Iran: more

RFERL Persian Letters writes that blogger My Dreams wrote a blog about the lashing sentences which were carried out in recent weeks.
This blogger believes the lashing sentences are a reminder from the Iranian authorities to critics that they should keep silent.
These lashings don't humiliate the person being lashed but those who impose these inhumane punishments.He says let's not forget that the lashes on the bodies of our friends, are lashes against humanity. We will never forget them. Even if we forgive, we will never forget, so that this barbaric punishment is not repeated.
source: rferl.org

A Boeing 727 of IranAir on the flight Moscow-Tehran made an emergency landing on Mehrabad airport.This was caused by the plane's undercarriages failed to open.
The aircraft had 94 passengers on board, nobody got injured.
source: en.trend.az

A month after the arrest of five independent Iranian filmmakers on charges of working for BBC Persian, 21 Iranian filmmakers and actors living outside of the country signed a petition asking the international community to boycott official Iranian film and television organizations and impose sanctions on Iranian media officials.
The statement condemns the harsh treatment and unfair sentencing of Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof, Mojtaba Mirtahmaseb, Marzieh Vafamehr, en Ramin Parchami.

Photo:BBC-pressphoto, Iranhumanrights.org



Azerbaijani poet, translator and women’s rights activist Faranak Farid who was arrested September 3rd in Tabriz during the protests over Lake Orumieh, has been released after 43 days of arrest on bail of 1 million tomans.
Familymembers say that during the arrest she was violently beaten up by security agents, resulting in severe injuries to her ear and elbow.
source: HRHI

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In the prison of Birjand was a man hanged.
The not named man was sentenced to dead for killing of a security officer during an armed clash between the security forces and drug traffickers in July 2011.
source: iranhr.net

According to a UN rapport Iran hanged hundreds of prisoners in secret.
The rapport says that in 2011 at least 200 prisoners were executed officially, with at least 83 prisoners, in January alone.
Furthermore, authorities reportedly conducted more than 300 secret executions at Vakilabad prison in 2010 and at least 146 prisoners were executed in 2011.
source: freedomessenger


Mohammad Maleki is convicted to one year in prison. He was arrested in 2009 but after 191 days temporary released due to medical necessity. He has been sentenced to one year in prison for anti-regime propaganda and was acquitted of Moharebeh and insulting the Supreme Leader and Ayatollah Khomeini.
Womensrightsactivist Fereshteh Shirazi is convicted to 2 years in prison for libel and insulting authorities on her weblog and to one year in prison for antiregimepropaganda. She has also been banned from exiting the country for 7 years.
source: freedomessenger, HRHI


Student Amin Niaeifar has been lashed for insulting president Ahmadinejad.He had been arrested during the Ashuraprotests and convicted to 6 months in jail, 1,5 years of suspended imprisonment and 30 lashes.He was summoned to carry out the lashing sentence during the prison visits and he is to be released next week.
source: HRHI

UK freezes the assets of 5 Iranians in connection with the alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the United States.
The British finance ministry confirmed that it had acted under the Terrorist Asset Freezing Act.
This includes Manssor Arbabsiar, a 56-year-old U.S. citizen who also holds an Iranian passport, and Gholam Shakuri, a member of Iran’s Quds Force, who is at large in Iran and three other men, Hamed Abdollahi, a senior Quds officer, Abdul Reza Shahlai and Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds force.
source: washingtonpost.com

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Iran: rich and poor

October 16, 2men have been hanged in Sari, province Mazandaran.
The not named men were convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net

October 16 were in Zahedan Central Prison in Zahedan 6 men hanged.
They all were convicted on charges of drug trafficking. One of them is said to be an Afghan citizen.
Their names were not revealed.
source: freedomessenger.com


Staterun website Khabaronline reported that statistics of Social Emergency Department said that they dealt with 7400 cases of chlldabuse in Iran.
The real numbers are much higher.
Social Emergency Department that works in Tehran and other major cities says they have 20 childabuse vases in Tehran alone.
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com




In the Gohardasht prison of Rajai Shahr Wednesday 4 political prisoners of ward 4 hall 12 were transferred to branch 6 of the Karaj Revolutionary Court for additional investigation on new case files issued to them by Ministry of Intelligence. Their names are: Farzad Madadzadeh, Saleh Kohandel, Mohammad Ali Mansouri, and Behrouz Javid Tehrani.
source: freedomessenger

