We wish everyone around the world a happy and joyous Spring

The Spring Equinox marks Norooz, the start of the Persian New Year. The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran takes this opportunity to wish everyone around the world a happy and joyous Spring, and a world free of pain, suffering, abuse, persecution, torture, and execution; a world in which no one is prosecuted and imprisoned for the peaceful exercise of their basic rights to freedom of thought, expression, religion, assembly, and association. Iranian cartoonist Touka Neyestani remembers Iranian political prisoners on the occasion of Norooz on this Year of the Monkey.

https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2016/03/cartoon-143/

Iran’s Discrimination Against Baha’is

https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2016/04/rouhie-safajoo/

Rouhie Safajoo, a student banned from Iranian universities because of her Baha’i faith and arrested for her online activism, was released on March 27, 2016 on 500 million rials (about $16,500 USD) bail, nearly three weeks after her arrest.

“We are very happy Rouhie is free,” her sister, Maryam Safajoo, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “But the real story is that for the past 37 years [since Iran’s 1979 revolution], Baha’i students have been denied the right to attend university.”

Iranian Political Prisoner Goes on Hunger Strike To Protest Denial of Health Care

Prisoner of conscience Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been on a wet hunger strike since March 26, 2016 to protest being denied medical care for his kidney disease, according to his mother, Zoleikha Mousavi.

“We had a face-to-face meeting with Hossein in Evin Prison on March 27. He told us that he had started a hunger strike and would not stop until they pay attention to his condition,” Mousavi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “I’m tired of seeing my son go on hunger strike several times a year to get medical treatment. I want him free.”

https://www.iranhumanrights.org/2016/04/hossein-ronaghi/

A glim of hope from prisons inside Iran before New Years

From a large number of letters and news reports that I have received recently from inside Iran’s prisons on the verge of the Persian New Years, “Norouz”, I have brought three different examples so that we can be in sympathy with their pains and sufferings.

Massoud Arab Choubdar launches hunger strike in solidarity with political prisoners Farid Azmoudeh and Iraj Hatami

Tuesday, 29 March 2016

Massoud Arab Choubdar in a letter to the child of Farid Azmoudeh, currently in prison, saying he has launched a hunger strike in solidarity with Farid Azmoudeh and Iraj Hatami.

Iran – A graveyard in Zahedan for those executed

Zahedan – Prisoners killed under torture are secretly buried in this graveyard

A graveyard in Zahedan in Bloochestan County, south east of Iran, is allocated to bury the executed political prisoners.

This remote graveyard is located about two miles from “Behesht Mohammad” graveyard on the road from Zahedan to Mirjave.

This graveyard holds the bodies of the executed political prisoners, the secretly executed prisoners; prisoners killed under torture and amputated prisoners. 

Iran: May 1st, International Workers Day

A day to protest and celebrate in Iran

 In a joint statement on March 28^th, Workers in Bella Shoe factory and Melli Shoe factory in Tehran called on the Iranian workers to celebrate the upcoming International Workers Day and cry out their protest against the anti-workers policies of Mullahs government.

Iran – Third inmate joins hunger strike in Gohar Dasht prison

Political prisoner Massoud Choobdar

Karaj, north of Tehran- Gohar Dasht Prion – Tuesday March 29^th, Massoud Choobdar political prisoner started his hunger strike in solidarity with two other inmates Farid Azmoudeh and Iraj Hatami already on strike.

How mullahs in Iran destroy human beings from within

Interview with a prison guard involved in executions

When the noose is prepared and doors leading to the prison courtyard are closed, he realizes an execution will be carried out soon. However, he has no idea he is the very person scheduled to carry out today’s execution.

“Rasoul” is a simple private 3^rd class soldier assigned in the units protecting the Prisons Organization in Iran. There was five months left to his duty period and one day his commander calls him over and says, “You have to be the guard carrying out the execution today.”

Six Exclusive Documents Indict Iran, Hezbollah for 9/11 Attacks

Exclusively-obtained US court documents have exposed a link between Iran and the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

The documents, published this week by pan-Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat, revealed that a New York District Court ordered Iran to pay more than $10.5 billion in damages to families of people killed in the attacks and to a group of insurers.

