The death toll from Turkey's prison hunger strike has reached 23 after a former inmate died after a six-month fast to protest a new maximum security prison system. Nawal el-Saadawi, possibly the most outspoken woman in the Arab world and the Arab woman writer best known abroad, has never been shy about expressing her feminist opinions. He plays host to Arab visitors all too eager to display opposition to the decade-old United Nations sanctions and sign trade deals. His regime is awash with cash accumulated from a vast network of smuggling. Two million addicts live in Iran - Secretary General of Iran Society for Combating Illegal Drugs Hossein Dezhapam said here Monday that based on official figure there are over two million drug addicts in Iran.
Some militant groups use religion as a rationale.
But clerics disagree on whether such acts offer salvation. He also appointed Brigadier-General Reza Pardis as the Air Force commander. No one would confuse Abdollah Jasbi with running a typical Iranian presidential candidate, unless posing in posters with US presidents is considered dull behavior in the Islamic republic. The United Nations' food agency on Saturday threatened to suspend most food distribution in Kabul if Afghanistan's Taliban rulers do not allow it to prepare a new list of needy residents in the war-ravaged capital. Tehran pass a pro-Khatami presidential election campaign poster which shows Iran's flag.