Friday, July 3, 2015 10:49:54 AM

 

The report has mentioned the systematic Human Rights violations in Iran as mass arrests, execution, inhumane treatment, according to the BCR Group reports during the first six months in 2015.

 

Table of Contents

Arrests

The situation in the region

Iran’s Elite Student in the Prison

Execution

Hunger Strikes

Inhumane Attitude

Brutal Torture by Intelligence Division of Iran’s National Police Force, Iran

Persecution of Labor Activists are Being Continued in Iran

 

 

Many wetlands and ponds have dried in Iran in the recent decades due to the insufficiency management by officials.Khodamorad Azizi was arrested by the security forces officials on the charge of propaganda against the regime of Iran and hosting environmental activists who were from capital Tehran and Shahrkord on 3 June 2015. The 83-year-old grandsir is kept in the detention along with his son Dr. Reza Moradi because he had hosted several environmental activists who were clarified of the critical wildlife situation by him according the news. The trade institutions are going to annihilate surroundings for the profit-seeking purposes in the region as the local residents declared to BCR Group.  According to the news received by rights group at least 300 citizens has been allegedly called by the Revolutionary Court of the city of Boldaji in Borujen County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran, whereas, 30 of them were reportedly thrown to the jail while they protested against water transferring from Sabzkooh zone to the birthplace of the Major-General of the Revolutionary Guards Mohammad-Ali Jafari.

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Iran: A Demonstration Begun for Drinking Water Crisis

If my son got sick who would be responsible?

Tehran, 8 June 2015: the citizens had started a protest against regional drinking water shortage in the capital of Tangestan County where located 50 kilometers southeast of the port Bushehr. The protesters had set up a traffic stop in the front of the Government office in the area and expressed their basic demands which have been denied by authorities. The tropical residents have frustrated of the water shortage. One of the demonstrators had declared to the local news agency Tangestan-Nama that we have faced with major troubles because of the imprudence of officials, and we are asked them to solve the problem as well. The other citizen said that we are suffering because of water drinking shortage at the beginning of the hot season. He added that the people had looked for drinking water, but they didn’t get any response from authorities. “It is not pleasant that a woman leaps the water tanker while her baby is in the arm.”  The citizens have forcibly used the bottles of mineral water which is very expensive for the labor class.

 

Wednesday, June 10, 2015, Iran: Three Prisoners Taken to the Intelligence Service Solitary Confinement

The non-ending persecution of the political prisoners is being continued in Iran.The three political prisoners Saeid Masoori, Afshin Baymani and Jafar Eghdami were transferred to the Intelligence Service solitary confinement from Hall 12 at Rajai Shahr prison in the city of Karaj on 10 June 2015. In this regard, many reports have been received from prisons throughout Iran about the persecution of the prisoners which lead them starting the hunger strike to express their basic demands. These reports have been received from Karoon, Adel Abad, Kurdistan, Sistan and Baluchistan and many other prisons in Iran. On the other hand, Mohammad Seyfzadeh, an Iranian Human Rights lawyer, was transferred to the hospital because of his critical condition in the Islamic Republic chambers as rights group said. The lawyer was arrested after uprising of the presidential election in 2009 because of his protests against results of the election. He received eight years imprisonment in the Revolutionary Court of Iran. Mr. Seyfzadeh also suffers from kidney disorders and prostate disease. The other inmate Rasoul Hardani is on the ninth day of his hunger strike to protest against the officials’ negligence of his medical treatment. He had clashed with prison’s officials according to the news due to his critical condition in the prison which led him to begin the hunger strike on 2 June 2015. Rasoul was detained along with his brother with charged of hijacking and disturbing to flight safety on 2001.  He was finally sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. Rasoul wrote in the part of his hardship; I was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment after passing excruciating condition months in solitary confinement of Intelligence Service. Judge of 20 branch of Revolutionary Court had sneered and said; you will figure out after losing your teeth and hair in prison when I asked him what is my guilty? I had passed 15 years, the best days of youth in prison. Officials reject my pleading letter in order to asking for health release or freeness. Furthermore, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, a labor rights activist, was taken to Ward first where the gangs and criminals are kept after all the persecution and tortures he has been undergone. He was arrested and convicted to 20 years imprisonment at ward 15 by the Revolutionary Court that was reduced by the appeal court to five years. Behnam was also sentenced to nine years and six months imprisonment when he had spent his remaining imprisonment term in prison. The labor activist suffers from arthritis of the neck, stomach bleeding and severe pain in his gum and ears.

 

 Tuesday, June 9, 2015, Iran: Alireza Rasouli Taken to the Solitary Confinement

Alireza Rasouli, a political prisoner in Mahabad prison, was teransfferd on the tenth day of his hunger strike on 9 June 2015. The political prisoner has begun a hunger strike on 30 May to protest against lack of medical treatment and all negligence he has undergone in the Islamic Republic chambers as Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran said. He was previously hospitalized because of increasing lung infection and coughing up blood, whereas, the Intelligence Service officials have refused his demand of heath treatment release and his relatives were frequently threatened by authorities according to the news by rights group.  Ali was arrested along with several activists in Mahabad city on the charge of broadcasting the manifesto in the International Mother Language and participating in the demonstration to support Shinabadi children’s. “The classroom got fired in the morning 5 Dec 2012 in Shinabad village of the bordering city Piranshahr that 29 students were severely burned.” The political activist was convicted to three years and half imprisonment on the charge of acting against national security by the Revolutionary Court of Mahabad, afterward, he sentenced again to 91 days in prison with charged illegally way-out of the borders in March 2014. He was transferred along with Mr. Morovat from Central Urmia prison to the prison of Mahabad on April 2015.

 

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 , Iran: 5 social network members were arrested

Iran's Judiciary announced that five social network members were detained in the citizies of Tehran and Kerman on the charge of encouraging citizens to rally in the streets known acting against national security in the regime’s perspective .The Spokesman of the Judiciary of the Islamic Republic of Iran Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said during a press conference that several of the cyber activists who had called citizens gathering in the cities were identified and arrested by security forces of the regime. Accessing social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube is impossible without using VPN as the users declared.

 

Tuesday, June 2, 2015 ,  Iran: Five Civil Activists Sentenced to 50 Years and Nine Months Imprisonment

Atena Daemi, a civil rights activist, who was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards on 21 Oct 2014 convicted to seven years imprisonment at branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran which chaired by Judge Mohammad Mogheyse. Atena has reportedly been accused of the charge with propaganda against the regime of Iran, collusion against the regime through holding demonstrations to support Kobani and against execution of Reyhaneh Jabbari, insulting to the Supreme Leader of Iran, blasphemy through listening the music by an Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi, opposition calls ban to the mandatory veiling in the court according to the news received by Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran. She was previously threatened to exile to Gharchak prison in Varamin city that has been refused as her relatives have declared. The labor children labor activist is kept in Evin prison since her detention in critical condition because of her heart disease, and it is worth noting that she suffers from skin disorders and poor eyesight due to excruciating daily life and torture in the chambers of the prison. Atena was transferred to solitary confinement at 2-Alef Sepah ward in Evin prison during her interrogation. She was finally taken to the public ward of women after all the persecution and severe torture she has undergone. Officials have allegedly seized her personal belongings while she was taken to the detention.

Atena Faraghdani, a cartoonist and children rights activist, who is kept in ward 2-Alef Sepah in Evin prison sentenced to 12 years and nine months imprisonment by Judge Salavati in the Revolutionary Court that the seven years of the verdict will be imposed her according to the article 134 of the Islamic Penal Code. Omid Alishenas who is kept in ward eight in Evin prison sentenced to 10 years imprisonment at branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Mogheyse and Asso Rostami was convicted to seven years imprisonment by the same judge at the same court according to the news received by the Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran. Ali Noori who has been detained during the demonstration to support Kobani on 7 Dec 2014 convicted to seven years imprisonment. He was released on the bail of 50 Million Tomans after having few months at ward 2-Alef Sepah in Evin prison. It is worth noting that Atena was brutally beaten by official in front of her family in court on 10 Jan 2015.

 

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 , Negar Haeri Was Called Again to the Prison

Negar Haeri, an Iranian juristic and girl of a political prisoner Mashallah Haeri, was taken to Evin prison while she has been summoned to the Revolutionary Court of Tehran on 18 May 2015. Negar was reportedly transferred to ward 209 of Intelligence Service of the regime in Tuesday 19 May 2015 after having two days in ward women of the prison. She was released on the bail of two Milliards Tomans from Gharchak prison of Varamin city on 25 Feb 2015

The human rights lawyer had been kept in the prison on the charge of legal advice to prisoner's relatives. Negar was allegedly beaten by criminal inmates who were persuaded by officials of the jail. She was held alongside criminal prisoners at ward women of Gharchak prison in Varamin city.

 

 Sunday, May 3, 2015, Navid Khanjani Was Entered His Fourth Years of Prison

Navid Khanjani, founder of Human Rights Committee and a member Population of Combat against Educational Discrimination, who had been convicted to 12 years imprisonment entered his fourth years of detention. He was deprived of the right of release since his detention. Navid, 29, a Baha’I citizen, was arrested along with some other activists by Revolutionary Guards officials in the city of Isfahan on 2010 that was released from the solitary confinements at ward 2-Alef of Sepah in Evin prison on the bail of 100 million Tomans after two months. The officials had imposed him doing a televised confess through the severe torture both- physically and psychologically during his first 25 days in the solitary confinement as Human Rights organizations have expressed concern about his critical condition in the prison. He was sentenced to the imprisonment on the charge of spreading false news, propaganda against the regime and disturbing the public vision through broadcasting the news and several interviews with Medias at branch 26 of Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Pir Abbas. He was eventually detained and transferred to Rajai Shahr prison to serve his 12 years imprisonment terms on 5 Sept 2012 according to the reports received by the BCR Group. Navid is kept at Hall 12 of ward four, whereas, he suffers from mitral valve prolapse treatment, and chronic migraine as right groups have expressed.

 

Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Majid Moghadam Was Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Majid Moghadam, Civil rights activist, was taken to solitary confinement in notorious ward-240 due to his hunger strike which is started on 6 April 2015. He has reportedly begun a hunger strike in order to protest his unjust verdict and inhumane condition in Evin prison. The hunger strike started due to unfair sentence and excruciating life in the prison such as overcrowding of prisoners in ward eight and lack of adequate food both quantity-quality. Majid who is one of the victims and detainees of Kahrizak has been arrested by Revolutionary Guards officials on 3 Dec 2014, in the future, he was convicted to six years imprisonment by Revolutionary Court of Tehran. He was accused of the charge of propaganda against the regime of Iran, illegally way-out of the borders and lack of Military Service ID. Officials have apparently seized the personal belongings as a satellite receiver, flash memory, some books and CDs during the raid at his father house. Majid had been previously arrested during the unrest after the presidency election in 2009 by plainclothes officials (Basiji) that as a witness of horrible occurrences in Kahrizak has unfolded the details regarding the cruel repressions by officials and plainclothes against demonstrators through his testimony. He had previously been kept a 2-Alef Sepah ward of Evin prison at the beginning of his detention. Reports of rights groups confirm that over 25 political prisoners  have deliberately  been held at ward 8 as these prisoners have purportedly been abused and harassed by those prisoners who have had accused of committing offences such as rubbery, murdering and possession of narcotics.

 

Monday, April 6, 2015, Three Prisoners Were Transferred to Solitary Confinement, Iran

On 6 April, officials had committed a raid to take Priest Saeed Abedini to Solitary confinement who was kept in 12 hall in ward four, afterwards, Khalid Hardani, who was accused of hijacking and disturbing to flight safety on Jan 2001, also was taken to solitary confinement in ward five of Rajai Shahr, Karaj. The prisoners have reportedly begun a hunger strike in order to protest against the unjustified transfer. The Priest had been allegedly naked to outrage while officials took him according to the reports received by the BCR Group. Mostafa Eskandari, a medical student who was arrested with along his wife during death celebrating of Neda Aghasoltan on 2009, has been transferred to solitary confinement at the same time by same officials. The raid was apparently led by many anti-riot guards which chaired by Geramian the chief of ward four and Amirian the head of the guard of the prison. Mostafa was previously transferred to solitary confinement about two weeks for insulting the officials and destruction of the jamming device as HRANA had reported.In the interim, Rajai Shahr prisoners have frequently expressed concern about the wrecking effects of the jamming device which is embedded in different parts of the prison.

 

Tuesday, March 24, 2015, Dozens of Ahwazi Were Arrested in Funeral, Iran

Dozens of Ahwazi Arabs were arrested and taken to an unknown location during Younes funeral in Khoramshahr city on 23 March 2015. The Mourners were detained by Intelligence Service officials of Iran while the corpse had been carried to bury in the cemetery in the southwest region which is reportedly one of the deprived areas in Iran. After the announcement of the death of Younes, the Ahwaz Arab fruit seller from Khoramshahr city after he immolated himself in front of municipal building in protest against the unfair confiscation of his small grocery stall at the hands of regime thugs, Arab people to express their sympathy and their solidarity with Younes Family took to the streets and by chanting sharp national slogans and reading poems sent fiery message to the regime authorities. Massive people from different rural and urban areas participate in his funeral which took place yesterday. Younes, a street vendor and father of two children, who had committed self-immolation has died Sunday earlier morning on 22 March 2015. An Arab citizen, 34, had committed self-immolation due to the confiscation of his grocery kiosk by the mayor officials in front of the municipality office in Khoramshahr city.
Younes Asakereh had been transferred to Taleghani hospital and kept in the special care, whereas, the authorities had tried to prevent any gathering in front of municipality office in Khoramshahr city. Younes, 92% burns, had been taken by aircraft to one of the hospitals in the capital of Iran at their own cost. He was apparently

 The region is the mainstay of the Iranian state economy; it is the center of its oil wealth and a factory for its industrial and agricultural products. However 99% of the Ahwazi Arabs are grappling with extreme poverty and deprivation at large scale. “AL-Ahwaz’s Arab identity in the eyes of Iranian is a grievous sin and a grave threat” as an Ahwazi activist has acknowledged. He also added that the main causes of self-immolation of Younes Asakereh, who died yesterday, are the ongoing repressive policies of Iran occupation carried out against Ahwazi Arab people. The oppressive practices are including political repression, systematic economic marginalization, environmental destruction, cultural assimilation and denial of Arabic.

