Documentary report on atrocious conditions of Vakeel Abad Prison in Mashhad, northeast Iran

A humanitarian catastrophe in Vakeel Abad Prison of Mashhad in northeast Iran
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Despite the winter cold and prisoners’ needs to heating appliances and adequate care, most of the inmates of Vakeel Abad Prison of Mashhad were deprived of adequate supplies during the winter season.

Inmates are forced to go to the prison courtyard early in the morning, and despite the rain or cold weather they are kept there for long hours. If it starts to snow they have a very thin blanket to sit on and another blanket (if they are able to procure one) to cover their heads with, which of course is not enough at all. At times there have been cases where the prisoners, suffering from severe sleep deprivation, have fallen asleep in the courtyard under the snow, and when they wake up they find themselves covered with a layer of snow.

Those who paid the price for freedom in Iran

Nayereh Jallali Mohajer

In Memory of a Brave martyr’s mother

Commemorating Nayereh Jallali Mohajer, One of protesting mothers at Khavaran cemetery, Forty days after her death.

 Tehran - Thursday Feb. 11^th - 40^th day of the depart of Nayereh Jallali Mohajer (known as Mother Behkish), mother of six martyrs of the 1980 s, was arranged in her house, in which mothers of some other martyrs took part.

 Mother Behkish, whose one daughter and five sons were martyred by Iranian regime, finally joined her children on January 3rd after years of struggling against the criminal mullahs. Mother Behkish once had told about her martyred children:

“What can I say? The cruel Mullahs killed Mohammad in March 81, Syamak in October 81, Zahra (daughter) in September 83, Mohsen in April 85, Mahmoud and Ali in September 88”.

Long live the memory of this brave mother.