Iran: sentence

In Iran is the third wife of a painter, who murdered her husband, sentenced to death on request of the other two women.
She stabbed the painter to death with a fruitknife during a dispute.
source: freedomessenger


Three civil rights activists, Peyman Aref, Asal Esmaeilzadeh, and Sharar Konoon Tabrizi. were arrested at Behesht Zahra cemetery,where they were to pay their respects to Neda Agha Soltan.
The reason for their arrest is unknown. The three were transferred to a security policestation in Shahr-e Rey.
source: persian2english


Mostafa Daneshjou, the lawyer of the Gonabadi derwishes, has been sentenced to 7 months in prison on charges of libel and disturbing public order.
He has been transferred from the prison in Sari to ward 209 of Evin prison.
source: HRHI

Washington Post writes that an iranian official said that Iran has created a special unit to defend the country against cyber attacks.
Last year Iran was hit by two computervirusses.
source: washingtonpost.com

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Iran: arrest

Police in Mashhad arrested 19 men and women.
Khabar Online reports that the 10 men and 9 women were arrested at a party in an appartement. Police investigates the case.
source: freedomessenger

The Appeals Court sentenced laboractivist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to 5 years in prison after a lower court sentenced him sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Ebrahimzadeh was arrested more then 16 months ago and is incarcerated in Ward 350 of Evinprison under dire conditions.
Prisoners in Ward 350 have been deprived of taking warm water showers .
source: HRHI



Studentactivist Omid Rezaei has been arrested by security officers.
After several days his family has been informed of his condition following a single phone call.
source: HRHI


The Ahwaz Islamic Sunni Organization reports that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard sent a group of intelligence agents and senior military officials from Failaq Al-Qods to Mekka to carry out a terroristic attack during the yearly Haij.
source: arabtimesonline.com

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Iran: more

Branch 15 of the revolutionary court sentenced Isa Faridi to 5 years in prison, a fine of $40,000 and 30 lashes.
Faridi was arrested in June 2009 and released after 110 days with a bail of $310.000.
source: HRHI

Eleven Afghan workers kidnapped, raped and murdered a childlaborer in the city of Karaj.
After an anonymous call the police found, except the body of the child, womens clothes, but they did not discover any other victim.
The arrested Afghans confessed to the crime.
source: freedomessenger


October 12 is Bahaistudent Farnod Jahangiri expelled from Babolsar University in Mazandaran province.
Population of Combat against Education Discrimination (PCED), reported that Farnod Jahangiri studied English language and litterature at Babolsar university.
In recent months, Ruhollah Tashakor, Alborz Norani, Ava Tavakol, Mona Momeni, Arkideh Aghaie, Hananeh Kanaanie, Homan Rahmanian and Malika Vazirzadeh were expelled from universities in Iran.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: pronounced

Wednesday Saeed Malekpour is sentenced to death by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court with an additional prisonsentence of 7,5 years.
A reliable source reported to HRHI that this last court session took place in a very speedy manner.
Saeed Malekpour is an IT-specialist who lives and studies in Canada and was arrested in 2008 while visiting his sick father. He spent a year in solitary confinement, after that he was transferred to ward 350 and after that to ward 205A, of the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)., where he spent the last 9 months.
He has been charged of “management of pornographic sites, insulting the clergy, insulting the leadership, insulting the president, affiliation with anti-government groups, and corruption on earth.”
source: HRHI

Thursday USA accused Iran of hypocrisy and said it has taken actions that suggest it might not meet its international obligations.
Meanwhile USA hardliners say that USA should use every action, till murder in retaliation for an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia’s US envoy.
source: freedomessenger


Fareed Zakaria of CNN compared the status of women in Iran and women in Saoedi-Arabia.


In recent years left about 20 Armenian specialists the country to work at the nuclear powerplant in Bushehr.
They receive higher salaries there then n in Armenia.
source: en.trend.az



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Iran: more

In Gharchak is October 26 a man hanged in public.
Fars newsagency reported that the man, Bakhshali Asgari, 29 was convicted for murdering a 9-year-old girl and her grandmother, sexual abuse of the girl and stealing the woman’s jewelry in 2009.
Before he was hanged his sentence of 74 lashes was implemented in the prison yesterday.
source: iranhr.net

In the prison of Bushehr is monday a man hanged.
The man, Ali Rafiipour was convicted of murdering a member of the policeforces in 2004.
The mother, father and two daughters of the victim were present at the execution. The other defendant was forgiven by the victim’s family at the last moment.
source: HRHI