Rferl.org has an article in which is described how the fast growing rich in Iran thanks to links to the IRGC can live a fast life.
Newest investment are models including Italian-made Bugattis and British-manufactured Rolls Royces which are believed to have been purchased by senior shareholders of recently opened private banks.
Import duties have not been paid on many of the purchases, fueling suspicions of increasing corruption in Iran's economy.
Between March and July were in 3 cities, Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz 48 exclusive top-of-the-range sports cars sold.
source: rferl.org

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The judiciary in Semnan reported that 3 men have been hanged.
A.S., 43, from Neishabour, for transport and posession of 31 kilograms of heroin(crack), A.J,44, from Mashhad, convicted for transport and posession of 800.1 kilograms of crack and R.Gh., 43, from Torbat Heidariyeh, for transport and posession of 650.13 kilograms of crack.
Their requests for pardon were denied.
source: HRHI

Saudi Arabia has taken a first step to have Iran reported to the United Nations Security Council , over an alleged plot to assassinate its ambassador in Washington.
Meanwhile Iran dismissed all allegations.
Many Iranwatchers too are sceptical over these allegations.
A hardline cleric wrote in a comment that Iran has the capability to murder king Abdulllah of Saudi Arabia.
source: Reuters, irangreenvoice.com, payvand.news, rferl.com



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Political and civil activist Javad Abouali began serving his prisonsentence in Behbahan Prison.
He was arrested in September and has been sentenced to 1 year in prison.
He has been charged with anti-regime propaganda and insulting the Supreme Leader.
source: HRHI


There are concerns over the condition of Abbas Lesani.
He was arrested during the demonstrations at Lake Oromieh.Since he is held in isolation and has been on a hungerstrike for 16 days. He was forced to end his hunger strike due to the pressure of his interrogator.
In a telephonecall he told his family that if something happens to him, it has not been due to hunger strike.
source: HRHI


31 womandrivers of United Bus Company of Tehran (UBCT) have been forced out of their work.
The reason for their mandatory buyback is unknown.
source: freedomessenger


The verdict of 6 years in prison against filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been confirmed in appeal.
The daily Iran Saturday wrote that his sentence was confirmed and that he was charged with acting against national security and propaganda against the regime.
He also received a 20-year filmmaking and travel ban.
source: irangreenvoice.com

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Iran: furthermore

The Iranian filmmaker Morteza Farshbaf has won one of the top two honors at Asia's largest film festival, South Korea's Busan International Film Festival.
He received the prize for his film "Mourning".
Organizers issued a statement expressing "serious concern" about the recent arrest of six Iranian filmmakers.
source: rferl.org


1.6 million Iranian families are not paying their gas and electricity bills to the National Iranian Gas Company. The spokesman of the energy committee of Iranian parliament said that the revenues of the new subsidy reformplan did not materialize and the budget deficit already came from the outcome of the population’s evasion of gas bills.
The deficit is likely to have an impact on the monthly cash payments of around $40 to ordinary citizens, which began after the controversial subsidy reform plan was implemented in December 2010.

source: irangreenvoice.com




The son of Riaz Sobhani gave an interview to International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
Sobhani was arrested four months ago on charges of providing financial assistance to the Baha’i University in Iran. He has been in Evinprison since.
According to his son, his fathers bankaccounts have been blocked since his arrest.
He was allowed only three weeks after his arrest to contact his family an spent the first 2 months in prison in isolation.
source: iranhumanrights.org


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October 11 were in Semnan 3 men hanged.
IRNA reports that A.S. (43) was convicted for keeping 31 kilograms of crack, A. J. (44) convicted for keeping 1800 grams of crack and R. G. (43) was convicted for 13 kg and 650grams of crack.
The charges are not confirmed by an independent source.
source: iranhr.net

Following the public execution of 4 men in Khomeinishahr newsagency Fars published more then 20 pictures of the hangings and the spectators.
In one of the pictures a small child is seen watching the executions.
Iran Human Right urges The United Nations in a statement to ban these barbaric executions.
These executions are not only inhumane and degrading for those executed, but also for those watching including the children
source: iranhr.net