 

Monday, March 16, 2015, Adnan Rahmat Panah again Was Sentenced to a Year and Six Months Imprisonment

Adnan Rahmat Panah, a young Baha’I citizen, again was sentenced to a year and six months imprisonment by Public Court of Shiraz, Iran. Adnan had been accused of using and distribution of proxy to login the opposition websites of the regime of Iran as his relatives have acknowledged. He was sentenced to the new sentence while he is kept in Adel Abad prison of Shiraz to serve the final days of his detention according to the reports received by the BCR Group. He is released on the bail of 100 million Tomans on 11 March 2015 till his new verdict to be notified, furthermore, Adnan has objected to the new judgment and the case has been surveyed by the Appeal Court in Shiraz, Iran.

 

 Monday, March 16, 2015, Majid Moghadam Was Sentenced to Six Years Imprisonment

Majid Moghadam, a civil rights activist, who has been arrested by Revolutionary Guards officials on 3 Dec 2014, sentenced to six years imprisonment by Revolutionary Court of Tehran according to the reports received by the campaign in defence of Civil and Political Prisoners.  Majid as one of the victims and detainees of Kahrizak has been reportedly accused on the charge of propaganda against the regime of Iran, illegally way-out of the borders and lack of Military Service ID. Officials have allegedly seized the personal belongings as a satellite receiver, flash memory, some books and CDs during the raid at his father house. It is worth noting that the officials had told the owners of the building that Majid is a drug dealer. They use this trick to make them open the door as his relatives said. Majid had been previously arrested during the unrest after the presidency election in 2009 by plainclothes officials (Basiji) that as a witness of horrible occurrences in Kahrizak has unfolded the details regarding the cruel repressions by officials and plainclothes against demonstrators through his testimony.

 

Sunday, March 8, 2015 , Mehdi Khodaei Has Entered His Fifth Years of Detention

Mehdi Khodaei, a former secretary of the Islamic Association of the University of Rey and Human Rights activist, was arrested by Revolutionary Guards officials on 2 March 2010. Mehdi was sentenced to three years imprisonment on the charge of propaganda against the regime and membership of HRAIRAN at 28 branch of Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Salavati on 22 August 2010. He also had been arrested by Intelligence Service officials on July 2008, and he was sentenced to four years imprisonment on the charge of acting against national security through holding demonstration by Judge Mohammad Mogheyse at 15 branch of Revolutionary Court on Sept 2008, after having 38 days in the Islamic Republic chambers. He overall had been convicted to seven years imprisonment due to the conviction in the courts that confirmed by Appeal Court on Dec 2010 according to the Human Rights activists reports. “I have to stand on the behind of the prison’s wall to visit my son, though, I and the other revolutionaries had collapsed the iron doors of the prison in 1979. I forced to visit my son behind the prison doors after three decades of the tenure of the Islamic Republic of Iran” as his father told Jaras website. Mehdi have written an educational book that called “Human Rights Atlas” with a long Omid Kokabi in Evin prison. Arman Shahr publisher published the book with the introduction by Abdolfattah Soltani, a Human Rights lawyer who had been imprisoned during the demonstration after the presidential election on 2009. Furthermore, Mehdi had started a hunger strike with a long ten other prisoners in Evin after the tragic incident that known “Bloody Thursday” on 2014. After all, Human Rights activists have carried a petition out that ask the head of Iran’s judiciary to perform the new Islamic Penal Code that affirmed in the Islamic parliament of Iran on 2013.

 

Monday, March 2, 2015, Unknown condition of Mohammad Yousefi

Mohammad Yousefi, 27, a graduate student in shipbuilding field of the AmirKabir University of Tehran, was arrested by Cyber police of Revolutionary Guards without any legal justification in an utterly suppressed society about two months ago. Mohammad was detained in line of Spider project that linked to Facebook pages administratorship against the regime of Iran according to Cyber police statement. Mohammad Yousefi has mocked-up the religious saints as Revolutionary Guards have claimed in their manifest.  He also has been charged of Facebook management that linked to well-known artists, soccer players and eminent persons to harass them according to the Human Rights activists’ reports. Furthermore, Mohammad was arrested during the demonstration after unrest of the presidential election on 7 Dec 2009 and kept in 350 ward of Evin prison in Tehran for a while. He was detained while arriving to the University and sentenced to four years imprisonment on the charge of collusion and protest against national security in the initial court which chaired by Judge Salavati. Eventually, He was released after having 161 days in the prison by 54 branch of the appeal court due to lack of justification documents.  The statement also has noted to his arrest and the specific role to encourage unsatisfied citizens in 2009, which charged him related to “sedition individuals”. 

 

Thursday, February 26, 2015, Critical Condition of Roham Barkachizadeh in Evin Prison

Roham Barkachizadeh, an atomic student of Shaheed Beheshti University, was arrested by Intelligence Service officials when he had passing pre-university course on 2011. Authorities have allegedly seized Roham’s personal belongings during the raid and investigation at his grandfather house. He has been at Seven and 209 ward of Evin prison since his detention. It should be noted that Roham had been freed on the bail for a while, and he has returned back to the prison to serve his imprisonment term. He has been arrested because of participating in the protest during the unrest of the presidential election on 2009. Roham was sentenced to seven years and six months on the charge of collusion against national security, propaganda against the regime of Iran and insulting to the Supreme Leader and previous president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, through the demonstration in Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Salavati on 2012 .“It is obvious Children’s rights Convention violations by Republic Islamic of Iran that Roham has been convicted in the Revolutionary Court” as Human Rights activists have acknowledged in the exclusive report of Exiles Activists website by Vandad Olad Azimi. The article 37 of the Child Rights Convention says that No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.  Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age, and also notes that no child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily.  The arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time. Iran has joined to the convention of children rights since 1969. All teenagers who are committed a crime when they are under 18-years-old as Roham should be trialed in juvenile court according to the article 220 of the Public and Revolutionary Courts Procedure Code of Iran and commitment to the Children’s Rights Convention.

 

Friday, February 20, 2015, Critical Condition of Baha’I Citizens Is Being Continued

Kalim Jahandari, a Baha’I citizen who is currently living in Bandar Abbas, was threatened and beaten through gun by anonymous individuals on 14 Feb 2015.  He was blindfolded and taken to an unknown place to hurt him, after that, they threatened him that more pressure could be expected if propaganda of his fate be continued. Unidentified assailants are reportedly aware of Baha’I citizens’ information in Bandar Abbas that suspected they related with Intelligence Service agencies. They have claimed that Attaollah Rezwani, a former executive of Baha’I community, was killed by them through bullet shooting in Bandar Abbas. The other Baha’I executives, Mehran Afshar and Behzad Rasty, will be killed on time as they have been already informed. The Iranian Baha’Is have been under severe pressure historically by Muslim clergy efforts, but by the same token, critical condition of Baha’is disciples have increased since the Islamic revolution on 1979. “They have regularly had their homes ransacked or have been banned from attending university or from holding government jobs, and several hundred have received prison sentences for their religious beliefs, most recently for participating in study circles”. Adnan Rahmat Panah, a young Baha’I citizen, was insulted as quoting “you are untouchable because you are not Muslims” by Mahmoud Sadati, the chief judge of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz, Fars province. He was arrested on the charge of propaganda against the regime of Iran on 12 Dec 2012. Adnan was kept at ward Youth Green in Adelabad of Shiraz city alongside more than 200 prisoners who cramped in the space less than 120 square meters.

 

Sunday, February 8, 2015, Shahram Pourmansoori Was Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Shahram Pourmansoori was thrown to solitary confinement when he had gone to the officials’ office of the prison to follow up his health on 8 Feb 2015. Shahram, the third person who is taken to solitary confinement after his inmates including Arjang Davoudi and Afshin Baymani, was accused of acting against national security through hijacking the plane that was being flown from Ahwaz to Bandar Abbas city on 2001. He was kept in 12 ward of Rajai Shahr prison and deprived of his basic rights such as own lawyer and health release since his detention. Shahram had reportedly committed suicide more than six times and suffers from chronic depression and heart disease. Shahram arrested along with his relatives including Farhang Pourmansoori and Khaled Hardani when he was not even 18 years old as news agencies have declared.

 

Saturday, February 7, 2015, Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari Was Transferred to Solitary Confinement

Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari, an Iranian blogger, was transferred to solitary confinement due to his hunger strike in Central Karaj prison on 7 Feb 2015. Pourshajari has started a hunger strike in order to protest against filing false cases during interrogation, undecided situation and re-arrestment on 6 Feb 2015. He was arrested again after 38 days have passed since his release on 30 Sept 2014. Officials had reportedly transferred him to solitary confinement after hours he had returned from 12 branch of Revolutionary Court of Karaj which chaired by Ayoub Ebrahimian. Pourshajari is kept in the prison along with criminal prisoners and suffers from hyperglycemia, prostate gland, lumbar disc, poor eyesight and kidney stone. He has had a heart attack during the past four years of his detention in prison. He had spent four years imprisonment since 12 Sept 2010 on the charge of acting against national security and insulting to the Supreme leader of Iran as Human Rights activists had acknowledged.

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015, Vahid Asghari Was Sentenced to 18 Years Imprisonment

Vahid Asghari, 28, was arrested by three operating teams on 8 May 2008 when he was leaving Iran. Vahid, an information technology student, was accused of the false charge of drug trafficking another d kidnapped on the way to the airport in Eskandari Avenue.  This human rights activist was transferred to 2-Alef ward of Evin, and his information has not been registered in the prison. He was sentenced twice to the death penalty at 15 branch of the Revolutionary Court which chaired by Abolghassem Salavati on 2011-2012, but his verdicts were canceled by the Supreme Court of Iran. He was finally sentenced to 18 years imprisonment at 28 branch of the Revolutionary Court by Mohammad Moghayese for allegedly Mofsed-E-filarz, Blasphemy and passport forgery on 7 Dec 2014. He was totally accused of propaganda against the regime of Iran, roorback, management of Shabtaz Human Rights news agency, news website creating against the regime, supporting anti-religion websites, financial and technical supporting of anti-regime websites, creating a national plan against censorship by the government, communication and technical assistance of Persian B.B.C, administrator ship of more than 200 opposition’s websites, establishing the international campaign of the development of gender equality through communication with HRANA and on-line training for Color Revolution in Iran. It is worth noting; Vahid Asghari was beaten and forced to sign the letter of public defender Vahid also has been deprived the rights of meeting with his family in the past five years.

 

Monday, January 12, 2015, Saied Shirzad Unknown Condition Is Still Being Continued

Saied is being kept in Evin prison after seven months imprisonment and his lawyer was also denied to get access to the details of his case. He is without any verdict in 12 ward of Evin; this labor activist has been arrested in his workplace on 2 June 2014. Previously, Saied also had been arrested during the earth-quake of Ahar city in Azerbaijan province on 21 August 2012. Eventually, officials released him on the bail after spending 19 days in detention.

 

Wednesday, January 7, 2015, The Condition of Rasoul Hardani Is Unknown at This Time

(B.C.R.Group) - Rasoul Hardani, 30, has started a hunger strike to ask authorities what he is being charged with on 24 Nov 2014. “What is my crime? … Charge me or otherwise release me” Rasoul said. Rasoul was transferred to solitary confinement by officials of Evin prison in Tehran. There is no information about his condition after passing of more than 40 days of his hunger strike. He reportedly had phoned his family in a shaky voice and just said I am well. He was arrested along his brother in charge of hijacking and disturbing to flight safety on 2001.  He was finally sentenced to 22 years imprisonment. Rasoul wrote in the part of his hardship; I was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment after passing excruciating condition months in solitary confinement of Intelligence Service. Judge of 20 branch of Revolutionary Court had sneered and said; you will figure out after losing your teeth and hair in prison when I asked him what is my guilty? I had passed 15 years, the best days of youth in prison. Officials reject my pleading letter in order to asking for health release or freeness.

 

Sunday, January 4, 2015, At least 30 Baloch Citizens Were Arrested in Police Raid

Severe persecution and detention of Baloch citizens is being continued.Officials of Intelligence Service reportedly attacked the Nasir Abad village in Zahedan at 4am on 4 Jan 2015.According to reports, officials had entered unnoticed in the resident’s houses while villagers were sleeping. The incident was continued for 5 hours and personal belongings of detainees also were seized. Furthermore, there are similar reports from Dezbagan and Ali Abad.It is worth noting: Issa Shahraki, a teacher and Adham Sabouri, a member of Basij were killed by unknown entities shooting. Armed bandit probably killed them as officials and state media claimed. The name of some detainees: Moslem Dehghani, Akbar Dehghani, Omid Bahramzehi, Navid Bahramzehi, Zobeyr Bahramzehi, Shahdad Bahramzehi, Adham Arbabi, Haj Iqbal, Amer Gahramzehi, Abu-Bakr Mollazehi, Sediq Bahramzehi, Farhad Balidei, Edris Balidei, bashir Balidei, Amir Bahramzehi, Vasim Bahramzehi, Davoud Bahramzehi, Majed Bahramzehi, Yousef randbaloch, Amin Randbaloch, Asef Bahramzehi, Zobeyr, Khalid Karij.

 

Sunday, January 4, 2015, Unknown of the Detention of Two Baloch Citizens

 Two Baloch citizens were arrested in Zahedan by Intelligence Service of Iran. There is no statement of the charge against of Noorbakhsh Salehi, 22, and Shir Mohammad Zamani who have been detained one month ago. Noorbakhsh and his friend were arrested on 5 Dec 2014 when they had gone to Zahedan to repair his car, as his father said. The court officials said, you cannot meet your sons for 6 months when he had asked them.