According to the newspaper, “allegations were built on information collected by military men who conducted interrogations with US detainees on Iranian affiliation with al-Qaeda.”

Iran- Female political prisoner deprived of medical attention

  

Ghadrieh Ghaderi was arrested in 2010 on charges of collaboration with Kurdish political groups. She then went through two months of torture and interrogations, in a solitary confinement, and finally was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.

Ghadrieh who is now in a prison in Yassoge, south central Iran, is suffering from multiple diseases such as severe headaches and anesthesia. The prison authorities, however, do not allow her transferee to hospital although her family is willing to put a bond of about $25.000 for her return.

Iran – Random arrests in Ahwaz

 Recent antigovernment protests in Ahwaz

Ahwaz South East of Iran – State suppressive forces raided a restaurant on Saturday March 26th and arrested about 20 youths. In another event government forces government forces savagely stormed the "enghelab" district at midnight and arrested a number of youths. All Detainees were taken to an unknown location. Questions made by families about the conditions and whereabouts of their loved ones were left unanswered.

After the recent antigovernment rallies and protest in Ahwaz which ended up in clashes between people and the security forces, government is using arrests and intimidations to extinguish the demonstrations.

Let Iranian Women Go to Stadiums...

Iranian Regime is banning women entering the sport stadiums

I invite you watching the amazing footage in this regarde

Why Can’t Iran’s Economy Revive?

This article is originally printed on American Thinker on March 26, 2016

Political experts and economists alike are discussing how Iran is engulfed in a dire economic crisis paralyzing the country. While actual reports can hardly be obtained about the true status of Iran’s crumbling economy, a brief glance at what is available provides us with an image of the scope of the destruction overwhelming Iran’s economy at the hands of the mullahs sitting on the throne in Tehran. 

Iran – Rouhani is fed on Juveniles’ blood

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Amnesty International warns juvenile offender could be executed soon

Himan Uraminejad is on death row in Iran for an offence carried out when he was a child.

Himan Uraminejad aged 21 is on death row in Sanandaj’s Prison, western Kurdistan Province, where he has been told he will be executed after the Iranian New Year holiday period ends on 1 April.

Amnesty International has warned, “In its ruling, the court ignored the absolute prohibition, in international law, on using the death penalty against people who were under 18 at the time of the crime, and the fundamental principles of juvenile justice that require all those under 18 years old be treated as children,” .

Amnesty has called for an Urgent Action and added, “Amnesty International has recorded at least 73 executions of juvenile offenders between 2005 and 2015. According to the UN at least 160 juvenile offenders are now on death row. Amnesty International has been able to identify the names of 49 of these juvenile offenders, some of whom have been on death row for over a decade”.

Iran- Another Political prisoner goes on hunger strike

Political prisoner, Hossein Ronaghi

 Blogger Hossein Ronaghi was arrested in December 2009 by IRGC intelligence on charges of “insulting the Supreme Leader, Khamenei” and “insulting the President Rouhani”. He was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment.

Ronaghi is afflicted to several physical deficiencies such as respiratory, heart problem, kidney disorder, stomach bleeding and . . . , but the prison authorities neither provide him with medical services, nor allow him to go to hospital on his own expenses. Further he is kept among ordinary and criminal prisoners.

Ronaghi started a hunger strike on Saturday March 26^th to protest Khamenei’s agents depriving him of medical attention. Ahmad Ronaghi, Hossen’s father, has announced that he would also go on hunger strike if his son’s demand for medical attention is not met.

Iran – Suppression of Kurdish ethnic minority

On February 25th, IRGC intelligence forces raided the home of Arash Makri and arrested him after forcing themselves into the house without any judicial warrant. Arash is studying for his master’s degree in Tabriz University

The IRGC agents presented no judicial order and began searching Makri’s home after his arrest, confiscating his belongings including a laptop, mobile phones, flash memory sticks and a number of Kurdish books. Arrest and interrogation of Arash Makri is based on allegations of having connections to a Kurdish party opposing the Islamic republic. 

