Iran: developments

Two weeks ago it was announced that Basij is merged in the groundforces of the
Islamic Passdaran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) . October 11 this plan was confirmed by the Armed Forces Joint Chief of Staff and he announced the creation of the “IRGC Ground Resistance” force for the Basij to work in society, and to delegate the tasks, duties and mobilization of Basij units in order to increase expertise .
Following the appointment of Ali Jafari to head of the IRGC, structural changes were implemented in the IRGC.
In the first round IRGC commanders were dismissed or reassigned and the IRGC is established in 29 units, one for each province and two for the city and province of Tehran.
These units were charged with the task of confronting “foreign and domestic threats against the nation.”
Analists link changes in the IRGC’s structure in the past two years to suppressing popular protests after the presidential election, recent events confirm that link.
Last Sunday Khamenei appointed Mohammad Reza Naghdi as head of Basij.
Naghdi is a notorious brutal commander and the former head of Iranian police counter-intelligence unit with a controversial background in torturing prisoners.
Simultaneous with the developments in the IRGC, ILNA and the newssite Alef reported
that the IRGC’s intelligence division will be transformed into the “Intelligence Organization.”
In the detailed report of this reorganization, ILNA reports that Hossein Taeb will be head of the IRGC’s Intelligence Organization.
Hossein Taeb joined the IRGC after his dismissal of the Ministry of Intelligence and
played a prominent role in suppressing popular protests in opposition to election results and the arrest of reformist leaders.
source: ILNA, Rooz Online



Reformist Mehdi Karroubi may face legal prosecution for making allegations of 'jail rape'.
He wrote these in a letter to the head of the General Assembly, Rafsanjani.
Also one of the victims told his story after having been fled from Iran.
The Parliament conducted a thorough investigation into the allegations and was not able to confirm any instances of detainee abuse.
A case is opened at the Clerical Court and they will deal with it.
source: Voteforiran.com,New York Times, PressTV


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Iran: causes

The daughter of the media-advisor of Ahmadinejad, filmmaker Narges Kalhor has claimed asylum in Germany.
She is afraid to get problems when she returns to Iran.
She also said to have political problems with her father for some time. She has been living with her mother for a year and a half.
She is in Germany to present her short film "The Rake" at Perspektive, the first German festival dedicated to human rights..
source: middle-east-online.com



Mehdi Haghshomar a member of Iran's national rowing team who traveled to Prague in August to take part in the International Rowing Championships claims to have asked asylum in the Czech Republik.He said that the actions of the team's head coach led him to seek asylum but did not give further details.
Since August there have been contradictory statements in Iranian media about his whereabouts. The head of the team said that he had been banned from leaving Iran or that he was not an official member of Iran's rowing team.
Haghsomar denies these reports and said he left Iran with the team, participated in the competition, and attended its closing ceremony even though the team had been banned from taking part.
He also said that all Iranian national teams that attend competitions abroad are under heavy pressure not to become too friendly with athletes from other teams for example at exchanging shirts with other competitors.
He currently is living in a refugee camp in the Czech Republic.
source: rferl.org

At an interview with Human Rights Activists in Iran, the brothers of Naser Abdolhosseini said that he told them that him was told that if he made televised confessions, his sentence would be reduced.
Instead he was sentenced to death.He has been accused of having ties to the Mojahedin-e-Khalgh organization.
According to his brothers, Naser was not in Tehran at the time of the protests.He is salesman for autoparts in other cities and was in Bushehr.He also has no computer and no e-mail and does not have a high school diploma.How could he have sent information outside Iran as it is alleged?
The interview is here.
source: hra-iran.net


In Semnan is another car of a Bahaícitizen vandalized.
October 7th has a group of people, riding on motorcycles tried to break the windshields of the car of Adel Fanaeian.
Allthough it was filed at the police, there is no reaction.
source: hra-iran.net



According to the newspaper Harana 11 people were arrested by agents of the Intelligence Ministry and the Revolutionary Guards n the city of Kamyaran and its surrounding villages. Their names are Mokhtar Javaheri, Karim Bagheri, Jabar Javaheri, Mansour Rahmani, Anvar Rahmani, Shoresh Rahmani, Ali Rahmani, Anvar Rahmani, Mohammad Rahmani and a citizen of Maysurab whose identity is not known.
source: ihrv.org



