Iran: mullahs’ operatives damage national-cultural heritages

                                           Scenes of the damaged Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue 

Bakhtiary Iranians in the city of Ahvaz, southwest Iran, staged a demonstration on Monday, May 16^th, protesting the damaging of national heritages and symbols of the Constitutional Revolution period [early 1900s] by operatives loyal to the mullahs’ regime and supreme leader Ali Khamenei.

Following the damages inflicted to the statue of Ass’ad Bakhtiary, a legend of the Constitutional Revolution who conquered Tehran, by the gangs and hoodlums of the mullahs’ regime in Chahar Mahal and Bakhtiary Province, the Bakhtiary Iranian community held a demonstration protesting these measures that are considered an insult to Iran’s culture and history. Video footages of the damages inflicted on the Ass’ad Bakhtiary statue has been posted on the Internet, showing the police being present at the scene yet taking no action to prevent this hideous measures.

IRANIAN PRISONER KNOWN AS A LEADING LADY FOR JOURNALIST

In a ceremony in Paris on May 2, Reporters Without Borders declared four journalists to be heroes and heroines of 2016; amongst them was Ms. Narges Mohammadi, an Iranian political prisoner, lawyer, and human rights activist.

During this ceremony, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo expressed her support for all those who work for freedom of expression. She presented City of Paris medals to the chosen journalists and praised their endeavors, saying that the gates of the French capital will always be open to them.

Mohammadi has been arrested many times for her human rights activities. She was last arrested on 5 May 2015 at her home by judicial security agents without prior notice and was transferred to the notorious Evin Prison in northern Tehran. The arrest initiated a six-year prison sentence that had already been handed down in March 2011.

Iran- Denial of Adequate Medical Treatment to Political Prisoners Unacceptable

GENEVA– A group of United Nations human rights experts today warned that over a dozen political prisoners in Iran , including some prominent human rights defenders, lawyers and political activists, are at risk of death in detention due to their worsening health conditions and the continued refusal by the Iranian authorities to provide them with medical treatment.

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.

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.

Iran: Lebanon’s Hizbollah Leader, “I and Iranian officials are old friends”

 Al Miadin, an Iranian regime’s TV station broadcasting for outside Iran, quoted on Tuesday March 22nd, Hassan Nassrollah, the leader of Hizbollah, emphasizing his deep-rooted friendship with the officials in the Iranian regime.

Hizbollah, Iranian regime’s main tool for meddling in Lebanon and other regional countries, was put on the list of terrorist organizations, earlier this month, by the countries of the Gulf’s Cooperation Council. Immediately afterwards Kuwait expelled 14 members of Hizbollah.