Today we went in five to the "The state Center of Corrections and Rehabilitation of Tehran" (Kanoon) for the second time. For the ones who are not familiar with the program, I should mention that the Teflan Muslim Program is performed in the following steps: At the first step, while attending Kanoon in a couple of times, the (young) prisoners files are read carefully and then they are interviewed personally so that the initial identification is done. Next step is identifying their families. The identifying team researches the situation of the families of all the interviewed aid-seekers. Finally a number of them are chosen regarding the specialist team’s advice to start the process to set them free and to support them after that.

Accordingly, we’ve gone to the "Kanoon" last week and today. In this time, we have managed to study 17 files and have interviewed 10 aid-seekers. Observing the report list which gave us the "Kanoon"’s social workers, we’ve found out that unfortunately rubbery statistics has risen up, comparing to the last year’s. Kanoon social worker admitted this fact as well.

Today we visited the “Infants’ Special Group”. I should declare that the aid-seekers in Kanoon are grouped in 6, respecting their age and body. In the first group -called the “Infants’ Special Group” the juvenile delinquents under 15 years of age are kept. In fact, these children have been prisoned because of the bad situation of their families or because of living in very bad and problematic environment.

In the Special Group of Infants you can find these children: bad-parented or unprotected children, labor children, children victims of violations [misused for different purposes], children of aggressive parents, homeless children, and worse than all: addicted children; bottom line, a Muslim Iranian children who did not have the opportunity to taste the life, Jailed in a prison made by our interactions with ignorance.

And we have some news of the "Special Group of Infants" which I don’t know to call it a good news or bad news: Today one of the children named Muhammad was set free, and 2 others who were transferred from the “Special Group” to the “Group One” will be set free by tomorrow.

But to be set free to go where? To the Behzisty (a state orphanage)? I don’t know what is going to happen to them?

Leaving the "Kanoon" for these children can be in one of the ways below:  1. Going back to a home and family that have lead them to enter the "Kanoon"; going back to degeneracy homes, homes of addiction, homes of violation or homes of aggression; 2.living at the streets being refugees; 3. Entering the "Behzisty" (The children who enter the Behzsty have the opportunity to learn other delinquencies and crimes from the other children living there, while they get the boot at the age of 18. And if they escape from there, they will face homelessness living at the streets in paper cartons in winter’s coldness and etc.); 4. The best choice and the most impossible one: somebody accepts their trusteeship; Better to say that nobody would keep an abnormal behaved child.

Observing all the aspects, we get this conclusion that there is no single place for these homeless children in this great land, land of the Arians inheritors, land of the "Cyrus the Great" ’s sons, land of the Muslims, land of the Ali’s Shi’tes , an oil field land, the land of four seasons and a land with all the things we are proud of. As if these children do not belong to this land. But I believe that we are the ones who don’t belong to it.

And that’s why we are trying to do something for them. We need a coalition from our friends in the this NGO, in league with Hussein’s ideals, to be able to help these children, our compatriots, these silent neighbors; to help them taste the life, in a way that in this land of Iranian Muslims, they never come back to the "Kanoon" or maybe to the adults prisons in the future, even in fantasy.