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Violation of Human Rights in Iran during a Week 07 July 2013

At a Glance

 Execution
  

4 prisoners are sentenced to death in public

Monday 01 July 2013

HRANA News Agency – 4 prisoners who are said to be rubbers have been sentenced to death in public on charge of enmity with the God.
According to a report by Ghanun, these 4 prisoners who are said to be involved in 4 stick-ups, keeping, carrying and using illegal weapons , disturbing the public order and threatening the civilians have been tried by the second branch of the revolutionary court of Karaj and sentenced to death on charge of enmity against the God.
Rohollah, Sajjad, Torab and Ali have killed nobody and are sentenced to death just because of rubbery.
This report claims the accused ones have accepted their crimes in the trial so judge Safari the judge of the second branch of the revolutionary court of Karaj has sentenced Sajjad and Rohollah (28 years old), Ali (27 years old) and Torab (31 years old) to be hanged in public in Pishahangi neighborhood in Karaj.

 

25 Prisoners Were Executed in Iran, According to Unofficial Sources

http://iranhr.net/spip.php?article2812

Iran Human Rights, July 3, 2013: According to reports from reliable sources in Iran, yesterday and today 25 prisoners were executed in two different prisons in Iran.
None of the executions have been announced by official Iranian sources yet.
21 prisoners executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) yesterday:
According to reliable sources that Iran Human Rights (IHR) has been in contact with 21 prisoners were hanged in the Ghezel Hesar prison of Karaj yesterday morning Tuesday July 2.
17 of the prisoners belonged to the Gehzelhesar prison while 4 prisoners had been transferred from other prisons to Ghezelhesar for implementation of the execution. One of the prisoners transferred from Rajai Shahr Prison was identified as "Mohsen Jahanbakhsh" born in 1977. Mr. Jahanbakhsh was sentenced to death by the judge Salavati, convicted of Moharebeh (war against God) for participation in armed robbery. His family were not informed about the execution and they were not given the opportunity of visiting him for the last time.
Identities of the other 20 prisoners are not known at the present moment but it has been reported that most of them were convicted of "Moharebeh", "corruption on earth" and drug related charges.
Four prisoners were hanged in the prison of Rajaei Shahr today:
According to IHR’s sources in Iran four prisoners were hanged in the Rajai Shahr Prison of Karaj (west of Tehran) early this morning July 3. The prisoners were all convicted of murder and three of them are identified as "Mohammad Jafari", "Ali Yadegari" and "Karim Taraj". …

 

Six Prisoners Hanged in Southeastern Iran This Morning- More than 40 Executions Since Presidential Election

Iran Human Rights, July 4: Six prisoners were hanged in the prison of Bam (Kerman Province, Southeastern Iran), reported the Iranian state media today.
According to the state run Iranian news agency Fars six prisoners who were not identified by name, were hanged in the prison of Bam early this morning Thursday July 4.
The prisoners were allegedly convicted of trafficking 339 kilograms of heroin and 191 kilograms of opium said the report.
Yesterday Iran Human Rights (IHR) reported about execution of 25 prisoners in the prisons of Ghezelhesar and Rajai Shahr (both in Karaj, west of Tehran).
According to the official and unofficial reports more than 40 prisoners have been executed since the Presidential election in mid-June in Iran. 19 of the executions have been reported by official Iranian sources.



At least four prisoners were hanged in Urmia

Posted on: 4th July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – Four prisoners sentenced to death for drug-related crimes have been executed in Urmia’s Central Prison in Kurdistan Province.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), four prisoners identified as Jahandar Mirzahie, Mehrab Mirzahie, Ismail Badoie and Mohammad Saleh-Gharahati were hanged at midnight yesterday.
Human Rights Activists in Iran has reported that 211 inmates at Urmia’s Central Prison have been secretly executed since March 21, 2010, but the news of these executions has never been officially confirmed by the judiciary branch.  Among those hanged, 203 inmates belonged to Iran’s Kurdish ethnic group, and eight were members of Iran’s Turkish community.

