Iran: responsible

Mehdi Karroubi, wrote a letter to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the chairman of the counsel of experts.
In this letter he states that under the Constitution the Supreme Leader is responsible and that the board of experts has to prevent the abuse of power by authorities in Iran.
He writes, among other things, that the spiritual leader in Iran at least 10 times can be hold responsible in regards to human rights violations and disrespect for humans in general.
source: lissnup.posterous.com


On the first day of his visit to the United States said president Ahmadinejad in an interview with AP that "the future belongs to Iran,"
This is his 7e trip to the USA to attend the annual General Assembly of the United Nations this week.
Worldwide are rallies planned to demonstrate against this visit.
source: msnbc.msn.com


The humanrightsreport 2, week of September 13, 2010.


EANWorldVieW


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

Iran: further

Womanrights- and humanrightsactivist Shiva Nazar-Ahari is sentenced to six years in prison and exile to Izzeh, province Khuzestan.
The Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) reported that she also is sentenced to 73 lashes. The sentences were issued by Judge Pir Abassi in branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
source: persian2english.com



Branch 54 of the Appeals Court upheld the verdict from 8 ½ years in prison for studentactivist Majid Tavakoli
December 7, 2009 he was arrested. The verdict is: 5 years prison term for association and collusion with the intent to act against national security.
1 year in prison for propaganda activities against the regime, 2 years in prison for insulting the supreme leader and 6 months in prison for insulting the president.
In addition, he was sentenced to a 5-year ban of political activities and a 5-year ban on leaving the country.
source: persian2english.




Journalist and humanrightsactivist Abolfazl Abedini has been beaten up on September 16, in Karoonprison from Ahwaz by a member of the prisonstaff named Ghalandari.
While awaiting in order to use the bath-room and tied up on his hands and legs with handcuff and chains he was attacked with a green rod.His hands and legs are blued and blacked.
Abedini has been sentenced to eleven years of imprisonment.
source: en.hrana.com



September 14 is the office of SPCA Animal Protection Association sealed due to a letter with a question about animals sent to the Religious Authority, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi by the Association.
source: HRHI

Weekly updates from persian2english

EANWorldView



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

Iran: further

On the road from Chabahar to Zahedan was yesterday a bus stopped and six people were kidnapped.Five of them were soldiers from an airbase and the sixth was a bankemployee.
The responsibility for the attack was claimed by the group Jundullah.
IRNA reported September 18 that two of the hostages, 2 airforceofficers were freed by the IRGC.
They also denied that Jundullah was the hostagetaker.
source: tehrantimes.com, irna.ir

Reports from inside Rajai Shahrprison say that the physical condition of Arzhang Davoudi is critical. Hij is 66 days in hungerstrike and his weight is 35 kg's.
He protests against the cutting of telephone privileges, the lack of investigation into his complaint about the head of Rajai Shahr prison Ali Hajkazem, and the confiscation and selling of his family’s home by orders of judge Haddad.
Two nights ago, Arzhang Davoudi’s telephone privileges were restored, but he insists to remain on hunger strike until all his demands are met.
source: persian2english




De ashuragevangene Mohammad Ali Haj Aghayari, 62 is sentenced to death and his appeal is rejected by the Supreme Court.
Aghayari who was previous a political prisoner in the 1980’s, is sentenced by branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court for Moharebeh (enemy of God) and association with the Mujahedin-e Khalgh Organization. This sentence was confirmed by branch 36 of the Revolutionary Court.
Jafar Kazemi is arrested in September 2009. He is sentenced to death by branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court and confirmed by branch 36. Also Jafar is in imminent danger of execution.
Petition
Stop executions in Iran.
source: persian2english



Reza Shahabi, a member of Tehran Bus Union’s board of directors, has been held in prison limbo in ward 209 of Evinprison for over 3 months.
He was arrested June 12th and spent a month in isolated detention in ward 209.
He is suffering from neck pain and digestive problems.
source: HRHI



