A prisoner's wish: I'll open a beauty parlor!

 

Her name was Ashraf Fadaii. She was born in 1960. Her sentence had ended in 1986, but the authorities were still keeping her in prison.

Her pretty face was a heavenly gate to her beautiful soul. She was a comrade and a lovely friend. I was her cellmate in 1982, in the ward 8 of Ghezel-Hesar prison (Karaj). Towards the end of that year she was transferred to solitary confinement in Gohardasht prison in Karaj. 

Iran- women: Girls make up 78% of children deprived of education

Ardeshir Shoja’ii, deputy director of Khuzistan Province’s Department of Education, said, 78 per cent of elementary students deprived of education are girls.

“There is a total of 14,088 school children in this province who are deprived of education and they are mostly consisted of 7 to 14-year-old girls”, he added.

He admitted, “Most students in deprived areas are marrying in early ages and do not continue their education”.  (State-run Asr-e Iran website - March 16, 2016)

 The original news posted on NCRI Women,s Committy

Iran- A government agent expresses his protests to the country’s authorities.

 Mohammad Najafi, a lawyer affiliated with the Mullahs government, has spoken against the government while speaking in a mosque in his home town of Shazand in the center of Iran. Najafi condemned government officials for their treason, corruption, grafts, impoverishing the people, and spending the wealth of Iranian people in Syria and Iraq.

Speaking in the last week of elections campaign at a memorial ceremony for a Shazand worker, who committed suicide by hanging himself, Najafi criticized His Eminence the Supreme Leader. The audience upheld Najafi’s words by their frequent “Salavats” (Salute for prophet Mohammad, as it is a custom in Muslim mosques).

Iran: Cold blooded Murder of a Young Vendor by Security Forces in Banab city of Kerman

According to the reports received on March 15 a young man from Mobarak Abad in suburb of Malekan was assaulted by security oppressive forces while he was carrying a load of peanut from Bonab Township to Malekan in State of East Azerbaijan. He was killed upon direct shooting.

This event of murder of a miserable young vendor provoked a wave of rage and discord throughout the region and the city remains in a state of turbulence. The body of the slain young man in the custody of the security forces and has not been handed to his family to avoid further wrath aggravations.

Notable that similar assaults are continuously carried out by Iran’s suppressive security forces against poor vendors in Kurdistan reputed as Koulbaran (carrying heavy loads on foot).  

Why Are Juveniles Committing Suicide in Iran?

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Iran: Fire Festival held by Iranian people across the country

Slogan of “Death to Khamenei; death to the principle of velayat-e faqih”; Khamenei's picture set ablaze

Iran Gohardasht Prison: chanting “Set fire to the principle of velayat-e faqih”

Resourceful political prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison held a Fire Festival ceremony on Tuesday under the surveillance of suppressive elements in this prison. Along with the people throughout Iran they chanted “set fire to the ward and to handcuffs”, “set fire to tyranny”, “set fire to a regime of ill faith”, “set fire more than before”, and “set fire to the principle of velayat (clerical rule)” while jumping over a bonfire.

Iran: At least 160 prisoners are on the death row

Ahmad Shaheed, the UN’s top expert on the human rights situation in Iran, expressed his concern about the high number of executions in Iran.  In his report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Monday, March 14th, Shaheed said, “At least 966 persons -- the highest rate in over two decades -- were executed in Iran in 2015” ,  In 2014, 753 people were executed.
Shaheed added that “at least 73 juvenile offenders were reportedly executed between 2005 and 2015, 16 of them in the past two years alone”.

“At least 160 others are awaiting the same fate on death row,” he added.

Iran –Female Political Prisoners in Evin celebrate March 8th

The Mullahs ruling Iran have built prisons to stifle Iranian people’s ambitions for a free society. Female political prisoners celebrated March 8^th in the cells of the notorious Evin Prison at the same time that this international event was commemorated by other noble women around the world.

Iran: Some more about Fire Festival in our homeland

"Zardie man az to, sorkhie to az man,"

"Zardie man az to, sorkhie to az man," = "May my sickly paleness be yours and your red glow be mine."

Iran: 4 recent news from our homeland

Iran: I am a teacher, for my human dignity

Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, an arrested member of Iran’s teachers club, was denied to see visitors as he refused to wear prison uniform. At last prison suppressive authorities gave in to his demands. On Saturday, March 12^th, Mahmoud Beheshti met his family while wearing ordinary clothes.

Mahmoud was arrested in this year’s Iran’s nationwide teachers strike. “I am a teacher, for my human dignity I refuse to wear prison uniform”, Says Mahmoud. 

Australian government puts Iranian refugees in danger

Archive photo

Australian officials have decided to return Iranian refugees there back to Iran. Australian government announced that this decision was taken after a new deal was reached with Iranian regime.