 

Saturday, January 3, 2015, Adnan Rahmatpanah’s Critical Condition Is Being Continued

Adnan Rahmatpanah, Baha’I citizen, has come for health treatment after all the officials of the prisons negligence that he has undergone. Adnan caught a cold while he was serving his remaining time of the imprisonment term. Eventually, the officials affirmed his medical release for five days on 24 Dec 2014. And his healing release was extended for another ten days because some medical specialists accepted that he needed more rest to recovery. According to the reports, Youth Green ward which Adnan was kept in, is under the worst conditions for prisoners. Human rights activists have reported about excruciating conditions for the prisoners such as lack of toilets, showers and health treatment and there is no adequate space for detainees. The Youth Green ward approximately has 18 rooms; these rooms are about 20 square meters for 250 prisoners. There is just one heater for the whole ward which is not sufficient to warming it up. 12 toilets and two showers and some of them are often broken and no hot water for taking showers for entities. Water quite often is shut off in the ward and prisoners buckle affliction, and they are unable to have initial daily life facilities. Impalpable drug consumption and gambling are the other misrules in the Youth Green ward which exist in the other wards as well as a former political prisoner in Adel Abad already reported. It is named “wild-life” by prisoners. Telephone card deals overprice on the improper distribution. It deals most of the time at twice the price. All these problems make them aggressive and conflicts have intensified   between prisoners.  These conflicts are mainly caused of wounded prisoners that they have transferred to the hospital. In the Youth Green ward, the prisoners are allowed outside to the yard prison for 20-30 minutes every 2 or 3 weeks monthly. Medical specialists allow illness prisoners while at least 15 prisoners ready and need a checkup. All of the prisoners in the Youth Green ward are young and about 18 to 27 years old including the crimes such as murder, street fighting, rape, robbery,  picking, forgery, addiction and drug trafficking.

 

Saturday, January 3, 2015, Farzad Moradinia Released on the Bail

Farzad Moradinia, labor activist, and a member of the Coordinating Committee is released on bail of 70 Million Tomans on 5 Jan 2015, after spending 25 days in Intelligent Service office of Sanandaj. According to reports, Farzad was arrested on the charge of establishing labor organizations on 7 Dec 2014 by plain-clothes officials who had masked their faces. At the moment, there is no statement of his charge to detaining. He suffers chronic gastrointestinal, and he had severe stomach bleeding at the night before detention. Medical specialists had told his family that he needs immediate surgery. It should be noted; labor activists are being under savage pressure and arresting without reason or verdict.

 

Friday, January 2, 2015, Abdul-Rahman Esmailzehi Was Arrested

Abdulrahman Esmailzehi and his friend were arrested by officials of Sarjangal police station on 1 Jan 2015 in Nosrat Abad, Zahedan. The officials said that they have transferred them to Zahedan when their families asked about their charge. At the moment, there is no any information of their charge. These two Baloch citizens were carrying religious books while they were arrested. It should be noted, there are similar reports of the interrogation and detention of Baloch citizens and religious leaders at beginning of the Seminary year in the entry of Zahedan.

 

Friday, January 2, 2015, the Critical Condition of Mehrdad Aminvaziri

 Mehrdad Aminvaziri, labor activist publicly announced that he is going on hunger strike to protest his unlawful arrest by plain clothes security forces on 1 Jan 2015. Mehrdad had been arrested by plain-clothes officers on 29 Dec 2014 at his workplace. Accordingly, He was accused of political party activities and taking part in demonstrations in support of Kobani resistance. Recently, Mehrdad has been under constant pressure no to participating in such demonstrations. Previously, this labor activist had summoned and was interrogated by Intelligence Service of Iran on 13 Dec 2014, after that he was released after two hours. Mehrdad Aminvaziri, who formerly arrested and had been  32 days in Intelligence Service confinement, and had released on bail of 15 Million Tomans while He has been arrested and sentenced to 5 years probation by Revolutionary Court on 22 Oct 2011.

Monday, January 5, 2015, An 82-Year-Old Baha’I Prisoner Was Transferred to Hospital

Jamal-Aldin Khanjani, 82, one of the Governing Council of Baha’I community was transferred to Pars hospital in Tehran for health treatment on 5 Jan 2015. Khanjani recently had a heart surgery (Stent); doctors recommended that he needs a peaceful place and special care for his recovery. He had been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for his faith and is kept in Rajai Shahr prison ever since his detention. Khanjani, Baha’I citizen and manufacturer lost his properties after 1979 revolution in Iran. He was repeatedly threatened by Intelligence Service forces as Baha’I activists declared. He was deprived of the rights to education like the other Baha’I citizens. It should be noted; he reportedly had been arrested at his house on May 2008, and he was suspended for months in Evin prison. Previously, he had been arrested and imprisoned at least for three times. Shirin Ebadi was his lawyer along six other Baha’I citizenzs.

Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Iran: Viral and Fungal Diseases Spreading in Central Zahedan Prison

Viral and fungal diseases have been spreading in Central Zahedan prison and despite the authorities' negligence. Many reports have been received by rights groups cited the serious outbreak of viral and fungal illnesses such as ringworm and tinea disease in the Wards 3, 5, 7 and 8 of the prison according to the news received by BCR group. The patients who went to the prison clinic have been reportedly refused of treatment because of high cost of treatment as officials said. At least 20 inmates suffer from contagious diseases at Ward three among young prisoners. So far so bad, chickenpox disease outbreaks in several wards of the prison and the number of patients increase day by day. At least four inmates have been allegedly infected at Ward three during last days.  Furthermore, the number of vermin as bedbug is rising over the prison and the prisoners have been faced serious troubles and they are endangered in the critical conditions. On the other hand, the prisoners suffer from shortage of nutrition both quantity-quality and food diversity. At the beginning of Ramadan, the prisoners have had eggplant for their daily meals. The young prisoner Abdul-Vahed Ghomshad Zehi died in the prison on 17 May 2015, he had been apparently perished in the negligence of officials. Abdul-Vahed was beaten with a hard object during his interrogation in the Intelligence Division of Iran's National Police Force chambers where the goal of inquisition.

Friday, June 19, 2015 , Overcrowded Iran’s Prisons Are Four Times More Than It Designated Capacity

Prisons of west Azerbaijan Province are massively overcrowded, housing four times the number of prisoners which they were designed to hold.

 

The Chief of Wes Azerbaijan Province’s Justice said that the prisons in the area overcrowded, likewise there is no place for inmates in the corridors. The prisons have housed four times the number of inmates where they were designed to keep, Mr. Tavakol Heidari added.

He has expressed concern of the critical conditions in the prisons and said that we are trying to blot jails out, but the project has been faced many problems because of budget shortage and lack of appropriate place according to the governmental news agencies.

The chief declared the ward crowds is four times the number of the inmates which they were allocated to hold.

 

The Tragic Tale of the Other Prisons

Many reports have been received from prisons throughout Iran about the lack of adequate place, health care facilities, clean water, poor nutrition, and sanitation. These reports have been received from Karoon, Adel Abad, Bandar Abbas, Vakil Abad and many other prisons in Iran.

 

Adelabad Prison

The critical conditions of the prisoners reportedly deteriorated because of shortage place for the inmates, lack of facilities especially heating system as some of them are still deprived of receiving medical treatment in Adelabad prison according to the reports received by BCR Group.

The prisoners of conscience along with other inmates with general crimes are held in the prison.

There are more than 200 prisoners in ward Youth Green where cramped the offensives in the space less than 120 square meters.

Karoon Prison

The prison holds more inmates than its capacity and suffers from deplorable hygiene standards, and political prisoners inside the prison are mixed together with other types of prisoners who have committed crimes such as drug trafficking or murder, creating a very difficult environment for them as Payman Roshan Zamir, a political prisoner who spent one month of his six-month detention at Ward six of Karoon Prison in the city of Ahwaz, described the excruciating life in the Prison in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

 

The following report has notified excruciating condition of elite student in the prison of Iran:

“Evin prison is known as a privileged University” the prisoners believe.

 Authorities have reportedly pursued and oppressed the Iranian students who recognized as productive wings of society since the tenure of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979.

Mass arrest of the elite students could be led the collapse of social wisdom as social experts have expressed concern about the rise in the issue. “With discriminatory domestic policies and increasingly suppressing the best and the brightest eventually will lead to the demise the society” as an expert have acknowledged to the reporter of BCR Group.

Aside from that, the arbitrary detention and long term imprisonment at inequitable trial for whatever reason by Iranian authorities are obviously Human Rights violations according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

 

“No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile. Article NO. 13

Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. Article NO. 12

Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence. Article NO. 11

Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance. Article NO. 18

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. Article NO. 19

Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association. Article NO. 20”

 

 The following report has notified excruciating condition of elite student in the prison of Iran:

 

Hamid Babaei, a Ph.D. student in financial affairs field in the Liege University of Belgium, had been summoned and arrested by Intelligence Service when arrived in Tehran on 27 July 2013.

He was accused of spying and communicating with hostile states to six-years imprisonments and four-year suspension at the branch 15 of Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Salavati on 21 Dec 2013.  Babaei was also denied the right to have his own lawyer.

Hamid Babaei is suffering from gum and teeth infection. He is reportedly had been pressured as bid to succumb to Intelligence Services for cooperation as he rejected it despite being threatened by the Intelligence authorities.

His wife had submitted a health treatment application to the prison clinic of Evin on 28 April 2014. And a copy of that was sent to prosecutor office. After that, Forensics and management office of his ward in Evin had accepted ato send him out to hospital due the lack of health facilities in the prison, and his acceptance was declared his family on 17 Nov 2014.

It is worth noting; the persecutor of Tehran had viably notified his health treatment application but in order to send him out to the hospital the missive has not been received.

 

Omid KokabiOmid Kokabi, a post-doctoral student in atomics field in the University of Texas at Austin, had been arrested by Intelligence Service while trying to leave Iran on 19 Feb 2011. Omid was sentenced to ten years and ninety-one days imprisonment on the charge of plotting against national security, partnership with the hostile governments such as US, granting university scholarship and his awards.

He is not in well health condition and suffering from stomach disorder and kidney stone.

Omid had been awarded the “Andrei Sakharov Prize (APS) in 2014, American Physical Society” and honored by the world's largest general scientific society for enduring prison rather than contribute to weapons research in Iran (AAAS Award).

 

Mr. Majid Tavakoli, a student in marine engineering field of the Amir Kabir University and Human Rights activist, was violently arrested by Intelligence Service officials while trying to leave the University on 7 Dec 2009. Majid was sentenced to five years imprisonment, five years abstention of political activities and five years of being banned from leaving the country At 15 branch of the Revolutionary Court on 20 Jan 2010. He had been accused of propaganda against the regime, insulting to the Supreme leader and former president of Iran and plotting against the regime through protests in the court.

Majid was frequently arrested on the charge of protest against the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attending in the University on 2006.

He had been one of the leaders of the Iranian student movement and a member of Tahkim Vahdat party. The Norway’s foreign minister had referred to Majid the student peace prize on 2013. Majid also had been awarded the “Raha” Human Rights prize from Sudwind Organization.

He has been banished and held in notorious Rajai Shahr Prison after spending months at 240 ward in Evin prison.

 

Hussein Ronaghi MalekiMr. Hussein Ronaghi Maleki, a student activist, chief of the Committee against censorship in Iran (Iran Proxy) and blogger, was summoned and arrested while reffered to Shahid Moghadas Court in Evin prison on 28 Feb 2015. Previously, he had been released on parole due to his health condition.

Hussein also was arrested with a long his brother on 13 Dec 2009. He was sentenced to 15-year imprisonment on the charge of acting against national security and partnership with opposition organizations at 26 branch of the Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Pir-Abbasi. He is suffering from an advanced kidney disorder.

 

Mohammad Yousefi, 27, a graduate student in shipbuilding field of the AmirKabir University of Tehran, was arrested by Cyber police of Revolutionary Guards without any legal justification in an utterly suppressed society about two months ago.

Mohammad was detained in line of Spider project that linked to Facebook pages administratorship against the regime of Iran according to Cyber police statement.

Mohammad Yousefi has mocked-up the religious saints as Revolutionary Guards have claimed in their manifest.

He also has been charged of Facebook management that linked to well-known artists, soccer players and eminent persons to harass them according to the Human Rights activists’ reports.

Furthermore, Mohammad was arrested during the demonstration after unrest of the presidential election on 7 Dec 2009 and kept in 350 ward of Evin prison in Tehran for a while. He was detained while arriving to the University and sentenced to four years imprisonment on the charge of collusion and protest against national security in the initial court which chaired by Judge Salavati.

Eventually, He was released after having 161 days in the prison by 54 branch of the appeal court due to lack of justification documents.

The statement also has noted to his arrest and the specific role to encourage unsatisfied citizens in 2009, which charged him related to “sedition individuals”.

 

Mr. Saeed Malekpour, a graduate in metallurgy field of Industrial Sharif University, was arrested by Cyber police of the regime of Iran on 2008. Saeed had been sentenced to death on the charge of propaganda against the regime, blasphemy, insulting to the Supreme leader and former president of Iran, Ifsad-E-filarz at 28 branch of the Revolutionary which chaired by Judge Mohammad Mogheyse. His sentence also was confirmed by the appeal court on 2012 that the verdict was ultimately reduced to lifetime imprisonment on 2013.

Saeed was forced to confession after all persecution and torture he has undergone during his interrogating by officials in the Islamic Republic chambers.

 

Mr. Arash Sadeghi, a human rights and student activist, was arrested by officials of Revolutionary Guards in his workplace on 6 Sept 2014. Arash accused of acting against national security, of propaganda against the regime and of Facebook activities and, he is one of the students who were denied education because of his student’s activity.

It is worth noting: Arash’s detention has been frequently extended despite his critical health condition. He has had extremely painful experiences in prison—both psychologically and physically when officials raided his father’s house at 4 am on 30 Oct 2010 in order to arrest him. His mother suffered a fatal heart attack and died as a result of the shock of the raid. He has been forced to confession by officials during his interrogating in the solitary confinement of Evin since his detention.

 

Roham Barkachizadeh, 22, an atomic student of Shaheed Beheshti University, was arrested by Intelligence Service officials when he had passing pre-university course on 2011. Roham had been arrested while he was just 17-years-old.

Authorities have allegedly seized Roham’s personal belongings during the raid and investigation at his grandfather house. He has been at Seven and 209 ward of Evin prison since his detention.

It should be noted that Roham had been freed on the bail for a while, and he has returned back to the prison to serve his imprisonment term. He has been arrested because of participating in the protest during the unrest of the presidential election on 2009.