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Iran: investigated

Six people were hanged in Karounprison of Ahwas last week.
October 6th, Fouzieh J (female), Khadijeh J. (female) en Abdollah J (man), convicted of drugstrafficking and Karim A. (man), convicted of murder, were executed.
October 8th, Oday B. and Sa’ad B. were hanged for keeping drugs.
source: iranhr.net


Human Rights Activists in Iran wrote a report based on the charges and backgrounds of the cases against protestors against the election in Iran, which defendants have been sentenced to death.
In the first showtrial there were 11 defendants, of which 5 are sentenced to death.
All individuals were charged of being involved in post-election violence.
During the trial, 3 of the accused made self incriminating confessions.
The HRA has concluded that contrary to government claims, essentially none of the aforementioned individuals had any ties with the violent incidents and post-election events.

Totally 11 people are charged in two cases in relation to Anjoman Padeshahi Iran (API), a banned monarchist organization.
All are accused of waging war against god and are detained.
The first 9 defendants are:

1. Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani,accused of waging war against god, sentenced to death,
2. Ahmad Karimi, 1979, from Islamshahr, accused of waging war against god ,
3. Hamed Rouhinejad, 1985, student, Tehran, accused of waging war against god, sentenced to death,
4. Majid Alii, 21, Islamshahr, accused of hostility,
5. Arash Rahmanpour, 1989, Tehran, accused of waging war against god, sentenced to death,
6. Peyman Arefi, married, 1983, Tehran, accused of waging war against god,
7. Naser Barzegar, 24, student Management Saveh University, Islamshahr, accused of waging war against god,
8. Davoud Fard-Bache MirAdabili, 1973, Islamshahr, accused of waging war against god, sentenced to death (information via Twitter)
9. Saam , Shahriar, accused of waging war against god.
The second API-case has three defendants whose identities have not been revealed.
They all are accused of waging war against god.
The defendants were arrested before the election.
They were arrested before election.The end of their interrogations and the beginning of the post-election protests coincided.
In an effort to attribute the unrest to foreign elements and armed groups, and in the absence of credible evidence, the intelligence apparatus then coerced the accused into making false confessions in return for their freedom.
Of the nine people, Ali-Zamani and Rahmanpour agreed.They were joined by Naser Abdolhosseini who was accused of having ties to the Mojahedin-e-Khalgh Organization.
The 9 men never were in contact with API.

source: hra-iran.net


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Iran: violation

Shaker Bagheri, is a Turkish Kurdish political prisoner from Van, Turkey, who serves a 30-years prisonsentence in exile in the prison of Kashmar.
After years of refusal by prisonauthorities to meet with his familymembers, he was allowed to meet for 10 minutes with his brother behind the glasses.
The visit was interrupted by prisonauthorities because the men did not speak Persian, a language, which Bageri not fluentle speaks and his brother basically has no knowledge of this language.
The prisoner protested by leaving the visitorshall and he says this is a violation of his human rights.
The prison of Kashmar is one of the worst prisons in the country because of lacking appropriate health and nutrition conditions.
source: hra-iran.net


Newsagency Fars reported that arrested terrorists in Kurdistan province confessed to member of Al-Qaeda and having committed various murders in the past time.
They also had plans to commit assaults in the future in the region.
In september the representative of the people of Kurdistan and a leader of Fridaysprayers in Sanandaj were shot.
According to the head of justice in Kurdistan the arrestants have accepted the entire responsibility for the actions and assassinations.
source: english.farsnews.com



Four people are sentenced to death for their actions during the post-election protests.
Their names are Hamed Rouhinejad, Arash Rahmanpour,Mohammad-Reza Zamanipour and Naser Abdolhosseini.
Zamipour and Rouhinejad are accused of membership of the monarchist organization Anjoman Padeshahi.Abdolhosseini is accused of being a member of Mujahedeen Khalq.
source: hra-iran.net



