Iranian students threw a graduation dance party. It cost them 99 lashes each.

Iran: 99 lashes, cost of graduation party

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It happens behind closed doors in Iran all the time: Young people get together to play music, flirt and generally relax, hidden away from hard-liners who definitely would not approve. Mostly, the parties wrap up without incident: the guys cleaning up any incriminating clues, the girls putting their headscarves back on. Then they all go their separate ways.

This time, however, someone tipped off authorities that a group of students was throwing a bash to celebrate graduation. More than 30 were taken into custody. Their punishment: 99 lashes each.

The report by Iran’s Mizan News Agency gave no details about the students, their ages, their school, or when the arrests took place. But it noted that lashings were carried out with almost unprecedented swiftness: within less than 24 hours after officials raided the villa on the outskirts of Qazvin, a small city about 80 miles northwest of Tehran.

Iran: Narges Mohammadi in solitary confinement – pain & suffering far beyond prison

Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi – A human rights advocate in solitary confinement

Narges Mohammadi, political prisoner and human rights advocate in Iran, has recently been sentenced by the mullahs’ so-called judiciary system to another 10 years behind bars. Mohammadi has in a letter to the Pen Association unveiled the extremely critical situation of solitary confinement detentions in Iran under the mullahs’ rule.

Iran: Khamenei prepares his faction for inner face-offs

Mullah Janati

90-year-old Mullah Ahmad Janati appointed as Assembly of Experts chief

Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei has been forced to resort to using very old elements of his faction to rein in his rivals and prevent Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and former president Akbar Rafsanjani from gaining further influence.

Khamenei’s faction has appointed Janati, now most probably in his final days, as chief of the Assembly of Experts. Janati is 90 years old and also chairs the Guardian Council, is a member of the Expediency Council, the so-called Cultural Revolution Council and a number of other state bodies.

Iran: juvenile executions must be stopped

Fear of imminent mass executions of juvenile offenders

Seven juvenile offenders are planned to be executed by Iranian regime

The Iranian regime in yet another brutal measure has transferred 7 

juvenile offender to the solitary confinement for imminent execution.

As a step prior to carrying out executions, the fundamentalist regime of Iran moves the death row inmates to the solitary confinement a day or days before the sentence is carried out. The 7 are in what is called by Iranian people as Gohardasht prison or as it is called by the regime the Rajaie-shahr prison located some 20 miles northwest of Tehran in the city of Karaj. 

Iran: youths released from prison face enormous difficulties

Sho’le Pakravan, the mother of Reyhane Jabbari in Iran

By: Mrs. Sho’le Pakravan

Fereshte Asanlu hosted a gathering of mothers in Iran. We were all worried about a young man recently released of prison and engulfed with heavy debts. For a few days after returning home they see their friends and relatives. Then, real life kicks in. Unemployment, living problems… Let me explain more.

Omid Alishenas, the son of Simin, is a construction engineer. He was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for his activities for labor children! It has been a few months since he has been released from prison under a very heavy bail. However, he remains unemployed.

Months ago when Arash Sadeghi and my dear Golrokh came to my home I asked him what is your job? He said I am unemployed. I said it is obvious there will be no government jobs for you. But what about opening a store to sell goods? He said for such a permit he would have to work for many months to finally earn a profit. I said yes. He also said how do I know how long I will remain out of prison? At any moment they may issue a new verdict and force me to return to prison.

Iran: regime agents round up satellite dishes in eastern Tehran

Repressive police rounding up, destroying satellite dishes

Repressive police in Iran are continuing their crackdown campaign in eastern Tehran by rounding up satellite dishes from people’s homes. These agents raided people’s residences and climbed their walls to round up satellite dishes and confiscating the LNBs.

These repressive measures of rounding up satellite dishes is a clear sign of the mullahs’ utter fear of the general public being informed of the news. This campaign has been repeated time and again by the mullahs’ crackdown entities in various cities across the country. However, not only have satellite TV viewers increased in Iran, according to the regime’s sate media, more and more people are referring to satellite TV networks for their news and entertainment.

Iran: 26 oppressive entities mission to stop “mal-veiling”

A real example of a warning in Iran!

Crackdown of women in Iran under pretext of improper veiling

According to remarks made by regime officials in Iran, there are 26 oppressive entities established in Iran missioned to fight against the mullah-fabricated phenomenon of “mal-veiling” in the society. All these entities are parts of a crackdown machine in Iran. One such entity is deviously dubbed, “Enjoining Good and Forbidding Wrong.” A few days ago, Ali Lotfi, a regime official in this entity in the city council of Mashhad (northeast Iran) said the regime is facing a crisis in this regard. In a ceremony held to inaugurate a building for this repressive organ, Lotfi delivered a speech emphasizing on continuing crackdown measures, adding under orders issued by Mullah Alamalhoda, the representative of Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Mashhad, from May 23^rd onward arrangements have been made for roads leading to the sacred Imam Reza shrine in this city to be placed under more coverage by this unit.