Iran: judicial

In the prison of the city of Arak 2 men have been hanged on Wednesday.
The men were named Ali A. convicted for keeping and possession of 25kg opium and Ahmad A. convicted for possession of 12g heroin and the purchase of 5 kilo and 65g of heroin.
source: iranhr.net

Nasrin Sotoudeh withdraw her appeal against the 11-years prisonsentence after the interrogators told her that the sentence will be upheld by the Appeals Court.
Her husband told that she has written the letter to theRevolutionary Court after she was told "we will make sure that your Appeals Court will hold the same 11-year sentence for you".
source: en.irangreenvoice.com



A UN spokesman confirmed that at last weeks attack on Camp Ashraf in Iraq 34 people got killed.
In 2008 the mandate for protection by USA ended.
Since then, there is no solution for the inhabitants, MKOmembers who fled Iran in 1986.
source: persian2english


Blogger and journalist Mohammad Ghaznavian started in Choubin Prison in Qazvin his prisonsentence. He was sentenced to 5 years in jail, which was reduced to 6 months in appeal.
He was charged for collaborating with unfavorable groups and anti-regime propaganda.
source: HRHI



The Iranian actor Ramin Parchami was brought to court in handcuffs April 14.
He was arrested February 14 at the protests. He had a long beard and an unkempt appearance.
The charges are unknown.
source: HRHI


Hossein Karroubi,the son of Mehdi Karroubi stated in an e-mail to Roozonline that he became a fugitive and although this is a difficult time he reiterates that his father always believed that this approach to governance is unsustainable and the regime will sooner or later have to give in to the will of the people.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com


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Iran: voice and silence

Imprisoned writer and lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh received the Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award 2011 .
Sotoudeh was arredted September 4th, 2010 and is sentenced to 11 years in jail for her outspoken advocacy in defense of her clients arrested after the June 2009 elections and interviews she gave to human rights organizations.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com


In an interview with Roozonline told the father of Behnoud Ramezani that he will pursue the complaint with the judiciary until the individuals responsible for his son’s murder have been identified and put on trial.
Ramezani died March 17 2011, after being beaten by motorcycleagents, resulting in fractures in his hand, foot, and neck, and the rupture of one his testes.
According to the head of security for Tehran he lost his life as a result of a hand grenade detonating in his pant pocket, eyewitnesses rejected this.
source: persian2english

Newspaper Shargh writes that economists say that Iran is withholding public figures about the economical growth, preventing predictions.
They say that the Central Bank published 2 years ago gross domestical product and that the unemployment rate for the last time was updated 12 months ago.
source: freedomessenger.com


The embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran has been attacked with molotovcocktails. Fars reported that these were thrown by Basij and that security agents were present, but did not act.
Some protestors tried to raise Hezbollah and Lebanese flags on the embassy building, but this was prevented by security agents.
source: panarmenian.net

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Iran: further

The EU imposed assets freezes and travel bans on 32 Iranian officials who are allegedly involved in human rights violations.
The measures were decided at a EUmeeting in Luxembourg, following the USA, who imposed similar sanctions in September 2010.
The list of names will be made public in the EU Official Journal.
source: freedomessenger


In Bahrein one Bahraini and two Iranians are tried for espionage.They are accused of of providing military and economic information to the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guards between 2002 and 2010.
Earlier were three Iranians on trial in Kuwait for the same allegations. March 29 they were sentenced to death.
source: dailytimes.com.pk


In Sari is Bahai Behzad Zabihi detained after being summoned by the Ministry of Information .
According to HRHI his shop was closed on courts order.
He had previously been detained in February for 5 days and later released on bail.
source: HRHI



Studentactivist Homayoun Panahi of Zanjan university was arrested after a raid on his house and transferred to the prison in Arak.
After the Ashuraprotests he was sentenced to six months and 1 day in prison, which verdict is carried out now.
source: HRHI



weekly report of systematic violation of the right on life

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Iran: further

In the prison of Ahwaz Saturday a man was hanged.
The man, Karim Kh. was sentenced to death for keeping 220g of heroin.
source: iranhr.net



Washington based Reformparty of Syria says that Iranian IRGC envoyed 10,000 troops to Syria to protect president Bashar Assad's government.According to them IRGC is now running the country.
In Dera were more then 30 people killed on 8 and 9th April.
source: freedomessenger



