The Special Rapporteur for humanrights in Iran from UN says in an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) that every day that journalists in Iran spend in jail, Iran suffers a reputational problem somewhere in the world.
In this interview he offered advice to Iran’s Human Rights Council, discussed the situation of imprisoned journalists, and expressed his broader message of hope for the Iranian people.
source: iranhumanrights.org
Amnesty International says that Nobelprize laureate Shirin Ebadi and six humanrightsorganizations called on Iran to allow all prisoners access to necessary medical care and family visits to which they are entitled under international human rights law.
Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), and Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI), renewed with Ebadi, their call on authorities to quash the peaceful activists’ convictions and release them.
Journalists, humanrightslawyers and defenders held solely on account of their peaceful activities, none of these people should be in prison.
source: amnestyusa.org
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Humanrightsactivists are concerned about five Kurdish political prisoners who three weeks ago were transferred to an unknown location and since then there is no information about them.
Their names are Jehajir Badouzadeh (life in prison), Ahmad Tamoueh (15 years), Ali Ahmad Suliman (5 years), Mustafa Ali Ahmad (10 years) and Yusuf Kaka-Mami (7 years) who were sentenced on charges of collaboration with PJAK.
source: iranbriefing.net
Report about Iran’s 1980s massacre of political prisoners.
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American bluessinger Mighty Sam McClain and Iranian folk singer Mahsa Vahdat performed a song dedicated to humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.
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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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Iran: more October 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Iran: more October 30, 2012
Iranian media report that two Iranian warships have docked at a port on Sudan’s Red Sea coast.
Less than a week after Sudan’s government accused Israel of carrying out an air strike on an arms factory in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, on October 29th the helicoptercarrier “Kharg” and the destroyer “Shahid Naqdi” arrived.
source: rferl.org
On July 10,1999 after the student unrest was University Computer Science graduate Saeed Zeinali, 22 at home arrested. He was allowed to make one phonecall to his family , since then, his family have not heard from him.
In the 14 following years, his family was sent from one authority to another, without even saying if he is still alive.
In 2010 his mother Akram Neghabi and his sister were arrested and were detained for 2 months in Ward 209 of Evin Prison, after Akram Neghabis September 2009 interview with Voice of America about her missing son’s case.
source: freedomessenger
The Iranian Christian News Agency, Mohabat News reported that in Ahwaz four new Christians were sentenced to 1 year in prison. Their names are Farhad Sabokroh, the pastor of AOG church of Ahwaz, his wife Shahnaz and two other converts, Naser Zamen-Dezfuli and Davoud Alijani, who is called David.
source: freedomessenger
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Iran: further October 29, 2012
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It is reported from Iran that one of the three prisoners who were hanged on Thursday, was a man who confronted a regime agent.
The man, Sadegh Koohi confronted on Sunday October 21st a prison official before the other inmates, resulting the guard was forced to flee the scene.
Statetelevision called on the regime’s public prosecutor to execute the man, which happened.
The guard, Ali Khadem personally placed the noose around the neck of Koohi.
source: freedomessenger.
3 prisoners were hanged in the prison of Rajaei Shahr.
Two of them were convicted of murder and the third was convicted of rape.
source:irandailybrief.com
In the city of Sirjan were four youths arrested for their activities against the regime on Facebook.
source: freedomessenger.com
In Shiraz was a detained Christian, a woman and mother of 2 children temporarely released against a bail of $204,000. The woman Fariba Nazemian was in jail for eight months. Her son, who suffers from epilepsy had a seizure near the courtroom where a judge was to decide on the fate of his emprisoned mother and father Homayoun Shokouhi and the other arrested house churchmembers Mojtaba Hosseini, Mohammad-Reza Partoei and Vahid Hakkani Kourosh
source: worthynees.com
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Children are being hanged to death.
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Sunday, October 28, 2012
Iran: more October 28, 2012
The Iranian Minister of Defense said that Iran posesses drones that are far more advanced than the unmanned aircraft Iranian-backed Hezbollah launched into Israeli airspace this month.
The Minister of Defense said on Sunday that this drone not was equipped with the latest technology.
source: reuters
The visit of a delegation of the European Parlement to Iran, scheduled from October 27 to November 2 has been cancelled.
source: freedomessenger, we-change.org
According to Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers Organizations is Jahad Tosse workers, the contractor for Azad Banir Dam October 19 in strike to protest backwages. after three days the employer promised to pay.
In a second protest action this year the temporary and rural workers of Hamedan Telecommunications Company protested at the headoffice about wage cuts.
October 24 drivers of Association of the Isfahan Workers Trade Associations delivered no fuel to gasstations in Isfahan to protest the low deliverye fares.
source: iranlaborreport
A letter of unionactivist Shahrokh Zamani from the prison in Tabriz with a note for trade unions and humanrightsorganizations.
