Iran: prison

Aziz Mohammadzadeh was arrested October 2009 and was sentenced to death by the court in Saghez for moharebeh, the membership of a Kurdish group and acting against statesecurity.
He went in hungerstrike 7 months ago and since then his family has no information as to his health or whereabouts.
source: HRHI

De Law Society, which represents solicitors in England and Wales, urged Iran to release the humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is sentenced to 11 years in jail and a 20 years ban on practising law or travelling abroad.
source: freedomessenger.com




Two Amerikaanse senators accuse China of violating sanctions against Iran and warned President Obama that Congress will go after Chinese companies if the abuses don't stop.
China is supplying crucial materials to aid Iran's nuclear and missile programs and alleged that Beijing continues to give monetary and material support to Iran's energy sectors.
China National Petroleum Corp. and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. are named.
source: en.trend.az


The sentenced to death Dutch-Iranian citizen Zahra Bahrami and political prisoner Fatemeh Khorramjou were transferred to the methadonward of Evinprison.
This ward is a closed hall no larger then 30 to 35 meters. This section is normally used for dangerous criminals, including drug addicts. The prisoners are allowed outside to use fresh air less than one hour per day and are also excluded from other facilities such as the library.
They are not allowed to make telephonecalls and are only allowed cabin visits.
According to reports from the woman's ward from Evin prison three prisoners are being kept in the former cell of Shahla Jahedin.
“Change for Equality“ told that three prisoners Hengameh Shahidi, Faremeh Khoramjou and Zahra Bahrami, are in the cell of executed Shahla Jahed .
Also there is rumor of the early execution of: Kobra Rahmanpour, Lida Tavakoli and Sowgand Jahani.
Jahani is younger then 20 years and is accused of killing her husband.
In one of Evin prison’s solitary cells is Ladan Mostowfi, 45 , the daughter of Manoochehr, she has been kept in isolation for some time and is accused of moharebeh.
source: HRHI



The Supreme Court has overturned the deathsentence of Farah Vazehan and her case is sent back to the 28th branch of the revolutionary court for review. Vazehan sentenced to death by Judge Salavati for moharebeh by cooperating with the MKO.
Her health is in a critical condition for heartproblems and she was on chemotherapy before her arrest.
source: HRHI

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Iran: more

This morning 10 people have been hanged in Tehran.
Their names are:
Yunes Aghanejad, convicted for posession of 1400 grams of heroin
Sadegh Garavand, for trafficking of 1070 grams of crack
Teymour Shah Karimi, for posession of 1045 grams and for trafficking of 149 grams of heroin
Abdollah Khliani for posession of 51 portions of heroin
Hossein Feizizadeh for trafficking of 600 grams of heroin
Amir Ali Mohammadi, for trafficking of 500 grams of heroin (also sentenced to 30 lashes for drugsaddiction)
Safar Karami Ganjeh, for trafficking of 500 grams of heroin (also sentenced to 30 lashes)
Alireza Ramezani, for posession of 500 grams of heroin
Mohammad Mehdi Ahmadi, for posession of 445 grams of crack
Ghasem Asgharzadeh for trafficking of 14 kilos and 350 grams of opium and 950 grams of hashish (cannabis).


In Zarand, province Kerman a man has been hanged yesterday.
The man, A.K. was convicted for trafficking 70kg of opium.
source: iranhr.net



Fatemeh Salbehi is sentenced to death for the murder of her husband, committed in 2008, when she was 16-year-old.
She is by branch 5 of the Criminal Court in Shiraz, province Fars sentenced to death. The verdict is confirmed by the Supreme Court and execution is imminent.
Initially she confessed, but later on she said two people broke into their home and killed her husband.
A petition can be signed.
source: persian2english.com