Sara Mahboubi, a Bahai student who was banned from continuing her education has been arrested for the 2nd time in one year and transferred to the ministry of information in Sari.
Last year in May she was arrested for 24 hrs.
She is arrested after security agents searched her fathers house.
source: HRHI




The 17000 members of the global filmcommunity signed a petition to call on Iran to cancel the prisonsentences of Jafar Panahi and Mohammd Rasoulof .
The undersigned included Francis Ford Coppola, Costa Gavras, David Cronenberg, Alejandro González Inarritu, David Lynch, Marjan Satrapi, Aki Kurismaki and Lars Von Trier.
source: HRHI


The foreign ministry spokesman for Iran called on the EU to halt support for the Mujahedin Khalq Organization (MKO). Many countries, including USA list MKO as a terroristic organization.
The group fled to Iraq in 1986 where they settled down in Camp Ashraf.
source: en.trend.az

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Iran: pressure

Near the town of Shiraz crashed a military aircraft yesterday.
The plane was a Russian Sukhoi, the pilot was killed.
The cause is unknown.
source: khaleejtimes.com







Vahid Talayi a member of the Campaign for Mousavi, is under heavy pressure to confess that he has ties to the forbidden organization PMOi.
He was arrested in september 2009, and is held in Ward 209 of Evinprison since.
source: payvand.com

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Iran: year

Press TV reported yesterday that Iran expelled 3 Kuwaiti diplomats, after Kuwait announced that 3 Iranian diplomats were thrown out over spy allegations.
The Gulfstates accused Iran of interfering in their affairs after Tehran objected to the deployment of Saudi troops to help Bahrain put down protests.
source: rferl.org


In Qom province have been 3 gas pipelines exploded of wich the cause was unknown and authorities gave no details of damage or casualties.
The pipelines carry gas from refineries in southern Iran to the north and north-west.
source: freedomessenger.com



Yesterday there were unconfirmed announces that Kurdish political prisoner Habibollah Latifi was scheduled for execution today.
Reports from Sanandaj state that the execution was NOT implemented this morning.
source: iranhr.net



Journalist Sam Mahmoodi Sarayi who was arrested March 1, is in a bad physical condition. He suffers from chronic migraine and gastric complications,and needs to follow a restrictive diet and medication regime.
He is held in the quarantainesection of Evinprison and has been denied any family visits.
source: HRHI


The 35th report of the US State Department about humanrights, documents 69 pages about humanrights abuses in Iran.
According to the report Iran pursued a campaign of violence and intimidation against its own people in 2010, committing extrajudicial killings and using amputation and flogging as punishments,
sourceO: bloomberg.com


List of known prisoners, Iranian year 1389.

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Iran: more and again

In TheAustralian was a report that the deathsentence for Sakineh Ashtiani is uphold because the Supreme Court has said it will not reopen the case. This means she will be executed.
According to Paul Kujawsky,LA Middle Eastern Policy Examiner from the Examiner is the world too preoccupied with other events, so this was not noticed.He calls for attention in this case.
source: examiner.com,theaustralian.com.au


In a letter to the head of the judiciary Larijani wrote Seyed Hashem Khastar,a prisoner at Vakilabadprison in Mashhad the conditions in prison.
The number of inmates inside the prison is now more than four times the normal capacity of the facility.
He also wrote that in August 2010 in one day 63 prisoners were executed.
Originally, this prison has been built for 2,500 prisoners.
Currently there are 13,000 prisoners.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Political prisoners in Rejaishar prison announced Sunday to start a hungerstrike in solidarity with Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipour.
In a statement the prisoners say that they strike in protest of “summoning, arrests, threats and pressures placed on the families of political prisoners, as well as pressures and illegal and inhumane restrictions forced on prisoners.
Among the signatories are: unionleader Mansour Osanlou, Rasoul Bedaghi of the Iranian Teacher’s Association, journalists Issa Saharkhiz and Reza Rafii, political activists Heshmatollah Tabarzadi and Behrouz Javid, and studentactivists Ali Ajami and Majid Tavakoli.
source: HRHI

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Iran: further

In the prison of Orumieh 3 men have been hanged on April 7th.
The men, Tohid Massoumidejin, Khaled Esmaili and Massoud Ghavipanjeh were sentenced to death for connection to illegal groups.
source: HRHI


According to a statement by the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance (NCRI) have have started an attack on Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
23 people got killed and 300 were wounded.
In Camp Ashraf are mainly members of the forbidden Mujahedin Organization of Iran PMOI / MEK.
source: iranhr.net