October 27 600 workers from Factory 1 and 2 in Tehran forced their employer, the government, to pay their backwagesoon.
soirce: missionfreeiran.org
Photogallery in Den Haag of the mass killings of 1988 in Iran.
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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.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
Iran: more, October 27th, 2012
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In Karaj en Shiar were 4 young activists arrested.
Their names are Babek Saran, Mehdi Samdi, Homan Armand and Wahid Barki. They are brought to ward 209 of Evinprison. Wahid Barki was released on bail after one week.
source: iranbriefing.net
Fars newsagency reported that Friday in the city of Sarbaz in Sistan-Baluchistan province attackers opened fire on a checkpoint, killing 2 policemen.
The 4 attackers fled on motorbikes.
source: freedomessenger.com
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Iran: more October 26th, 2012
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Bahai Tina Muhabti, 19 has been arrested by agents of intelligence ministry at a bus stop while on her way to Tehran. Last week was her mother, Shiba Ruhani arrested.
Bahai Akbar Pourhosseini from Semnan was sentenced to 28 months in prison on charges of anti-regime propaganda.
source: iranbriefing.net
Detained blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was transported to hospital by an ambulance, but not admitted.Later he was returned to Evinprison.
On the Taleqani Square in the city of Kashmar has a 26-year-old man publicly been lashed. He was sentenced to 99 lashes for adultery.
In February 2011 arrested journalist Abdolnaser Mahimani has been released from jail on furlough.
source: irandailybrief.com
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Children are being hanged to death.
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Thursday, October 25, 2012
Iran: arrests October 25th, 2012
The website of Centre for the Defenders of Human Rights (CDHR) the report started by addressing the issue of early marriage of the girl child, in light of the recent proclamation by the United Nations to designate 11 October as the first International Day of the Girl Child.
Shirin Ebadi has not limited girls’ problems to the issue of early marriage; in her view their situation is even worse under the criminal law.
source: iranbriefing.net
Incarcerated human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is in hungerstrike since October 17th, has been transfered to the infirmary at Evinprison.
Her husband said that prior to the hungerstrike her health was that deteriorated that he asked her not to start a hungerstrike.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that after explosions in Chabahar, province Baluchistan several people were arrested. Among them are: Kheir Mohamad Naroui, Ghalandar Amiri, Mohamad Amin Amiri and the husband of Kheir Mohamad's sister.source: freedomessenger
In Muchesh were 8 Sunni Kurds arrested after they were summoned to the policestation.
Their names are Ataollah Mohamadian, Asadollah Saed Mucheshi, Abedin Saed Mucheshi, Mehdi Saed Mucheshi, Ali Saed Panah, Fardin Saed Mucheshi, Saber Ayoubi and Hamed Awseti.
They all are member of Maktab Koran.
source: freedomessenger
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Children are being hanged to death.
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Iran, October 24th 2012
In the prison of Zahedan were on Sunday October 21st, three prisoners hanged.
The men, Yahya Chari, Abdoljalil Kahrazehi and Abdolbaset Rigi had been sentenced of moharebeh through connection with "terrorist" groups.
October 23rd were in the prison of Qazvin 3 men hanged.
Their names are R. Ch.,27, H. Rh.,47 and H. S.25.
They were convicted of drugstrafficking.
Worldwide there was international condemnation of the executions of last Sunday.The Norwegian government expressed its concernover the excutions and three UN Special Rapporteurs published a statement.
source: iranhr.net
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that on September 29 several Sunni Kurdish prisoners were tried without the option to choose a lawyer,and Judge Moghisseh of Branch 28 of Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced all of them to long prison terms.
Karikar Vali Hassan, 18, a resident of Javanrood in Kermanshah Province, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Nejad Omar Karim, also from Javanrood, was sentenced to 8 years and Mohiaddin Aziz, a resident of Sanandaj, was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
They were arrested with a large group of other Kurdish Sunni religious group members over the past three years in Javanrood and Sanandaj.
source: iranhumanrights.org
The psychic health of the student Siavash Hatam who is detained in Evinprison ward 350 is bad.He has been sentenced to one year in prison and his sentence of four months in prison was upheld in appeal.
He has been suspended as student at Buali Sina University of Hamadan.
source: iranbriefing.net
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Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Iran: October 23rd 2012
Ahmad Shaheed, the special rapporteur for human rights in Iran from UN said at a presentation of his report in New York that more than 300 people have been recorded executed in the first eight months of this year in Iran.
He also said that members of the Baha’i community are the most persecuted religious minority in Iran.
Shaheed took his post in June, 2011. He has not been able to visit Iran.
source: rferl.org
DEBKAfile reports that Iran’s secret cyber war-room is located in the secret internal security headquarters of Hizballah in the Shiite Dahya district of South Beirut.
The hackers and cyber experts who recently attacked American banks and Saudi oilsites and which guided an Iranian stealth drone into Israeli airspace, operate from Hizballah headquarter in Beirut.
source: iranbriefing.net
Four Kurdish sunniteachers are suspended and banned from teaching.