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Iran: continueing

In 2011 is Iran hanged an average of one person every eight hours.The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran called on the Iranian Parliament and the Judiciary to immediately institute a moratorium on executions and to move swiftly to abolish the death penalty, in the face of skyrocketing executions following unfair trials and judicial proceedings.
Last weekend the Kurdish political prisoner Hossein Khezri was executed.In addition to him, Iranian media have reported a total of 46 executions in 2011: seven in Kermanshah on 1 January, sixteen in Ahwaz on 5 January, one in Asfaryan on 8 January, eight in Qom on 9 January, seven in Tehran on 12 January, five in Khorramabad on 13 January, two in Boroujerd on 14 January.
At least 14 other Kurds are sentenced to death: Zeinab Jalilian, Shirkoo Moarefi, Rostam Arkia, Mostafa Salimi, Anvar Rostami, Rashid Akhkandi, Mohammad Amin Aghooshi, Ahmad Pooladkhani, Seyed Sami Husseini, Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, Hasan Talei, Iraj Mohammadi, Mohammad Amin Abdollahi and Ghader Mohammadzadeh.
source: persian2english.com


Studentactivist Pouria Mousavi who is also the head of the publicity unit of the Ayeen Magazine and a member of the Islamic Front of Iran, was arrested in his fathers house. He was also a member of Mousavi’s Campaign.
Securityagents searched the house and confiscated personal belongings and his computer.
There is no information as to his whereabouts.
source: HRHI



According to reports is the deathsentence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiari suspended and she is sentenced to a 10-year jail term.The chairwoman of the Iranian parliament Human Rights Committee wrote this in a letter to the new Brasilian President Dilma Rousseff.
source: payvand.com

Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned humanrights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was released along with Farzaneh Roostaei(an editor of Shargh newspaper).
source: persian2english.com




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Iran: continued

Reza Khandan, the husband of humanrights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been arrested yesterday, when he arrived to the Prosecutor’s office to comply with the summon he received.
According to reports on the website Change for Equality , the charges against him remain unclear.
The court set a $50000 bail for his release, the bail amount posted by Nasrin Soutoudeh’s sister has not been accepted.
source: persian2english



The 2011 Index of Economic Freedom ranks Iran to 171 out of 179 countries as repressed economic freedom.
Iran decreased on the list, by lower scores in freedom from corruption, trade freedom, and labor freedom.
The heavy state interference in many aspects of private economic activity has resulted in economic stagnation in the non-oil sector and a serious lack of overall economic activity.
source: payvand


Imprisoned student activist Arash Sadeghi, student at Allameh Tabatabaei University, is in urgent medical need.
After multiple arrests and being tortured he was sentenced to 5 years in prison and a 3 year suspended prisonterm.
He is in ward 209 of Evinprison and following the tortures he can hardly walk and cannot move his shoulder. As result of his hungerstrike he has stomachbleeding.
source: HRHI


The appeals court of the Province of Golestan sentenced in appeal 4 studentactivists.
Mobin Mirarab is sentenced to 2 years in prison and Alireza Rahnamayee and Hossein Matloubi are each sentenced to 4 months in prison and a fine. Saman Bozorgi is sentenced to 91 days in prison.
They are convicted for acting against national security and anti-regime propaganda.
source: HRHI

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Iran: execution

According to reports were at least 75 people executed, especially members of organized opposition groups, including PJAK and PMOI.
The Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran report that pressures and inhumane treatment of political prisoners are strongly increased.
source: freedomessenger.com



Yesterday was the Kurdish political prisoner Hossein Khezri secretly executed in the prison of Orumieh.
There only was published that a PEJAK member is executed.
His brother said hat he has not received a clear response from the authorities.
Hossein Khezri was in prison since July 31 2008 and was tortured.
Here is the timeline from arrest to execution.
source: HRHI,persian2english.com, freedomessenger.com


The Iranian Minister of Oil said today that the Khayam field east of Assaluyeh on the Persian Gulf has 260 billion cubic meters of gas, of which 210 billion can be exploited.
source: rfel.org




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Iran: further

Workers of the Alborz Tyres Factory are already one week on strike for payment of their wages.
Till now they reportedly received only 50 percent of their back pay.
source: rferl.org



