Iran: accusations

15 students of Kashan university were summoned before the school’s disciplinary committee in two sessions.
They are charged with disorderly conduct and enticing other students to take part in protests against the results of the presidential election.
At the first session, held twenty days ago, five students have been censured from attending the university for duration of one term.
source: ihrv.org



Coalition of Human Rights Advocates made a first short report about Ward 209 of Evinprison.
Ninety detainees from the recent post-electoral events are still under constant pressure about recording of certain CDs.
Intelligence interrogators are demanding that the detainees confess that Mir-Hossein Mousavi was aware of the production and distribution of these CDs.
The CDs in question have been independently compiled by activist reporter A.F., he has only spent two days in detention.
Mohammad-Reza Jalaeipour, a spokesman to support solicitation for Mr. Khatami and Mr. Mousavi, has been held in section 209 in Evin prison since last June and is under pressure to confess that he made the plan for the nightly Allah-O-Akbar (God is great) call, which has recently turned into a form of popular protest.
In spite of recent published reports regarding the transfer to a general ward at September 7th, of imprisoned journalist Fariba Pezhveh, she still is kept in solitary confinement.
source: ihrv.org



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Iran: responsibility

Iranian authorities have arrested at least seven children and grandchildren of senior clerics in the religious city of Qum.
They also threatened to arrest the son of Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
Ayatollah Montazeri’s three grandchildren, were arrested Monday evening in Qum, at the home of their father
The website mowjcamp reports that also Mehdi Moussavi Tabrizi, the son of Hussein Moussavi Tabrizi, who heads the Association of Teachers and Researchers of Qum was arrested.
The son of Ayatollah Asghar Nazemzadeh and two sons of another member of the association were also arrested.
Newsagency Fars reported that a member of parliament called Monday for the arrest of Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, the son of Mr. Rafsanjani.
Rafsanjani is the head of the Council of Experts, which has the power to dismiss Ayatollah Khamenei.
Mr. Rafsanjani sided very cautiously with the opposition last month.
Another sign that loyal conservatives are upset,is the letter which filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad wrote last Monday on various websites and his blog (fa), blaming Ayatollah Khamenei for the postelection violence.
source: nytimes.com



The schoolyear in Iran starts, despite the fluthreat of A H1N1, normal.
The Ministry of Education is opposed to the closure of schools.The governor of Tehran, Tamaddon, said that schools start on September 23.
They reduce the risk with prevention methods and basic hygiene measures.
The Iranian Ministry of Health says there are nationwide 357 confirmed cases of flu and that two people died, IRNA reported today there were 391 people ill and 4 deaths.
source: Press TV

The Iranian ambassador in Delhi said that India has to decide soon to take part in a billion dollar pipeline which transports gas from Iran to India through Pakistan.
Iran and Pakistan signed the deal in May this year. Reports say China is also interested in being a part of it.
source: BBC



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Iran: Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, Kahrizak?

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that three committees investigating arrests, detentions and killings in the context of post-election protests, are closed by authorities.
The groups are Association to Defend Prisoners Rights, Committee for Following the Situation of Detainees a part of Mousavi's campaign and Committee for Following Detainees and Injured of Mehdi Karoubi's campaign.
Leading activists of both of the latter two groups were arrested.
September 7, the committee of Mousavi was closed, which investigated and published a list with the names of 72 killed victims.
Ali Beheshti head of the Committee and Mohammad Davari, journalist at Etemad Melli's website, Saham News,were arrested.
September 8 the offices of Etemad Melli Party, the party of Mehdi Karoubi, were searched and documents confiscated. The office was one of the places where evidence was collected about the rapes in prison.
Morteza Alviri, the head of the committee was arrested.
Also september 8 was the office of Association to Defend Prisoners Rights, established by human rightslawyer Emad Baghi searched and closed.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Despite the threat of being arrested refused Mehdi Karroubi to back down from the accusation that security forces brutally abused and raped detainees.
After his newspaper and website were closed down by authorities, he wrote in a letter on his new website Tagheer.ir,that he wished he wasn't alive to see an Iranian citizen come to him and recount his story of having been subject to improper and heinous acts by unknown individuals in deserted buildings.
Detainees were stripped and seated face-to-face, insulted impudently, urinated upon and abandoned blindfolded with hands tied behind their backs in deserts.
And that is not all, young boys and girls were raped in detentioncenters.
The government had promised to investigate these allegations, only to issue a report
saying no such thing occurred and that Karroubi was lying to promote a political agenda.
Karoubi says that until Saeed Mortazavi interfered, demanding to meet with one of the victims, the investigation was proceeding well.
Instead of listening he said to the young man that he should have remained silent for God's sake and for the sake of his family and not have let this affair play into the hands of political activists.
The next day he dispatched agents to the young man's neighborhood to spread rumors about him him under the pretext of investigating his claims.
The young man has since disappeared.
An other case, described by Karoubi, is that of a young woman arrested in a street demonstration.
She was forcefully stripped and when a senior officer came and asked what was happening, the men said she undressed voluntarily in order to discredit them.
A third case involves a young political activist.
He had medical proof showing inflammation of his anus. He has been unconscious and could not tell what has happened to him to have developed bruises around anus.
He had been severely beaten for five consecutive days and the jailers had finally abandoned him in a remote desert because they feared he would die.
source: latimesblogs.latimes.com


