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Iran has hanged eleven people with alleged ties to a terror group.
Monday 20th December, 2010
The Justice Ministry has said the men hanged were members of a Sunni Muslim opposition group that killed 39 people in a mosque bombing.
It said those executed were all supporters of Jundollah, which claimed to have carried out a double suicide bombing of Shia worshippers at the mosque on December 15th.
An Iranian court also sentenced Jaraf Panahi, the internationally renowned film director, to six years in prison.
It also decreed Panahi would not be allowed to make films, write scripts or travel abroad for 20 years.
Panahi was convicted of gathering, colluding and propaganda against the Iranian government.
Panahi, 49, is known to support Mirhossein Mousavi, the Iranian reformist politician who was a candidate for the 2009 presidential election.
The filmmaker was arrested in Iran in early March and detained after going on a hunger strike to protest his treatment by the Iranian government.
Monday 20th December, 2010
The Justice Ministry has said the men hanged were members of a Sunni Muslim opposition group that killed 39 people in a mosque bombing.
It said those executed were all supporters of Jundollah, which claimed to have carried out a double suicide bombing of Shia worshippers at the mosque on December 15th.
An Iranian court also sentenced Jaraf Panahi, the internationally renowned film director, to six years in prison.
It also decreed Panahi would not be allowed to make films, write scripts or travel abroad for 20 years.
Panahi was convicted of gathering, colluding and propaganda against the Iranian government.
Panahi, 49, is known to support Mirhossein Mousavi, the Iranian reformist politician who was a candidate for the 2009 presidential election.
The filmmaker was arrested in Iran in early March and detained after going on a hunger strike to protest his treatment by the Iranian government.