Iranlaborreport published an article about the on and off strikes in Mashhar. Originally the article was published in roozonline.
Despite conflicting reports there are strikes going on at diverse factories and companies in Mashahr region.At recent strikes at least 10 labor activists have been arrested.
Three international labor organizations have complained to the ILO office in Geneva over Iran’s labor policies and practices regarding the labor organizations and labor activities.
source: iranlaborreport


Members of Parliament called on the United Kingdom, European Union and the United States to protect the citizens of Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
In Camp Ashraf live 3,400 members of Iran’s main opposition group the People’s Mujahedin Organization of Iran, MKO.
They ask the Security Council to approve the stationing of blue-helmet U.N. security forces to prevent a massacre when the Americans leave Iraq.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: punishment

According to ISNA is a man, A.B , lashed in public in Bandar Abbas.
The man was sentenced to 110 lashes for robbery under harrasment.
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com




Imprisoned reformist leader Mostafa Tajzadeh says that the ruling elite in Iran will retreat sooner then expected.
He called on the Iranian people to show their protest against the ongoing house-arrest of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi and to show solidarity with the country’s countless political prisoners by fasting on the first Monday of every month.
Last week Tajzadeh accused in a letter to the Supreme Leader the Iranian state of imprisoning those providing financial assistance to families of political prisoners. He also accused the regime of trying to “systematically” destroy the livelihoods of families of dissidents in jail.
Tajzadeh, a senior member of the Mujahedin of the Islam Revolution Organisation (MIRO), is currently in solitary confinement in Evin prison.
source: irangreenvoice.com

Detained Abdollah Momeni is interrogated again, after the letter he wrote to the Supreme Leader.
In this letter he wrote about the tortures he had suffered during his interrogations. After this letter another court dossier was created for him.
Under Islamic Law it is illegal to interrogate a prisoner who has already been handed down his verdict and is serving his sentence.
aource: HRHI


The Appeals court has upheld the prison-sentence of the political prisoner Fereydoon Seidi-Rad. Seidi-Rad was among many citizens arrested on Februry 14, 2010.
He has been sentenced to 3 years in jail.
Contrary to other that day arrested citizens Seidi-Rad was detained in ward 290 until he was transferred to ward 350 of Evinprison.
source: HRHI

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Iran: much more

October 24 were 3 prisoners hanged in Iran.
IRNA reported that in Ardebil one man has been hanged for carrying and selling of 488,25 grams heroin.
Fars reported that in the prison of Jam a man Ali Rafeipour has been hanged. He was convicted for the murder of a securityofficer in 2003. How old he was at the time of the offence is not mentioned.
The Deutsche Welle quoted Fars that reported that in Khoramdareh a man has been hanged.
The man, R. Sh. was sentenced to death for murdering a securityguard on October 8th.
source: iranhr.net



The Iranian parliament impeached the economy minister for lax at the investigation of the bankscandal.
He has to appear before parliament within 10 days.
September began a probe into allegations that a private group via forged letters of credit approved by half a dozen Iranian banks, totally appr. $1.6 miljard amassed.
source: freedomessenger



Prisonauthorities told the father of Zanyar Moradi, a Kurdish political prisoner who is sentenced to death, and is detained in Rajaei Shahr prison that he would not need the clothes because his son will be executed before winter.
According to them the verdict has been upheld in appeal. Neither his son or his lawyer are informed.
source: iranhumanrights.org



The Director of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s presidential campaign in Mazandaran,Ali Tari , who is sentenced in appeal to 6 months in prison, is in Mati Kola prison in Babol.
At arrival in prison he was was transferred 2 days to the prison’s Quarantine Ward, before being transferred to Ward 2 of Mati Kola prison, where murderers and dangerous criminals are held.
He has been denied basic prisoncondition.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, who who was refusing to accept any medication or medical treatment at the prison infirmary has now been transferred to Tehran Hasheminejad hospital.
source: HRHI



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Iran: further

Womens rightactivist Maryam Ghorbanifar is according to HRHI sentenced to 3 year's in prison for acting against national security, gathering and conspiracy against the regime.
She had been arrested in February, but was later released on bail.
source: freedomessenger



The health of detained Iraqi lawyer Hassan Abdul-Hassan Tafah, 82 is deteriorating and he is in critical condition.
In 2008 he was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of spying and he is detained in Ward 4, Hall 12 in Rajai-Shahr Prison.
He suffers from a number of medical problems including anemia, low blood pressure, kidney and prostate diseases.
source: freedomessenger


In northern Iran the security forces searched the homes and workplaces of many Baha’i citizens and arrested many of them.
Nadia Asadian, Shiva Kashaninejad eand Sousan Badavam are among those arrested.
source: HRHI