Roham was sentenced to seven years and six months on the charge of collusion against national security, propaganda against the regime of Iran and insulting to the Supreme Leader and previous president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, through the demonstration in Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Salavati on 2012

“It is obvious Children’s rights Convention violations by Republic Islamic of Iran that Roham has been convicted in the Revolutionary Court” as Human Rights activists have acknowledged in the exclusive report of Exiles Activists website by Vandad Olad Azimi.

The article 37 of the Child Rights Convention says that No child shall be subjected to torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.  Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age, and also notes that no child shall be deprived of his or her liberty unlawfully or arbitrarily.  The arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.

Iran has joined to the convention of children rights since 1969. All teenagers who are committed a crime when they are under 18-years-old as Roham should be trialed in juvenile court according to the article 220 of the Public and Revolutionary Courts Procedure Code of Iran and commitment to the Children’s Rights Convention.

 

Monday, April 27, 2015, Rasoul Bodaghi Was Transferred to an Unknown Location

Rasoul Bodaghi, an Iranian teacher, who has spent his last three years imprisonment terms, was taken to an unknown location on the pretext of being dispatched to Evin Court on 26 April 2015.

He was allegedly asked to abdicate from the Teachers Union activities by Intelligence Service officials, which causes the case will be closed. Officials want him to attend a televised session in order to express his confession as well. Rasoul was deprived of conditional release during his six years imprisonment and exile; He had not been allowed even attending his mother funeral. Whereas, Iranian teachers have frequently objected to injustice and a systematic discrimination in the recent years, which has not been taken into consideration by the officials. The teachers had chanted of “we are crying out of discrimination, not out of poverty, and the teacher prisoners must be freed.”  On 16 April 2015, thousands of Iranian teachers had protested in several cities, urging the officials to stop the non-ending discrimination against educators in the country as rights group reported. The reports indicate that the security forces had suppressed the demonstrators brutally in Gilan Province on 16 April, on the other hand, a group of 300 individuals had simultaneously gathered in front of Islamic Consultative Assembly in Baharestan, Tehran. 

 

Friday, March 27, 2015, Unknown Condition of Mona Mehrabi

Mona Mehrabi’s status unclear since the arrest through the Intelligence Service raid in Tehran and Isfahan on Feb 2015 as her family has expressed concern of her unfavorable situation in the prison. The other four Baha’Is citizens including Safa Forghani, Ehsan Yadegar, Mehrdad Forghani and Elham Karam-Pisheh were released on the bail of 200 million Toman who had been detained during the raid, whereas, the bail of the other detainees, Rouhieh Bagherdokht, has been postponed due to the Persian New Year holiday that estimated she will be freed after holiday.  They had been kept in solitary confinement of Evin prison that Safa Forghani’s husband, Farzad Janati, was informed through the last call in the exclusive report of Exiles Activists Website by Vandad Olad Azizmi. Mr. Janati had criticized of the withhold information of the detainees location by prison officals, notwithstanding, the prison name was already disclosed. They were allegedly arrested on the charge of spreading Baha’I faith, as well as their personal belongings such as cell phone, PC and some religious books, have been seized by officials of the regime of Iran.

 

 

Tuesday, June 9, 2015, Iran: 11 Inmates Hanged by Gallows

Nine prisoners who had been taken to solitary confinement of Central Karaj prison executed by gallows in the yard of the prison on 8 June 2015. The seven persons of the offensives who were 25 to 37 years old convicted to death on the charge of drug-related crimes. The name of five of them are Ali Firouz, Masoud Alimardankhani, Saied Zangeneh, Majid Tayfeh and Akbar. On the other hand, two prisoners were hanged by gallows in public on the charge of rape in the city of Shahrebabak on 9 June 2015.  The offensives had been accused of committing rape to a woman through threatening her child on 5 Jan 2015. The three offenders called by branch two at the Criminal Court of Kerman County while they had been arrested on 7 Jan 2015. The court sentenced two of them to death and the other one convicted to 15 imprisonment with charged with assisting in rape.

 

 Thursday, June 4, 2015, Iran: Two Women Hanged by Gallows

Two female prisoners who had been taken to solitary confinement of Gharchak Prison, Varamin City hanged by gallows on Sunday 30 May 2015. There is no any information about their charge and accusation according to the reports by rights group. One of the offensives, 39, Fatemeh Mehrabani had two children and was kept about five years in the prison.

 

Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Iran: The Violations of the Right of Life

A rapist was hanged in public in the city of Shiraz on 19 May 2015.

 He had been convicted to death on the charge of rape, 22 imprisonment for kidnapping and 111 lashes for robbery and persecuting of the citizens at branch four of the Criminal Court in Fars Province of Iran. The offensive Hossein A finally hanged in public while the verdict had been confirmed by branch 32 at the Supreme Court as rights group said.

 

Four Prisoners Hanged in Central Arak Prison

The offensives including Abdul-Rahman Sh, Eisa B, Alireza B had been convicted to death on the charge of participating of transportation about one hundred and 11 Kilograms Heroin at branch first of the Revolutionary Court in Delijan County. They were executed along with Ahmadreza M who had been sentenced to the death penalty at branch first of Revolutionary Court of Khomein County in the yard of the prison on 19 May 2015.

 

Five Prisoners Hanged in the City of Shiraz

Five prisoners were executed in the yard of Adelabad prison on the charge of murder early morning Tuesday 19 May 2015. According to the news received by the rights group one of the inmates was 18-year-old but there is no any official report to verify the news.

 

Eight Prisoners Were at Imminent Risk of Execution in Rajai Shahr Prison

The eight inmates have been faced imminent risk of execution by gallows on the charge of murder by the Islamic Penal Code (Qisas) on 20 May 2015. There is no any information about their situation and the officials have not expressed news of the execution.

 

A prisoner Hanged in Minab

Ayoub Torkamani was executed in public on the charge of drug trafficking in the stadium of the municipality in the city of Minab who had been detained on 2009. He was convicted at the Revolutionary Court of Minab and hanged by gallows after having seven years imprisonment while the verdict affirmed by the Supreme Court.

 

A Prisoners Hanged in Arak City

Ismail Shahnawazi (Zabod Zehi) was executed by gallows in the yard of the prison on the charge of drug trafficking on 20 May 2015. The offensive corpse buried in Ismaeiabad village of Khash in Sistan and Baluchistan Province.

 

A Prisoner Hanged in Ghoochan City

A prisoner was executed by gallows in public on the charge of murder on 20 May 2015. The offensive was convicted to death with the charge of murder through armed robbery which led them to kill a shopkeeper as the persecutor of Ghoochan County.

 

Five Prisoners Hanged in Karaj City

Five unknown prisoners were executed by gallows in the yard of Rajai Shahr prison on 21 May 2015. There is no any information about the case of inmates and their charge. Furthermore, three others inmates who were at imminent risk of execution at the same time returned back to the prison by the avenger of blood’s agreement.

 

11 Prisoners Hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison

11 Prisoners Hanged by gallows in the yard of Ghezel Hesar prison of Karaj city early morning on 21 May 2015. The inmates had been convicted to death on the charge of drug trafficking that eight of them was brought from Karaj Central Jail to execution.

 

21 Prisoners Hanged within Fourteen Days in Ghezel Hesar Prison

21 inmates were executed by gallows on the charge of drug trafficking in the yard of Ghezel Hesar prison of Karaj city within days 5 May to 19 May 2015. The prisoners had been kept in the prison about seven to 12 years imprisonment according to the news received by BCR Group.

 

The Capital Punishment of assailant to a Basiji Member Confirmed

Ehsan Shah Ghasemi was convicted to the death penalty on the charge of the assailant to a Basiji member Ali Khalili that the verdict confirmed by the Supreme Court of Iran.

 

Death Penalty for a Gun Shooter in Bam City

The Chief of the Justice Department of Kerman Province confirmed the capital punishment for the gun shooter in Zeid's shrine in Bam which led to one dead and 2 injured.

 

Six Prisoners Transferred to Execution in Ghezel Hesar Prison

At least six inmates were executed by gallows in the yard of Ghezel Hesar prison in 24 May while they had been transferred to the solitary confinement to execution on the charge of drug trafficking in Ghezel Hesar prison on 23 May 2015.  There are 11 individuals who are going to be executed on Sunday or Monday morning, the names of two of them are: Masoud Zibaee and Abbas Heydari.

 

A Prisoner Hanged in Ardebil City

An unknown inmate was executed by gallows on the charge of drug trafficking in the yard of Central Ardebil prison on 23 May 2015. He was accused of dealing 990 Grams Heroin and 995 Grams Crystal at branch first of the Revolutionary Court in the city of Ardebil.

 

Eight Prisoners Hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison

At least eight prisoners including Nader Haji Zadeh, Mohammad Barani, Jahangir Shahoo Zehi, Mehran Baluch Zehi, Mehrshad Soleymani, Reza Dai Zadeh, Ehsan Saghafi and Abbas Ameri were executed in the yard of Ghezel Hesar prison of Karaj on the charge of drug trafficking on 25 May 2015.

 

A Prisoner Hanged in Rajai Shahr Prison

Ali Norouzi was executed by gallows in the yard of Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj on the charge of murder (Qisas) on 25 May 2015.

 

22 Prisoners Hanged in Ghezel Hesar Prison

22 inmates were executed by gallows in the yard of the prison on the charge of drug trafficking on 25 May 2015. The offensives had attempted to be pardoned and exonerated from death by hanging continues to emerge. They made placards, prayed outside in mass, and released a photograph of their desperate pleas.

 

The Capital Punishment of a 21-Year-Old Boyish Confirmed

The young inmate who had been convicted to the death penalty on the charge of killing his lover’s brother executed after the verdict affirmed by the Criminal Court of Tehran on 27 May 2015.

 

Two Inmates’ Corpse Buried after the Execution

Ali Kooshki, 24, and Ahmad Ebrahimi, 47, who had been executed by gallows in the yard of Ghezel Hesar prison on the charge of drug trafficking on 25 May 2015 buried in their birthplace Kermanshah and Koohdasht. The 12 others inmates were executed along with them in the same charge as drug-related crimes.

 

Three Prisoners Hanged in Public

27 May, Tehran: three inmates who were convicted on the charge of bullying and brutal violence executed in the public earlier morning in the city of Mashhad on 27 May 2015.

The offensives, two of them 27-year-old and the other one 38, had attempted armed robbery during 2006-2010 as the Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Court Gholam-Ali Sadeghi said.

They had been sentenced to the death penalty at branch eight of the Revolutionary Court on the charge of Mohareb (bullying and brutal violence) through armed robbery, kidnapping, possessing arms and ammunition in the court.

 

Two Inmates Hanged in Kerman City

Two unknown prisoners were executed by gallows on the charge of murder in the yard of Shahab prison in the city of Kerman on 28 May 2015.

 

A prisoner Hanged in Ghachsaran Prison

Rooholah Ghashtasebi, 35, who had been detained with unknown reasons in the Cham Shir region on the charge of killing two persons executed by gallows in the yard of Ghachsaran prison on 28 May 2015.

 

A Prisoner Hanged in Tabriz City

Norouz Basiri was executed by gallows in Central Tabriz prison on 27 May 2015. He was accused of killing a person in the street fighting according to the news.

 

The Imminent Capital Punishment in Public

Majid Rostami the persecutor of the Revolutionary Court in the city of Jiroft announced that a prisoner is at imminent risk of execution on the charge of rape.

 

Two Inmates Convicted to Death Penalty for Rape

30 May, Tehran: two men were convicted to death and imprisonment at the court which chaired by five criminal judges on the charge of rape and murder.

The offensives Mohammad sentenced to capital punishment on the charge of murder by the Islamic Penal Code “Qisas” and Morteza convicted to 15 years imprisonment accused of involvement in committing the crime, according the rights group said.

Mohammad was sentenced to death in public through the ruling which issued by Chief of branch first of the Criminal Court of Zanjan Province and four counselors Naghi Lou, Pashaei, Seyedi and Moghadami, as the victim’s family lawyer declared.

It is the severest punishment that had been imposed by of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The execution will be carried out if the Supreme Court affirms the verdict.

 

A Prisoner Hanged in Shiraz City

An unknown inmate was executed by gallows in public on the charge of rape on 31 May 2015. He was convicted in the death penalty at branch four of the Criminal Court of Fars Province on the charge of rape to eight women in the city of Shiraz on 2011.

 

Two Prisoners Hanged in Sari Prison

Two inmates were executed by gallows in the yard of Sari prison in the charge of drug-related crimes on 31 May 2015. The persecutor of Mazandaran Province said that the inmates were arrested while they had carried 40 Grams Heroin and 24 Kilograms Opium.

 

The Chief of the Department of Justice of Hormozgan Province said that the situation of the drug criminals will be decided in the province in the first half of this year.

 

Sunday, April 19, 2015, Five Prisoners Were Hanged in Iran

19 April, Tehran: Five prisoners were executed in the back doors of Central Karaj prison earlier morning on 19 April 2015.The death penalty is done by gallows with the charge of drug trafficking and rape; Furthermore, the large number of the execution in Iran related to drugs crime.

 

Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Mass Execution is Being Continued in Iran

14 April, 19 unknown prisoners were hanged on by gallows earlier morning in the prisons of Iran that twelve of them were from Ghezel Hesar prison. 16 other prisoners are at imminent risk of execution in Wednesday 15 April follows the mass execution after passing more than two years of presidential election promise’s Rouhani. Central News of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has confirmed that eight unknown prisoners had executed in Central Karaj prison of Alborz Province, 13 April 2015. Whereas, more than 252 prisoners were executed in the prisons of the regime of Iran within the first ten weeks of 2015.

 

Monday, April 13, 2015, Officials Refuse Corpse’ Delivery of Two Executed Kurdish political Prisoners

Two Kurdish political prisoners’ corpses are not delivered, while their relatives follow the case up in Judiciary Department. The officials said that the execution was carried out as secretly executed which Amnesty International had issued concern in a statement on 19 Feb 2015. The reports indicate that the two Kurdish political prisoners Habibullah Afshari and his brother Ali Afshari were executed by gallows in Central Urmia prison after transferring to an unknown location. After executing two political prisoners, intelligent Service agents have informed their families: "they have been executed and you have to bury them in silence." “They said that the corpses were buried in an unknown location, when we asked the Intelligence Service officers” Ali Afshari’s wife informed the Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran. Officials had hand over us the personal belongings of our loved ones, and we are informed that the corpses were buried in Tabriz city, the capital of East Azerbaijan Province, their relatives have declared. Ali along with his brother, Habibullah, had been detained by Revolutionary Guards officials on 2010 in Mahabad and Bookan County, West Azerbaijan Province of Iran. The Kurdish political prisoners had been sentenced to death on the charge of Moharebeh in Revolutionary Court of Mahabad after all persecution and torture __both physically and psychologically during 75 days in the interrogating rooms, where the goal of inquisition.

