Youths welcome Rouhani by tearing off his portrait

 

  

While Iran’s president Hassan Rouhani is preparing to travel to the central city of Yazd, the youths in that city have shown their abhorrence for President of executions by tearing off a big banner showing his picture.

It is worthy to say execution of up to 2300 people is part of Rohani’s dossier during his past five years presidency 

Iran: Prison Visitor detained

Peyman Kooshkbaghi, was arrested himself when he went to visit his wife in jail.

According to Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran

 The couple, who belong to the Baha’i sect, were once arrested fin June 2012 when government security forces attacked a Baha’i education center.

 Penman’s wife, Azita Rafi Zadeh, founder of Baha’is ‘center for high education, is doing a five year term in Evin Prison.

Young Iranian hangs himself in Tehran

Horrific scene of young Iranian man hanging himself in Tehran

A young man in the Shahriar district of Tehran hanged himself, state-run media in Iran reported on Sunday, February 28^th.

According to this report this 28-year-old man hanged himself from a residential building’s balcony while his hand and feet were in chains.

Iran: state agents continue acid attacks against women

Acid attacks in Iran

According to reports wired by the state-run Fars news agency, affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards, on Saturday, February 27^th two young women in the city of Semnan, northern Iran, were acid attacked when exiting a women’s hair salon.

These two young women suffered serious injuries in their faces and other parts of their body and one was transferred to a hospital outside of Semnan Prison.

Acid attacks are an inhumane method used by Ali Khamenei’s plainclothes and Bassij agents against women and girls that have been carried out mainly in the cities of Isfahan and Tehran. The perpetrators of these crimes have never been identified or punished. In fact, they have been indirectly supported by officials of the Islamic state.

Iran: executed all adult men in one village

Human rights groups condemned the executions

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The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs.
The matter came to light earlier this week after Shahindokht Molaverdi revealed it during an interview with the semi-official Mehr news agency in rare comments from a senior government official highlighting the country’s high rate of executions of drug traffickers.
“We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province where every single man has been executed,” she said, without naming the place or clarifying whether the executions took place at the same time or over a longer period. “Their children are potential drug traffickers as they would want to seek revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people.”
According to Amnesty International, Iran remains a prolific executioner, second only to China. In 2014, at least 753 people were hanged in Iran, of whom more than half were drug offenders. In 2015, Amnesty said it had recorded “a staggering execution rate” in the Islamic republic, “with nearly 700 people put to death in the first half of the year alone”. 

Amnesty’s annual report slams Iran for human rights abuses

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At a time of increasing Iranian-Western rapprochement following the Iran nuclear deal, Amnesty International’s annual report has strongly criticized Tehran for is worsening human rights record.

Amnesty’s 2016 report strongly criticized Iranian human rights abuse, citing the imprisonment of journalists, the torture of detainees and a high rate of capital punishment.

“The authorities severely curtailed the rights to freedom of expression, association and assembly, arresting and imprisoning journalists, human rights defenders, trade unionists and others who voiced dissent, on vague and overly broad charges,” the report said.

Iran- Execution just before elections

Iranian government which desperately uses executions to avoid people’s uprisings, simultaneously is holding a mock elections.

On Sunday February 21^st, Morad Ali Rajabloo, a 52 year old Iranian citizen was hanged in Gorgan’s central prison, near the Caspian sea.

Iran: political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi in Tehran sends message on regime’s sham twin elections

Fellow countrymen

These days various types of trumpeters associated to the illegitimate mullahs’ regime, whom are most definitely linked to the Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK), have restarted their street theatrics under the pretext of election campaigns. They are calling on people to show up and vote, at a time when those truly struggling for the Iranian people, and the true political prisoners, are all behind bars. These thieves who are seeking to gain seats in two different assemblies of this regime, have no intention to serve the Iranian people. In fact they are seeking their own profits and protecting their rule, which they have wrongly stolen form the Iranian people.

Syrian political prisoner on hunger strike in Iran

Ramadan Ahmed Kamal, a political prisoner from the city of Kubani in Syria, held in Iran

Ramadan Ahmed Kamal, a political prisoner from Syrian detained in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Iran, is on hunger strike protesting authorities’ refusal to provide him any medical care.

It is worth noting that this political prisoner is from the city of Kubani in Syria. Back in 2008 he had mistakenly entered Iran with three Kurdistan Workers Party members and was arrested by Iranian border guards.

Arbitrary Arrest of 15 Kurdish citizens

Agent of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence arrested 15 civil activists in Saqiz, a city in the Iranian Kurdistan.

According to HARANA new agency all 15 arrests were without any court warrant while the agents misbehaved with the family members of the arrested. Among the detainees were an editor of a Kurdish website and a former Asia wrestling champion, who is now a university professor, HARANA said.

Iran: Elections… a repeated demagogic theatrics

Dr. Mohammad Malaki is: a known figure of the mullahs’ opposition inside Iran and the first dean of Tehran University following the 1979 revolution who spent years in prison for the “crime” of opposing the mullahs’ dictatorship in Iran. Dr. Malaki has written an article entitled, “Elections… a repeated demagogic theatrics” regarding elections in Iran. This piece has been published in Al Arabiya website on Friday, February 19^th. We have translated this article to English for all readers.