 

A juvenile offender will be hanged next week

Posted on: 4th July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – A juvenile offender who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime committed at the age of eight will be hanged next week in Tehran.
According to a report by Shargh Newspaper, the plaintiff has demanded approximately $500,000 in reparation before giving the required consent for the sentence to be commuted.  Iranian criminal law allows death penalty for children, but the sentence can be carried out only after the child reaches 18 .
On Friday, July 5, 2013, a play will be held at Arasbaran Cultural Center in Tehran to collect donations for the defendant.  The show, titled the Blue Sensation of Death, is about imprisoned juvenile offenders.

 

25 prisoners have been hanged in 2 days

Posted on: 4th July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – 21 prisoners have been hanged in Ghezel Hesar prison of Karaj on Tuesday, also 4 prisoners have been hanged in Rajai Shahr prison on Wednesday.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the family of Mohsen Jahanbakhsh, the prisoner who had disappeared since last Monday, went to Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj to follow his situation yesterday morning.
The authorities told them that they have transferred him to Ghezel Hesar prison. When they went to Ghezel Hesar prison, they were told that Mohsen and 20 others have been hanged on Tuesday 2nd of July.
One of the prisoners told to HRANA: “17 of these prisoners were from Ghezel Hesar prison and 5 others were brought here from other prisoners. None of them were allowed to visit their families for the last time.”
Mohsen Jahanbakhsh, born in 1977, had attacked the cash carrying vehicle with the cooperation of Seyyed Salaheddin Jafari in 2007 during which one of the guardian’s leg was injured. He was sentenced to death by the branch 15 of the revolutionary court of Tehran on charge of enmity against the God.
Meanwhile 4 prisoners have been hanged in Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj on Wednesday 3rd of July.
Mohammad Jafari from ward 6, Ali Yadegari from ward 2, Karim Taraj from ward 3 and a prisoner from ward 7 whose name is not known yet were hanged in Rajai Shahr prison.
There were 3 others who succeeded in getting the satisfaction of the complainants and 2 who managed to get a chance to pay the blood money.
The Iranian official media has reported none of these executions.

The cases of 8 Sunni prisoners are sent to the Supreme Court

Posted on: 6th July, 2013

HRANA News Agency – The cases of 8 Sunni’s who are sentenced to death and in Rajai Shahr prison now, have been sent to the Supreme Court.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the intelligence agents arrested 149 Sunni citizens in 2009 in Iran.
8 of them have been sentenced to death by Judge Mogheyse the head of the branch 28 of revolutionary court.
The cases of these 8 prisoners identified as Pourya Mohammadi, Omid Peyvand, Mokhtar Rahimi, Bahman Rahimi, Mohammad Yavar Rahimi, Shahram Ahmadi, Mohammad Gharibi and Faramarz Shah Nazari, have been sent to the Supreme Court for the final decision last week.
One of the relatives of these prisoners told to HRANA: “These prisoners have been tried by Judge Mohammad Mogheyse the head of the branch 28 of the revolutionary court and sentenced to death. They are charged with enmity against the God because of supporting their own belief. But all 8 are denying the charges and say they have been arrested because of supporting their own religion and the Islamic Republic has sentenced them to death to take revenge. Their lawyer has denied the charges in his objection.”
He said: “there are 149 people being sent to different prisons but most of them are in Rajai Shahr prison. Some have already been hanged.”
6 Salafi prisoners who had been transferred to Ghezel Hesar prison last November were hanged on Thursday December 27, 2012.
These prisoners who were charged with membership in Salafi groups are identified as: Bahram Ahmadi, Asghar Rahimi, Behnam Rahimi, Mohammad Zaher Bahmani, Keyvan Zand Karimi and Houshyar Mohammadi.

 

The Execution Wave Continues: Three Official and 11 Unofficial Executions in Iran Today

Iran Human Rights, July 6, 2013: At least 14 prisoners have been executed according to official and unofficial reports from Iran today. Seven other prisoners were scheduled to be executed today according to unconfirmed reports.
According to official and unofficial reports at least 60 prisoners have been executed after the Presidential elections in Iran.
Three prisoners were executed in northwestern Iran today:
According to the official Iranian broadcasting three prisoners were hanged in the prison of Ardebil today. Two of the prisoners were brothers and were convicted of participation in trafficking of 4535 grams of heroin, while the third prisoner was convicted of possession of 3 kilos and 10 grams of crack, said the report. None of the prisoners were identified by name.
11 prisoners were hanged in southeastern Iran, according to unofficial sources:
According to "Human rights and democracy activists in Iran" (HRDAI) 11 prisoners, five of them women, were hanged in the prison of Zahedan this morning.
Four of the prisoners were identified as Rasoul Khorouj, Vahid Rigi, Hamid Najafi and Naser Naghaei said the report.
These executions have not been announced by the official Iranian sources.
According to unconfirmed reports seven prisoners were scheduled to be executed in the northern city of Rasht. The reports are not confirmed yet.