Monday October 19 were in the prison of Orumieh 6 prisoners hanged.
Their names are Farhad Islam-Doust, Mohammad Jangali, Jamal Sheikh-Zadeh, Farhad Khalkeh, Reza Khalkeh, and Dehghan Salamati.
Also they took 12 prisoners out of the ward and forced them to walk through the guards who were equipped with plastic batons and sticks, where they were beaten.
source: freedomessenger

Iran reacted on the accusation from US that Iran plotted to murder a Saudi diplomat.
Teheran denies such a plot and it is said that USgovernment "fabricated" a scenario aimed at creating divisions in the region and helping U.S. ally Israel and divert attention.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: nothing new

According to ISNA were this morning four men hanged in public in Khomeinishahr.
The men, Abbas (24), Rajab Ali (23), Asghar (20) and Mansour (25) were convicted for rape.They were also sentenced to 74 lashes. The flogging sentences were implemented in the prison yesterday.
All the individuals were arrested in connection with a rape of several women earlier this summer. All together 15 people have been accused in this case and four of them have not been arrested yet.
source: iranhr.net


In recent days students of universities all over Iran protested against the suppression and treatment of students.


United States of America threathens to widen the boycot against Iran after it alleges is behind a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington.Meanwhile USA issued a worldwide travel alert for American citizens, warning of the potential for anti-U.S. actions.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: numbers

The Statistics and Publications Unit of Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRAI) reports that Iran executed between October 2010 and October 2011 480 prisoners.
The majority of prisoners who received the death penalty were charged with drug related crimes.The Judiciary Branch neither officially announces the majority of death sentences when they are issued nor the time when they are carried out.
Since the beginning of 2011, 478 individuals have been sentenced to death and the death penalties for 422 of these prisoners have been carried out.
Among those executed were at least 3 persons under the age of 18.
The Human Rights House of Iran launched an “Anti-Death Penalty Committee” , to record and prepare statistical reports on execution of death penalties and to follow-up on the condition of death row prisoners.
source: freedomessenger, persian2english, HRHI


In Rajai Shahr ‘Gohardasht’prison incarcerated journalist Issa Saharkhiz is in hungerstrike since Thursday.
He has been imprisoned for more than two years, and his physical health has greatly deteriorated since. He suffers from highly irregular blood pressure and severe back pain and a damaged vertebrae in his spinal cord.
Political prisoners are only allowed to be treated in a hospital by the permission of the Public Prosecutor, however it takes the Prosecutor months to issue such approvals.
source: freedomessenger


According to website kalameh.com is Saturday Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr sentenced to 1 year in prison and 90 lashes for her part in "My Tehran for Sale," about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic republic.
The film was not approved for screening in Iran.
Her lawyer told she will appeal the verdict.
source: nydailynews.com

The names of 3 Iranian ministers are on a list with 29 people targeted by new European Union sanctions.
These are the present ministers for intelligence (secret services), justice and culture are joined by a former interior minister as well as regional governors, prosecutors and prison directors.
When they are published in the EU's legal log, the Official Journal Tuesday, the sanctions will take effect.
source: irangreenvoice.com

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Iran: education

Universitystudents in Southampton launched a campaign called Can You Solve This? to help young Iranians who are barred from higher education. This campaign aims to bring to light the fact that Iran, one of the world’s most egregious human rights abusers, oppresses and discriminates against its own population.
Education is one of the fundamental rights.
The campaign uses a QR (Quick Response) code to attract attention.
source: wessexscene.co.uk


More then 40 filosophers and theologists from 16 countries undersigned a statement in which they condemn the fact that Iran bars young Baha'is and others from higher education. The statement has been published in Telegraph.uk.
The undersigners are from of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim backgrounds.
source: news.bahai.org



Student activist Peyman Aref was released from jail after his lashing sentence was carried out.
He was convicted to one year in prison and 74 lashes and a lifetime ban from journalism and any membership in political parties.
His wife reported that his psychological state is good but he feels excruciating pain in his back.
source: HRHI


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Saturday, October 8th is in the prison of Isfahan a man hanged.
The man, Ahmad, 67 was according to official judiciary reports convicted for the rape of 37 women.
Also in the prison of Isfahan were 4 men convictee to "hadd", amputation of limbs. The 4 unnamed men were convicted for robbery.
source: iranhr.net



The former president Khatami visited a group of prisoners of ward 350 in Evin prison.
Photo's are here.
source: greenvoice.com



