Iran: growing number of suicides amongst youth

The painful and unfortunate tragedy of numerous suicides in Iran have been gradually on the rise in the past few weeks, with the main reason behind this social phenomenon being widespread poverty and a new wave of hopelessness the people face in Iran under the mullahs’ rule. One may conclude that unfortunately suicide in Iran is considered the last method of protest for the people. When people sees no prospect for the evaluation and resolution of the never-ending dilemmas in a society ruled by fundamentalist mullahs, this is how the youth react and show their protest to the incompetence and repressive measures imposed by the ruling elite.

Iran: conditions of political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Malaki become dire on 30th day of hunger strike

 Political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi Malaki surpassed his 30^th day of hunger strike in dire conditions. This political prisoner, on hunger strike since March 26^th, is suffering from kidney and stomach problems, his internal stomach and kidney bleeding has intensified.

Systematic human rights violations continues in Iran, U.S. State Department annual right reports

The U.S. State Department issued its annual human rights report on Wednesday, April 13^th covering the status of human rights in Iran during the course of 2015.

Flagrant and Systematic Human Rights Violations in Iran

In a segment of this reported allocated to Iran the U.S. State Department covered the flagrant and systematic human rights violations in Iran, including increasing executions, especially against juveniles.

Iran: budget for medical care of thousands of cancer children disappears

Former officials involved in previous governments in Iran have unveiled documents showing how they stole huge amounts of money through fraud during their time in office.

Hrana news agency unveiled this new report and it remains unclear why such numbers have yet to be revealed or published, and who no government official has said a single word about this matter.

Ahmad Tavakoli, former economic advisor to then president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, “Many trillion of rials of government money was to spent on medical care for cancer and ill children, and those suffering from incurable illnesses. However, all of it suddenly disappeared!”

Iran: Political prisoners are living under horrifying situation

Seifzadeh described thedenial of medical care and critically needed hospitalization

Mohammad Seifzadeh, the prominent Iranian human rights lawyer who for years defended political prisoners in Iran and railed against the inhumane conditions of their incarceration, was freed on March 10, 2016 after serving his own five-year prison sentence, and spoke at length about the harsh conditions he experienced first-hand as a political prisoner.

Iran: political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi calls on Federica Mogherini

Letter of political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi to EU foreign policy chief before her visit

Her Excellency Madame Federica Mogherini

European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs

I am one of the most senior political prisoners in Iran who has always respected and acknowledged the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and related covenants, and from day one I have based my political activities on these frameworks. However, I have always faced charges of peacefully struggling for freedom, democracy, rights and justice.

Iran: When a street talks

Iran: abandoned children left in street

Poverty in Iran

An abandoned new born baby was placed in a trash bag on April 4th and left in front of a hospital in the city of Mahshahr, Khuzestan Province, southern Iran. 

Perhaps one would say the phenomenon of abandoned children is nothing new and happens every day in the four corners of the this cruel world. Poverty or even family problems are usually the main cause of this heartrending story.

Although poverty is also one of the main factors behind unwanted children in the mullahs’ ruled Iran, but there is another frightening reason behind leaving the most vulnerable and innocent human life at the mercy of the chance in the winter cold or summer heat.

Iran: letters of political prisoners to Italian Prime Minister

Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran

Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran – April 10, 2016

Political prisoners Reza Akbari Monfared and Hassan Sadeghi have written separate letters to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi describing the crimes taking place inside Iran and asking him to inspect these dungeons during his visit to Iran.

Letter of political prisoner Reza Akbari Monfared to the Italian Prime Minister

Dear Mr. Prime Minister of Italy

I have learned of your scheduled visit to Iran.

Iran – Kurdish Woman summoned for observing Nowruz celebrations

Nowruz celebration in Iranian Kurdistan

Security forces in the Kurdish city of Sannadaj called on the home of Soheila Mohammadi on Thursday March 31st to call her to appear before a court in Sannadaj for “distorting public order”

Mohammadi sponsored the Nowruz – Iranian New Year – celebration in Ghasrian, in the suburb of Sannadaj. Some other participants in the celebration have also been arrested.

Iran: acceptable women’s unveiling

 Suppressive forces attack protesting Iranian women

Khamenei’s representative:

 "Graft and theft are more acceptable than women’s unveiling"

Mullahs in Iran are experts in graft and financial fraud as the news about theft and extortion by Iranian officials come out once every few days. Alamolhoda, Khamenei’s representative in the north eastern province of Khorassan wrote in his Instagram, on Friday April 8^th, that extortion and plunder of people’s wealth is much better than unveiling.

“Anybody who steals from people or makes unlawful speeches that sin refers only to himself, but a woman showing her   hair forces others to commit sin”. Wrote Alamolhoda.

Iran MP sheds light on notorious detention center southeast of Tehran

Out side view of Kahrizak detention center

Kazem Jalali, a member of Iran’s so-called parliament, said in a recent interview that youths arrested during the 2009 protests were transferred to the Kahrizak detention center.

This site was where many youths were tortured and raped.

“The mere transfer of people’s children to Kahrizak was wrong and a completely inappropriate decision,” Jalali said.

“At that time we were told there was no room in Evin Prison! However, when we went to Evin Prison at that time we saw in fact that Evin had plenty of room and we referred to this matter in our report. There were many such cases at that time.” (State asriran.com – March 31, 2016)

Iran: mullahs’ misogynist ideology promoted in public

“A woman is not a vase that may break, don’t be afraid to hit it.”

“Good Woman, Dead Woman”

This is an Iranian regime element who has written misogynist remarks on his vehicle promoting sexual discrimination in public.

It is worth noting that the so-called police of this regime showed no reaction in this regard, allowing such issues to be fanned day by day. Of course, the reason behind such measures is obvious for us. The mullahs’ regime itself is behind the misogyny phenomenon in Iran, acid attacks and beating women in public under various pretexts, including not abiding by strict clothing regulations. This social corruption has roots in the mullahs’ reactionary ideology.

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 – 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.”

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.