 

 Saturday, April 11, 2015 ,  Ahwazi Poet at Risk of Torture and Death by Iran

Ahmad  Hazbawi,son of Sabhan (aka Abu Motasar), 31-year-old ,poet, from Qalat Chanaan village, 12km southwest Ahwaz, was arrested on 8 April 2015 at his perfume shop in Kut Abdullah town near Ahwaz city. Informed sources and eyewitnesses confirmed seeing masked men in black uniforms, believed to be intelligence agents, arresting, beating and dragging the poet from his shop to their vehicle. According to one source, who was present at the shop, intelligence agents show no document or ID. The poet was arrested in connection with a 25 –word Arabic poem after the poet and jubilant crowd, mainly youth, appeared in a video on 27 March 2015 expressing support for Saudi-led Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen. Iran or Iranians were not mentioned in the video whatsoever. It has been widely shared by Arabic media in the middle east as well as Facebook and twitter. The poem’s translation says: “Greeting from beloved Ahwazi to king Salman, Who United the grandsons of Arabs in the Decisive Storm of Cousins. The fighter gets of glory appeared over the Houthis of Darkness”.  His wife and son were also arrested by security forces but were released. Security forces threatened to hurt the family. His whereabouts still remain unknown. Iran has previously assassinated and executed Ahwazi poets merely for their poetry and cultural activities. In February 2014 Iran caused an international outcry when it executed the Ahwazi poet Hasem Shaabani and his fellow Al-Hiwar member and teacher Hadi Rashedi.   In November 2014 Iran detained and poisoned the Arab poet Sattar Sayahi (Abu Soror) to prevent him from involvement in a variety of Arab cultural activities.

 

Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Three Prisoners Were Executed in Urmia, Iran

Three prisoners were executed by gallows in Central Urmia Prison earlier morning on 11 March 2015.The prisoners including Salahedin Sherafat, Samad Mohammadi and Ali Pasdar have been convicted to retribution (Qisas) By Republic Islamic of Iran Tribunal. There is no obvious detail reported confirming his condition according to the reports received by the Campaign in Defense of Civil & Political Prisoners.

 

 

 Friday, March 27, 2015, Critical Condition of a Prisoner on Death Row

The physical condition of Mustafa Salimi, a Kurdish political prisoner, who is on the death row since four years ago are deteriorated due to suffer from kidney disorder and intestinal infection, whereas, he has been denied for health treatment by prison officials at this moment. He was arrested and convicted on the charge of acting against national security through Moharebeh by Revolutionary Court while he had ended his collaboration with one of the opposition party according to the reports received by the Campaign in Defense of Civil and Political Prisoners. Mustafa’s appeal to abolish the execution was refused by Amnesty Commission of Judiciary of the Iran’s regime. He, who has a child, could be expected at imminent execution in Central Saqez prison as Human Rights activists have expressed concern about the imperative death penalty. The inmate was taken to the Intelligence Service detention of Sanandaj by officials to interrogating after the arrest and thereafter, he had been temporarily kept as exile in Rajai Shahr prison according to the reports.

 

Saturday, May 30, 2015, The Violence by Officials to Punish Less Fortunate Citizens

30 May, Tehran: two men were convicted to death and imprisonment at the court which chaired by five criminal judges on the charge of rape and murder. The offensives Mohammad sentenced to capital punishment on the charge of murder by the Islamic Penal Code “Qisas” and Morteza convicted to 15 years imprisonment accused of involvement in committing the crime, according the rights group said. Mohammad was sentenced to death in public through the ruling which issued by Chief of branch first of the Criminal Court of Zanjan Province and four counselors Naghi Lou, Pashaei, Seyedi and Moghadami, as the victim’s family lawyer declared. It is the severest punishment that had been imposed by of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The execution will be carried out if the Supreme Court affirms the verdict.

 

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, Bakhtiyar Memari Is at Risk of Imminent Execution

He was taken to an unknown location according to the reports. Bakhtiyar Memari, 37, a Kurdish political activist, was arrested on the charge of membership in Komoleh party by Intelligence Service officials in Marivan city on 2010. Bakhtiyar was transferred to Sanandaj Intelligence Service office after the arrest, and convicted to death by Revolutionary Court of Marivan which chaired by Judge Lotfi on the accusation of Moharebeh Through the membership of Komoleh party on 2011.The Kurdish prisoner was caught-up by officials to an unknown location that could be allegedly suspected into solitary confinement. There is no obvious detail reported confirming his condition according to the story that his acquaintance said. He had explained his excruciating prison life through a detailed letter which previously intercalated by the Campaign in Defense of Civil & Political Prisoners. “I, Bakhtiyar Memari, am a student. I have been just detained due to criticism of the excruciating life of Kurdish citizens in the Kurdish part of Iran. In the view of Iranian centralized government being Kurd, Arab and Baloch is considered as a sin or crime”.  Human Rights activists have expressed concern about the rise of violations against ethnic and religious minorities since the tenure of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979.  Many Kurds, Arab and Bloch are arrested due to their race or ethnicity according to the reports that have received daily by Human Rights activists. The Human Rights reports have heed the total number of the executions in Iran, that 658 people hanged in 2011, 518 people in 2012, 665 people in 2013, 721 people in 2014 and more than 220 executions have been carried out in 2015 till this moment. On 2013, Human Rights activists reported that at least 16 people were executed on the charge of Moharebeh (enmity against God) including eight Baloch prisoners hanged in Retaliation for the murdering of dozen border guards along the border of Iran-Pakistan. Meanwhile, more than 27 Sunni Kurd prisoners are on the death row on the charge of Moharebeh, propaganda against the regime and acting against national security in Rajai Shahr prison as the reports mentioned. The six Sunni Kurd prisoners were executed on the similar charges that cued above by the Revolutionary Tribunal earlier morning on 4 March 2015. Hereof, Mona Oudeh, an Ahwazi activist based in London, has recently  remarked in an interview with Al-Sharq Newspaper that Ahwazi citizenships especially the women are violated and forced sterilization, exclusion, persecution and cultural genocide in the south west of Iran.

 

Monday, March 9, 2015, Iran’s Regime has Executed 22 Prisoners within 12 Days

An unknown prisoners was executed by gallows on the charge of murder in Bandar Abbas prison earlier morning on 25 Feb 2015. Six Sunni Kurd prisoners were executed on the charge of Moharebeh, Propaganda against the regime and acting against national security in Rajai Shahr prison on 4 March 2015. The six prisoners included Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Mollaei, Hadi Husseini, Sedigh Mohamadi, Jamshid Dehghani and Jahangir Dehghani. All the inmates are young between the ages of 27 to 33 years old. Hamid Mir-Balochzehi, a Baloch citizen, was executed on the charge of drug trafficking in Yasouj prison on 5 March 2015. 12 prisoners were executed by gallows including the inmates between the ages of 28 to 50 years old in Ghezel Hesar prison on 7 March 2015. The name of some of the prisoners are as follow:

 1. Ali Heydari, 30, had been spent 21 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 2. Adel Salmanzadeh, 29, Married, had been spent 30 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 3. Davood Rahmati, 29, single, had been spent 20 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 4. Ali Emami, 50, Married with three children, had been spent three years at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 5. Askar Pir-Farshi, 37, married, had been spent 22 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 6. Akbar Pir-Farshi, 34, married, had been spent 22 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 7. Mohsen Rangi, 28, single, had been spent 24 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 8. Mohammad Bazaz, 30, married, had been spent 25 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 9. Miss. Mehrnoosh Ghavasi, 50, was executed by gallows in Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. She had been kept in Gharchak prison of Varamin city before the execution. Ali Amiri, 30, was executed by gallows in Zabol prison on 7 March 2015. He had been spent six years at the first ward of the prison. Saeed Balochi, a Baloch citizenship, was executed on the charge of drug trafficking in Central Chabahar prison on 7 March 2015.

 

Monday, March 9, 2015, Saeed Balochi Was Executed in Chabahar Prison, Iran

Saeed Balochi, a Baloch citizenship who lived in Kaldar-Lashar village of Nikshahr region, was hanged on the charge of drug trafficking in Central Chabahar prison on 7 March 2015. Saeed had been transferred to solitary confinement (Quarantine) to execution by gallows earlier morning on Saturday. The officials’ prison had told his relatives could have a final visiting with their related imprisoned yesterday. “We and all residents of the village know that the verdict was totally inequitable after severe torture he has undergone during the interrogating by officials to be confessed” as one of his relative has notified the Campaign in Defense of Civil & Political Prisoners. “He was severely tortured to undertake 51 tons drugs that had been seized by officials eight months before his arrest, notwithstanding, all the justification evident which proves his innocence”. “We had asked judicial authorities to postpone the execution till the sentence to be handled by Appeal Court, although, officials denied the plea” as his relative said.

 

Sunday, March 8, 2015, 12 Prisoners Were Executed in Ghezel Hesar Prison, Iran

12 prisoners including two women were executed by gallows in Ghezel Hesar prison earlier morning on 7 March 2015.All the inmates were between the ages of 28 to 50 years old. There is no obvious charge and no trial is reported confirming their conviction according to HRDAI report. The name of some of the prisoners are as follow:

1. Ali Heydari, 30, had been spent 21 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 2. Adel Salmanzadeh, 29, Married, had been spent 30 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 3. Davood Rahmati, 29, single, had been spent 20 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 4. Ali Emami, 50, Married with three children, had been spent three years at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 5. Askar Pir-Farshi, 37, married, had been spent 22 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 6. Akbar Pir-Farshi, 34, married, had been spent 22 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 7. Mohsen Rangi, 28, single, had been spent 24 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj. 8. Mohammad Bazaz, 30, married, had been spent 25 months at 2 ward of Ghezel Hesar prison in Karaj.

 

Thursday, March 5, 2015, 21 Prisoners Were Executed within one Day

Fifteen prisoners whose identities are unknown were hanged on March 4, 2015 for narcotics charges in Ghezel Hesar prison. Heretofore, some of the prisoners had been taken to the Great Tehran prison that transferred to Ghezel Hesar prison to execution yesterday as HRANA has informed. On the other hand, six Sunni Kurd prisoners also had been hanged on the charge of Moharebeh, acting against national security and propaganda against the regime of Iran on the same date.  The six prisoners including Hamed Ahmadi, Hadi Husseini, Kamal Mollaei, Sedigh Mohammadi, Jahangir and Jamshid Dehghani were accused of the false charge murdering a senior Sunni cleric with links to the Iranian officials as Human Rights activists have reported.  21 prisoners had been hanged by Republic Islamic of Iran within one day according to the numbers of prisoners that mentioned above. Human Rights activists have expressed concern about the rise in executions since Rouhani’s inauguration despite his presidential election promises.

 

Wednesday, March 4, 2015 , Six Sunni Kurd Prisoners Were Executed

Six Sunni Kurd prisoners who had been taken to an unknown location yesterday were hanged earlier morning on 4 March 2015. The six prisoners, Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Mollaei, Hadi Husseini, Sedigh Mohamadi, Jamshid Dehghani and Jahangir Dehghani had started a hunger strike to protest against the inequitable decision by the regime of Iran when transferred to an unknown location of execution. Other Sunni Kurd prisoners also had started a hunger strike to protest the six prisoners who could be expected to be hanged. They were sentenced to death on the charge of Moharebeh, acting against national security and propaganda against the regime of Iran at 28 branch of Revolutionary court which chaired by Judge Mohammad Mogheyse on 2009. According to the Human Rights reports; they were accused of the false charge murdering a senior Sunni cleric with links to the Iranian authorities through the severe torture during enduring excruciating months in Islamic Republic chambers. However, their activities was reportedly linked to cultural-religious affairs such as preaching in public places such as mosques and universities, participating in religious (Sunni) meeting, distribution religious books and CDs, religious holiday’s prayer, funding religious ceremonies and training of seminarian courses. They had been kept in Rajai Shahr prison before the execution with a long the other Sunni Kurd prisoners who estimate to be more than 70 inmates. The six prisoners who were executed had been on the death row with a long 27 others Sunni Muslim prisoners in the prison. However, Amnesty International have issued a statement that the six prisoners could be just hours away from being hanged. “The Iranian authorities have for too long toyed with the lives of these prisoners, causing them and their families unimaginable anguish with multiple mock executions and executions stayed at the last minute. It is high time for the authorities to end this cruel practice and allow the prisoners to seek judicial review of their cases from the Supreme Court” as Hassiba HAdj Sahauoi, Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director at Amnesty International had acknowledged. It is worth noting that the relatives of the prisoners and several well-known Human Rights activists had gathered in the front of Rajai Shahr prison for hours before that their loved ones be executed.

 

Tuesday, March 3, 2015, Six Sunni Kurd prisoners are at Risk of Imminent Execution

Six Sunni Kurd prisoners were taken to an unknown place of execution by the raid of officials at salon NO. 10 in Rajai Shahr prison on 3 March 2015. The prisoners including Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Mollaei, Hadi Husseini, Sedigh Mohamadi, Jamshid Dehghani and Jahangir Dehghani was blindfolded and transferred to an unknown place according to the reports received by BCR Group. All the inmates are young between the ages of 27 to 33 years old. They were reportedly beaten severely and insulted during the attack that caused the wound in their hands and legs. The prison officials have informed the inmates’ relatives to meet their children for the last time. The prisoners have been arrested and sentenced to death on the charge of Moharebeh, acting against national security and propaganda against the regime of Iran after having enduring excruciating months in Islamic Republic torture chambers on 2009.

 

Thursday, February 26, 2015, Zahed Mirzaei Was Executed in Central Sanandaj Prison

Zahed Mirzaei, a citizenship of Diwandareh city in Kurdistan, was executed on the charge of killing his cousins by gallows in the central hallway in  Sanandaj prison, early morning on 26 Feb 2015. His relatives are reportedly panicked to publish news of their son’s execution and would not tend to tell any news of him, according to the Campaign in Defense of Civil & Political Prisoners report. There is no more information that when the corpse will be delivered to his family.