Arbitrary Arrests

 

Ali Nazeri, the political activist was arrested

Posted on: 1st July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – Dr. Ali Nazeri the political activist has been arrested and transferred to the ward 350 of Evin prison.
According to a report of Kalemeh website, on June 26 the agents appeared in Dr. Nazeri’s dental clinic and arrested him according to a verdict issued by Tehran court and transferred him to Evin prison.
Ali Nazeri the dentist and one of founders of green civil society in Iran with nationalistic trend and of green movement activists who was active in environmental issues and supporting human rights activists.
This 62 years old activist was arrested once more on June 20, 2010 by IRGC’s intelligence and was released by bail after being in confinement cell for 40 days in ward 2-A.
Nazeri was trialed by judge Pirabbasi in branch 26 of revolutionary court and was sentenced to 10 years living in exile in Zabol and one year imprisonment on charge of attending in protests and gatherings after the 2009 presidential election.

 

Six of Oroumiyeh civil activists are still under arrest

Posted on: 1st July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – The reports say that except  6 activists among the arrested civil activists of Oroumiyeh the rest of them were released after a few hours of interrogating in Oroumiyeh intelligence office.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on June 27 Oroumiyeh intelligence agents arrested 36 activists while they were passing the Shahid Kalantari bridge to Sahand mountain slopes and transferred them to Oroumiyeh intelligence office. The intelligence agents interrogated the activists for few hours and after all except of 6 activists, the rest of them were released.
Somayyeh Alidousti the professor in physics faculty of Oroumiyeh university and captain of national women soccer team, Vahid Faezpour -Kiaksar- the weblogger, Gholam Gholizadeh, Meysam Azadi and Vahid Nasibi the civil activists and Morteza Zarrin are under arrest in Oroumiyeh Intelligence yet.
It is worth mentioning that these activists were goign to participate in a ceremony regards to June 26 the international day against torture and professor Zahtabi’s anniversary in Sahand mountain slopes.
The arrested activists were beaten by security forces in Shahid Kalantari police station that resulted injured ones and Somayyeh Alidoust’s condition reported critical.
Also the security forces transferred Paria Khalilzadeh the player of women national soccer team, Sevda Khalilzadeh, Masoomeh Parivazh, Zahra Zadghasem, Hossain Zadghasem, Tohid Hassani, Saied Lotfi, Saied Abdi, Nima Hassani, Sina Hassani, Erfan Moghadam, Sima Sakeni, Milad Koulani -Saboutai-, Babak Ghane’ -Bayek Arazli- the turkish Azerbayjani rap singer with 16 other to Oroumiyeh intelligence and after a few hours interrogation released them.

 

No information about three arrested civil activists after weeks

Posted on: 3rd July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – After several weeks of arrest of three civil Azerbaijani activists whose names are Bahram Akhouni, Naser Kazempour and Majid Sefidani there is still no news about their condition.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), these activists have not contacted their families till now and this increased intensely the worries about their condition.
On June 12 the security agents invaded the newsstand of Bahram Akhouni, inspected his workplace and home and transferred him to unknown location. At the same day the security agents invaded Naser Kazempour’s workplace and Majid Sefidani’s home, made intimidation, inspected the places and arrested them.
According to the family members of arrested activists neither security authorities nor judicial authorities have given a proper answer about their condition yet.

 

A student has been arrested in Shiraz

Posted on: 7th July, 2013

HRANA News Agency – Samira Razzaghi the top doctor and radiation and chemotherapy student of Shiraz medical since university has been arrested on June 26, 2013.
According to a report by Nedaye Sabze Azadi website, she managed to pass the proficiency exam in 2010 but Dr. Mohammad Hadi Imaniye, the president of the medical since university of Shiraz prevented her from being registered for 4 months with no explanation, who was finally forced to by the order of Supreme Justice Court.
The students’ activists say she is believed to be arrested by the request and coordination of Dr. Imaniye.
Samira Razzaghi who was in the last month of her studies has been chosen for several times as the top student during. She was also the editor of some students’ magazines and a member of the Islamic Association of the students of medical since university before it was confiscated by the authorities.