Through Twitter the sentences of 20 arrested people were reported.
These data were told by familymembers to a human rights organization.
There is no further confirmation.
Alireza Ashraghi 5 yrs, Mohsen Jafari 4 yrs, Mehrdad Varshoui 3 yrs, Amir Houjati 2 yrs+3 mnths, Mehdi Fatahbakhsh 1 yr+9 mnths, Majid Moghimi 1 yr, Mohamad Farahani 10 mnths, Mousa Shahkarami 2 yrs+3 mnths, Kamran Jahanbani 2 yrs, Housein Bastani 2 yrs
Youghotil Shalouian 2 yrs+6 mnths, Faramarz Abdoulah-Nejad 2 yrs+4 mnths, Housein Ezami 2 yrs, Mohamad Rasouli 10 mnths, Eyman Pour-Reza 6 mnths,Maysam Ghorbani 6 mnths & 74 lashes.
There was also reported that these people went via Basij and the Sarallah detentioncenter to the Evinprison.
All these people had signs of beatings when they arrived in Evinprison.
source: Twitter



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Iran: further....

This morning, Behnood Shojaee was hanged.His execution was postponed 5 times already.
200 people gathered in front of Evinprison,among them Mourning Mothers, a representative of the UN,artists and humanrights activists. Police was patrolling also.
When the parents of the victim arrived, they were asked to forgive Shoajee, they refused. Behnood Shoajee was executed in their presence.
Behnood Shoajee was 21 year-old and spent 4 years in prison.
The execution is confirmed by Fars newsagency.


source: iranhr.net , iran-human-rights.blogspot.com and Twitter


The 36 Iranians from Camp Ashraf, who were imprisoned in Bagdad, are released and returned to Camp Ashraf.They were weakened severely after a total of 72 days in hungerstrike and are brought to the hospital in Ashraf.
National Council of Resistance of Iran placed a video of their return on Youtube. source: ncr-iran.org


In continuation of intimidating Baha’I citizens in Rafsanjan area, two vehicles of Bahaí are destroyed.
October 2nd, the vehicle of Farzad Mohebati, was set on fire by anonymous individuals while parked in his yard.
A few days earlier, the car glasses of another Rafsanjan Baha’i resident called Mahboub Bandi was smashed by unknown individuals.
source: hra-iran.net


Human Rights Activists in Iran reports that October 4th, in the city of Mahabad Aziz Abdollahi and Leyla Kharazian were arrested for reasons unknown.
Due to her recent childbirth, Leila Kharazian was temporarily released, given she would go to the headquarters everyday for interrogations.
Shirin Ahmadi and Kajal Shekh-Mohammadi were arrested and transferred to an unknown location.
Nasrin Rourast was summoned by phone call and she refused to attend the headquarters, hence has been contacted again and threatened.
source: hra-iran.net



The past days villages between Shahoo Mountains and Souzandan were raided and houses of Kurdish residents were searched and people arrested.
One arrested man, Karim Bagheri is identified, there are ongoing inquiries to the names of the others are made.
source: hra-iran.net


Foreign Affairs has an interesting article about who is really in charge in Iran, conservative hardliners, or the IRGC.
source: foreignaffairs.com





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Iran: deathsentences

Today, October 10th, is World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Amnesty International urges Iran to rescind the deathsentence imposed to Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani,37 , the first person to be sentenced to death in connection with protests following the elections.
He is sentenced to death for enmity against God, for membership of Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), propaganda against the system, insulting the holy sanctities, gathering and colluding with intent to harm national internal security as well as of leaving the country illegally to visit Iraq where he was alleged to have met US military officials.
Zamani is one of more than 100 people currently standing trial in the first mass showproces.
Amnesty fears that Zamani’s death sentence will pave the way for more death sentences against those being tried on similar offences.
At least 13 other people are also currently at risk of being executed in Iran.
Akram Mahdavi, 35 in Tehran, October 11.
Ali Saedi (25), Walid Naisi (23), Majid Fardipour (Mahawi) (26), Doayr Mahawi (50) and his son Maher Mahawi (21), Ahmad Saedi, (28) and Yousuf Leftehpour (25), in Ahwaz, possibly as soon as October 14.
Habibollah Latifi, Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian and Sherko Moarefi in Sanandaj, Kurdistan.
Behnoud Shojaee, 21, in Tehran October 11 .
Safar Angooti, in Tehran, October 21st.
Abbas Hosseini whose execution was postponed October 4th to later this month.
source: amnestyusa.org