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Iran: pressure

ILNA reports, that Alireza Hosseini-Beheshti top-aide of Mousavi,who was arrested last week, Sunday is released.
No explanation for the release was given, but anonymous sources say there was immense pressure by senior politicians.
The grandson of Khomeini, visited Mr. Beheshti at his home after his release.
Beheshti was the head of one of the two committees that investigated the torture allegations of detainees during the post-election protests.The other committee was led by Mehdi Karroubi.
In the meantime, the number of clerics who are withdrawing their support for the government is increasing.
The word about Karroubi will be arrested gets louder, but it is possible that the government is delaying Mr. Karroubi’s arrest until after this Friday (Qods Day).
source: New York Times


Saturday a sunni cleric who backed Ahmadinejad has been killed in his house in Sanandaj.
The governor of Sanandaj, the capital of Kurdistan province, says that he believes the attack was linked to hardline Sunni groups seeking to stir unrest.
source: reuters



After two years is the political prisoner Misagh Yazdan-Nejad by a revolutionary court headed by judge Salavati in Tehran sentenced to 14 year jail term combined with exile inside Rajaei Shahr Prison.
Yazdan-Nejad, 23, student of language translation at Payam-Nour Shahriyar University,is in september 2007 arrested at a ceremony to pay respect to the victims of 1988.
In the past two years, he was incarcerated in Evin Prison for his association with an anti-Islamic Republic organization.
source: ihrv.org


The official report with realistic data about the notorious Kahrizak detentioncenter was revealed.
On July 10, 145 detainees, among them 10 students were sent to the Kahrizak detention center, generally used to hold gangsters.
The 145 prisoners were placed in a cell measuring 70 square meters, along with the 25 convicts already held inside the cell.
This means a total of 170 individuals in an area measuring 70 square meters.
According to other statements only four authorities have been arrested from the Kahrizak detention center, and six others have been freed on bond.
Of the 145 detainees, only 62 have filed a complaint, and of this number, 50 have already decided to drop their complaint, with one claiming fear as the main cause for their decision to drop the charges.
After establishment follow-ups, 118 people have come forward, 65 of whom have been sent to hospitals, and collectively 98,000 USD has been paid in damages.
source: ihrv.org



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Iran: further

September 8 published the EU a statement concerning imminent execution of the juvenile offenders Behnoud Shojaee, Reza Padashi and Hossein Haghi.
They are sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors.
The EU notes that these executions would be a direct contravention of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both clearly prohibiting the execution of minors or people who have been convicted of crimes committed when they were minors.
The EU urges the Islamic Republic of Iran to comply with International Law and to halt the executions of these and of all other juvenile offenders.
The EU continues to call on the Iranian authorities to abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions as urged by United Nations General Assembly resolutions 62/149 and 63/168.
source: iranhr.net

At shootings in the borderarea of Kurdistan 4 people got shot by security forces.
Monday, September 7 was in Kani Zard near Sardasht, Edris Sheikhpoor killed,
September 9 security forces in Shamshir near Paveh opened fire on a civilian car, killing Kayvan Hosseini.
Also, Iranian and Turkish military borderpatrols in Haji Bayg opened fired on cars and animals suspected of carrying contraband.
source: hra-iran.net



Reuters reports that dozens of people have filed complaints of mistreatment at an Iranian jail and that seven arrests have been made.
Mohammad-Kazem Bahrami, head of the Armed Forces' Judicial Organization, said in daily Etemad that further arrests had been made.
Bahrami said also that 90 people filed legal complaints.
In Etemads article was no mention of allegations by Karoubi,that some detained protesters had been raped.
source: reuters


GlobalVoicesOnline reports that in memoriam of the at least 70 persons who were killed in the post-election violence, various websites are made.
One of them is neverforget.us. This site shows photographs and biography's of the victims.
The site Green Martyrs informs also about the victims.