Civil rights activist Mohammad Jian Mozafari was arrested along with 20 other persons when the police raided the house of the father of death row prisoner Habib Latifi.Many of them were later released.
He is transferred to an unknown location and there is no information as to his condition.
source: HRHI


Yesterday Kurdish activist Matlab Ahmadian was arrested and transferred to Saghez Central Prison.
No information has been released on the reason for the arrest but political activities seem to be the reason.
Last year 120 Kurds were detained, and 17 activists are on death row.
source: HRHI

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Iran: question

In Khoramabad, the capital of Lorestan province, were January 13 5 men hanged.
According to the judiciaryin Lorestan were the 5, not identified men, convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net


Loghman Moradi and Zaniar Moradi, two political prisoners who are sentenced to death by hanging in public contacted from Rajai Shahr ‘Gohardasht’prison the Committee for Defense of Political Prisoners CDPP, and asked for help and insisted that they were forced to confess under torture; that none of the accusations leveled against them were true.
December 22, 2010,they were in a trial that lasted 20 minutes, Judge Salavati found these two Kurdish Iranian citizens guilty of being members of “Komeleh” and of participating in the July 5, 2010 assassination of Saadi, the son of Marivan’s Friday Prayer Imam, and two other individuals named Hadi and Abdollah.
They told CDPP that they, due to extensive torture and threats of “sexual torture” and the detention of their families, were forced to make false confessions. There was never any evidence presented indicating their role or participation in this act.
source: persian2english.com


In recent days speculations about the secret execution of Hossein Khezri has grown stronger.
January 13th told Mr. Elahinia, the head of branch 9 of the Execution of Sentences office of the Orumiyeh Revolutionary Court the brother of Hossein Khezri that the executionorder from the Orumiyeh Prosecutor’s office to carry out the death sentence was received. Since the lawyer was not present, the execution was temporarily postponed.
January 2nd, Hossein Khezri was transferred from ward 12 of Orumiyeh central prison to an undisclosed location. Since then, there is no detail on his fate.
source: persian2english



The mother of Nazanin Khosravani told that her daughter despite the extreme cold in the cells of the Ministry of Information on ward 209 was not provided with warm clothing.
There are no beds in these cells and Nazanin Khosravani told her mother that it feels like you are sleeping on ice.
source: persian2english.com

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Iran: activities

The site persian2english published the open letter written by Shirin Ebadi to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay. about the courtsentence for Nasrin Sotoudeh.
Also you can take action through Amnesty International and e-mailing for her release.
source:persian2english


Over the past 48 hours Iran expanded the internetblockade from inside Iran to the outside world.
Here some possibilities to work around the blockades.
source: freedomessenger.com


The member of the Teachers Union Rasoul Bodaghi is sentenced to 6 years in jail and a ban on civil activities of 5 years.
He is convicted of assembly and conspiracy with the intent of committing security crimes and anti-regime propaganda.
source: freedomessenger.com


Newsagency ISNA reported that Security Minister Heydar Moslehi said that U.S. citizen Hall Talayan, who was suspected of spying, asked asylum in Iran. Late December it was told that she was arrested by borderguards at the border with Armenia.
Later reported the American State Department that she was safe in Turkey.
source: en.trend.az



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Iran: violence

ISNA news agency reported that 8 men were hanged today.
They were sentenced to death in 2009 by the Tehran Revolutionary Court for drugstrafficking.
One man was hanged and was sentenced for rape.
source: en.trend.az

The Association of British Muslims asks attention for a 19-year-old Iranian boy who is facing imminent execution on charges of attempting to rape another man (sodomy or lavat), even though the allegation was withdrawn by the accuser.
Ehsan was 17-years-old when he was arrested in late 2008 in Shiraz, in the province of Fars, after a man pressed charges against him and two other youths, alleging that they attempted to rape him.
Under torture of a month Ehsan, the youngest of the 3 confessed. He was sentenced to hang. Ehsan has since withdrawn his ‘confession’, saying that it was extracted under torture.
Muslim organisations from across the world protest against the verdict: the Association of British Muslims (AOBM), Faith Matters, Muslims for Progressive Values (MPV), USA and Canada, Canadian Muslim Union (CMB), Members of The Royal Order of Noor of Buayan, Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) and el-Tawhid Juma Circle.
Since the verdict is upheld, he was transferred to Aadel Abaad Jail in Shiraz and is in imminent danger of execution.
source: aobm.org



The prosecutor of Andimeshk told that a wallet thief was flogged in public. He was sentenced to 3 years in jail and 74 lashes.




