http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/364/ en_GB_uk Iran http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163815/1/ There will be a celebration at 5.30pm at Grosvenor Square, opposite the US Embassy, to celebrate the Iraqi government's the release of 36 people seized from a camp for Iranian dissidents in Iraq. In London, hunger-strikers ended their 72-day sympathy fast to mark the group's return to Camp Ashraf. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/163770/1/ The execution in Iran on Monday of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini for a murder he is accused of committing when he was only 17 must be stopped, says Amnesty International. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/85485 The arrest of another six journalists cements Iran's position as the world's worst jailer of journalists, says an international media freedom organisation. http://uk.oneworld.net/article/view/162485/1/ Prison authorities in Iran are further punishing prisoners by denying them medical treatment, an international rights group said after the second death in custody in less than two weeks as a result of denial of treatment. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84808 Timothy Garton Ash in the Guardian applauds the launch of BBC Persian TV, even though BBC cameras are banned from Iran. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84723 The Iranian government is urged to end its escalating persecution of Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel peace laureate and a leading human rights defender. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84700 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered Channel 4's alternative Christmas address yesterday, sending a message of "happiness, prosperity, peace and brotherhood for humanity" which immediately ignited a furious row. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84687 Closure of the Tehran-based Human Rights Defenders Centre by some 20 plain-clothes Iranian police has been condemned by a media freedom group. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84378 At least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries last year - though the real figure is certainly higher - with 88 per cent occurring in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84248 Ending executions for crimes committed by children in just five countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen - would result in universal implementation of the prohibition on the juvenile death penalty, says a leading rights organisation. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84217 The six-month prison sentences imposed on four Iranian cyber-feminists for "publishing information against the government" are an outrage, says a media freedom group. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/84018 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83612 General David Petraeus' new job may put him in position to follow through on his saber-rattling against Iran, says a Washington think tank. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83378 Saudi Arabia had the highest number of executions per capita, followed by Iran and Libya, according to a new Amnesty survey that says 88 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83267 Iran has unexpectedly liberal ideas about contraception and assisted reproduction techniques, the result of pragmatic decisions, and consequent laws, arrived at by Shia interpretations of religious tenets. By Elizabeth O’Donnell.