Prisoners of Conscience
 
Iran: Opposition Figure’s Health Raises Red Flags
Give Political Prisoners Regular Visits, Access to Adequate Medical Care
July 4, 2013

Afshin Osanlou’s untimely death and Mousavi’s hospitalization both underscore the precarious conditions for ailing prisoners in Iran, especially people being held incommunicado.Whatever the precise cause of Osanlou’s death, the shroud of secrecy and the abuses to which Iran’s political prisoners are regularly exposed shows the urgent need for far-reaching prison reform.
Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director
(Beirut) – The hospitalization of a detained opposition figure and the death of an imprisoned labor rights activist highlight the problems that prisoners in Iran face in accessing adequate medical care and regular visits, Human Rights Watch said today. On July 2, 2013, security forces took Mir Hossein Mousavi, a 2009 presidential candidate, from house arrest to a Tehran hospital, where doctors treated him for complications related to his blood pressure. Security forces have prevented Mousavi from receiving the regular medical checks doctors had recommended for a serious heart ailment.
Mousavi’s transfer to a hospital came less than two weeks after the sudden death of a 42-year-old trade union activist, Afshin Osanlou, who was serving a five-year sentence at a prison near Tehran. Authorities say he died from a heart attack. Families and associates of other detainees serving time on politically motivated charges have said that authorities have denied them access to medical care or regular family visits, deepening their isolation and increasing fears for their safety and well-being.
“Afshin Osanlou’s untimely death and Mousavi’s hospitalization both underscore the precarious conditions for ailing prisoners in Iran, especially people being held incommunicado,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Whatever the precise cause of Osanlou’s death, the shroud of secrecy and the abuses to which Iran’s political prisoners are regularly exposed shows the urgent need for far-reaching prison reform.”
A source familiar with Mousavi’s medical case told Human Rights Watch that his blood pressure fluctuates erratically due to his heart ailment. The source said that security forces have not permitted him to receive medical check-ups at least every 50 days, as doctors recommended, and prevented him from remaining in the hospital during the latest visit for medical tests. He suffers from a blocked artery and underwent angioplasty in 2011.
The authorities detained Mousavi that year, along with his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, and another prominent 2009 presidential candidate, Mehdi Karroubi. All three have been under house arrest orders since then without charge or trial. The two men had called for peaceful protests in Iran in support of the Arab uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia. During their house arrest both Mousavi and Karroubi have repeatedly complained that security forces prevent them from receiving regular visits from their family members.
There is growing concern for another detainee, Arash Sadeghi, 26, a student activist believed to be in the fifth week of a hunger strike and held in solitary confinement in Ward 209, the section of Evin Prison controlled by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. Prison authorities have refused to provide any information about him in recent weeks, an informed source told Human Rights Watch.
The daughter of Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari, a blogger imprisoned for four years on speech-related charges, has told Human Rights Watch that authorities have refused to allow him temporary leave from prison for needed treatment for a serious heart condition.

Osanlou’s family learned on June 22 of his death at Rajai Shahr Prison in the city of Karaj, 25 kilometers from Tehran. His elder brother, Mansour Osanlou, told Human Rights Watch that he died on June 20, apparently after suffering a heart attack in prison, although prison officials insist he had been taken to a hospital before the heart attack. Osanlou’s sister, Fereshteh, said the authorities did not immediately inform the family of his death, only confirming it after the family asked about him and his whereabouts on June 22. She said medical staff told her it may take up to three months to fully determine her brother’s cause of death.

“The Iranian authorities should urgently investigate Afshin Osanlou’s death and determine whether it occurred from natural causes or was brought on by prison conditions or any form of mistreatment,” Stork said.
Authorities arrested Sadeghi on January 15, 2012, and have mostly held him in solitary confinement and prevented his family from visiting him regularly, an informed source told Human Rights Watch. The source said that Sadeghi began a hunger strike on June 1, after prison guards abused him, and that prison officials have refused to give either his family or his lawyer information about his condition.
Sadeghi was a graduate student at Tehran’s Allameh Tabatabai University who supported Mousavi’s presidential campaign in 2009. He had been arrested several times since the mass protests that followed the disputed 2009 election. On October 30, 2010, his mother suffered a fatal heart attack when officials raided the family home in Tehran while searching for Sadeghi.
He escaped arrest then but subsequently surrendered to authorities, who held him for about a year in Ward 209 of Evin Prison and then released him on December 15, 2011. According to reports by rights groups, Intelligence Ministry officials tortured and ill-treated him in prison, severely damaging his right shoulder.
Authorities arrested Sadeghi again on January 15, 2012, after Branch 26 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court had convicted him on charges of “collusion against national security” and “propaganda against the state” and sentenced him to six years in prison. The sentence was reduced to five years on appeal, four of which were suspended. The reasons why authorities continue to hold him are not entirely clear.
Pourshajari, 53, a blogger known also by his pen name Siamak Mehr, has been refused access to necessary medical treatment since he suffered a serious heart attack in prison in October 2012, his daughter, Mitra, told Human Rights Watch. She said that authorities at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj have prevented doctors from performing an angiogram requested by prison doctors and have refused to approve his temporary absence from prison if he should need treatment to unblock his arteries.
She said prison authorities transferred her father to a local hospital in March when he experienced breathing difficulties and dizziness, but quickly returned him to the prison infirmary. She said her father also suffers from gallstones and an enlarged prostate.
In a June 10 audio recording obtained by Human Rights Watch, a voice identified as Pourshajari’s says that authorities beat and tortured him and threatened to hang him after forcing him to stand on a four-legged stool during his initial detention following his arrest on September 12, 2010. He also says that authorities held him in solitary confinement for eight consecutive months and that interrogators repeatedly threatened to send him to the gallows.
In 2010, Branch 109 of the Revolutionary Court in Alborz convicted Pourshajari on charges of “acting against the national security” and “insulting Ayatollah Khomeini” for writings posted on his personal blog and sentenced him to three years in prison. In December 2011, the court also convicted him of “insulting [religious] sanctities” and added another year to his sentence.
“Prisoners have every right to get the medical care they need and to see their families,” Stork said. “Instead in case after case, we hear that ailing people are cut off from both needed care and from their families.”
Background 
Security forces arrested Afshin Osanlou, a member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, an independent labor union increasingly targeted by the authorities, in November 2010. In a letter that he allegedly authored in August 2012 and smuggled out of prison, Osanlou said that authorities transferred him to Ward 209 of Evin prison and a detention facility run by the Intelligence Ministry in the northwest city of Sanandaj after his arrest. There, he said, they placed him in solitary confinement and tortured him, including by lashing him on the soles of his feet, over a period of five months. In 2011, Branch 15 of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment after a trial lasting no more than “several minutes” but enough for the court to convict him on national security-related charges related to his union activities. He was due for release from prison early next year.
Authorities released Afshin Osanlou’s elder brother, Mansour Osanlou, former president of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, in June 2011 after imprisoning him also for his peaceful union-related activities. Security forces arrested Mansour Osanlou near his home on July 10, 2007, and a Revolutionary Court later sentenced him to five years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” and “propaganda against the regime.” Following his release from prison, he left Iran after receiving death threats. He told Human Rights Watch that he fears the authorities may have targeted his brother in order to “settle the score” with him and delegitimize the lawful efforts of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company to promote workers’ rights.
Since 2009, Human Rights Watch has documented numerous cases of torture, ill-treatment, or medical neglect of detainees, in some cases resulting in prisoners’ deaths. Hoda Saber, for example, a journalist and political activist who was serving a prison sentence in Ward 350 of Evin Prison, died at a Tehran hospital on June 10, 2011, after going on hunger strike to protest the death of another political activist who died after security forces attacked her as she attended her father’s funeral. Prison officials transferred Saber to Evin Prison’s infirmary when he experienced chest and stomach pains on the eighth day of his hunger strike. There, according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, he was beaten severely and authorities later failed to move him to a hospital quickly when he suffered a heart attack that proved fatal.
Human Rights Watch has repeatedly called on Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities to allow political prisoners to receive regular family visits and access to the medical treatment that they need.
In 2012, Human Rights Watch urged the authorities to allow rights defender Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand access to medical care, to end the incommunicado detention and solitary confinement of journalist Bahman Ahamdi Amoui, and to permit Javid Houtan Kiyan (Houtan Kian), serving an 11-year sentence on national security charges, access to both family visits and treatment for a serious digestive illness.
Both international law and Iranian national law require that prison authorities afford adequate medical care to all those in their custody. Iran’s State Prison Organization regulations also provide that prison inmates be transferred to hospital outside the prison facility, when necessary. The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners require that authorities transfer all those held needing specialist treatment to specialized institutions, including civilian hospitals.
International law and Iranian national law also require prison authorities to provide all prisoners with basic necessities, to allow them regular family and other visits, and to treat them with dignity and respect. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a state party, prohibits torture and other cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment.