During the past decades many Iranians have fled their country for fear of being arrested, tortured or even executed.

Iran government is the enemy of Internet

“Reporters without Border” informed of its new campaign against internet censorship and filtering. In its statement for March 12, the global day against internet censorship     “Reporters without Border” has condemned Iranian government for its vast internet censorship.

Three Iranian Kurd activists get 100 years jail in total

 Kamal Sharifi, Mohammad Hossein Rezai, and Afshin Sohrab Zadeh at Minab Prison

Mullahs’ court in the southern city of Minab sentenced three Kurd political activists to long term imprisonment for sympathizing Kurdish organizations and fighting against IRGC. Mohammad Hossein Rezai, Kamal Sharifi, and Afshin Sohrab Zadeh got 45, 30 and 25 years respectively.

Iran: women without head-to-toe chadors not allowed into Mashhad medical centers

Sign reads only women with complete Islamic clothing are

 allowed into medical center in Mashhad, northeast Iran

The Vali-Asr Medical Center in Mashhad, northeast Iran, is banning women without head-to-toe chadors from entering, according to eyewitness reports from inside Iran.

“Only patients with complete Islamic cover are allowed in this medical center”, a sign reads at the entrance gate of this medical center.

“Before entering an employee confronted me and said I am not allowed to enter the facility,” said a young woman.

Iran’s freedom-loving women are enduring all types of psychological pressures and humiliations by the mullahs’ regime, including violation of their freedom of clothing. They are continuously harassed and restricted in this regard.

Reporters Sans Frontiers condemns Internet censorship in Iran

Internet censoring in Iran

Marking March 12^th as the International Day Against Internet Censoring, Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) has issued a report condemning Internet censorship in Iran.

This organization has listed Iran as amongst the main enemies of the Internet, announcing it will continue its activities to relieve all censored Internet websites across the globe.

RSF also announced the beginning of a campaign to overcome censoring and filtering by the enemies of Internet freedom. In this new campaign RSF has prepared new software for Google Chrome to simplify and facilitate access to censored websites. With this software users will be able be directed easily to these websites without any intermediaries.

Iranians celebrating end-of-the-year Fire Festivities

Despite all hardships, the Iranian people are always full of hope and celebrating the last Tuesday night of their calendar year that marks the beginning of spring in late March every year. This is a celebration of traditional Iranian customs, jumping over fires, ridding themselves of all the “bads” of the passing year to the fire, and taking in all the “goods” from the fire for the upcoming year. This is a sign of change, as the flames of fire are signals of uprisings and revolt against darkness, the cold and all “bads” in the depth of night.

Iranian youth are facing to Mullahs in all streets

A deputy minister said:

 “Activities and assignments are given to Inspectors during New Year’s celebrations. These inspections will begin starting March 10 and continues for a month”.

IRAN: Charshanbe Suri

Iranians celebrate their thousands year old fire festival of the last Wednesday before Nowruz

 Iranian regime is terrified the feast may turn into uprisings:

A government agent in Tehran:

“Last Wednesday of the year has now become a battlefield”

Monday March 7 – Government Suppressive forces sieged Tehran’s Molavi sq. and arrested sellers of fire work material.

Tehran: Protestors throw fireworks during a football match

Protestors throw fireworks & hand grenades during a football match at Azadi Stadium

Sunday afternoon, March 6th - Spectators turned the match between two teams, in the premier league, into a battlefield. They were angry with the exclusive policies of Mullahs ‘Football Federation.

The fight, between spectators and security forces, broke out while some FIFA officials were present.

Iran- Kid dies of air pollution in Ahwaz

Eleven year old Foad Hanafi died of asthma in Ahwaz, center of the south western county of Khuzestan, on February 23^rd, just a few days before Iran’s sham elections.

Another kid, also in Ahwaz, was reported to have died for the same reason. Fearing people’s protests Rouhani government ordered the media not to publish the news.

 Tuesday, February 23^rd, Ahwaz

Detest for Khamenei in Iraq

                                    Undoubtedly your future would be even worse

Khamenei’s Office in Najaf (Iraq) has announced they would pay a prize to anybody who reports the identity of those who attempt to pull down pictures of Iran’s Ayatollahs from the walls.

 Al Quods Al Arabi which is published In Arabic has reported of several cases of tearing off pictures of Iran’s deceased Supreme Leader Rouhollah Khomeini and his successor Ali Khamenei in the Iraqi religious city of Najaf.

May a day come that we get our New Year presents?

I’m the one in the middle

My father is unemployed and cannot afford buying me a present.

He would pay for my mother’s surgery if he had any money.

I do the same as my friends. We look in the garbage hoping to find something.

More than 3 million kids in Iran are out of school trying to make some money for the family.