The journalists Ali Nazamolmolki, Farzad Sadri, Saeid Nazari and Hakhamanesh Younesi have been arrested by agents of the ministry of intelligence in Shiraz.
All 4 journalists work for ISNA newsagency. They were transferred to an unknown location and their familymembers have been threathened by securityagents not to contact the media.
source: HRHI

After 8 months of housearrest Mehdi Karroubi was allowed to visit his familymembers.
Six security officials brought Karroubi to his sons home and allowed him to stay with the family for an hour.His son said that his father was in good spirits but he appeared thinner than before.
Since February is 75-year-old Mehdi Karroubi under housearrest and he has been forced to move to a small apartment where even his wife was not allowed to stay because of the limited space.
source: HRHI

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October 3 were 8 men hanged in secret in Lakanprison in Rasht.
The name of one of the prisoners is Gholamhossein Akhavan..
The names of the other men are unknown.
12 prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement, but nothing is known about the fate of the other four.
source: freedomessenger

Last week Fars reported that an aide of president Ahmadinejad underwent plastic surgeon to his eyelids.
Plastic surgery in Iran is very common and extremely popular, particularly nose jobs.
Plastic surgery among Iranian politicians and officials however, who publicly preach modesty and a simple lifestyle, is unheard of.
source: rferl.org

HRHI interviewed journalist Masoud Lisani who was arrested in September 2009 and has recently been released after the end of his sentence.
After the elections in 2009 many journalists had been arrested with charges of acting against national security. Heavy sentences were handed to them and many journalists were banned from their profession.
source: HRHI


The commander of SSF in Azerbaijan said that most people who were arrested at Lake Orumieh, are criminals, who had other plans than Lake Orumieh.
They were arrested for their criminal activities and disrupting public security.
A number of people were released on bail.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: and more

October 4th is a man been hanged in the prison of Ardebil.
The unidentified man was charged for selling and buying 199grams of heroin.
The charges were not confirmed by independent sources.
According to the official Iranian sources, at least 12 prisoners have been executed so far in October.
source: iranhr.net


The Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) was informed by a reliable source that activist Kouhyar Goudarzi is detained in Ward 209 of Evinprison.He was arrested on July 31, along with two friends. It is believed that he was on hunger strike for 17 days to protest the imprisonment of his mother Parvin Mokhtare, but that he ended his hungerstrike due to his deteroriating health.
Since authorities have remained silent on the his condition and location of confinement, there is no official confirmation on the details in this report.
source: chrr.biz


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Iran: more wriggle

October 5 were 3 man hanged in the prison of Kerman..
The charges against the men, Ahmad A. convicted of keeping and carrying 15 kilograms and 600 grams of heroin, Mohammad R. convicted of keeping and carrying 7 kilograms of heroin and Karim Sh. convicted of 2500 grams of heroin were not confirmed by an independent source.
source: iranhr.net

October 4 is Kurdish prisoner Aziz Khakzad hanged in secret in the prison of Kerman.
He was convicted for moharebeh and is a citizen from Salmas, Kurdistan province. Original he was sentenced to death but the verdict was changed to 5 years in exile prison in Kerman.
source: freedomessenger

According to the judiciary chief in Gilan province there has been no executionorder against Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani. He is jailed and awaiting his trial for security related issues.
According to PressTV the West has launched an anti-Iran campaign by claiming Nadarkhani, a convicted rapist an extortionist, that his criminal conviction is about his conversion to Christianity and acting as a 'priest.'
source: hken.ibtimes.com, presstv.ir

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Tuesday the trial of Omid Kokabee started, he is an Iranian student at Texas university who was arrested on charges of “relations with a hostile country” and receiving "illegetimate funds".
He denies all charges. He was arrested in February on the airport as he was returning to the U.S. after a short break in Iran.
The charges are punishable with 10 years in prison.
source: freedomessenger


In September the strikes in the whole country of Iran increased.
In Mahshahr Bandar Imam Petrochemical complex 6500 workers began a new round of strikes following their strike in March.
They had demanded the elimination of the intermediary subcontracting companies and the signing of collective contracts with the management.
On paper, the management has supposedly committed itself to eliminate these firms, but it still has to be implemented.
source: iranlaborreport.com



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A child will be hanged to death.
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