Saturday, March 19, 2016

A prisoner's wish: I'll open a beauty parlor!

 

Her name was Ashraf Fadaii. She was born in 1960. Her sentence had ended in 1986, but the authorities were still keeping her in prison.
Her pretty face was a heavenly gate to her beautiful soul. She was a comrade and a lovely friend. I was her cellmate in 1982, in the ward 8 of Ghezel-Hesar prison (Karaj). Towards the end of that year she was transferred to solitary confinement in Gohardasht prison in Karaj. 

Iran- women: Girls make up 78% of children deprived of education




Ardeshir Shoja’ii, deputy director of Khuzistan Province’s Department of Education, said, 78 per cent of elementary students deprived of education are girls.
“There is a total of 14,088 school children in this province who are deprived of education and they are mostly consisted of 7 to 14-year-old girls”, he added.
He admitted, “Most students in deprived areas are marrying in early ages and do not continue their education”.  (State-run Asr-e Iran website - March 16, 2016)

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Iran- A government agent expresses his protests to the country’s authorities.






 Mohammad Najafi, a lawyer affiliated with the Mullahs government, has spoken against the government while speaking in a mosque in his home town of Shazand in the center of Iran. Najafi condemned government officials for their treason, corruption, grafts, impoverishing the people, and spending the wealth of Iranian people in Syria and Iraq.
Speaking in the last week of elections campaign at a memorial ceremony for a Shazand worker, who committed suicide by hanging himself, Najafi criticized His Eminence the Supreme Leader. The audience upheld Najafi’s words by their frequent “Salavats” (Salute for prophet Mohammad, as it is a custom in Muslim mosques).

Iran: Cold blooded Murder of a Young Vendor by Security Forces in Banab city of Kerman






According to the reports received on March 15 a young man from Mobarak Abad in suburb of Malekan was assaulted by security oppressive forces while he was carrying a load of peanut from Bonab Township to Malekan in State of East Azerbaijan. He was killed upon direct shooting.
This event of murder of a miserable young vendor provoked a wave of rage and discord throughout the region and the city remains in a state of turbulence. The body of the slain young man in the custody of the security forces and has not been handed to his family to avoid further wrath aggravations.

Notable that similar assaults are continuously carried out by Iran’s suppressive security forces against poor vendors in Kurdistan reputed as Koulbaran (carrying heavy loads on foot).  

Why Are Juveniles Committing Suicide in Iran?




This article is originally published in LGF by Pejman Amiri
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Iran: Fire Festival held by Iranian people across the country




Slogan of “Death to Khamenei; death to the principle of velayat-e faqih”; Khamenei's picture set ablaze

Iran Gohardasht Prison: chanting “Set fire to the principle of velayat-e faqih”




Resourceful political prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison held a Fire Festival ceremony on Tuesday under the surveillance of suppressive elements in this prison. Along with the people throughout Iran they chanted “set fire to the ward and to handcuffs”, “set fire to tyranny”, “set fire to a regime of ill faith”, “set fire more than before”, and “set fire to the principle of velayat (clerical rule)” while jumping over a bonfire.