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Iran: And

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported Friday that in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad another 14 prisoners have been hanged in secret.
August 11 were 7 people hanged and September 20 were also 7 people hanged.
A source said that all those executed were convicted on drugsrelated charges.
source: irangreenvoice.com, HRHI

The Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, answered to questions of a Farsreporter if using VPN's was illegal in Iran, that proxies are banned in Iran and that using them is a crime according to the Computer Crimes Laws.
He also said that all countries have specials rules for the use of the internet and in Iran, using VPNs is banned.
source: daughtersofthelight.briefs.blogspot.com



October 17 and 18 two christians in Shahriar have been arrested, after their homes were searched.
October 17 the christian Mohammad N. was arrested and personal belongings were taken.
October 18, converted christian Fariborz A. was arrested.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: more

The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and International Transport Workers Federation (ITF) filed a complaint against the Iranian government for its labor rights violations which were jointly lodged at the International Labor Federation (ILO).
source: iranlaborreport.com



Iranian Independent Workers Union reported that unionmember Ayat Niafar on October 17 has been arrested at a busstop in Tehran.
RFERL reported that also his personal belongings were searched and confiscated.
source: irangreenvoice.com

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In the prison of Qazvin were October 20 oktober 3 men hanged.
They were convicted of murdering a 39 years old man.
Names and ages were not revealed.
source: iranhr.net


Three days before the release from prison from Pastor Behnam Irani, authorities extended his prisonterm by five years by invoking a suspended sentence from 2008.
Irani is member of the evangelical group Church of Iran and the leader of a housechurch in Karaj.In 2006 he was arrested for the first time.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Detained lawyer and humanrightsactivist Nasrin Sotoudeh has been denied visits for refusing to wear the chador (long open cloak worn by Iranian women on top of their hijab). She says that it is a violation of her rights.
Last month the Iranian Judiciary announced that the requirement for women to wear the chador in court had been annulled.
Nasrin Sotoudeh is member of Defenders of Human Rights, One Million Signatures Campaign to Change Discriminatory Laws Against Women, and Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child.She has been convicted in appeal to 6 years in prison and a ban to be a lawyers for 10 years.
source: persian2english.com

Detained blogger Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki is still in Evin’s ward 350 suffering with a kidneydisease after undergoing 2 surgeries in the past six months.
Human Rights House of Iran reports that ithe order of chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi to transfer him to a hospital was issued two weeks ago.
His physical condition is dangerously deteriorating.
source: freedomessenger


The state newspaper Iran reported that reformist journalist
Abdolreza Tajik is sentenced to 6 years in prison.He was charged with propaganda against the state and cooperating with Centre for the Defence of Human Rights, a banned organization, founded by Shirin Ebadi.
He had been arrested in June 2010.
source: freedomessenger.com


Thursday-afternoon sank an Iranian vessel in the Persian Gulf,and five people were drowned.
Newsagency Fars reported that 60 people were rescued. 72 people were on board as it left the offshore oil rigs in the Persian Gulf to Iran 's southern Assaloyeh port.
The cause is unknown.
source: xinhuanet.com



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Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: abuse

Website Fars reported October 19 that in the city of Shiraz a man was hanged in public.
The man, Kourosh A. (35) was sentenced to death for murdering and robbing a woman in December 2010.
source: iranhr.net



Iran disputes the recent humanrightsabusesreport(pdf) from the UN, that says human rights abuses in that country are increasing.
The Iranian envoy called on the United States and Britain to address their own human rights shortcomings.
source: rferl.org


The Mothers of Park Laleh on the International Day Against Death Penalty, October 10, 2011 released a statement in which they speak out against the many humanrightsabuses in Iran.
They point out to the special rapporteur of the UN in Iran and human rights organizations across the globe, be aware that human rights violations have reached a record high in Iran.
To prove this point, they submit the following data representing only the names and information related to a small number of individuals either imprisoned or killed in the last ten years, excluding those officially executed in prisons or gunned down in the streets during the same period of time.
source: freedomessenger


Unconfirmed reports indicate that Meysam Roustaei a conscript at Iranian police died September 22, not from suicide, but from beatings.
That day he was summoned to report at the commander.Op die dag was hij gesommeerd bij de commandant te komen. His fellow conscripts report to his family that their son had been taken to solitary confinement as a form of punishment.
The coroner has not yet issued a report and has been postponed it to next month.
source:irangreenvoice.com


7 members of Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) have been sentenced to a total of 30 years.
Ramin Zibaie, Mahmoud Badavam, Riaz Sobhani, Farhad Sedghi and Noushin Khadem were sentenced to 4 years in prison.
Vahid Mahmoudi and Kamran Mortezaei were sentenced to 5 years in prison.
They were charged with membership in the Bahai movement.
source: HRHI


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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