September 10th is the political activist Reza Kermani, 77 along with Hossein Shahriari arrested on their way to Isfahan. Kermani was under intensive medical care before his detainment for kidneyproblems, bloodpressure and medication to prevent a stroke.
According to Committee of Human Rights Reporters he suffered a brain stroke twice and has been on chemotherapy for several years.
Currently, he does not have access to his medications.
source: HRHI

EANWorldView



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

Iran: more and less

Yesterday announced execution of Amin who was sentenced to death by hanging and 173 lashes was performed in Khoranprison from Varamin.
source: iranhr.net



Following the speech given by the Minister of Science, a new wave of pressure has begun on studentactivists.
Emad Bahavar, Sara Khademi, Ashkan Zahabiyan, Siavash Saliminejad and Iman Sadighi 5 studentactivists of Mazandaran University and Babol Noshiravani University of Technology are expelled from university.
source: HRHI


Democratic Republic of Iran publishes a summary of the opening remarks by the head of the Assembly of Experts Council in Iran, Ayatollah Rafsanjani as he opened the session on Tuesday.
He warned of a current toward dictatorship and appeals to all leaders to abide by the law and prevent discord and disenfranchisement of the people.
source: droi.wordpress.com

The studentactivist Rahim Hemmati, a Nationalist-Religious activist and member of the Youth Branch of the Militant Muslim Movement (Jonbesh Mosalmanaan Mobarez), ),has disappeared since Sunday September 12th.
He was arrested various times and was held in isolation and in Ward 2A, Ward 240, Ward 7 and Ward 350 of Evinprison. In a showtrial he was sentenced to 3 years in prison.
He had previously been threatened by several individuals that had introduced themselves as agents from the Prosecutor’s Office.
source: HRHI


The sentence of Parvin Javadzadeh,22 has been reduced by the Appeals Court from 8 years to 26 months in prison.She was sentenced for moharebeh for her activities as Citizen Journalists reporting the news of last year’s post election upheaval on her personal weblog.
source: HRHI

The prisontence of the 7 bahaileaders has been reduced from 20 years to 10 years in prison.
Bahai World News Service reported this yesterday.
Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeimi, Saeid Rezaie, Mahvash Sabet, Behrouz Tavakkoli, and Vahid Tizfahm were among other things accused of propaganda against the state and establishing an illegal administration.
After receiving their sentences they were moved from Evin Prison to Gohardasht prison.
source: news.bahai.org

EANWorldView


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

Iran: dead

September 14, one man was hanged in the prison of Shirvan.
The man was not identified, he was sentenced to death for keeping 401 grams of chrystal.
Newsagency Fars reports that Amin, 25, is scheduled to be hanged in the prison of Varamin.
He is sentenced twice to death, 173 lashes, 25 years in prison, for rape. He was originally scheduled to be hanged in public but the chief prosecutor of Varamin said that the hanging will be carried out inside the prison due to security reasons.
source: iranhr.net

RAWAnews reports that September 4th an Iranian refugee in Turkey died of electrical shock.
Anoush Namvar was electrocuted on her workplace.
She worked illegally due to financial reasons and was killed by unsafe working conditions.She was buried by Turkish police without the presence of UN representatives.
Namvar was an activist of a Christian minority, who 8 months prior was transferred to Turkey by the UN Refugee Office.
source: persian2english


On Tuesday 7 September police in Qeshm Island shot a teenager in the head.
Sadiq Dulabizadeh was fishing when he was arrested by the police and executed by shooting in his head in front of many local residents who witnessed the execution.
Following this witnesses attacked police forces and the police forces escaped from the area immediately.
Qeshm Island has been hit by drought for last ten years and local residents are trying to survive by fishing.
source: ihrv.org


The deadsentence of Kurdish Habibullah Gholpari in the prison of Sanandaj is approved by the supreme court and she can be executed imminently.
source: ihrv.org




weekly podcast Iran Human Rights 10-16 september

humanrightsreport week September 13


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

Iran: cause

Arzhang Davoudi who is in hungerstrike for over 2 months and is hardly able to speak or open his eyes, was transferred to the clinic at Rajai Shahr prison.
In this clinic he was under heavy pressure to undersign a paper, which would assign him all responsibilities for the consequences of his hungerstrike.
He refused and insisted to continue his hunger strike until all his demands are met.
Davoudi is detained since November 9th, 2003 on the charges of “acting against national security” and writing the “Manifesto of Secular Iranians.”
Petition
source: persian2english

