The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 680

Laying the grounds for another massacre of political prisoners 

at the anniversary of the massacer in 1988

The clerical regime, desperate of the will of the people of Iran and their resistance for its downfall is laying the ground for another massacre of innocent and defenseless political prisoners in its mediaeval dungeons to revenge its inevitable destiny.
Khamenei who straightly directs these crimes thinks in vein that with the decrees of execution especially for the supporters of PMOI he can break their will for his downfall. He doesn’t know that each execution escalates this will until Iran’s freedom and democracy is prevailed.
The Students Committee in Iran calls on the international community to act immediately for saving the lives of these innocent prisoners. We demand that regime’s record of human rights be remanded to UN’s Security Council for taking decisive actions against this crime against humanity. 

Remembering the massacred political prisoners
Tehran, August 3, 2010
Monireh Rajavi as she is famous is ‘the symbol of massacred political prisoners in 1988’. She was the sister of Massoud Rajavi the leader of the resistance of Iran and this was her only crime.
Monireh was first arrested along with her 3 and 5 years old children in 1982 and was supposed to be freed in 1984 but she never was instead she was hanged 4 years after her term was over by the direct order of Khomeini.
Mullah Nayeri the so-called religious judged of Evin who condemned the political prisoners of Evin in that massacre to be hanged was persistent in her execution and he insisted that it should be done immediately.
Monireh was 38 when hanged.
During all these years her two small children were tortured with her because they were taken to the torture chambers and made to sit behind the door of the room in which their mother was tortured.
Neither Monireh nor any other of these 30000 political prisoners were ever forgotten. They had always inspired the resistance of this brave nation and they will always inspire it.

40 other political prisoners joined the hunger strikers
Tehran, August 3, 2010
40 other political prisoners in wards 209 and 240 joined the hunger strikers of ward 350.

Jafar Kazemi’s lawyer: we can do nothing in legal procedure to save Jafar
Tehran, August 2, 2010
Jafar Kazami a political prisoner and a political prisoner of decades of 1980s that has been jailed then also for supporting POMI is condemned to death because he had visited his son in Ashraf City, Iraq.
His lawyer Nasim Qanavi said that her request for revision is ruled out and the decree has been remanded for execution.
She said: “we can do nothing more in legal procedures to save Jafar Kazemi”.

Three political prisoners transferred to Gohardasht Prison
Tehran, August 2, 2010
The clerical regime has transferred three political prisoners; Fatemeh Ziaee (fe), Shabnam Madadzadeh (fe) and Farzad Madadzadeh (Shabnam’s brother) from Evin Prison to Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
Shabnam and Farzad Madadzadeh have been charged with Moharebe and acting against national security (read regime’s security) and were condemned to 5 years imprisonment and exile.
Their sisters are residents of Ashraf City Iraq. Fatemeh Ziaee was charged with working with PMOI and was condemned to two years imprisonment and exile to Gohardasht Prison.
It is to be mentioned that during the massacre of political prisoners, many of them who were supporters of PMOI were hanged though they had been condemned to only a few years term or even they term has been over.

Political prisoner Payman Akbari Azad was transferred to hospital, other hunger strikers to prison’s infirmary
Hunger striker refused receiving intravenous fluids
Tehran, August 2, 2010
In his seventh day of hunger strike political prisoner Payman Akbar Azad was transferred to a hospital outside Evin Prison for his critical condition.
Payman Akbar Azad is a detainee of the uprising and is suffering from diabetes. He needs two shots of insulin each day. He once fainted in his second day of hunger strike and was transferred to prison’s infirmary. Another time he went to a short coma after he fainted because he received no care.
Other prisoners transferred to prisons infirmary after several days of their hunger strike are: Zia Nabavi, Majid Dori, Ali Malihi and Qohlamhossein Arshi.
Majid Tavakoli other hunger striker has refused receiving intravenous fluids and is in critical condition.

Execution awaits nine
Kerman, August 3, 2010
Dadkhoda Salari the head of regime’s kangaroo court in Kerman announced that 9 prisoners have been sentenced to death.

Two hanged in Dezful
Dezful, August 2, 2010
A site belonging to Khozestan’s General Administration of Justice wrote on August 2 that in the morning of July 31 two prisoners have been hanged at Dezful’s prison.

