Iran: charges

Six people were hanged January 9 in the prison of the city Isfahan.
Five of them were convicted for smuggling narcotics under use of false ID's and cars with a forged IRGC logo on the doors.
The sixth person had previously been jailed for drug trafficking and was this time arrested with 38 kilograms of opium.
The report of ISNA did not mention gender, names or age.
source: iranhr.net



Human Rights Watch reported that members of two groups who were actively involved in the peaceful demonstrations after the election, are accused by the government of crimes which are punishable by death.
The authorities filed charges of mohareb, "being at enmity with God" against members of the Liberal Student and Alumni Association and have detained people working with the Committee of Human Rights Reporters and accused them of membership in an armed opposition group.
Authorities accused both, the Liberal Student and Alumni Association and the Committee of Human Rights Reporters of having ties with Mujahedin-e Khalq.
November 19, seven members of Liberal Student and Alumni Association (LSSA) were arrested, leaving the house of Ehsan Dolatshah after a meeting.
Since then, four of them were released on bail, but Mehrdad Bozorg, Dolatshah, en Sina Shokohi are detained of suspected mohareb.
Authorities charged Bozorg and Dolatshah with mohareb and December 24 they publicly "confessed" for statetelevision that they have ties with Mojahedin-e-Khalq.
They have had no acces to a lawyer. The released members of the group told that they and the still detained men were harshly physically interrogated.
A member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) says that the interrogators in Evin threatened to bring similar charges against members of that group.
Shiva Nazar Ahari, Koohyar Goodarzi, and Saeed Haeri were arrested December 20 and on January 2 are Parisa Kakai and Mehrdad Rahimi arrested.
Since December 1 are Saeed Kalanaki and Saeed Jalalifar detained.
None of the detainees have been allowed access to lawyers or has been formally charged.
This report is also available in Farsi
source: hrw.org

The Baha'i International Community rejects the allegations of the Iranian government about arms and ammunition that were found in the homes of Baha'is who were arrested in Tehran January 3.
Thirteen people were arrested, three of them were released.
The names of the others are:
Leva Khanjani, granddaughter of Jamaloddin Khanjani, and her husband Babak Mobasher, Jinous Sobhani, former secretary of Shirin Ebadi and her hudband Artin Ghazanfari, the brothers Mehran Rowhani and Farid Rowhani, Payam Fanaian, Nikav Hoveydaie and Ebrahim Shadmehr and his son Zavosh Shadmehr.
These arrests happened days for the trial of seven Bahai's who are charged with espionage.
Their names are: Mrs. Fariba Kamalabadi, Mr. Jamaloddin Khanjani, Mr. Afif Naeimi, Mr. Saeid Rezaie, Mrs. Mahvash Sabet, Mr. Behrouz Tavakkoli, and Mr. Vahid Tizfahm.
source: news.bahai.org



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