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Iran: values

The father of Fariba Payooh, a journalist/blogger who was arested August 22, tells that his daughter still is in solitary confinement. He says that solitary confinement is the absolute psychological torture. It is a violation of human rights.
An interview with him is here.
Faribah Payooh worked as a journalist for ILNA and Etemad Melli. She also kept a personal weblog (“Beyond the Rain”).
She is detained in ward 209 of Evin prison.
source: hra-iran.net



Ebrahim Goudarzvand Changini has stabbed as a 17-year-old boy during a fight the 17-year-old Valiollah Pirmardvand Changini.
He is sentenced to death for this and the verdict is going through final approval stages .
Thursday, the HRA arranged a meeting between the family of the victim in their house in Louchan-Roudban and Fridayprayers imam of Louchan, members of the City Council and several members of Mothers for Peace.
The meeting was organized in an effort to get family’s consent and save the life of the young death row inmate.
Despite all the efforts, the victim’s family maintained they wanted the Qisis to take place.
source: hra-iran.net



August 27 is the body of Mohammad-Javad Pornadakh buried in Gilan-Gharb in Kermanshah.
Kurdistan Human Rights Defense Organization reports that he was a student in the field of Petrochemicals in Isfehan University,andis killed during post-election violence.
Unconfirmed sources report he was killed after his arrest and sometime later his body was moved to Isfehan’s coroner office and was identified by his family members.
His family members have been put under pressure to hold no mourning ceremonies and the publication of any news regarding his death, but have been advised to give a traffic accident as the cause of their son’s death.
source: ihrv.org


The Iranian Central Bank, (CBI), predicts that by the end of the current Iranian year (March 20, 2010) . the inflation rate will be below two digits.
The bank announced in August that the annual point-to-point rate of inflation had gone down to 14 percent from 29.5%.
The inflation rate is calculated from the prices of 395 goods and services.
Early September, CBI announced that liquidity growth rate fell from 15.9 percent in July 2008, to 6.5 percent in July, 2009.
To achieve this the bank had pulled in "bonds and traveler checks with no back up" to reduce "liquidity growth rate .
source: PressTV


At the fourth trial in branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court, headed by Judge Salavati, held against detainees arrested during post-election events were as ISNA reported, Mohsen Mirdamadi, Mohsen Safaei-Farahani, Saeed Shariati, Behzad Nabavi, Abdullah Ramazanzadeh, Faizullah Arab-Sorkhi, Kian Tajbakhsh, Mohsen Aminzadeh, Syed Mostafa Tajzadeh, Sadegh Norouzi, Shahab Tabatabaei, Hedayat Aghaei, Hamzeh Ghalebi, Saeed Laylaz, Ali Tajernia, Mohammad Ghochani, Masoud Bastani and Mohammad-Reza Jalaipour on trial.
This, in spite of the publication of an article indicating the issuance of orders for Mohammad Ghochani and Jalaipour’s releases.
Ghodratullah Alikhani, a member of Parliament’s special committee said the action is illegal.
source: ihrv.org


Yesterday threatened Khamenei during Fridayprayers to arrest Karroubi.
The website rahesabz.net quoted Rafsanjani, who said that Khamenei already issued an order for Karroubi's arrest.
An anonymous source confirmed the report, but said the order was issued at least two weeks ago.
source: NY Times





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Iran: harsh

Radio Farda did interview Mahmud Tehrani, the nephew of Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Hij lives in Paris and is the son of Khameneis dissident brother-in-law.
According to him, Iran is completely run by Ahmadinejad and the Revolutionary Guards.
In the interview Tehrani said that Khamenei is either a toy in the hands of Ahmadinejad, [Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi], and the Revolutionary Guard, or he shares their crimes.
source: rferl.org


July 8, the Bahaí Sohrab Laghaie was arrested by 4 agents of the information Bureau of the city of Sari, in Province of Mazandaran, and detained in solitary confinement within Shahid Kachouie detention center, under various investigations for 38 days.
The charge is acting against national security. After that we was transferred to the general prison of Ghaemshahr.
August 7, agents of the bureau for Public Property closed his optical store and additonally closed the business of his wife Zahra Golabian .
He was previously threatened by the Information Bureau about the shutting down of his business.
source: hra-iran.net



Amnesty International writes that the victims of rape and abuse in prisons are renewed at risk while at Monday, judiciary officials removed computers, files and other records confirming the torture and other abuses committed against detainees, and closed down the offices of Mehdi Karroubi.
Also the office of the Association for the Defense of Prisoners Rights, established by human rights activist Emaddedin Baghi, which had also been compiling information on the torture and abuse of detainees was closed down.
Amnesty International urged Ali Khhamenei and the UN to carry out an independent inquiry in Iran.
source: amnestyusa.org


Ali Khamenei is leading Friday prayers today for the first time since June, when he defended Ahmadinejads reelection .
He said, in the speech , broadcast live on TV, that "resisting the system" would bring "a harsh response".
source: BBC