 

Thursday, February 26, 2015, Nine Prisoners Were Executed During a Week in the Prisons of Iran

Authorities of the regime of Iran have executed nine prisoners by gallows during 16th till 22th of the Feb 2015.The names of them which are received by the Campaign in Defense of Civil & Political Prisoners are as follows:Ali Sadeghi was executed on the charge of murder in Kermanshah prison on 16 Feb 2015. Ali Gholami, a citizenship of Lorestan, Ghasem Moradi, Kazem Yazadani and Mansour Kargar, who lived in Shiraz city, Mousa Nikouei and Sajjad Ghouchani, the citizens of Urmia were executed on the charge of drug trafficking on 22 Feb 2015. Gholamreza Razmi, a citizenship of Shiraz city and chief former of Revolutionary Guards of Iran, was executed due to unknown reason on 22 Feb 2015. He had been imprisoned in the prisons of Saudi Arabia for a while. Amin Mahmoudi, an Ahwazi Arab citizenship, was executed on the charge of adultery in public on 22 Feb 2015.

 

Friday, February 6, 2015, 33 Sunni Kurd Prisoners on Death Row

More than 200 of Sunni Kurds prisoners are kept in the prisons of Iran. It is worth noting that the highest ranking of Sunni prisoners is allocated to Rajai Shahr prison with more than 80 prisoners who are serving their imprisonment or awaiting to death.

 

Thursday, February 5, 2015, A Baloch Political Prisoner Was Executed in Iran

Jaihand Rigi, 28, was executed early morning on 4 Feb 2015 in Central Zahedan prison by hanging from the gallows. Jaihand who had reportedly been exiled and kept in Chabahar prison, taken to solitary confinement at quarantine ward of Zahedan prison to execution. In addition to that, the persecutor, the chief of the Revolutionary Court of Zahedan city and Jaihand’s interrogator have been at the execution site according the reports. He was arrested by officials of Intelligence Service (VEVAK) and Revolutionary Guards of the regime of Iran raid and transferred to Zahedan Intelligence Service detention about four years ago. This political prisoner had been sentenced to execution and ten years imprisonment after all the persecution and torture he has undergone during his interrogation by officials, as Human Rights activists have acknowledged. He was transferred several times to solitary confinement and persecuted both physically and psychologically due process approach to confessions as Baloch Activists Campaign has stated. It is worth noting that authorities had forced him to cooperate with officials and imposed on the partnership for assassination against Baloch activists.

 

Tuesday, January 6, 2015, Saber Mokhaled Mawaneh Is Executed in Iran

Saber Mokhaled Mawaneh, a political activist, is executed by gallows in the hallway of Urmia Central Prison; He was transferred from solitary confinement to execution on 6 Jan 2015. Saber had been arrested by Intelligence service affiliate to revolutionary guards corps on 10 July 2012. He was accused of war against God and the state (Moharebeh) of collaboration with one of the Kurdish parties after spending three months in prison. He was transferred to Urmia Central prison after all objections of his detention; nevertheless, he was sentenced to death in the accusation of acting against national security and cooperation with one of the Kurdish parties by Appeal Court. Saber was one of the hunger striker prisoners in 12 ward (darya) of Urmia prison in order to protest for independent political ward and to stop the inhuman attitude of prison officials.  According to the research of Campaign in Defense of Civil & political Prisoners, there are misrules and injustice in the interrogation process and trail of many political prisoners such as lack of the lawyer rights, torture and harassment. Judiciary System of Iran reportedly had not done independent research of trail, and their verdicts were affected by revolutionary guards’ corps orders.

 

Sunday, February 8, 2015, Abolition Death Penalty of a Prisoner in Karoon Prison

In a ruling on 8 Feb 2015, the death penalty of Sidad Arjomandi is reduced to the life time imprisonment while his family were going to Ahwaz due to the last meeting before the execution. Sidad was sentenced to the death penalty on the charge of drug trafficking by Revolutionary Court of the regime of Iran that expected the court would uphold his death sentence on 9 Feb 2015. Sidad Arjomandi, who had been living in Urmia city, is kept in Karoon prison of Ahwaz to serve his life time imprisonment term. “I am stuck in a sinkhole because of poverty and unemployment” as he had declared, formerly, and impotently asked Human Rights activist to abolish his death sentence.

Tuesday, June 30, 2015 11:53:57 AM, Iran: A Labor Activist Prisoner Died of Medical Carelessness in Salmas Prison

Anwar Lajevard, a political prisoner in Salmas prison, passed away as a result of cardiac arrest and the prison officials had put him off in transferring to the hospital. Anwar, 45, who were lived in Broshkhoran village of Salmas city, dropped off because of heart failure in Tabriz Hospital on Thursday, 18 June 2015. His son Behnam Lajevard said that "my father had been arrested about nine months ago to serve the prison term, and he was transferred to the prison of Salmas. By the way, suddenly his health condition decayed, and he passed away on Tuesday. But, the prison officials deemed that it is not perilous and he will be fine. Finally, the officials accepted to take him to the hospital after 2-3 hours, when he was still in comatose. He took to Khoy Hospital when he was still alive, but was finally transferred to Tabriz Hospital on request of specialists. My father died after having two days in the hospital." Behnam added his father was a labor and unpolitical. My father had been released on the bail after having two months interrogation in the solitary confinement in his first detention. The preliminary court had carried out its charge against my father, four-year in prison which was reduced at the Appeal Court to one year. The deceased prisoner had been reportedly accused of cooperation with the Kurdish opposition parties as his son declared.

 

Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Rasoul Hardani Started a Hunger Strike

Rasoul Hardani has started a hunger strike to protest against the officials’ negligence of his medical treatment on 2 June 2015. He had clashed with prison’s officials according to the news due to his critical condition in the prison which led him to begin the hunger strike. He suffers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) that the Forensics doctors affirmed his intolerance to prison whereas Intelligence Service officials and persecutor of Tehran denied his demand for health release or freeness. Rasoul Hardani, 30, had previously started a hunger strike about 40 days to ask officials what he is being charged with on 24 Nov 2014. “What is my crime? … Charge me or otherwise release me” Rasoul said. He has been detained along with his brother on the charge of hijacking and disturbing to flight safety on 2001.  He was finally convicted to 22 years imprisonment. Rasoul had written in the part of his hardship; “I was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for passing excruciating condition months in solitary confinement of Intelligence Service. Judge of branch 20 of Revolutionary Court had sneered and said; you will figure out after losing your teeth and hair in prison when I asked him what was my guilty? I had passed 15 years, the best days of youth in prison. Officials reject my pleading letter to asking for health release or freeness.”

 

 Monday, March 30, 2015, A Kurdish Political Prisoner Has Started Hunger Strike, Iran

Changiz Ghadam, who is kept in Masjed Soleyman prison, has begun a hunger strike due to protest against the officials’ inhuman behavior and lack of health treatment on 29 March 2015. He has been apparently refused the rights of visit his family while they had went to the prison to meet him that prison officials prevented them to meet their loved one, whereas, Changiz was sentenced to 40 years imprisonment by Revolutionary Court of Iran. The Kurdish prisoner has been arrested with along Fardin Faraji, Mohammad-Husain Rezaei and Ayoub Asadi on the charge of Moharebeh and participating in the conflict with Revolutionary Guards in one of the villages of Sanandaj city on 2011. He is suffering from chronic infectious disease, ague, headache, dizziness and poor eyesight due to excruciating prison life according to the reports received by the Campaign in Defense of Civil and Political Prisoners. They had been taken to the Intelligence Service detentions few months because of the partnership in one of the Kurdish party, ultimately transferred to Central Sanandaj prison. On 11 August 2012, the inmates have been convicted to prison on the charge of Moharebeh at the first branch of Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj which chaired by Judge Babaei which was informed them in the prison on 19 Sept 2012.  They have been respectively sentenced to imprisonment, Mohammad-Husain Rezaei 45 years imprisonment and exile to Minab prison, Changiz Ghadam Kheir 40 years imprisonment and exile to Masjed Soleyman, Fardin Faraji 30 years imprisonment and exile to Tabas prison and Ayoub Asadi 20 years imprisonment and exile to Kashmar prison, however, they had lived in the Kurdish region of Iran in the west of Iran.

 

Tuesday, March 3, 2015, A Hunger Strike Was Started against the Inequitable Decision of the Regime of Iran

Six prisoners who were thrown to an unknown place of execution have started a hunger strike with a long the other Sunni Kurd prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison. These prisoners have reportedly announced that we will continue the hunger strike till the execution to be canceled. The hunger strike was started by the inmates which estimate 77 prisoners joined due to protest against the unfair decision of the regime. According to the fact reports which are received by the BCR Group; 77 Sunni Kurd prisoners are kept in Rajai Shahr prison that most of them are unknown because the relatives of some of them are panicked to publish news of their imprisoned children after they were severely threatened by officials of the regime. They overall have been convicted to prison terms which estimate from five to thirty-three year, except 39 of them who were sentenced to death. These 39 inmates were severely tortured and threatened through pressure of their families that forced them to confess the false charge against themselves.  Mock execution, hanging from ceiling that lead them to break their shoulder, lethal medicine injection, hangs up weight to the testis, keeping in cold weather, threats of rape, severe lashes on the bed, beating by shocker, beating to the sensitive organs (head, cerebellum, neck, spine, stomach, shin, knee and back of knee) and long-term imprisonment in solitary confinement. These are all the enduring excruciating that led them to be sentenced.

 

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Three Prisoners Have Started a Hunger Strike

Three prisoners, who are kept in Sanandaj prison, have begun a hunger strike to protest against their sentences on 9 Feb 2015. The prisoners including Aram Zamani, Sirwan Zamani and Yasin Moghadamnejad overall have been convicted to prison term and exile on the charge of armed fighting and fighting with police officers. Aram Zamani, 22, was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment and exile to Dizelabad prison of Kermanshah. Sirwan Zamani was sentenced to 22 years imprisonment and exile to Ramhormoz city in Khuzestan province and Yasin Moghadamnejad, 24, was sentenced to 31 years imprisonment.

Saturday, January 3, 2015, 59 Political Prisoners Started Hunger Strike

59 political prisoners had started a hunger strike to protest against horrible condition as lack of health treatment and inhuman behavior of the Karoon prison’s officials on 14 Nov 2014.  Afterward, they also have refused to meet their family. The prisoner’s families have reportedly demonstrated to ask officials for handling and accountability on the situation of the prisoners in front of the Khuzestan Bureau of Prisons.

 

Thursday, January 1, 2015, Mohammad Amin Agoushi, a retired teacher, has started a hunger strike to protest the lack of health treatment, severe persecution and not being transferring to Zahedan prison on 26 Dec 2014. Agoushi was taken to solitary confinement, and there is no news of him. He was arrested along with Iraj Mohammadi and Ahmad Pouladkhani and was accused to spying for Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and Moharebeh through collaborating with the opposition to the regime of Iran on 2007. He was transferred to Urmia Central prison after had been spent seven months in solitary confinement. He was sentenced to death by firing squad In Military Court. The Supreme Court of Iran upheld the initial verdict, but their case had been underway and was referred to branch 1 of Military Court. Therefore, their sentence was reduced to 10 years imprisonment and exile to Zahedan prison.

 

 

Tuesday, January 20, 2015, Raped, Abused and Accused of Disclosure Raping Teen Volunteer Soldiers, Iran

Abolfazl Sadeghi, a disabled war veteran, was prosecuted and accused of the disclosure of information regarding the rape teen volunteer soldiers at 101 branch of public court of Iran on 18 Jan 2015. The Commander of the Revolutionary Guard had raped Abolfazl when he had volunteered and gone to the battlefield during Iran-Iraq war, as he said on his Facebook page. He was summoned to the court due to disclosure sexual harassment of teenagers in trenches during voluntary military service in Shalamcheh, situated on the border of Iran with Iraq.  He had revealed painful events that had happened to him in the trench when he was only 14 years old. Neither writing about nor thinking of sexual abuse during war is allowed, he wrote in his book “Buzzards in Shalamcheh”. “The eyes full of tears; 27 years nightmare. There is not part of paradise, rather, the gate of hell. Swindlers improve frequently to get promoted”.Abolfazl had also mentioned of crimes and felonies of military and intelligence service authorities. He had taken an oath that he will say confusing stories such as abuse of power by Deputy of the Cultural of Intelligence Office of Qom.  He had declared that he will symbolically go shrouded to the court. This is the first time that someone has valiantly unfolded raping teens and youth in military organization of Iran. It is not a rare incident in barracks of army or other military organization of Iran.

 

Thursday, May 28, 2015, Iran: The Non-Stop Persecution against Ahwazi Arab Prisoners Intensified by the Regime

28 May, Tehran: The officials have transferred the political prisoners to the ward of addicted prisoners (Ward Metadon) to put them under pressure in Karoon prison by Chief of the prison’s direct order. The five prisoners Nassar Timas (Silawi), Seyed Jaber al-Boshkah, Majid Sawari along with two unknown inmates are in the critical condition while they were thrown to the ward among criminal and addicted defendants according to the rights group reports. Karoon is one of the prisons in the country that the Human Rights organizations have not concerned as well as the reports received from the prison and many Ahwazi Arab activists are taken there on the false charge such as acting against national security and propaganda against regime. According to the security situation where Arab citizens located in, “Iranian regime officials in Ahwaz have announced the pending executions of a large number of Ahwazi dissidents currently detained in regime prisons, with 20 facing public execution following what are widely seen as kangaroo trials.” Hereof, Iran’s security forces had launched massive arrest of Ahwazi Arab fans who dressed up their local Arabic clothes known “Deshdasheh” on 17 March 2015. The mass arrest had happened during the match between Foulad FC and Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia) FC, which estimated more than 1000 fans in Ahwaz city. Thousands of Arab Ahwazi fans had reportedly carried a popular demonstration out to protest against the illegal mass arrest, ethnic discrimination and comprehensive and systematic oppression by the Iranian regime. The flame of protest embarked on all around the Al-Qadir football stadium at the last moments of the evening on Tuesday. Three citizens were gunned down, and at least 90 Ahwazi fans wounded aftermath severe brutal clashes by armed anti-riot guards according to Arab activists’ reports.