 

Journalist brothers transferred to prison

Mon, 07/01/2013 - 15:07
Khosro and Massoud Kordpour, two Iranian journalists, have been transferred to the central Mahabad Prison four months after their arrest.
The Mokerian News Agency reports that last Wednesday, the two brothers were finally transferred to Mahabad Prison from the detention centre of the Intelligence Ministry.
Khosro Kordpour has said that he and his brother have been charged in the absence of their lawyers. The journalists reportedly have been accused of “propaganda against the regime by reporting on the situation of political prisoners.”
Khosro and Massoud Kordpour were arrested in March in Mahabad without any official statements as to the charges against them.

 

Former MP Mir Taher Mousavi Receives 5 Years; 3 Years Imprisonment Plus 2 Years Suspended Sentence

Monday, Jul 01 2013
Mir Taher Mousavi, a Former MP, a university instructor, and a member of Mir Hossein Mousavi's 2009 presidential campaign, has been sentenced to three years imprisonment plus two years suspended sentence.
Mir Taher Mousavi, former governor of Karaj, former Vice President of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, former CEO of Kahrizak Hospice Charity and the founder of it's second branch in Mohamad Shahr Karaj, Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences University instructor, and coordination assistant of Mir Hossein Mousavi's 2009 presidential campaign has been sentenced by the Appeals Court.
Mir Taher Mousavi was previously sentenced by Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court to 5 years imprisonment to be served in Sistan and Balouchestan province, plus 10 years exile in the same province on charges of anti-national security acts through assembly and collusion. Branch 54 of the Court of Appeals has now reduced his sentence to 3 years imprisonment plus 2 years suspended sentence.
Mir Taher Mousavi was arrested last year at Imam Khomeini International airport when returning to Iran from a family trip abroad. For many months he was incarcerated in solitary confinement at Ward 209 of Evin prison (the Intelligence Ministry's ward) under heavy pressure and severe physical and psychological torture.
Mir Taher Mousavi suffers from various illness and a heart condition and was under physicians care prior to arrest. His medical records were given to his interrogators by his family but not only they did not provide proper medical care but kept him in solitary confinement for 8 months before transferring him to the General Ward 350 in Evin prison.
source: Kaleme 

 

2 political prisoners came for vacations

Posted on: 3rd July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Sadegh Rabbani Amlashi who was in Evin prison since last November and Mohsen Mohagheghi, a member of central council of Nehzat-e-Azadi are sent to vacations.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Tehran prosecutor has agreed with 4 days vacations for these two political prisoners so that they are out of the prison since 1st of June.
Mohammad Sadegh Amlashi, the professor of Tehran University, was arrested on December 27, 2009 and sentenced to 3 years of prison by the branch 28 of Tehran revolutionary court afterwards.
Mohsen Mohagheghi is one of the aged prisoners of Evin prison who was arrested at the same time and sentenced to 2 years and a half of prison.