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Iran: repression

September 8, a man was arrested by plain clothed agents in Qom.
The man was stopped in his car and was shot in his shoulder while he tried to run away.
The man started to chant political slogans after he was shot including “Down with Khamenei”. Plain clothes forces took the man and his family away to an unknown location.
source: hra-iran.net



Januar 2009 Shahram Chinian Bahaí from Shahr-e-Ray was arrested after complaints by several people.
He was charged with sedition, membership in illegal groups, claiming to be the promised one and insulting the Islamic beliefs.
He was tried at the Section 31 of the Revolutionary Court by Judge Zendehdel.
After the trial he was brought to Evinprison in solitary confinement.
The verdict is expected in a week.
source: hra-iran.net


An eyewitnessreport about the circumstances in Evinprison and the dead of Amir Javadifar can be read here.
Seyed Ali Akbar Kheradnejad tells what happened after his arrest on July 9th.
Human Rights Activists in Iran collected collected brief reports from Evinprison:
Reports indicate that security forces have put some of the detainees under pressure to confess that Mousavi is behind the release of the political video "Political 90".
This is while it is known that the producer is a journalist who was detained for 2 days.
Mohammad Reza Jalaipoor spokesman of the “Campaign for Khatami and Mousavi” remains in ward 209 of Evin. He is under pressure for his alleged role as the main organizer of the nightly Allah Akabar chants which have become a symbol of the recent protests.
Reports indicate that prisoners’ sexual relationships are still being used during most of the interrogation sessions to put pressure on the detainees.
Fariba Pajouh told her husband's family September 7, that she still remains in solitary confinement.
source:hra-iran.ne

Workers of Haft Tapeh Agricultural & Industrial Company went on strike, September 9th.
They are asking for an orderly payment of their wages. They also want the management to explain the reductions on overtime, the reduction of the wages,and the refusal to adjust the wages to the inflation rates.
The workers and union members have gathered in front of the management office but the gathering ended this afternoon without any answer from the management to the workers’ demands.
source: hra-iran.net




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Iran: beliefs

ILNA reported yesterday that Iranian authorities closed the office of Mehdi Karoubi.
The office was sealed and the gathered evidence of the rapes and abuse which has taken place in prison was taken.
The website mowjcamp.ir said agents raided and searched the home of an aide of Karroubi, Morteza Alviri and took him away.
Ali Reza Behesti,one of Mousavi's aides, is also arrested.
Alviri and Behesti presented together the evidence to the parlementarian committee that 69 people have died in the post-election violence.
The police acknowledges some misconduct by guards in Kahrizakprison, but they say the majority of the people died of disease.
Statemedia focuses on the health problems of prisoners in the facility. Newsagency Mehr writes that those who are responsible get punished, the opposition says the government is using the Kahrizak prison cases to overshadow other claims of torture, rapes and deaths.
sources: reuters.com en washingtonpost.com

Mohammad Tavakoli and his wife Mahrokh Safayi from Amol, Mazandaran province, were banned from leaving the country when they returned from a trip to Europe.
When they arrived at their house, intelligence agents were waiting for them, searched their house, their ID's and their satellitedish were confiscated.
They were arrested 25 days ago and taken to the Intelligence ministry’s detention center in Sari. Their teenage son has also been summoned and interrogated at the Intelligence ministry’s headquarters.
Both have served prison sentences in past decades for being members of an opposition group. Friends and family say that, since being released after serving their sentences, the couple had not been involved in any political activities.
source:hra-iran.net

During the last ten days were in Sistan-e-Baluchestan province in the cities Zahedan and Saravan tens of people arrested and taken to unknown locations.
Although the reason for arrest is not given, reliable sources have reported that the common factor between all the arrestees is their family relationship with Baluchi political activists and with the Baluchistan Opposition Group.
The names of 13 arrested are:
Hamzeh Rigi, Saeid Naru’i, ‘Abdu’l-Rahman Rigi, ‘Ezzau’llah Rigi, ‘Abdu’l-Malek Rigi, Habibu’llah Rigi, Ebrahim Rigi, Ismael Rigi, Hamed Rigi, Ahmad Qanbarzehi, ‘Abdu’llah Naru’i, Asadu’llah Shahbakhsh, Naser Shahbakhsh.
source: hra-iran.net


The Christian prisoners Maryam Razandi, Ashraf Omidi, Mehdi Mohammadi, Mobina Lak, Nariman Sharifi, Shahin, en Shahnam Yarmohammad Tousk are temporarily released on bail, 32 days afther their arrest.
July 31 juli they were arrested at a raid at gathering for Christians in North Tehran. 25 people were released, 7 were transferred to Evinprison and put in solitary confinement.

source: hra-iran.net



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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