HRANA News Agency – On Wednesday, July 20, 2011, Mohammad Pooya who was a victim of child abuse succumbed to his wounds and died in Tehran’s Bahrami Hospital.
According to a report by Jame Jam Newspaper, Mohammad Pooya’s family took him to the hospital claiming that their four year old son became unconscious after using crack cocaine.Hospital staff began their efforts to save Mohammad’s life right away until it became known that this child was the same victim who was brought to the hospital in mid March.During that visit, the family also claimed that their son had used crack cocaine, and after a few days at the hospital, Mohammad was released to his family’s custody by court order.
This time, however, the parents were arrested and interrogated to determine the facts.During the questioning, Mohammad’s parents blamed each other for the accident until his mother told the authorities that her husband was a drug addict who force-fed Mohammad crack cocaine in order to calm him down before the father could use drugs with his friends.
Because of the statements made by Mohammad’s mother, both parents were locked up behind bars, and Mohammad’s body was transferred to the coroner’s office for further investigations.
Since last month, Mohammad Pooya is the third victim of child abuse who has died.Two other children, Barbad and Parsa, died earlier.
HRANA News Agency – A prisoner was flogged in public in Masjed-Soleyman, Khuzestan Province, on charges of having sexual intercourse without being married.
HRANA News Agency – 13 prisoners hanged in the past few days in different prisons across Iran.
HRANA News Agency – During the continously repressions on the religious minority, Bahai’s, Static department of Human Rights Activists of Iran’s publications, published a report about abusing Baha’is rights in the December and January.
HRANA News Agency – The hand amputation sentence enforced of a man on charge of robbery in Shiraz on January 24th.
HRANA News Agency – It is more than two weeks that there is no news about a Kurd who has summoned and then detained by Etela’at agents of Mahabad.
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