 

 Wednesday, May 20, 2015, Iran: A Prisoner Died Because of Lack of Medical Care

Abdul-Vahed Gomshad Zehi, 19, died in Central Zahedan prison due to lack of medical treatment on 18 May 2015. Abdul-Vahed, who lived in the city of Saravan, was allegedly suffered from Bruises in his head that the prison officials had refused him to hospitalize which led him to die. Officials still have not any positioning on the issue according to the news received by the rights group. Many reports have cited that hundreds of prisoners suffer from lack of medical care and basic rights as nutrition and welfare in the Republic Islamic prison of Iran.

 

 

Monday, May 18, 2015, Ali Salanpour Returned to the Prison without Treatment

Ali Salanpour, 56, a political prisoner, was returned back to Rajai Shahr prison while his medical care uncompleted. Mr. Salanpour reportedly suffers from his spine due to the severe torture during the interrogation in the chambers of Republic Islamic of Iran. On the other hand, the jamming waves which glisten by jamming devices at Hall 12 in the prison that the prisoners’ health face danger according to the news received by the rights group.  Whereas, three prisoners including Foad Moghadam, Khalid Hardani and Mashallah Haeri are in critical condition as Human Rights activists said.

 

 

Tuesday, May 12, 2015, Iran: the Systematic Pressures on the Prisoners’ Relatives Are Being Continued

Neither the basic rights of the prisoners nor their relatives rights are being violated by the regime of Iran which tenured by Mullahs. Azam Piri, the wife of a political prisoner, was warned that she may lose her job if she does not cancel the complaint, Miss. Piri had sued through the Bureau of Labor and Social Welfare against Tea Zarnoosh Manufacturing because of her non-payment for compensation. A person close to her added that; the her boss at Zarnoosh Tea Manufacturing has been pressuring her to withdraw her complaint against the company, Otherwise his lawyers who have close ties to the justice department  will smear her name and inform the information ministry about conspiring with her imprisoned political husband. Her boss stressed that if she continues with her complaint not only she will not receive her overdue compensation but also she will be in lots of troubles. On the other hand, Shiva Dadash Zadeh, the wife of a political prisoners Ali Rezaei, fired out for what is considered of her interviews and broadcasting the news of her husband’s situation, whereas, Mr. Rezaei was released on 10 May 2015. The prisons’ relatives are persecuted by the officials through body scanning when they plead for a meeting of their loved ones. According to the reports, Kazemeini Boroujerdi’s relatives were physically inspected while they tried entering to Evin prison. The other cases reported from Evin prison that women and baby girls have allegedly been scanned by officials what cause the relatives’ displeasure.

 

Tuesday, May 5, 2015, The Judge Calls Beating a Political Prisoner

Ali Moezi, who was asked attending the court which chaired by Judge Asef Hosseini, had been severely beaten at 6:30 on 4 May 2015. He was accused of the charge of acting against national security, propaganda against the regime of Iran and partnership with the opposition groups at branch first court in the city of Karaj while he went to the court. The officials said that we are asked to take you to the court somehow when Ali had denied attending the court by the prison’s officials as Miss. Purshajari has claimed. Afterwards, he was taken to the prison clinic because his head was broken after the attack. Nevertheless, the prisoner transferred to the court while his feet were chained, and handcuffs tied his hand. He returned back to the prison at 15:30, whereas, he was deprived of water and food on Monday according to the news received by BCR Group. Ali, who had been arrested in the 80s decade, detained on 2008 and convicted to two years imprisonment and three years suspended sentence. He was again arrested on 12 June 2011 because of participating in the Ali Saremi’s funeral. Previously, he suffers from kidney and bladder, and prostate disorder as right groups have reportedly expressed concern about his critical condition.

 

Monday, March 30, 2015 , Ali Rezaei Is Deprived of Having Contact with his Family

Ali Rezaei is still deprived of the rights of the phone call and visit. Ali Rezaei, a civil rights activist of Azerbaijan in Iran, who had been detained on 4 Feb 2015 by Intelligence Service of the regime of Iran in Mehr Abad Airport is still denied his basic rights such as phone call and visit his relatives. He was reportedly transferred to the public ward after having two days in the hunger strike in the solitary confinement, whereas, his family have not been able to meet him as the relatives have acknowledged. Ali was accused on the charge of acting against national security and collusion against the regime through the celebration of the International Mother Language Day according to the reports received by the BCR Group. His wife was apparently informed through a short phone call at noon on first of Feb 2015 to no interview with Medias as Ali has been asked by officials. Officials have seized our personal belongings such as degrees documents, identifications and wedding photos, and shortly after the arrest (while he was going to Banda Abbas city) I have frequently called that I have not call Medias. “Your husband will face horrible situation, if you do it” as her wife, Shiva Dadashzadeh, said. Shiva was dismissed and lost her job at Payam Noor University due to follow Ali’s case up in the last Tuesday of the last Persian Year. “We have allowed to lawyer rights after a week, but the lawyer has not to practice on the case, and as of yet, the warrant of arrest not noticed us”, Shiva said. She also added that many citizens were arrested with along my husband on the International Day of the Native Language at the same time.

 

Friday, March 27, 2015, A Baloch Shepherd Was Killed by Officials’ Gunfire, Iran

Majid Fouladi had been gunned down by Revolutionary Guard officials in Gilki village on 22 March 2015. He was shot while he had carried his crook that officials had probably suspected him to bear weapon as local eyewitness said. “Officials had not undertook and left the place of death when we inquired cause of the death” his brother has claimed. Furthermore, the judge refused us as quoting “they do not fire someone for no reason” while the corpse was transferred to forensics after the complaint of the victim’s family according to his brother, Abdul-Hamid, has expressed the Baloch Activist Campaign. Previously, a young Baloch citizen, Navaz Derazehi, was killed through a direct shooting by Jalegh officials’ station that is suspected to fuel smuggling on the eve of Persian New Year in Sistan and Balouchestan province. At least 24 Baloch citizens have been killed and wounded by Revolutionary Guards and police of Iran due to the security situation in Sistan and Balouchestan province since 2014 till at the moment according to the reports received by the BCR Group.

 

 Tuesday, March 17, 2015, The non-ending prosecution of Ahwazi Arab civilians intensified by the occupying security forces

Iran’s security forces have launched massive arrest of Ahwazi Arab fans who dressed up their local Arabic clothes known “Deshdasheh” on 17 March 2015. The mass arrest has occurred during the match between Foulad FC and Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia) FC, which estimated more than 1000 fans in Ahwaz city. Thousands of Arab Ahwazi fans have reportedly ignited a popular demonstration to protest against illegal mass arrest, ethnic discrimination and comprehensive and systematic oppression by Iranian regime. The flame of protest embarked on all around the Al-Qadir football stadium at the last moments of the evening on Tuesday. Three citizens had been gunned down, and at least 90 Ahwazi fans wounded aftermath severe brutal clashes by armed anti-riot guards according to Arab activists’ reports. Ahwazis have chanted fiery slogans as “WE Die For THE SAKE OF AL-Ahwaz defying regime forces. It is worth noting that an Arab citizen, 34, had committed self-immolation due to the confiscation of his grocery kiosk by the mayor officials in front of the municipality office in Khoramshahr city. Younes Asakereh, who has two children, has been transferred to Taleghani hospital and kept in the special care, whereas, the authorities have tried to prevent any gathering in front of municipality office in Khoramshahr city according to Dahimi’s report received by the BCR Group. Younes, 92% burns, was transferred by aircraft to one of the hospitals in the capital of Iran at their own cost. Furthermore, He is apparently not in good physical condition and suffers from heart disorders.

 

 

Friday, March 13, 2015, Mostafa Daneshjoo Was admitted in C.C.U

Mostafa Daneshjoo, a Gonabadi Dervishes lawyer and Human Rights activist, was hospitalized at Shohada Tajrish hospital and admitted to critical care units (C.C.U) due to the recent respiratory attack and his physical condition deterioration in Evin prison on 11 March 2015. Mostafa is suffering from severe asthma and cardiac arrhythmias because of lung function disorder that has lately caused a severe respiratory attack as Majzooban Noor has acknowledged. The Human Rights lawyer was taken back without medical discharge from the Imam Khomeini hospital to the prison on 21 Jan, when he was under health care treatment. However, he had been deprived of the medicine which prescribed by his specialty physicians.  He is kept in one of the crowded wards of the prison, eight ward, which the unsuitable conditions could be led him to harden his disease. He could be expected of heart attack according to the reports.

 

 Tuesday, March 10, 2015, Brutal Attack at Political Ward of Rajai Shahr Prison

On 10 March 2015, the inspector agents in order to spread panic and intimidation and to show up strength have begun to arbitrarily search the personal belongings of prisoners. The inmates including Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Khaled Hardani, Shahrokh Zamani and Arjang Davoudi have to be in Intelligence office for interrogation, albeit the prisoners resisted and rejected the demand. On this subject, Tabarzadi had addressed chief of the prison inspection that you have captured and convicted us ILLEGALLY. You have kept us here more than 15 years and you have pressed every baseless and vague accusations against us. On the other hand, three other prisoners including Rasoul Bodaghi, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi also rejected the demand as the other inmates. Finally, the officials were asked by Mardani, the prison Chief, to close the door while the inmates went out for air refreshing. Previously, a similar raid had happened at ten ward of the prison that six Kurd prisoners were taken to solitary confinement to be executed on 4 March 2015.

Friday, January 30, 2015, Dervishes’ Accusation Was Confirmed by Supreme Court of Iran

Seven Dervishes were accused and sentenced to life exile on the charge of the war against God (Moharebeh) and spreading corruption on the earth (Mofsed-e-Filarz) by Revolutionary Court of Shiraz city. Although, the verdict was identically upheld by Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran. These seven Dervishes, who live in Kavar city, including Kazem Dehghan, Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan and Hamid-Reza Aramesh were exactly sentenced to life-long exile and four others (Mohammad-Ali Dehghan, Mohammad-Ali Sadeghi, Ebrahim Bahrami and Mohsen Esmaeili) sentenced to seven years exile. It is worth noting that Kazem Dehghan, Hamid-reza Aramesh and Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan were also accused of membership in illegal groups and collusion due to disrupt of national security by court. Ali Younesi, head of the religion and ethnic minorities of Rouhani, had reportedly expressed dissatisfaction of pressure against Dervishes. It is not interested in Iran’ goodwill, and that is out of our desire as he declared. Dervishes are among the other Iranian minorities who are oppressed and under pressure because of their faith. Freedom of religion is highly restricted in Iran, and no dissent is tolerated.

 

Thursday, January 22, 2015, Ali Salanpour Was Retuned Back to the Prison

 Ali SalanPour was returned back to Rajai Shahr prison on 22 Jan 2015 before the completion of treatment. He was taken to Tajrish hospital for treatment and medical care on 3 Jan 2015. He suffers from severe pain in his neck and spine due to torture and persecution during his detention. Ali Salanpour, an aged prisoner, is kept in 12 ward of Rajai Shahr and his physical condition is still at risk, as inmates declared.

 

Monday, January 12, 2015, Hamid Babaei Was Denied for Health Treatment

Hamid Babaei, 31, a Ph.D. student in financial affairs field, had been summoned and arrested by Intelligence Service when arrived in Tehran on 27 July 2013.  He was accused of spying and commutating with hostile states to 6 years imprisonments at the branch 15 of Revolutionary Court which chaired by Salavati on 21 Dec 2013.  Babaei was also denied the right to have his own lawyer. Hamid Babaei suffers from severe gum and teeth infection. His wife had submitted a health treatment application to the prison clinic of Evin on 28 April 2014. And a copy of that was sent to prosecutor office. After that, Forensics and management office of his ward in Evin had accepted to send him out to hospital due the lack of health facilities in the prison, and his acceptance was declared his family on 17 Nov 2014. It is worth noting; the persecutor of Tehran had viably notified his health treatment application but in order to send him out to the hospital the missive has not been received.

 

Friday, January 9, 2015, Christian Prisoners Were Deprived to Attending of the Christmas Celebration 

Christian prisoners were interdicted to attending of Christmas by officials of Rajai Shahr prison. Christmas celebration was held by Management of cultural and religious of the prison on 30 Dec 2014. And the prisoners had been declared to participating on the occasion of Christ birth. Though, Farshid Fathi (Priest), Ibrahim Firouzi, Rasoul Abdollahi and Sergik (Armenian citizen) were summoned by officials before the feast. They were taken very impolitely to the prison management office in order to prevent participating in the celebration. Furthermore, the other Christian prisoners also were deprived to participating in the feast, as Christian activists declared. Reportedly Human Rights violations of Christians are being continued by officials of the regime of Iran. According to reports, Iran is among the countries that harass Christians and had been gained seventh among 196 countries.

 

Sunday, April 12, 2015, Ahwazi Teachers goes on demonstration; Iran

Dozens of Ahwazi teachers have held in a protest in front of the Ministry of Education branch in Ahwaz City on 12 April 2015. The demonstration have been taking place due to the discrimination including non-payment of salaries, lack of Fringe benefit, low salary comparing to other occupations, Lack of insurance comparing to other jobs and no mortgage house, at the beginning on Sunday. According to the reports, received by the Human Rights activists they are demanding officials to pay them their salaries. The teachers chanted as quoting “we are crying out of discrimination, not of poverty. Teachers are aware and abhor discrimination”.  Iranian teachers have frequently objected on injustice in several cities in the recent month, which is not concerned by Iran’s regime officials. Previously, the Iranian educators’ object referring to the centralization which the conditions worsen, furthermore, they ask officials to provide educational facilities for standardization of classrooms, involvement of teachers to decision making. The Joint Parliamentary Committee of Iran had promised that the budget of Education Ministry will increase by 22% which is remained just as a promise, a member of the Teachers Union Mohammad-Reza Niknejad said.