Clerical dictatorship executes prisoner after 11 years of jail
Tehran- August 2, 2010
Reza Mohajer, a prisoner in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison was hanged on the morning of August 2.
According to reports, this prisoner was transferred to a solitary cell yesterday in cellblock 6 and was hanged on Monday morning.
He had been waiting for the death sentence for 11 years and had been taken to the gallows three times before this but his hanging was cancelled at the last minute.

Mullahs' regime sentences Bazaar merchant to death
Tehran- August 2, 2010
Javad Lari, a 55 year old political prisoner was sentenced to death by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court on charges of waging war with God (Moharebeh) and being corrupt on earth.
This political prisoner’s trial was held on July 14. His initial charge was ‘acting against national security’ but he was charged with being a mohareb by Judge Salavati, the head of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court and sentenced to ‘death without the possibility of amnesty’.
Javad Lari was jailed for three years in the 80’s for links to a dissident organization and was arrested on September 16, 2009 in his office…
Notably, this death row political prisoner intended to go to Camp Ashraf in 2008 to visit his old friends but was barred from entering Ashraf by Iraqi police and went back to Iran.
Javad Lari is a well known Bazaar Tehran merchant.

Hunger striking political prisoners threatened to be sent to notorious prison
Tehran- August 2, 2010
Evin Prison officials visited political prisoners who went on a hunger strike last Monday asking them to end their hunger strikes else they be transferred to the Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj.
A number of prison officials along with a number of agents of the Ministry of Intelligence talked to 17 hunger striking prisoners who have been thrown in solitary for protesting unsuitable treatment by prison guards and told them that ‘if you continue your protest and not end your hunger strike, you will be transferred to Rajayi Shahr Prison’.
These prisoners said in answer to this threat that they are all ready to be transferred to Rajayi Shahr and will not end their strike until their demands are met.
Until now, five hunger strikers are taken to hospital and because others have been striking for a week, their physical health is quickly deteriorating.
The families of these political prisoners are extremely worried for their loved ones and have announced that if this process continues, they will also go on hunger strikes.

Prisoner in critical condition denied proper treatment
Tehran- August 2, 2010
According to reports, the physical state of prisoner Khaled Hardani was critical in the morning and he was taken to the Gohardasht Prison infirmary.
On Monday August 2 at about 4 am, his condition deteriorated in his solitary cell in cellblock 1 known as the ‘doghouse’ and he was kept in the cell in his condition until 9 am. He tried to call prison guards by knocking on his cell door to inform them about his critical condition but they paid no heed to his calls and requests.
At about 9 am when his condition became very critical he was taken to the infirmary. Despite his very poor physical health, he was once again taken back to his cell in the ‘doghouse’.
This prisoner suffers from heart palpitation, kidney hemorrhage, stomach problems and the extreme pain of these illnesses.
Hardani was attacked by a prison gang which takes orders from the head of cellblock 4 on July 22. He was then summoned by Mahmoud Moghnian, the head of cellblock 4, and was insulted and beaten before being transferred to a solitary cell in cellblock 1.

Prison transferred to solitary for execution
Tehran- August 2, 2010
According to reports, prisoner Hamid Moqadas was taken to a solitary cell in Varamin Prison to await execution.
On Sunday, August 1, 24-year-old Moqadas was taken from Hall 3 Cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj to a solitary cell in Varamin Prison to await his execution sentence which is to be carried out in public in the town of Varamin.
He has been jailed for close to 5 years in this prison and was sentenced to death on charges of killing a state security force officer.
Gathering of the families of the political prisoners in front of regime’s Prosecutor Office
The wave of executions in Iran goes on non-stop and recently most executions have been carried out in secret.

Families of political prisoners protested
Tehran, August 3, 2010
On August 2 a group of families of political prisoners went to the Administraion of Justice and demanded that this organ solve the problem of their visits with their beloveds in prison.
One of the mothers said in that regard: “right now for example if you are three and you go to visit your beloved in prison only one gets the permission. Even when you can get into the visiting hall they humiliate you and search every where in your body. They make you naked and make you to sit and get up several times”.

Protest gathering of families of political prisoners of Ward 350, Evin Prison
Tehran, August 2, 2010
On Monday August 2 families of political prisoners of ward 350 of Evin prison gathered in protest inside and outside the visiting hall demanding news about the conditions of their beloveds.
The phones in the ward are still cut. Regime is separating political prisoners from other prisoners so that they won’t send out the news of political prisoners.
Regime’s prosecutor of Tehran Abbas Jafari Doolat Abadi threatened the families that if they protest all the prisoners on hunger strike will be transferred to the notorious Gohardahst Prison.