3 July 2013
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Journalist Fatemeh Kheradmand was handed a one-year prison sentence by Judge Pir Abassi presiding over Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court. The journalist was charged with “propaganda against the regime through working with the ‘Ghalame Sabz’ website.”
According to CHHR, on January 7, 2012 Intelligence agents raided the home of Fatemeh Kheradmand in the middle of the night, conducted a search of her residence, confiscated personal items such as her computer and transferred her to ward 209 of Evin prison at 1:30am. After enduring 25 days in detention while being interrogated, on February 1, 2012 the journalist was granted temporary release pending her trial on 50 million Tomans bail.
On October 24, 2012 Kheradmand was put on trial along with Dr. Saeed Madani and Ehsan Hooshmand at Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court presided by judge Pir Abassi on the charge of “propaganda against the regime through working with the ‘Ghalame Sabz” website.”
Fatemeh Kheramand, journalism major at Tehran Azad University was a staff member of the Mir Hossein Mousavi presidential election campaign in 2009. Her husband Masoud Lavasani is a journalist who was detained in September 2009 after the contested presidential elections of that year and faces a 2-year prison sentence handed by Judge Pir Abassi.

Labor activists Vafa Ghaderi & Ghaleb Husseini on trial

Posted on: 4th July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – Two labor activists Vafa Ghaderi and Ghaleb Husseini were tried by the Revolutionary Court in the city of Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province.  Ghaderi was sentenced to a year in prison.  A verdict has yet to be issued for Husseini.
According to a report by the Coordinating Committee to Create Labor Organizations, Ghaderi’s attorney received the verdict on Monday, July 1st.  Ghaderi who is a member of the committee has been charged with conspiracy against national security.
“Vafa Ghaderi’s only crime is membership in the Coordinating Committee and defending workers’ rights,” the report says.
On Sunday, June 30, 2013, another labor activist’s trial was held at the first branch of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj.  Ghaleb Husseini was charged with organizing labor unions and membership in parties abroad.  Judge Babaie presided over the trial which lasted one hour.  Husseini was represented by his attorney, Abbas Jamali.

 

Judiciary Official to Imprisoned HR Activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki: You Will Eventually Die In Prison

Friday, 05 July 2013
Persianbanoo  - A Judiciary official, answering Hossein Ronaghi Maleki making a complaint about the authorities neglecting his and other political prisoners’ situation, responded: “You will eventually die in prison, and after a few weeks of the media noise, everything will become quite.”
The Kaleme website describes a short meeting that the incarcerated human rights activist, Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, had with a Judicial official. They said Maleki received a harsh reaction when he pointed out the problems with poor nutritional quality of food, lack of proper and specialized medical facilities and medication, and the ignoring by authorities of his and other ill prisoners’ situations, being kept in an Improper and unsafe prison environment.
This Judicial authority in response to Hossein Ronaghi’s request for medical furlough said that the Attorney General’s office has not so far received a letter from IRGC Intelligence agreeing with his furlough. This, while many senior Judicial officials have repeatedly spoken of the independence of the Judiciary!
According to medical specialists, Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, in addition to suffering from kidney ailment, has also recently encountered prostate disease and bladder inflammation and in order to continue his treatment requires a stress free environment that provides adequate nutrition along with easy access to doctors and specialists, and specialized facilities.
In recent days, due to the lack of specialized facilities, the lack of access to his treating physicians, and lack of proper nutrition, Ronaghi has encountered gastrointestinal bleeding and has not been able to take his needed medication for his prostate and kidney diseases.
According to previously published reports, while Ronaghi was on a medical furlough, prior to the presidential election, despite his suffering from kidney malfunction and prostate and bladder inflammation problems, he was ordered back to prison by the Attorney General’s office.
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki was among those arrested after the 2009 disputed presidential election. He was arrested by IRGC Intelligence and tried at Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Pirabbasi, and was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.
Last August, while Ronaghi was on his first medical furlough, he, his brother and father, Ahmad and Hassan Ronaghi, along with 33 other earthquake aide workers, were arrested at the Sarand earthquake relief workers’ camp in the earthquake-stricken area of Azarbaijan (here).
In that case, Ronaghi was sentenced to 2 years and six months imprisonment on the charges of “Assembly and collusion with intent to act against the national security in the earthquake-stricken areas”, “Threat to public health through distribution of moldy bread”, and “Disobeying police orders”, thus, making his sentence increase to a total of 17 years and six months imprisonment (here).
Source: Kalemeh

 

 

New Charge Against Dervishes: "Terrorist Group Formed Against the Regime"