At least 25 people were killed in a busaccident on the road of Tehran to Saveh.
According to ISNA 14 people were injured and taken to the hospital in Saveh.
Suspected as cause of the accident is tiredness of the driver.
source: hurriyetdailynews.com



Last weekend the Iranian police arrested 60 people at a party which, according to newspaper Jam-e Jam was held in a garden near Tehran.
The newspaper wrote that alcohol was served and men and women mingled freely.
No further details were given.
source: irishtimes.com



EANWorldView



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

Iran: swap

Hussein Alizadeh who defected September 11 as Iranian diplomat in Finland, is the third Iranian diplomat who resigned.
Mohamed Reza Heydari and Farzad Farhangian did already resign earlier this year.
According to Alizadeh Ahmadinejad's government politics are damaging Iran.
He also said that there are likely to be other employees leaving the ministry in the future.
source: rferl.org


The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published links to interviews in which Iranian officials answer to humanrights-related questions.

source: iranhymanrights.org


In the city of Shiraz are 13 members of the Abou-Saleh Seminary, an organization which is supervised by dissidente senior cleric, Ayatollah Dastgheib, arrested.
Names were not revealed.
source: droi.wordpress.com



The brother and sister Sepideh and Soheil Almasi-Monfared, two Ashuradetainees were sentenced by judge Moghiseh of 28th branch of the revolutionary court to one year in prison.
They were charged with anti-regime propaganda.
source: HRHI



Fatemeh Naderkhani who was recently converted to the christian belief, is along with her husband Yousef Naderkhani, detained in Rasht Lakan Prison .
In a telephonecall she told that she was not allowed to visit her husband in the last two weeks and that she is threathened with a life in prison if she fails yo convert to islam.
Unconfirmed reports also stated that Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani another detained christian is sentenced to death by two judges, the third judge has not issued a verdict yet.
source: HRHI


eanworldview(enduring america)



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

Iran: further

Iranian women's rightsactivist and journalist Shiva Nazar Ahari has been released on a $500,000 bail.
She is charged with moharebeh "waging war against god".
source: rferl.org


Persian2english reports human rights violations in the week of September 6.

The ministry of information refuses to release the political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi who is imprisoned more then 8 months in Rajaie Shahrprison of Karaj , against a bail from $200.000.
source: persian2english.com


Studentactivist Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi is sentenced to 5 years in prison by judge Moghiseh from branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court.
He was charged with conspiracy and assembly to act against national security, anti- regime propaganda, insulting the president, participating in illegal gatherings, and disturbing public opinion.
He is in ward 240 of Evinprison.
source:HRHI


Mohammadreza Razaghi, an attorney and a member of the Legal Committee of Mousavi’s Election Campaign was summoned to serve his prisonterm from a year in Evinprison.
Initially he was sentenced in May by judge Moghiseh in a session behind closed doors, to a sentence of 2 years in prison.The appeals court changed this to one year suspended and one year in prison.
source: HRHI

Ebrahim Maleki, , a religion researcher and a student of Ayatollah Montazeri, is sentenced by the Mashhad Clergy Court to pay a fine of $5000 and a ban from wearing special clergy clothing.
In March he was arrested and was kept in isolation for more then a month in a detainmentfacility of the ministry of information.
Following the ban on clergy cloathing, he will no longer receive the monthly income from the Ghom Religious Center (Howzeh Elmiyeh Ghom) and his insurance and other benefits have been cancelled.
source: HRHI




The director of Sistan and Balouchestan's provincial Justice Department said yesterday that a number of suspects behind the deadly bombings of July in Zahedan have been arrested.
At this blast 27 people were killed and over 270 people were injured.
source: english.farsnews.com


enduring america



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

Iran: further

Friday occurred an explosion at Sarakhs-Mashhad gaspipeline and cost the lives of 4 people while 16 people were injured.
An eyewitness told that 36 workers were working at the site and six to seven workers were burned and 7 others were transported to hospital by a helicopter. Yet 20 others are hospitalized in Mashhad for the burns.
Deputy oilminister Javad Oji, who also is managing director of National Iranian Gas Company, said to IRNA that the gasflow will be resumed within 24 to 36 hours.
source: zawya.com