The leader of the Freedom Movement of Iran, Ebrahim Yazdi,has disowned and denied statements attributed to him in an interview published by IRNA.
IRNA reports that they received a letter from Yazdi on Tuesday April 5 saying: “I had clearly emphasized to IRNA officials that publishing any statements attributed to me can only be done after receiving my written permission.”
IRNA published the interview with Yazdi after his release.
source: HRHI



The Iranian Ministry of Information has cut of visitations to political prisoners specified in a lsit by interrogators.Some prisoners are denied completely from visits, others are allowed 1 visit per month.
Many of these prisoners were also denied the leave customarily allotted to prisoners during Norooz.
source: HRHI

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Er zitten nog steeds ter dood veroordeelde minderjarigen in Iran in de gevangenis.
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Iran: alignment

Amnesty International said that the Iranian parliament must scrap a draft law which will seriously undermine independent non-governmental organizations in Iran.
This law, analyzed by the Netherlands-based NGO Arseh Sevom, requires all NGOs in Iran to register with a new and unaccountable body linked to the Intelligence Ministry and to the Basij, which will also be able to revoke registration.
Parts of the bill have already been passed in the Iranian parliament.
source: amnestyusa.org




A top senior U.S. State Department official told that the uprisings in the Middle East could have an impact on Iran.
According to him there is huge discontent and frustration among young Iranians.
The people see on their televisions and on the Internet what's going on in Syria, in Egypt, in Tunisia, etc., and they're undoubtedly thinking our time has to come.
He said that United States monitors the human rights situations in Iran and speaks out about abuses.
source: rferl.org




The Iranian lawyer and law professor Mohammad Sharif has Tuesday been dismissed by Allame Tabatabai University in Tehran.He told Human Rights reporters Committee that him was handed a letter stating his general qualifications have been rejected and his services have been terminated at the university.
The Iranian Minister of Science and Technology started an ideological cleansing of universities. He announced that all professors who are not aligned with the system will be dismissed.More then 50 professors already have been dismissed.
source: HRHI


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Iran: detained

Leila Tavasoli and Parvin Javadzadeh, who were granted temporary prison leave on March 20, returned to prison.
Javadzadeh serves a prisonsentence of 26 months.She was arrested during the Ashuraprotests.
Tavasoli was arrested after the Ashuraprotests because she disclosed that she witnessed security agents running over and killing a peaceful demonstrator.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Imprisoned blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki is still not receiving medical care and his condition deteriorates.
His kidneys are infected but prisonofficials deny him an operation, and said that they could not pay for this prisoner’s surgery.
His parents told prison officials that they would pay for the operation. Despite this, medical care was denied to him.
Maleki is serving a prisonsentence of 15 years.
source:en.greenvoice.com


The European Students’ Union (ESU) has urged the European Commission and UNESCO to release imprisoned Iranian studentleader Bahareh Hedayat, immediately.
Hedayat was arrested December 2009 and is sentenced to 9½ years in prison.
April 5, she celebrated her 30th birthday in prison.
source:en.greenvoice.com

Humanrightsviolations during the first week of the Iranian year(1390)


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Iran: more

The son of Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, imprisoned head of Iran Democratic Party, told the International Human Rights Campaign in Iran, that a non-political prisoner, who friended his father, was beaten with electric batons and banned from leaving prison on furlough for the new year celebrations by revolutionary guards.
source: freedomessenger.com


President Ahmadinejad said Monday that nuclear installations in Iran are safer then those in Japan. He also said that the technology used in the nuclear plants in Fukushima is 50 years old, but the technology used in the Iranian plants is brand new.
He spoke at a pressconference in Tehran.
source: en.trend.az


Blogger Hossein Derakhshan has after his prisonleave on March 20, returned to Evinprison March 26.
HRHI reported that 2 days later he was allowed on leave again and then returned to prison on April 3rd.
Derakhshan is serving a prisonsentence of 19,5 years.
source: HRHI




According to Nedaye Sabze Azadi News (Green Voice of Freedom), Mohammad Hossein Khorbak, member of the Student Committee and Head of Public Relations Committee went to Evinprison to serve his oneyear prisonsentence.
source: HRHI




IRNA reported today that Iran arrested a group of 8 terrorists in province Kurdistan.Two people were killed.
According to PressTV four Iranian policeagents were killed in different clashes with PEJAK. Also four terrorists have been killed or injured.
source: Press.tv, en.trend.az



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