Iran – Suppression of Baloochi ethnic minority

Nassir Abad village in Iran’s Baloochistan

Reports indicate massive raids and arrests in Sistan and Bloochestan County by Iranian regime’s security forces. In recent days a young Balooch by the name of Ayoub Saboori of Nassir Abad village, in the suburb of the city of Sarbaz, was arrested. His family has no news about his conditions or whereabouts.

Earlier in January the IRGC suppressive forces raided the same village and took twelve other youths with them. The detainees were later tried in closed courts without any lawyer defending them. 

Political prisoners ask the UN to investigate Iran’s human rights dossier

Political prisoners at Gohardasht prison

Nine political prisoners of Gohardasht prison, in Karaj, north of the capital Tehran, have written an open letter and expressed their support for Ahmad Shaheed, the UN special Rapporteur’s report on human rights violations in Iran. 

The letter reads in part, “we the political prisoners not only reiterate and support the contents of this report, but also ask the UN to investigate Iran’s human rights dossier independent of the its’ nuclear and state terrorism files.”

Mullahs in Tehran: untamable and far from today’s global community

The West’s appeasement policies and constantly turning their backs and neglecting Iran’s never-ending crimes, meddling and warmongering in the Middle East during the past few years have failed to tame the mullahs in Tehran and alter its destructive nature. This major regional dilemma continues to threaten the international community.

This regime, thriving on two central tenets, continuously oppresses individual and social freedoms inside Iran. This is seen clearly in the 2,300+ executions under the tenure of the “moderate” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, people deprived of their freedoms and God-given rights, growing poverty and skyrocketing unemployment.

“Iran’s strategy in Syria inconclusive” says a former diplomat

Talking to state media, Ali Khoram, a former agent of Iranian government at the European center of the United Nations, has warned that “the same sanctions that presently exist against Iran’s nuclear programs can be exerted on its missile programs as well”

This former Iranian government’s diplomat defined Mullahs strategy in Syria as inconclusive and said, “Russian’s behavior has waned Iran’s position in the region. Now Saudi Arabia and Turkey can push for Assad’s departure. They are now the winners”.

Iran: Mullahs IRGC are exporting hackers throughout the globe

US Ministry of justice has given out names and pictures of seven Iranian nationals who are accused of hackering in files of banks and financial institutions and also a dam in the United States. Loretta lynch , US minister of justice, said in a press conference on Thursday March 24^th that her ministry  has filed legal complaints against seven Iranians for hackering, in 46 financial entities including Bank of America, that has caused millions of Dollars of loss.

US ministry of justice has announced that these seven hackers are agents of Iranian regime and work for IRGC “Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps”

Also on Thursday US treasury Department put six companies and two individuals on sanction list for helping Iran in its missile tests. Complaint sue

Cancel Rouhani’s trip to Austria,

“Any relations with this regime should be preconditioned to the annulment of the death penalty in Iran and this regime’s interference in the region”.

National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has called on the Austrian government to cancel the upcoming trip by Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.

NCRI said in a statement.

“At a time when western countries have been silent regarding the barbaric violation of human rights and crimes of the Iranian regime in Syria, Iraq and other regional countries, welcoming Rouhani and other leaders of this regime will encourage them in the violation of human rights in Iran, as well as in the export of terrorism, fundamentalism and warmongering in the region and the world”.

Iran - hunger strike in Gohar Dasht Prison

Two political prisoners, Iraj Hatami and Farid Azmoudeh, two political inmates at Gohar Dasht prison have been on hunger strike since March 14^th in protest of keeping them among ordinary and criminal prisoners. Both prisoners are in weak physical position and suffer from high blood pressure when they are deprived accessing medical treatments.

United Nations Human Rights Council lashes out Iran’s human rights abuse.

A resolution presented by 39 UN members to extend “the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights” in Iran for “a further period of one year” was ratified by UN human Rights Council on Wednesday March 20.  Mr. Ahmad Shaheed resides at his position as the Special Rapporteur on Iran for the 6^th consecutive period.