Their names are Zaber Haldian, Rauf Hosseini, Adris Ranjabar,en Atallah Salimi.
source: iranbriefing.net
Yesterday the ongoing row between president Ahmadinejad and influential members of gouvernment exploded when Ahmadinejad in a letter accused the head of the judiciary Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani of protecting “certain individuals” from prosecution for economic corruption.
He also demanded access to Tehran’s Evin prison.
source: nytimes.com
Amnesty International is concerned over the continuing housearrest of the Iranian oppositionleaders Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard and Mehdi Karroubi.All three are since February 2011, without trial confined to their house, have limited access to their familymembers and no legal representation.
source: persian2english.com.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Iran: execution October 22nd 2012
In Zahedan, province Sistan-e-Baluchistan were Saturday 3 men hanged.
The men, Yahya Charizehi, Abdoljalil Kahrazehi, and Abdolbasset Rigi were convicted of bombings in Chabahar and Zahedan in 2010. killing 67 people.
Iranian judiciary says that the men were member of a terroristic group.
source: rferl.org
October 22 were in Evinprison Saeed Sedighi and nine other prisoners hanged.
According to IRIB Farshid Rostami, Farhad Mashhadi Abolghasem, Ali Darvishi, Abbas Abbasi Namaki, Saeed Sedighi, Hami Rabiei and Mohammad Ali Rabiei were members of a drugsgang in Tehran and convicted of possession of one ton of Shishe (synthetic heroin) in Tehran.
The other group Alireza Molaei, Eshagh (Isac) Lorgi, and Yousef Parmar was convicted of trafficking more than one ton of opium from one of the southern harbors to Tehran.
IHR condemns the execution and urges EU to cancel its scheduled visit to Iran on October 27 as a protest to these executions.
source: iranhr.net
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Despite the visit she continues her hungerstrike until authorities put an end to their pressure on her family members.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com
President Ahmadinejad was denied on October 21 to visit Evinprison.
He wanted to visit Ali Akbar Javanfekr who is serving a six-month term.
The Iranian judiciary rejected Ahmadinejad's request, saying the president should be facing "major issues" like the economic crisis instead of "visiting a prison."
source: rferl.org
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Sunday, October 21, 2012
Iran: prisons October 20th 2012
Laboractivist Pedram Nasrollahi is in appeal sentenced by the court in Sanandaj to 19 monts in prison.
Initially he was sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of “propagating against the regime in favor of an opposition group” and “membership in the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ organizations
source: freedomessenger
Update on 33 female political prisoners in Evinprison.Some of these prisoners are suffering with psychological and physical maladies while many have been deprived of their right to furlough.During a new wave of arrests female political activists have been summoned to serve their prison sentences.
Their names are:
1) Basma Al Jabouri,
2) Bahareh Hedyayat
3) BehnazZaker
4) RaheleZokayi
5) Reyhaneh Haj EbrahimDagagh
6) JilaBaniyaghoub
7) JilaKaramzadehMakundi
8) ShabnamMadadzadeh
9) Shiva NazarAhari
10) SedighehMoradi
11) SoghraGholamnezad
12) FaezehHashemi
13) FaribahKamalabad
14) FaranHesami
15) KobraBanazadehAmirkhizi
16) KefayatMalekMohammadi
17) LadanMostofiMaab
18) LevaKhanjani
19) MahboubehKarami
20) Maryam AkbariMonfared
21) Maryam Jalili
22) MotaharehBahrami
23) MitraZahmati
24) ManijehNajm Iraqi
25) ManijehNaserAllahi
26) MahsaAmirabadi
27) MahvashShariyati
28) NazaninDeyhimi
29) NegarHaeri
30) Nasrin Sotoudeh
31) NasimSoltanBaygi
32) NoushinKhadem
33) HaniyehSanehFarshi
source: freedomessenger.com
Humanrightsactivists report that the Ministry of Information arrested children and familymembers of political prisoners, including Babak Saran, son of Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, Mehdi Samadi, Hooman Armandi, Vahid Barghi and Negar Haeri, the daughter of political prisoner Mashalla Haeri and brought to Evin Prison.
source: freedomessenger.com
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
Iran: traffic, October 20th, 2012
They also warned the family to not provide information about Hossein’s case to the media.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com
The police said that the driver lost control of the bus because of high speed in rainy weather.
19 others were injured and brought to hospital.
Each year more then 20000 people die in traffic accidents .
source: rferl.org
The 14 ships registered in the Pacific island of Tuvalu, transmitted data from Sept. 24 to Oct. 13 to show they changed their names and were flying the Tanzania-Zanzibar flag.
According to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Communications in Zanzibar this must be a mistake,
source: iranfocus.com
The men were being questioned about their motives.
source: nowlebanon.com
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