Iran: prison

According to IRNA are in last Iranian calendaryear(21 March 2008-March 20,2009) in Arak, Markazi province 21 people hanged.
17 of those hanged were convicted of drug trafficking, while 4 were charged with murder.
Official Iranian media,used by Iran Human Rights reported only 6 executions in that period.
This means that that the actual number of 350 executions last year, reported by Iran Human rights, is probably much higher since only some of the executions are reported by the media.
source: iranhr.net



Amnesty International published a pressrelease following the second death in custody in less than two weeks.
Omid Reza Mirsayafi, an internet blogger died March 18, 2009 in Evinprison, Tehran, less than six weeks after he is said to have began serving a 30-month prison sentence. He was convicted of "insulting the Supreme Leader" and "propaganda against the system".
He overdosed his medication and despite requests to do so, he was refused to transport him to a hospital for treatment.
March 6, 2009, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran died in the hospital of Karaj, to which he was transported from Raja’i Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison.
He was since 2004 serving an eight-year sentence for establishing the United National Front political party. March 4 he became seriously ill and his wife told that March 5, he was in a coma and transported to the hospital.He died of brain haemorrhage and a lung infection. The doctors told that he should have been hospitalized sooner.
The deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme, Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, says that these recent deads underline the urgent need for the Iranian authorities to improve prison conditions and to take immediate measures to ensure that all prisoners in their custody are treated humanely.
Other political prisoners have died in custody in suspicious circumstances in recent years, among them Abdolreza Rajabi, Akbar Mohammadi en Valiollah Feyz Mahdavi.
Convicted prisoners in Iran are held in prisons run by the State Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization, which is under the control of the Head of the Judiciary.
source: Amnesty International USA


On Iranian New Years Day familymembers of detained activist students in Evinprison, were together with student activists, arrested by security-agents.
They wanted to celebrate New Year in front of Evinprison, to be close to their relatives and friends.
The arrested are:
1. Mother of student Nariman Mostafavi,
2. Mr.Mehdi Arabshahi,
3. Mr. Milad Asadi council member of Daftare Tahkime Vahdat,
4. Ms. Bahare Hedayat council member of Daftare Tahkime Vahdat,
5. Mr. Majid Dori deprived student of "Alameh University",
6. Mr. Said Faizollahzadeh deprived student of " Alameh University",
7. mother of Milad Asadi,
8. Farid Hashemi council member of" Tahkim Vahdat",
9. Amin Nazari council member of " Tahkim Vahdat".
Security-agents also confiscated the plate number of Keyvan Samimi's car.
Samimi is secretary of "Committee Following up the Arbiterary Arrests".
The security-agents dispersed the crowd by using teargas.
source: Iran Watch Canada


In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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