Reza Jagiri, the Social Deputy of the Welfare and Social Participation Organization stressed that carton sleepers [homeless people who sleep in carton boxes on the streets] will be gathered from the city.

“An average of 100 carton sleepers are rounded up from the city everyday”, he said.

“Fifteen to 20 percent of the homeless [in Tehran] are women”, he said adding that most of the homeless were male

A Texas medical student well-known in her community as an Iranian activist was mysteriously shot and killed in her car, just yards from her home.Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, was driving through her Houston townhouse complex around midnight on Monday when she was shot dead through her car window.“When officers arrived, they found a vehicle had run into a garage door at that location with the engine running and tires spinning on the pavement. Ms. Bagherzadeh was found slumped over in the driver’s seat,” the Houston Police Department said in a statement.Authorities said nothing appeared to have been stolen from her car. Her cell phone and purse were found inside.“Homicide investigators responded to the scene and were told by witnesses that several gunshots were heard, a crash and then tires squealing,” the statement said.Police told ABC News’ Houston affiliate KTRK that the last person to speak to Bagherzadeh was her close friend and ex-boyfriend who was on the phone with her when she was shot.“[The boyfriend] heard a loud thud. He doesn’t recall hearing any gunshots, but a loud thud and then a screeching noise,” Richard Bolton of the Houston Police Department Homicide unit told KTRK.

In the sidelines of Shiraz Special Punishments Staff meeting, the Shiraz Revolutionary and Public Prosecutor said that the death sentence for rapists and troublemakers will soon be carried out in public.“One of these people was sentenced to public execution and 15 years of prison for rape, another person to public execution and 15 years of prison for rape and two others were sentenced to death for armed robbery from Shiraz banks”, Ali al-Qasi said.“The other convict was sentenced to three executions and 15 years of prison on charges of three murders and kidnappings and will be hanged in public”, he added.“Special measures have been taken by the Central Court in this province and the head of the Fars Judiciary to speed up the implementation of the sentences and with necessary follow ups and legal procedures, the head of the Judiciary has agreed to the executions”, al-Qasi said.“This is the fate of all criminals, troublemakers and those who rape women and the Judiciary will deal seriously and without tolerance with these people”, he said.Al-qasi said that four other people who are narcotics traffickers were sentenced to death in the province’s Revolutionary Courts and will soon be hanged in Shiraz’s Adel Abad Prison simultaneously with these people [who are to be hanged in public]. 

Reporters Without Borders is warning about the dire situation for Iranian journalists and bloggers and freedom of information.

In a letter to Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the media rights group expressed its deep concern about what it describes as “the escalation of the repression of journalists, netizens and civil society members and the increase in online censorship in Iran.”The letter indicates that “a relentless war” has been declared on Iranian journalists and netizens since the aftermath of the controversial 2009 presidential elections, which were marred by allegations of fraud that sparked widespread protests.Reporters Without Borders urgdes Pillay “to intercee with the utmost firmness with the Iranian authorities to prevent the execution of two Iranian netizens, Saeed Malekpour and Vahid Asghari, whose death sentences were recently confirmed by the Iranian courts.”The letter also calls on PIllay to work toward the release of 29 journalists and 21 netizens currently held in Iranian prisons.