In continuation to their protest families went to Bazaar
Tehran, August 2, 2010
When on August 2 suppressive forces dispersed the protesting families of political prisoners from in front of Prosecutor Office and the notorious Revolution Court the families went to Bazaar.
They stood in front of Bazaar and in a loud voice shouted that: “you went on strike for taxes for a week, and now we invite you to strike for our beloveds”.
Shopkeepers came out of their shops and supported the families.
Mothers chanted Allah O Akbar there.

An eyewitness speaks about Kahrizak Death Camp
On July 9 (2009), at about 3 to 4 pm I reached Vali-e-Asr Intersection and I went towards the square. It was a bit crowded. As I went towards south the crowd got stronger. People chanted slogans and the suppressive agents dispersed them.
In different locations we were attacked from both front and back. SSF, Plainclothes and Especial Guards tried to surround us. They attacked us. I was beaten with batons several times but I was able to escape.
I was sitting in a corner to rest and was waiting for the crowd to gather again and to start the protest that a Plaincloth called me.
I was afraid that I might have been identified and I had no escape root. Suddenly somebody pulled my hands back and handcuffed me.
First they doubted if they caught me right or not because I was wearing black and I had beard. They showed me to each other but known of them knew me.
They threw me in a car, took my cell-phone and gave it to a female agent. I asked her to call my family and tell them about me but they grasped me, swore at me and pulled me into the car.
The car was crowded. They took us to police station No. 107.
Their behavior was offensive and they encouraged each other to beat us so that we would talk.
I gave my home address so that if my family looks for me they can find me.
We were about 300 detainees there.
When night came they told us that the food is only for the personnel. In the morning about 8.30 they gave us breakfast and we had to pay for it.
After the interrogation it was about 10.30 to 11 am that they transferred some to Evin Prison and the others to Kahrizak.
The cars were stopped behind Kahrizak’s entrance we heard them say that there is no more room. Anyway they took us inside. They offended us all the time.
When we entered there an inmate took a piece of bread from one of us and eat it eagerly, then we understood to what kind of a place we were taken.
They made us naked in front of each other and asked for our identification. When they called us we had to run fast towards the silo if we walked a little bit slowly we were beaten. They humiliated us and used very shameful words.
Any move, we had to make it fast but the doors were narrow and we had to hit each other to be able to mover fast otherwise we would all be beaten.
The silo was filthy. We sweated all the time and the silo’s floor was wet from our sweating.
Many ordinary prisoners, regime’s elements called them; hooligans, were kept there.
Sometimes they bothered us and we didn’t dare to go alone anywhere even to toilet. We moved in groups.
But amongst them there were those who were humane and threatened the others not to bother us.
It was terrible there. There wasn’t even room to sleep. The heat made us fatigue.
During the days that I was there I slept only 2 hours.
The agents started beating us on no excuse.
Though Amir* was in a very bad condition himself but he fanned us and Moshen* too; he always took care of us.
Mohsen used to say: “I came for July 9*” and he calmed the others and tried to keep our spirits high.
About 20 of us were put in ‘cages’ having the worst condition.
The food was rotten potato and sewage water and nothing else. First we didn’t know the water was collected from toilets but when we found out we still had no other choice than using it.
The silos had small windows and from there instead of air they pumped smoke in.
Most of us became seek and infected.
I was there from July 10 to 14. The condition there was unbearable.
They hanged the prisoners from their feet.
After a while they came and barbed us bold. Mohsen told them you remove our hairs but can you change our beliefs.
We all smelled like shit. The whether we breath was contaminated.
When a few died Khamenei’s elements asked a physician form army to swear as a witness that they had died from Meningitis but he refused. They asked the corner so but he refused too.
Then a low rank soldier accepted to do so. When he did, they poisoned him and killed him.
They took Amir twice for check but they told him that he was all right and sent him back. On July 14 they called us and transferred us to Evin with a bus. Amir died in the way.
When they took us to Evin they sent us to take showers and threw away all our clothing.
Even the guards approached us with mask. They were afraid that they might get sick.
Later we understood that when the news of the murder of Mohsen Rooholamini, Mohammad Kamrani and others was conveyed to the world and Khamenei found out that the world knows about Kahrizak, they were forced to transfer us.


