3,000 prisoners in southeast Iran prison boycott Islamic state’s election

Zahedan Central Prison

Despite many threats and incentives by officials of the Islamic republic against inmates in Zahedan Central Prison aimed at forcing prisoners to vote in the sham twin elections, 3,000 inmates in this jail boycotted the polls and refused to cast their votes, the Human Rights & Democracy Advocates in Iran reported.

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.

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: political prisoners say they will continue struggle until regime overthrow

Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran

Recently the Iranian regime’s public prosecutor in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, proposed a number of prisoners to issue written requests for their conditioned release from prison.

Four political prisoners wrote the following in response:

Considering the fact that we have been illegally arrested, illegally tried and illegally placed in jail, we hold our position and will continue our struggle until the mullahs’ regime is overthrown and freedom is reached.

Down with Khamenei

Names of political prisoners:

Massoud Arab Choubdar

Hamid Babaie

Shaheen Zoghitabar

Payam Bastani

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: Jail for using Facebook

Another political prisoner goes on hunger strike on central city Tehran

Political prisoner, Amir Golestani, was arrested in August 2013, by the suppressive IRGC guards on charges of doing social activities on Facebook. He has already spent 31 months in jail.

Golestani, who is in section 8 of Evin Prison, has been on hunger strike since Feb. 13th protesting being deprived of his legal right of unconditional release. He has emphasized that he would go on dry hunger strike if his situation is not changed within ten days.

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: no info on whereabouts of 17-year-old man from Ahvaz

 Hosseinzadeh abducted by Iran Ministry of Intelligence

One year ago a young Iranian Arab by the name of Hamze Hosseinzadeh (Asakere) was abducted by Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) agents in a residential area of the city of Mahshahr, southwestern Iran. To this day there is no information of his whereabouts.

The family of this young man has throughout the past year soughtinformation about their son at the Iranian regime’s so-called judiciary offices and intelligence bureaus in Mahshahr and the capital of Khuzestan Province. However, to this day all of their efforts have ended in futile.

Iran: supporters of political prisoner Taheri rally in Tehran

Rally to protest Taheri imprisonment(Archive photo)

A group of supporters of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri rallied on Tuesday, February 9 in Tehran protesting Iranian officials’ refusal to release him from prison.

It is worth noting that Taheri has served his 5-year prison sentence and was scheduled to be released on February 7^th. However, the mullahs’ regime in Iran is refusing to release him.

Human rights activists were also seen in this rally, including former Tehran University dean Dr. Mohammad Malaki.

Iran: supporters of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri rally in Tehran

Free  Mohammad Ali Taheri 

A group of supporters and family members of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri rallied outside his home in Tehran on Sunday, February 7^th, holding a protest rally and carrying flowers, pictures and tracts.

It is worth noting that the mullahs’ regime is not permitting these family members to hold any protest rally outside Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, while they are only seeking to visit their loved ones behind bars. As a result, a large number of Taheri supporters had no choice but to gather outside his home as the site of their protest rally against the Iranian regime.

IRAN: Peaceful Protesters demanding release of Mohammad Ali Taheri

Dozens of people were arrested on Sunday during a peaceful protest in Tehran. State Security Forces (SSF) raided a rally by those who had gathered outside Tehran’s Evin prison and the home to political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri demanding his release.
Mohammad Ali Taheri, founder of a new spiritual group inIran called Erfan-e-Halgheh, was arrested on 4 May 2011 by officials linked to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards.