younes Panahi , on Sunday said that , “It was found that some people wanted all schools, especially girls’ schools, to be closed.”

    “It has been revealed that the chemical compounds used to poison students are not war chemicals, and the poisoned students do not need aggressive treatment, and a large percentage of the chemical agents used are treatable,” he told a press conference.

  • Activist daughter of former Iranian president sentenced to five years in prison in Iran

    Activist daughter of former Iranian president sentenced to five years in prison in Iran

    The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani daughter, activist Faezeh Hashemi, has been sentenced to five years in prison in Iran.

    The lawyer did not give details of the charges against Faezeh Hashemi. However, Tehran’s public prosecutor indicted Hashemi last year on charges of “propaganda against the system”, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency.

    It was reported that Faezeh had been arrested for “inciting riots” in Tehran during protests triggered by the death of a young Kurdish woman in police custody.

    “Following the arrest of Ms Faezeh Hashemi, she was sentenced to five years in prison but the sentence is not final,” defence lawyer Neda Shams wrote on her Twitter account.

    In 2012, Faezeh Hashemi was sentenced to jail and banned from political activities for “anti state propaganda” dating back to the 2009 disputed presidential election.