Iran arrests brother of slain student for second time
June 3, 2010 - Kamran Asa, the brother of slain student Kianoush Asa (killed under torture by regime forces after the elections) was arrested in the middle of the night on May 12 by intelligence agents in Kermanshah for the second time in the months after his brother’s death.
On the dawn of the day after his arrest, five intelligence agents went to his home and confiscated some of his belongings.
These forces told Kamran’s crying mother that ‘your crying instigate
s Kamran’, instead of giving her explanations on the situation of her son.
In response to the family’s constant questions, the intelligence agents only responded that ‘we arrested Kamran so that he would learn his lesson’.
Student under pressure in Kerman Prison
June 3, 2010 - According to reports, political prisoner Hassan Tarlani
who is serving his jail term in exile in Kerman Prison has been under pressure in interrogations by intelligence agents.
He is taken for interrogations every day, where he is abused and threatened, and is questioned for hours.
Tarlani, 23, is the only political prisoner who has been exiled to Kerman Prison. He is kept in the Youth Cellblock with non-political and dangerous criminals who are mostly addicts. Death row prisoners are also put
in one cell with him before they are taken for execution to put mental pressure on him. He is banned from communicating with other prisoners and prison officials try to keep him isolated.
He has not had any in person visits with his family since being transferred to Kerman Prison despite the fact that his family comes a long way just to see him. They are only allowed to see and talk to him from behind a glass partition for 15 minutes every month. He is
not allowed to talk about his condition in prison with his family.
On the other hand, intelligence agents have confiscated all of his identification papers in a raid to his home and have not returned them to his family despite their constant appeals. This is while his family needs his identifications papers to pursue his legal case.
Hassan Tarlani was arrested on February 21, 2008 after intelligence agents raided his home. He was taken to cellblock 209 in Evin Prison and after 88 days of torture by Saied Sheikhan, a head interrogator in the Intelligence Agency, he was sentenced to 10 years of prison to be served in Kerman Prison by the 22nd branch of the Revolutionary Court. He received such a heavy sentences because of the political history of his family in opposing the regime. His grandfather, a well known Tehran Bazaar member was executed by the regime in the 80’s.
Political prisoner under severe torture in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj
June 3, 2010 - According to reports, political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani is under severe torture in a solitary cell known as the doghouse in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
On Sunday May 30 after being transferred to the prison’s Intelligence Department, he was interrogated and threatened for a long period of time by the head and assistant head of Intelligence. They threatened him with murder and that they would pin additional charges on him.
He was then taken to a solitary cell in the doghouse which has medieval conditions and is used to torture prisoners. A number of prison officials such as Kermani, Faraji and Hassan Akharian and a number of prison guards then went to his cell and tortured and beat him with batons. This is while he was shackled and blindfolded. The life of this political prisoner is in danger. There is no other information on his condition.
He has not been allowed any phone calls with his family since his transfer and his family is extremely concerned.
Tehrani, who was transferred to cellblock 1 last year, has mostly been kept in solitary in the past year.
Student sentenced to 5 years of prison
June 3, 2010 - Rajabali Dashab participated in the Ashura (December 27, 2009) protests in Tehran. A film depicting him in the protests has been constantly broadcasted from state run television.
Dashab was tried by Judge Salavati in the second publicized court for Ashura protesters where he was sentenced to 6 years of prison in the initial sentence on charges of assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and spreading propaganda against the state. The 15th branch of the Revolutionary court lowered his sentence to 5 years.
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
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