To all those yearning for years, seeking freedom in free and popular elections

Mohammad Malaki

Demagogic theatrics is a type of show aimed at amusing its spectators. Above a stage-box sits the performer with a number of strings, each attached to a small doll, and with a specific tone of voice he reads out the screenplay, moving the dolls here and there on the stage. The audience hear the voice of the dolls, seeing them going from here to there, while everything is controlled by the performer. The Allame Dehkhoda dictionary defines the word demagogic theatrics as: “A type of play in which dolls are built in different shapes and brought on stage, and the dolls are attached to thin strings with which the dolls are moved around in different ways.”

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
Learn more about deteriorating living conditions in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran

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.

Iran: political prisoner Ali Amir-gholi sentenced to 21 years behind bars

Political prisoner Ali Amir-gholi was informed of his jail sentence on Tuesday, February 16^th.

Ali Amir-gholi, an industry management student expelled from Qazvin Islamic Azad University, has been sentenced to 21 years behind bars. He was charged and sentenced by Judge Salavati for “insulting the sanctities, propaganda against the state, disrupting public order through taking part in protest rallies and insulting the leader.”

This college student had prior to this been arrested and transferred to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for taking part in a gathering held at Khavaran cemetery marking the 20^th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. He is currently held in ward 8 of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.

Iran: solidarity in two cities with political prisoner’s hunger strike

Solidarity and protest rally in Gorgan, northern Iran

 People protesting continued detention of Mohammad Ali Taheri – Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, northeast Iran

A group of friends and supporters of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri held gatherings and protest rallies in the cities of Mashhad and Gorgan expressing their solidarity with this Iranian regime dissident.

They held their gatherings while raising placards in support of Taheri who is on hunger strike in jail. The protesters were seen demanding Taheri’s unconditional release.

Iran: 2 Sunni political prisoner embrace before being executed

Hamed Ahmadi and Jamsheed Jahangiri

Two Sunni political prisoners embrace before being sent to the gallows.

A picture recently received from political prisoners in Iran shows two political prisoners moments before their execution by the Iranian regime. These Sunni Kurdish political prisoners Hamed Ahmadi and Jamsheed Jahangiri saying farewell to their friends and cellmates in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran.

These two were hanged on Wednesday, 4 March 2015, along with four other Sunni Kurdish political prisoners by the names of Jahangir Dehghani, 28, Kamal Molaie, 30, Sedeegh Mohammadi, 28, and Hadi Hosseini, 31.

Hamed Ahmadi is the first at left, smiling, and Jamsheed Dehghani is seen wearing a black shirt. 

Iran - Torture till Death in Zahedan city Prison

 

Iranian regime’s death men in Zahedan’s Central Prison (south east of Iran) tortured till death Malang Mir Shah, an ethnic Baloochi prisoner on Feb. 15th. He was then transferred to a solitary condiment, not to be seen by other prisoners.

This Baloochi Iranian citizen was deprived of food and water, and beaten up while in custody. His body was full of wounds, blood and bruises. His conditions were so grave that prison doctors considered him on the verge of death.

Malang Mir Shah, 46 is kept in jail while he finished his sentence four months ago. Regime guards savagely tortured him because he demanded his basic rights to be released.

Tehran: Mohammad Ali Taheri in Hunger strike

News received from Tehran indicates that followers of political prisoner, Mohammad Ali Taheri, have started a hunger strike since Friday Feb. 12^th.  Hunger strike is in response to the regime’s indifference to the grave health conditions of Mohammad Ali Taheri. Mr. Taheri himself has recently started a dry hunger strike and has been transferred to the hospital.

After few days Ali Taheri returned back to prison, while continuing his wet hunger strike.

Iran: undeclared arrest of teenager by the clerical regime in Ahwaz

 February 8, 2016 -  Human rights advocates report that Hamze Hosseinzadeh, 17, from the city of Mahshahr, southern Iran was abducted by plainclothes agents a few days after trampling a flag of the Islamic republic, His family had no information of his whereabouts for a year. They went to various hospitals and prisons seeking information about their child until they received a phone call from the Ahwaz Intelligence Department informing them their son is held in an intelligence prison

In recent years a number of Iranian Arabs have been killed under torture, including Gheiban Abidwai in Hamidiye, Mohammad Chaldawi, Reza Moghamesi, Mohammad Ka’bi and others, all from southwest Iran. 

Iran: Afghan national tortured to death

 

Agents of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) in Iranshahr Central Prison (southeastern Iran) have tortured to death an Afghan national by the name of Abdullah Nouri-zehi, reports indicate. Signs of burns were discovered throughout his entire body along with other marks of torture. State agents had recently transferred this inmate to Iranshahr Central Prison. Other prisoners, abhorred of the horrific torture signs, protested these inhumane measures by the prison guards and officials.

There is no information on why this Afghan prisoner was arrested and tortured.

Iran: political prisoner Taheri on dry hunger strike in Tehran

The life of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri is in grave danger after he began a dry hunger strike.

Mohammad Ali Taheri began his hunger strike on February 7^th as prison officials refused to release him despite his prison term coming to an end. Reports indicate he is currently in dire physical conditions. This political prisoner was returned to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on February 10^th despite his dire physical conditions and being hospitalized for two days. There is no information about his current health conditions.