Two political prisoners from the province of Azerbaijan, Dr. Latif Hassani and Ayat Mehrali Beigloo are threathened by prisonauthorities with additional limitations and harsher treatment.
Both prisoners have gone on hunger strike inside the Special Ward of Tabriz Prison since 1 January.
They are already for 6 months in prison limbo.
source: iranhumanrights.org


According to reports political and non-political prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj who are ill and in critical condition and need medical care, don't get this.Those who have symptoms of the flu , probably swineflu, which has spread in this prison are transferred to solitary cells in cellblock 5.
According to reports bloody clash in cellblock 5 in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj resulted in 20 injuries. Eight of the 20 people are in critical condition.
The on charges of moharebeh sentenced to death political prisoner Rashid Akh Kandi, is not allowed visit from his family and is denied from medical care.
Political prisoner Reza Sharifi Bukani is sentenced to 30 years and 6 months in prison. He was arrested in May 2010.
He was charged with membership of a Kurdish dissident party and espionage. Currently he is in Gohardasht in Karaj.
source: daughtersofthelight-brief.blogspot.com

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Iran: attitude

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry says it has arrested a network of spies allegedly connected to Israel and responsible for killing a prominent scientist in 2009.
According to Mehr News months of widespread operations had led to the "deep infiltration" by Iranian intelligence agents of Israel's spy agency, the Mossad.
These operation led to the arrest of the spynetwork.
source: washingtonpost.com



Amnesty International condemns the prisonsentences for humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and the journalist Shiva Nazar Ahari .
The organization urged (AI Index: PRE 01/010/2011) Iran to drop prison sentences against the humanrights activists.
source: amnestusa.org


The journalist Nazanin Khosravani is since her arrest, November 2010 in isolation and was only allowed once a visit from her family.
Sources report she is charged with acting against national security, that she has not accepted the charge as she has not done anything to warrant such an accusation.
Reasons for her arrest and her charges have not yet been announced by judicial authorities.
source: ICHRI

Iran banned wearing jeans, makeup and tattoos on universities nationwide.




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Iran: further

In the prison of Shirvan was January 9th a man hanged.
The man, A. A. was convicted for trading drugs.
source: iranhr.net


The humanrights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is sentenced to 11 years in jail, and banned from practicing law and traveling for 20 years.The judge sentenced her to five years in prison on charge of “acting against national security,” another five years for “not wearing hejab (Islamic dress) during a videotaped message,” and one year for “propaganda against the regime.”
Her husband, Reza Khandan, in an interview with the ICHRI described the ruling as “highly strange and unjust.” The interrogators of Sotoudeh had repeatedly told her that “they won’t allow the judge to sentence her to less than ten years.
source: ICHRI, en.greenvoice.com

The site persian2english shows 3 steps to protest against the execution of Jafar Kazemi(photo) and Mohammad Ali HajAghaie.
The wife of the political prisoner Jafar Kazemi who is sentenced to death told during an interview with Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) about her efforts to save her husband and how the interrogator told her husband that ‘we need a few sacrificial lambs to save the regime, and your name was drawn " and that the judge told her husband: “We should have executed you back in the 1980′s”
source: persian2english

The head of Iran’s judiciary calls for investigations to be carried out at maximum speed.He called for speeding up investigations, and by extension, executions.
source: droi.wordpress.com

An aircrash near Lake Urmia in Iran caused the death of 77 people and injured 33 people.
The plane took off from Tehran Mehrabad airport and was about to arrive at the city of Uroumieh when it crashed.
Ten minutes before arrival it crashed.
source: english.people.com

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