Iran: ministry of intelligence

Former reformist member of parliament Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini has been released from Evinprison section 209.
He has been there since his arrest in June.
He was released on a $163,000 bail.
Evinprison section 209 is a section of the Iran Ministry of Intelligence.
In this prison are among political prisoners, many prisoners from other provinces of Iran who have been transferred to Evin from their local prisons.
At this site you find a petition asking an independent investigation of Section 209 of Evin Prison in Iran.




Kianoosh Sanjari, student and internetblogger has been arrested together with many others on October 7 at the house of ayatollah Boroujerdi. He wanted to report about the clashes between Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s supporters and the security forces of Tehran Police.
He is being hold in Evinprison, Section 209.
Amnesty International fears for torture and ill-treatment and asks for urgen action (MDE 13/121/2006).
Since 1999 now 24-year-old Kianoosh Sanjari has been arrested several times and subsequently held in solitary confinement for many months.
Prior to his recent arrest, he lived in Tehran and was reportedly closely monitored by the authorities.




Italian prosecutors have officially charged a top Iranian official of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), Amir Mansour Bozorgian, for the murder in 1993 of Mohammad-Hossein Naghdi, the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy.
Naghdi was killed when a gunman opened fire from a motorcycle on route to his office in Rome.






In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl