IRAN: ARTISTS SUMMONED FOR EXPRESSING SYMPATHY WITH MINORS ON DEATH ROW

in Iran, two movie stars and a director, Ezatollah Entezami, Parviz Parastooi and Kiumars Pour-Ahmadi were summoned to Tehran's prosecutor office for trying to save the life of a juvenile prisoner, the state-run daily Kargozaran reported. Earlier, they tried to launch a campaign to raise "blood money" to save the life of a young man on death row for a crime allegedly committed when he was 17. The three have started raising money to save Behnoud Shojaee, who is awaiting his execution.