Iran: prison November 2nd, 2012

Website Kalemeh writes that 33 female prisoners wrote an open letter to the Chief of Evinprison demanding an apology and acknowledgment of wrong doing in relation to the violent physical search, harassment of prisoners and search of the premises on October 31.The signatories are Faezeh Hashemi, Mahboubeh Karami, Nasim Soltan Beygi, Mahsa Amrabadi, Raheleh Zakaiii, Manijeh Najam Araghi, Nasrin Sotoudeh, Leva Khanjani, Shiva Nazarahari, Ladan Mostoufi Maab, Jila Baniyaghoub, Mitra Zahmati, Mahvash Shahriyari, Hakimeh Shokri, Jila Karamzadeh, Shabnam Madadzadeh, Kefayat Malek Mohammadi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Kobra Banazadeh, Nazanin Deyhami, Faran Hesami, Fariba Kamal Abadi, Behnaz Zakeri, Motehareh Bahrami, Negareh Haeri, Sedigheh Moradi, Soghra Gholamnejad, Reyhaneh Haj Ebrahim Dabagh, Noushin Khadem, Maryam Jalili, Bahareh Hedayat, Mahboubeh Mansouri, Basma Aljabouri
Nine women went on hungerstrike to protest this treatment, bringing the number of women prisoners on hunger strike at Evin to 10, including Nasrin Sotoudeh.
source: we-change.org

In Evinprison jailed Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi reacted in an open letter to Iran’s Human Rights Activists on the judiciary's denial last month of president Ahmadinejad a visit to his press advisor, Ali Akbar Javanfekr, who is currently serving a six months sentence in Evin prison.
In his letter he writes does Ahmadinejad really don't know what is going on inside the walls here?
source: iranbriefing.net



According to the reports received by the “Human Rights and Democracy Advocates in Iran”, the judiciary of Vali Faghih, Mullah Ali Khamenei has commenced planning massexecution of the prisoners in Gohardasht prison.
A board has been established in Karaj Gohardasht prison within the last few weeks, headed by a person called “Najafabadi”, one of the deputies to Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, the Tehran Attorney General. that gives some forms to the prisoners that have been convicted to death sentence and urges them to fill in the forms. In those forms in addition to the personal specifications, the major highlighted question is “Why your death sentence has not been executed yet?”.
After this the plaintiffs of the convicted to death prisoners are called on and are put under pressure to ask for execution punishment of the prisoner or pay the required costs for keeping them in prison.
There are more than 1,000 inmates awaiting execution in the Gohardasht prison of Karaj.
source: iranbriefing.net


Workers from Tara Company, a contractor responsible for the irrigation of Bilvaar field, went strike for not receiving their wages for 5 months.
source: missionfreeiran.org


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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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