Iran told yesterday that the planned release of Sarah Shourd was delayed because of judicial difficulties.
Today, a senior prosecutor told that Iran is ready to release her on a bail of $500.000.
Shourd was arrested with two others near the Iraqi border last year.
source: abc.net.au

An Iranian diplomat in Finland says that he quitted the service and joined the opposition.
Hossein Alizadeh says that he is no longer an Iranian diplomat.
According to PressTV his mission ended on August 20, 2010 and that the diplomat had asked to remain in Helsinki until after his children's school exams.
source: presstv.com, rferl.org

enduring america


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

Iran: prisoner

The complete report about tortured confessions in Evinprison can be read here.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Studentactivist Hossein Ghabel is sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment which has to be served in 4 years and banned him from using a cell phone and participating in gatherings for 4 years.
University’s Disciplinary Committee suspended Ghabel for 2 semesters.
source: HRHI

An appealscourt has approved the verdict of two year prison sentence for Mohsen Abdi.
Abdi was arrested December 27 in Tehran an is in ward 350 of Evinprison since.
His family, which lives in Hamedan, hopes that he in the upcoming “Islamic Eid of Fitr”, will be released.
source: ihrv.org

After 52 days of hungerstrike in Rejaiee Shahrprison of Karaj was political prisoner Arzang Davoudi, finally allowed to have a visit from his wife.
He was so weak that he could not open his eyes and prison guards brought Mr. Davoudi to the meeting room in a wheelchair.
source: ihrv.org

enduring america



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

Iran: prison

Farah Vazehan one of the Ashuradetainees, who is sentenced to death, has suffered a heartattack and has been transferred to a hospital outside Evinprison.
Vazehan was arrested December 29, 2009.
source: HRHI

The mother from Mansour Osanloo said in an interview with radio Farda that authorities need to release her son soon as possible.
Osanloo is chairman and founder of the Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate.
Three years ago he was accused of acting against national security and spreading propaganda against the Iranian regime and has been condemned to five years in prison.Last month, one more year was added to his previous sentence while he remains in prison.
source: persian2english



August 21 arrested Ali Jamali, a member of the central branch of Office for Consolidating Unity (Advareh Tahkim), is still isolated and under heavy interrogation in ward 240 of Evin prison.
Hassan Zeidabadi a member of Office for Consolidating Unity in charge of the Human Rights Unit of the organization who was arrested along with Jamali is after heavy interrogation in ward 240.
source: HRHI

enduring america

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

Iran: further

Abdollah Momeni, who is detained in Evinprison wrote an open letter to Khamenei in which he writes about his interrogation and torture in prison.
Momeni is sentenced to four years and eleven months in Evinprison.
Excerpts from the letter are here.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Amnesty International published a statement in which she urges Iran not only to suspend the stoningsentence, but to overturn the death sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiari entirely.
source: amnestyusa.org



Behrouz Sadegh-Khanjani een christian pastor is charged with apostacy, blasphemia, participation in anti- regime groups and anti- regime propaganda.
Hamed Pishkar was released from the Lakan Prison in Rasht on a bail of $10.000.
source: HRHI



Madieh Golrou who is imprisoned for 3 years in the Woman's Ward of Evinprison gets in a poor physical condition.
Her husband told that she even has problems with drinking water.
source: HRHI


Hadi Ghaemi, an Ashuradetainee who initially was sentenced to death, but the appeals court sentenced him to 15 years in prison and exile, is transferred from Ward 350 of Evinprison to Gonbad Kavous Prison.
source: HRHI



According to various reports Ayatollah Kazemaini Boroujerdi does not receive the right treatment for his eyeillness.
He has an eyedisease of which he can loose the sight of his eye.
source: droi.wordpress.com





enduring america



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