Wednesday, October 7,prison officials removed two political prisoners from the prison.
Since then there is no information.
Mansour Mohammadi and Ali Ahmad Soleiman were sentenced to jailterms of respective 6 and 5 years.
source: hra-iran.net



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Iran: grounds

Thursday October 8th is a 25-year-old man hanged in the prison of Bojnord. His name was not revealed.
He was convicted of murdering his 22 months old child.
Although he was under strong influence of psychoactive drugs during committing the crime, the court sentenced him to death.
source: iranhr.net



By the revolutionary court in the city of Ahwaz are September 29th, not only seven deathsentences were issued, but also two men are sentenced to jailterm.
Seyed Morteza Mousavi was sentenced to three and a half year and Adnan Bayanat was sentenced to two years in prison.
They were accused of of attempts against national security and propaganda against the regime.
source: ihrv.org

Gholamali Eskandari and Gilan Mohammadi, who were sentenced to death by stoning and been accused of having a sexual relationship outside of their marriage are released after spending six years in jail in Isfahan.
After delays and a series of protests by lawyers, the head of the judiciary annulled the verdict
Both women were released in Isfahan, October 5th.
source: ihrv.org



Richard Koman of Zdnet reports that Yahoo collaborated with the Iranian regime during the protests after the preidential elections.
Zdnet received a letter from Iranian Students Solidarity (Farsi) blog reporting that the names and e-mailadresses of about 200.000 Yahoo-users are handed to the Iranian government.
They report that during the blocking of both Google and Yahoo, Yahoo
negotiated with the Iranian government and agreed to provide the names of Yahoo subscribers who also have blogs in exchange for the government lifting the blocks on Yahoo.
Zdnet writes, that if this is true, , this is a troubling development and exposes Yahoo as determined to cooperate with repressive governments.
source: government.zdnet.com Richard Koman



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Iran: justice?

October 6th is in the prison of Tabriz Rahim Mohammadi illegally hanged.
Either his family or his lawyere were notified about the execution.
Mohammadi is convicted for "anal rape" and adultery.
His wife, Kobra Babai is sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
Their lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, wrote in a letter that there is not sufficient evidence for the charges against his clients, and that he is also concerned that Mr. Mohammadi’s wife could be stoned to death in the near future.
Copy of the letter and further details.
source: iranhr.net and hra-iran.net

In Ahwaz-city 7 Ahwazi-Arabs are sentenced to death by the revolutionary court.
They are accused of murdering a cleric, spreading sunni religion and activities against the state.
Their names are:
1-Ali Saedi, 25 ,
2-Daier Mehawi, 50,
3- Walid Naysi, 23,
4- Majed Feradi-pour, 26,
5- Maher Mehawi, 21,
6-Ahmed Saedi, 28,
7- Yousef Lafte-pour.



September 29 is Saleh Soltan-Zadeh transferred from the ward in Evinprison to an unknown location and there are no reports after his transfer.
Soltan-Zadeh, worked for the defense department and was involved in Shahab 3 missile project.
After his arrest in 2006, he was sentenced to death and found guilty of espionage for enemy states.
After the verdict he was transferred to hall 5 of ward 7 of Evinprison.
Reports say that he handed his personal belongings and his will to his friends and fellow prisoners and said he was heading to his execution.
source: hra-iran.net

Hussein Alipour who is accused of murder when he was 16-year-old is currently imprisoned in the Lakan prison, in Rasht, awaiting his execution.
He wrote a letter (fa) to the family of the victim, asking to forgive him and sparing his life from execution.
source: hra-iran.net



According to reformist website mowjcamp.com is Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani sentenced to death Monday for taking part in opposition protests over the election.
No further details were revealed.
Ali-Zamani was tried in the first mass showtrial against the protesters after the election.


In August Mehrnews announced he was accused of fighting against the Islamic establishment and active membership of a "terrorist" monarchist association, and other crimes.
Mowjcamp reported that Ali-Zamani was transported Monday from Evin prison ward 209 to Revolutionary Court number 15, presided over by judge Salabati, and the execution verdict was communicated to him.
source: reuters.com


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