Kill During Police Operation

Tuesday, March 10, 2015, A Cross-Border Carriers Was Killed by Police shooting, Iran

Fereydoon Lotfollahi, who lived in Zaviran of Marivan County, was killed by Security Forces officials’ crossfire along the Iran-Iraq border on 9 March 2015. There is no clear news of the incident that occurred lately evening on Monday. Whereas, many cross-border carriers (Kolbar) who carry goods across the border on their back or horseback for a business purpose to provide needful for their families to be alive. The Kurdish backpack carrier are faced serious risk due to climate conditions as more than 300 kilometer impassable mountains, failing into the rivers or valley where is located in the cross-border region, landmines explosion and gunfire by border security forces or snipers. The backpacks are frequently faced to die, but smuggling is being continued by them. They have told BBC correspondent, Jiyar Gol, that smuggling is the only means of livelihood they can depend on. It is worth noting that more than 34 people have been victims of landmines till this moment and more than 42 dead and wounded by border guards shooting in last year. On May 2014, an Iranian Kurdish backpack carrier was killed and another 30-years-old backpack lost one of his leg due to failing into the river and landmine explosion in the cross-border Kurdish region between Iraqi Kurdistan region and Turkey. According to the unofficial statistics of local sources; there are more than 100,000 backpack (97% man and 3% women) that they carry goods up across the Kurdish border between Iran and Iraq. The Iranian Kurdish backpacks have allegedly allocated the higher rank of this rough business in the region, although, the number of the backpacks of both sides of the border are unclear. In addition, many Kurdish students forced to smuggle across the border to earn money for their education as they said. The population of backpack carriers could be divided as follows in keeping with the local statistics that received by the Human Rights activists:

15-18 years of age: 10% of backpacks

18-25 Years of age: 30% of backpacks

25-40 years of age: 45% of backpacks

40 years and above: 15% of backpacks

 

 Friday, February 6, 2015, A Farmer Was Killed by Commando’s Crossfire

Rahim-Bakhsh Rigi, 30, who placed in Rikpot city, was shot by police commando of Iranshahr county on 4 Feb 2015. Officials had fired eight shots into Rahim’s car when he was driving along the way to Iranshahr without any reason as Baloch activists have declared. Rahim died due to shooting that his head was directly targeted. Police officers had cleaned the incident place and hid the bullet shells while they were carried his corpse under a bridge in the neighborhood. Officers also had denied the event by disavowing themselves when his relatives called the police station. It should be noted that a bullet shell had been found by fact-finding committee of Military Prosecutor after crime scene reconstruction as his relatives said.More than 15 Baloch citizens were direct shot fired by police officials in several cities of Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran, according to Baloch Human Rights activists’ reports.

 

Friday, February 6, 2015, Two Baloch Citizens Were Killed and Wounded

A 14-years-old teen and his brother, 20, were direct shot fired by Basiji officials in Jalegh city in Sistan and Baluchistan province of Iran. Ziya-Alrahman Rigi and his brother, Zobeyr, were fired by officials of Basiji station while they were driving their vehicles that suspected of fuel smuggling on 5 Feb 2015. Ziya died because of his wound of two bullets, and his brother was injured in his leg. They were continued on their way despite the shooting bullets from officials in the entrance of Jalegh city and officials in downtown had followed them. These two young Bloch citizens were finally trapped and volleyed fire in an alley that Ziya was shot to his mouth and head that led him to death as their uncle Haji Falak has acknowledged.

 

 

The Medieval Tortures are a Bitter Memorial That Iran’s Authorities have being using against the Dissident.

 Iran’s Intelligence Division of Iran’s National Police Force has reportedly exercised brutal methods to force the offenders to confess. The felons are being severely tortured and persecuted which often lead them to be disabled.

The captives are experiencing extremely painful tortures in prison—both psychologically and physically during interrogations.

 

The report has mentioned the most brutal torture techniques against criminal prisoners that are being used by Iran’s officials and are unknown.

 

They put the captives’ hands into a clamp to crush it. This method (thumbscrew) caused the inmates to break their fingers, wrist, elbow or forearm.

Fire seat is the most norm of the torture in Police Interrogation Intelligence offices that the offenders are placed on the steel chair which is heated by picnic gas.

Another one is water torture as putting water hose into the captives’ mouth.

Drip shower is the other way in which water drops are trickled down on inmate's head so that individual get nervous tension after few minutes.

Pulling fingernails as the most painful torture that carry out against robbers and murderers.

Cutting the fingers or wrist in public for those that brakes the Sharia law such as robberies and thefts.

Hanging from ceiling that lead the captives to break their shoulders.

Hanging from the ceiling upside down and submerging the accused in a garbage can filled with unclean water.

Lash is the common type of torture that all the captives have been undergone in the Intelligence Division of Iran’s National Police Force chambers. There are many ways to lash that the inmates are forced to recline on the bed, afterward, they will be beaten with gas hose, wand, shaft and lumber.

The captives are vertically thrown into small steel cages for long-term.

High voltage shocking that could lead the captives suffer from burns and psychological disorders such as nightmare.

Inserting sharp objects like needle, awl, pin, peg, brooch and borer into the sensitive organs as (spine, knee, head, cerebellum and back).

Burning the sensitive organs as (face, hips and testis) by hot metal or smoldering by cigarette flame. Some captives’ back are reputedly burnt by iron by officials during interrogating.

Sexual torture is the cruel way that is used by officials as threats of rape, rape, sexual words or touching, rubbing and beating to sex organs. But there are several reports of rape by using cylindrical objects as baton and bottle. In many cases, the captives commit suicide because they cannot bear these brutal tortures and many of the victims reportedly become depressed after being tortured.

The captives are suddenly beaten to their back, head, stomach, testis, neck, throat, shin or mouth that lead them to break their teeth and nose.

Keeping them in unclean and dirty cells puts the captives under more pressure. The method causes them to discharge their health care.

Keeping the inmates in container that get cold in winter and warm in the summer. The method has been allegedly happened at Kahrizak Detention Center during the unrest after the presidential election in 2009.

Roast Chicken torture; captives’ legs are pulled up, their arms over their legs, and a broomstick put between their arms and legs. Their hands are then tied up and then the officers do what they want with the captives.

The captives’ legs are fixed on a sawhorse and beaten to their metatarsus by shaft, hose or wand.

Inadequate food is the other norm that leads to deterioration of their health and makes them weak and weaker.

Grave cell is the other most grievous torture that the captives are kept standing in the vertical concrete grave with a small hatch to air-refreshing.

And other types of torture such as Medical care prevention, lethal medicine injection, hangs up weight to the testis, keeping in cold weather, lashes in front of publics, beating by shocker, mock execution, long-term imprisonment in solitary confinement, beating to the sensitive organs as (head, cerebellum, neck, spine, stomach, shin, knee and back of knee), beating to metatarsus by gas hose, wand, shaft and lumber and handcuff hands and legs of all the inmates together and keep them in the detention for hours.

Force the accused to confess in severely brutal ways in some cases Innocent individuals cannot bear the tortures and are forced to confess to a crime they have not done. This leads to long term-imprisonment or execution.

I am Kaveh Taheri, Human Rights activist and former prisoner in Adel Abad prison in Shiraz, have personally witnessed and heard harassment of the inmates who were brutally tortured.

They showed me the marks remained from the tortures, and they would tell me that: “we will be disabled for our whole life”.

Hundreds of offenders as well as innocent people are subjected to these Medieval violence in Iran's National Police Force detention centers.

 

 

Labor activists have been persecuted and suppressed since the tenure of Republic Islamic of Iran in 1979.

 

This report has mentioned conditions of some of the labor activists who have been convicted to long term imprisonment.

 Reza Shahabi

Mr. Reza Shahabi Zakariya, a labor activist and member of Syndicate of Workers of Bus Company, was arrested and taken to prison by officials of the regime of Iran on 12 June 2010. Reza had convicted to six years imprisonment on the charge of propaganda against the regime and acting against national security at 15 branch of Revolutionary Court in Tehran by Judge Salavati after having months in the prison. He had been also twice on hunger strike due to his undecided condition during the detention.

Shahrokh Zamani

Mr. Shahrokh Zamani, a labor activist, was arrested by officials of Intelligence Service of Iran at his workplace in Tabriz city on 2012. After a while, he was totally sentenced to 11 years and six months imprisonment on the charge of collusion and acting against national security and insulting to the Supreme leader of Iran in the Revolutionary Court.

 

Behnam Ebrahimzadeh

Mr. Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, a labor activist, was arrested and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment at 15 ward in the Revolutionary Court that was reduced by the appeal court to five years. He was also sentenced to nine years and six months imprisonment when he had spent his remaining imprisonment term in prison. He suffers from arthritis of the neck, stomach bleeding and severe pain in his gum and ears.

 

Mehrdad Aminvaziri

Mehrdad AminvaziriMr.Mehrdad Aminvaziri, a labor activist,was summoned at the first branch of the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj city and sentenced to five years and ninety-one days imprisonment on 4 March 2015.

Mehrdad had been arrested and taken to an unknown location by plain clothes at his workplace on 1 Jan 2015, although, he was released on the bail after having ten days in the detention. He was reportedly accused of the political party activities and taking part in the demonstration to support Kobani resistance.

Mehrdad had started a hunger strike to protest his unlawful arrest by plain clothes and announced that I will continue the hunger strike till my demand to be met.

It should be noted that he was arrested and sentenced to five years at the same branch of the Revolutionary Court on 2011 while he had spent 32 days in the Islamic Republic of Iran chambers.

Mehrdad was also summoned to the intelligence service through official phone call and reportedly sustained to long interrogation and has been freed after undergoing to such humiliation and ill-treatment at the hands of agents on 13 Dec 2014.

 

Saeed Shirzad

Mr. Saeed Shirzad, a children labor activist, was arrested in his workplace on 2 June 2014. He had been formerly arrested during the earth-quake of Ahar city in Azerbaijan province on 21 August 2012.  Saeed was exiled to Rajai Shahr due to their hunger strike in order to return their inmates from solitary confinement. The prisoners had protested against compulsory fueled in the prison yard in winter and warm clothes shortage for inmates at ward eight in Evin prison, after the protest, eight of the prisoners were taken to solitary confinement. It should be noted that Saeed had been kept in Evin prison before exile.

 

Jamil Mohammadi

Mr. Jamil Mohammadi, a labor activist and one of the coordinators of the forty thousand labors protest, was sentenced to three years and six months imprisonment on the charge of collusion against national security through participating in the protests in the Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Salavati on 4 March 2015.

 

Farzad Moradinia

Mr. Farzad Moradinia, labor activist, and a member of the Coordinating Committee is released on bail of 70 Million Tomans on 5 Jan 2015, after spending 25 days in Intelligent Service office of Sanandaj.

According to reports, Farzad was arrested on the charge of establishing labor organizations on 7 Dec 2014 by plain-clothes officials who had masked their faces.

At the moment, there is no statement of his charge to detaining.

He suffers chronic gastrointestinal, and he had severe stomach bleeding at the night before detention. Medical specialists had told his family that he needs immediate surgery.

It should be noted; labor activists are being under savage pressure and arresting without reason or verdict.

 

Hassan Ahmadi

Mr. Hassan Ahmadi, a labor activist, was arrested by Intelligence Service officials on 27 Feb 2015. He was taken to an unknown location afterwards his father house had been interrogated by officials. There is no information of his condition and reason of the arrest.

 

Ribwar Abdollahi

Mr. Ribwar Abdollahi, a labor activist, had been summoned and arrested by Intelligence Service of Sanandaj city on 10 Dec 2014. He was released on the bail of 50 million Tomans on 29 Dec 2014. And as of yet, the officials have not reportedly expressed reason of arrest.

 

Afshin Osanlou

Mr. Afshin Osanlou, a labor activist, was arrested and sentenced to five years imprisonment at 15 branch of the Revolutionary Court which chaired by Judge Salavati  on 17 Dec 2010. He was frequently tortured in the prison and died on 21 June 2013 due to lack of health treatment after all torture and beating he has been undergone.

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 , Iran: Plain Cloths Attacks the Local Government Officials

Plain clothes officers had attacked the local governmental authorities in the road of Jalegh to Sarawan at 23:25 on 13 June 2015.The raiders threatened the victims through direct gun shooting. The car carrying the victims were shot after the cars punctured by the thorny barrier which had been flattened by the offensives. The Board Member of the Supreme Council of Provinces Mohammad-Amin Dehwari, the mayor of Mohammadi city Majid Ahlal Zehi, the deputy of Crescent of the Sarawan city Saeed Dehwari, the Premiere of the Sib and Sooran city Rahim Bakhsh Derazehi, the Chief of the Cultural Heritage and craft office Mohammad Sediq Dehwari and some other activists were among the raid. At least 14 citizens has been reportedly killed because of arbitrary acts since 21 March 2015 according to the reports by Baluch Activists Campaign.Annually, Dozens of citizens is killed by security forces in the similar incidents. The officials have claimed that the victims were suspected of the fuel smuggling and drug trafficking as Baluch rights activists said to BCR Group. There are several Terrors daily or weekly in Baluchistan; the cause of most of these terrors is based on tribal challenges. The fundamental reason of the increase in this type of terrors is distributing firearms among these tribes and ordinary people by the Revolutionary Guards.

Saturday, June 27, 2015, Iran: Mass Layoffs of ILNA Reporters for Release the Labor News

The group of the Educators, civil activists and labors protested against mass layoffs of ILNA reporters by sending an objection letter which included at least 600 signatures.25 June, Tehran: the reporters of the ILNA labor service who had covered the news of labor, nurses and teachers, got verbally fired, while they had been already asked for self-censorship publishing Farist' labors demonstration in the city of Dorood by the Chief Executive of the agency on 28 June 2015. Covering news of teachers' protests, which carried out out of labor group responsibilities, is said to be one of the conflict issues. ILNA labor editor had declared the published news about the expulsion of a group of reporters of Kasb- o-Kar newspaper was removed based on the order by CEO of ILNA and lack of news coverage about Bus Workers' Union is mentioned to be another issue of conflict. The group expulsion  of workers, temporary and unfair contracts, lack of job security are the other issues that ILNA labor service had covered. ILNA's fired supervisor Esmaeil Mohammadvali believes that there are several proofs of the eviction. We are blocked accessing website panel by CEO's direct order as Mr. Mohammadvali said on his own Facebook page. The five staffs had brassily fired up on 20 June 2015. The labor section of Iranian Labor News Agency ILNA has been allegedly worked since five years ago and they had challenged with three institutions ILNA management "Labor House" and Labor Ministry as the labor reporters said.