Iran Human Rights, September 22: According to the site "Iranian human rights activists" Iranian authorities have sentenced Ebrahim Mehrnahad (16) to 5 years of prison. Ebrahim mehrnahad, is charged with "attempts against the nations security" and was tried in a revolutionary court, without access to a defence lawyer. He is sentenced to five years of prison where two of them are going to be conditional.

He has been under detention, with physical and psychological torture since March this year.

It is believed that Ebrahims weblog activities, along with his role in mediating the news about his older brother Yaqub Mehrnahad have been decisive in his sentence.

Yaqub Mernahad, the older brother of Ebrahim, and a well known journalist and blogger, was executed in the prison of Zahedan on August 6. this year. Yaqub was also tried in a revolutionary court without access to lawyer.

Iranian authorities are trying to pass a new legislation according to which one could be sentenced to death charged with "internet crimes"!

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Iran Human Rights, September 22: The death sentences of the juvenile offender Mahyar, and his mother Maryam, are approved by the Iranian supreme court, and they are few steps closer to the execution now, reported the Iranian daily Kargozaaran.

Mahyar is convicted of murdering his father in 2004, when he was 17 years old. His mother is also sentenced to death for assistance in the murder. According to reports at the time of alleged murder , Mehyar’s father, who was alcoholic, was beating up his mother. Mehyar seem to have suffered from temporary insanity at the time.

Mehyar, whose family name is Haghgoo, was sentenced to death by a copiurt in the northern city of Rasht. The court didn’t take into consideration Mahyar’s mental status or age at the time of offence. With the supreme court’s approval of the sentence, Mahyar and his mother Matyam are at imminent risk of execution.

Iranian authorities have executed 26 of the 32 minor offenders who have been executed worldwide since 2005.

More than 150 minor offenders are on the death row in the Iranian prisons today.

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