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International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran writes that the abuse and ill-treatment of arrested demonstrants has not been the result of negligence and carelessness, like the Iranian authorities say.
The abuse is systematic and reflects a policy of suppressing dissent, intimidating the population, and corroborating charges by producing false confessions.
Two Iranian officials, Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi and Police Chief General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, have acknowledged the abuse of prisoners in Kahrizak prison. The head of the facility and three guards have reportedly been dismissed.
A spokesman for the Campaign said that instead of show trials of innocent people, there should be prosecution of those responsible for torture, shootings, beatings, and ill-treatment that have resulted in numerous deaths on the streets and in detention.
Two Iranian officials, Prosecutor General Ghorban Ali Dorri Najafabadi and Police Chief General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, have acknowledged the abuse of prisoners in Kahrizak prison. The head of the facility and three guards have reportedly been dismissed.
Documentation, assembled by the Campaign and other human rights organizations,shows that the abuse has also taken place at Evin prison and in other detention facilities in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran.
The abuse affects as many as 2,500 persons in Iran who have been detained and is confirmed by photographic evidence and reports.
The Iranian parliament [Majlis] has formed a committee that has been tasked with an investigation.
The Campaign is also urging UNHCR to send special envoys to Iran to document and investigate systematic and widespread killings and torture that under international human rights law are considered crimes against humanity.
source: iranhumanrights.org




Nobellaureate Shirin Ebadi has called on the Secretary-General of UN to visit Iran to receive a first-hand account of human rights abuses .
She said so in Seoul where she accepted a local peace prize.
She also arned against sanctions because they would hurt the Iranian people.
source: Reuters


President Ahmadinejad replaces more and more people at the ministries by loyalists. The son of a former intelligence chief, websites and a lawmaker say that he Sunday, changed ranking officials with decades of experience in favor of loyalists.
Analists say he threw tens of years of experience in intelligencematters away.
Even ayatollah Khomeini cooperated with intelligence people who worked in the field during the Shahs government.
Hassan Younesi writes in his blog that Ahmadinejad herewith took control over the most significant security organ in the country and works on a retaliation project.
Among those sacked were the ministry's No. 2 official and the chief of counterintelligence.
It is said that Ahmadinejad was enraged after Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, opposed the airing of taped confessions extracted from detained election protesters and politicians. The president fired Mohseni-Ejei last month.
It is also said that many in the ministry supported Mir-Hossein Mousavi over Ahmadinejad, and that Mohseni-Ejei allowed a group of intelligence personnel to deliver a report to Khamenei chronicling massive fraud in the election.
Ahmadinejad last month made himself temporarily de facto chief of the agency.
Hossein Taeb and Ahmad Salek,two hard-line clerics, loyal to the president and close to the Revolutionary Guard, now control the vast human intelligence and electronic monitoring infrastructure.
Ahmadinejad said he delivers his new Cabinett including an intelligence minister, by mid-August. By law, this post must be filled by a cleric.
source: latimes.com





In a helicopter crash in the area near the city of Kerman have three people, including the pilote been killed and got three others injured.
The accident was probably caused by technical problems.
source: news-en.trend.az



In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

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