*Amir: Amir Javadi far was severely tortured in Kahrizak and died while being transferred to Evin Prison.
*Mohsen: Mohsen Rooholamini was the son of a close element of Khameni but they didn’t even show him mercy because he had participated in the uprising. He was severely tortured and murdered in Kahrizak. They told his family that he has died from Menangitis.
* July 9: the anniversary of students uprising in 1999


The painful story of Ahmad Bob, a civil activist from Marivan
Marivan- August 2, 2010
Ahmad Bob civil activist from Marivan has been under most severe physical and psychological tortures during the 165 days that he had been in the hands of Khamenei’s henchmen.
He was arrested on September 27, 2009 in a raid on his house. The agents broke the door and without representing any warrant they detained him blind folding his eyes. He went straightly under torture without even his charges being read to him.
The whole process of his detention is against even the laws of Islamic Republic’s constitution (article 32) and Judiciary (section 6).
At the fist hour of his detention he had to confess that he has been in connection with ‘anti-revolution groups’ and ‘had acted to disrupt the public order by gathering people against the Islamic Republic”.
Being just a civil activist he accept none so he went under the most sever tortures.
While being handcuffed, his legs tied and having eye-band on, three Khamenei agents viciously kicked him, beat him and lashed him with military belts.
Then they opened his hands, hold them and pulled out three of his front teeth with pincers until he became unconscious. They broke his rips, his skull was swelled due to baton strokes and his eyes were black; and this was only the first night.
“Principle 38 of Islamic Republic’s constitution forbids any torture for getting confession or acquiring information. Even if such a testimony is taken it has no legal value; the violator of this law will be punished”, just a joke in Islamic Republic.
Ahmad was usually tortured and interrogated from dusk to dawn to make him confess as they wanted him too. In 33 days he received no medical attention.
They made him to sit and rise a thousand times and when he made a mistake in the counting he had to do it from the beginning and then was beaten with military belts so hard that he wasn’t able to stand at all.
They made him to stand still up to 10 hours.
They threatened him with a piece and asked him which one of his fingers he wanted to choose to be cut first by shooting the piece at it.
They made him to stand up and then they dropped a large pincer from his forehead over his toes. With each stroke the toes started bleeding.
Under the torture they insisted that he should confess that he was spying for US.
They threatened him to rape saying that rape is allowed if the subject is an infidel.
They wanted to make him to sit on a cooker but he resisted all the time and for this ‘not executing the order’ he was severely beaten.
Ahmad was kept for 33 days in solitary cells in Marivan under the most severe tortures. He could use the toilet only three times a day and that was the only time that he reached water to drink.
During these 33 days he was deprived from having a shower and of using any cleansing agents. He was so fatigue that sometime he had to crawl towards the toilet.
After he was transferred to Sanandaj Prison because his skin was thoroughly infected with fungi and was suffering from internal bleeding he was kept in Quarantine section under treatment for 14 days and then was transferred again to Sanandaj Intelligence Prison and went again under interrogation and torture.
When they wanted him to have a TV confession and he refused, he was tied to a bed and while reading Koran they started to lash him on his soles.
He fainted times and again under the lashes, lost control of his urination and vomited times and again. He received 320 lashes.
They put a headphone on his head and played sounds that made him nervous and the sounds echoed in his ears for three days.
After 4 months and 20 days they told him to write his will because he was going to be executed.
At dusk of that day they took him in a room. The interrogators told him that was the execution room.
They made him to stand on a wheelchair beneath the hanging rope and put the rope himself around his neck.
They handcuffed him and tied his legs.
In that position they interrogated him again, wanting him to yield to confession.
In this condition all his body was sweating and he wasn’t able to stand up. He lay on the ground like a death.
One of the interrogators extinguished his cigarette on his elbow as his souvenir for him.
The intelligence interrogators grabbed his tongue with a pincer and made him walk around the room by pulling it. After that he wasn’t able to talk for four days.
They wanted to make him to crawl around the interrogation’s room and sound like animals when he resisted he was severely beaten.
Both of his soles were drilled. He was also hanged upside down.
During 5 months of his detention he was able to talk with his family only once by phone. They told him then to ask his family to come for a visit and when her pregnant wife came she went under interrogation for 5 hours.
After 155 days Ahmad was transferred to public prison of Marivan.
During all these time he could not have a lawyer.
After tolerating 165 days of torture he was freed on a 70 million tomans bail.
He cannot walk easily and the nerves of his soles are damaged along with other problems such as severe headaches and other signs and effects of torture that he is still suffering.
His file is still open in branch one of Marivan’s Revolution Court chaired by the so-called Judge, Lotfi.


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