Thursday, Jul 04 2013
Four imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes who appeared in Shiraz's Revolutionary Court this morning on Tir 13, 1392 (July 4 2013) faced a host of new charges including "terrorist group formed against the regime," "participating in protests to overthrow the Islamic Republic," "Moharebeh ("Enmity against God") and "carrying illegal weapons"!
Two years after Kavar events, following the attacks by Basiji and plain-clothes on Gonabadi Dervishes in Kavar town in Fars Province which resulted the death of one Dervish called " Vahid Banani" who was killed by a gun-shut in police checkpoint but it is the Dervishes who are always accused of false allegations and may be summoned for questioning and interrogation under various pretexts in any time.
According to Majzooban Noor, the final defense hearing was held on the case of four Gonabadi Dervishes (Sayed Ebrahim Bahrami, Mohammad Ali Sadeghi, Mohammad Ali Dehghan and Mohsen Esmaeeli)
in Branch 14 of Shiraz's Revolutionary Court Presided over by judge Vaezi with the presence of their lawyer, Kamran Sadeghi. The above mentioned Dervishes were charged with "terrorist group formed against the regime," "participating in protests to overthrow the Islamic Republic," "Moharebeh ("Enmity against God") and "carrying illegal weapons". The Dervishes assert that the allegations are baseless and unfounded.
These Gonabadi Dervishes who were arrested on 10 Ordibehesht (April 30) of this year have been put under physical and psychological pressure and torture in Shiraz Intelligence Detention Centre, known as No.100 (Plaque 100/Pelak sad). The pictures of their family members were shown to them in order to create fear and panic and make prisoners confess. They have been treated harshly ,insulted, threatened with being hanged and even their beliefs and great masters of Nematollahi Gonabadi order have been insulted by prison officials. All these ill-treatment and violence have led to serious problems such as stomach bleeding, back pain, kidney pain and even neurological disorders.
In mid-Tir 90 (July 2011) some extremist forces have gathered in front of Gonabadi Dervishes and with the offensive slogans against Dervishes caused conflicts in kavar town. Since Shahrivar 1390 (September 2011) so many file cases opened against Gonabadi Dervishes in courts, pressures on Gonabadi Dervishes increased, so on, in the second half of 1390 and first half of 1391 more than 100 Gonabadi Dervishes in the city of Kavar, arrested, beaten, and without receiving written summons have been tried.
Despite repeated Dervishes complaints to Judiciary systems, no deal has been done yet to the main causes of Kavar conflict.


Behnam Ebrahimzadeh has been arrested when he appeared in court

Posted on: 7th July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – Behnam Ebrahimzadeh the labor activist who was in vacations because of his son’s blood cancer, was arrested while being threatened and insulted when he appeared at the Tehran court.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Behnam Ebrahimzadeh appeared at Tehran court on July 2 to renew his furlough, but got arrested by Khodabakhshi the solicitor-general.
First he was transferred to Tehran Bazar police station and then to the detention center of 7th base of security police that during his time in security police detention center Behnam was insulted and threatened to beat.
Also when Behnam Ebrahimzadeh entered Evin prison he was inspected physically in a strange and rude way by prison security.
This happens while the son of this political prisoner is suffering from blood cancer and his presence is recommended highly in terms of progress in medical treatment by the doctors of Mahak hospital and forensics.
It is worth mentioning that this political prisoner was on furlough to follow up his son’s medical treatment since June 26.

 

Three political prisoners were tried once more

Posted on: 7th July, 2013
HRANA News Agency – Reza Shahabi the member of directors board of  Tehran bus company syndicate, Shiva Nazarahari the human rights activist and the student deprived of study continuation and Abdollah Ja’fari the political prisoners of ward 350 in Evin prison were tried under the name of absence during their vacations.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the prisoners were tried by branch 1171 of the court on charge of  absence during their vacations and sentenced to cash fine.
Shiva Nazarahari the human rights activist and member of human rights reporters committee has been sentenced to 4 years imprisonment and 74 lashes on charge of enmity against God, propaganda against the regime and illegal gathering. She introduced herself to Evin prison for spending her imprisonment on September 8, 2012.
Reza Shahabi the labors rights activist and the member of directors board of Tehran bus company syndicate is sentenced to four years imprisonment, five years of syndicate activities deprivation and seven million Thomans fine according to the Tehran appealed decision.

Abdollah Ja’fari is another political prisoner imprisoned in ward 350 of Evin prison who was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment by the revolutionary court on charge of gathering and colluding.

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