Iran: counting

Womansrightsactivist Shiva Nazar Ahari was arrested December 10, 2009 and is detained inEvinprison.This is her second arrest.
She was arrested shortly after the election and detained for 100 days of which 30 days were in solitary confinement.
She wrote an article entitled: When Going to the Bathroom Becomes a Means of Torture!.
source: RAHANA


The Coordination Committee to Help Form Workers’ Organization (CCHFWO) published on her website the names of the activists who were arrested in the past days.
February 27, was Fattah Soleimani, member of CCHFWO, arrested in his house in Oshnaviyeh.
4 other members of CCHFWO, Rahman Ebrahim Zadeh, Hossein Pirvati, Samad Ahmadpour and Rahman Tanha, were also arrested in Oshnaviyeh on Februar 27 along with the activist Isa Ebrahimzadeh.
Abbas Hashempoor,laboractivist was arrested March 2 in Oshnaviyeh by agents of the ministry of information.
Additionally, 5 other members of the committee have been summoned to criminal and revolutionary courts in Sanandaj.
source: RAHANA




Zainab Jalalian was arrested 2 years ago for alleged links to Pejak, an armed Kurdish group. She was found guilty of Moharebeh (enmity with God) and sentenced to death.
The verdict was upheld in appeal in December of 2009 and can be carried out at any moment.
According to Irangreenvoice is Jalalian last week transferred from a correctional institute in Kermanshah to a facility of the ministry of intelligence in the same city.
Currently are 17 Kurds on deathrow:
1-Zainab Jalalian
2-Habib Lotfi
3-Shirkoo Mo’arefi
4-Jamal Mohammadi
5-Sami Hosseini
6-Rostam Arkia
7-Rashid Akhkandi
8-Hossein Khezri
9-Farzad Kamangar
10-Ali Haydarian
11-Farhad Vakili
12-Mostafa Salimi
13-Anvar Rostami
14-Mohammad Amin Agooshi
15-Iraj Mohammadi
16-Ahmad Pouladkhani
17-Hossein Tale’i
source: RAHANA





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