Aug. 18, 2010
In early morning on August 14, five Kurd citizens from the ‘Ney’ Village in Marivan were arrested by security forces and taken to the Marivan Intelligence Agency.
According to reports, these five men were identified as Bahman Fatahzadeh, 35, Bariar Kaveh, 17, Borhan Derakhshani, 18, Borhan Khosravi, 17 and 33 year old Ekhtiar Kaveh. There are no reports on why they were arrested.
Iran sentences free press activist to two years of prisonAug. 19, 2010
Mohammad Javad Mozafar, the assistant head of the Association in Defense of Prisoner’s rights, a member of the Central Council of the Association in Defense of Free Press and head of the Kavir Publications was sentenced to two years of prison in the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati.
According to news sources, this writer and cultural activist was arrested after Ashura events and was jailed in a solitary cell in cellblock 240 in Evin Prison for two months.
New limitations for political prisoners’ family visits in Ramadan
Aug. 18, 2010
The time that prisoners all allowed visits by their families has been reduced in the months of Ramadan in Evin Prison. This is yet another limitation which political prisoners have been subjected to in the recent months.
It has been some time that political prisoners have been barred from seeing their families in person without an order from the Tehran Prosecutor or a written letter. Also, only one member of their family can visit them. On the side of all these limitations, the time reduction for visiting hours in the month of Ramadan is another obstacle for political prisoners’ visitation rights.
In other months of the year, families of political prisoners can go to prison from 9 am to 4 pm to visit their loved ones for 20 minutes. In the month of Ramadan, the visitation hall closes at 12:30pm and many families did not have enough time to visit their loved ones. Because of the new time reductions, visits have also been shortened. Notably, some of the families of political prisoners come from cities around Tehran to visit their loved ones in Evin Prison.
Student activist sentenced to 3 years of prison and barred from education for protesting
Aug. 19, 2010
Hamed Omidi was sentenced to three years of prison based on article 610 of the Islamic Penal Code.
According to reports from Omidi’s lawyer, this student activist was sentenced to three years of prison on charges of assembling and conspiring against national security. Omidi has been detained for more than 6 months. He was arrested because of a film showing him in a protest gathering of Kurd students in Tehran’s universities and Judge Moqiseh sentenced him to the maximum punishment saying that he was in the front line of the protest and was carrying a picture (of Kurd political prisoner Ehsan Fatahian). In addition to his three year prison sentence he was also sentenced to being expelled from university and a ban on continuing his education in any university or academic level.
This student who is from the town of Tukab is a educational technology at Alameh University in Tehran who was arrested on February 10, 2010 after protesting the execution of Kurd political prisoner Ehsan Fatahian and has been jailed in Evin Prison’s cellblock 209 ever since.
Female political activist in danger of receiving death sentence
Aug. 18, 2010
According to reports, Salavati, the head of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court intends to issue a death sentence or life in prison sentence for Zahra Bahrami who has a dual Dutch Iranian nationality. She was arrested in the Ashura protests (Dec. 27, 2009).
On Monday August 17, Bahrami, 45, who has been kept in an undetermined state in the notorious cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for more than 8 months, was taken to the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Salavati.
“You will be either given the death sentence or life in prison”, the judge told her.
Bahrami refused to defend herself because she did not have a lawyer and announced that she would only defend herself in the presence of a lawyer. After her protest, Salavati suspended the court session for another 10 days. Bahrami is still denied the right to a lawyer.
She has been charged with waging war with God, propagating against the government, being an active member of a monarchist association and forming an anti-government grouplet. Bahrami has denied all the charges and said that they were all extracted from confessions that she was forced into under physical and mental torture.
This 45 year old political prisoner is a mother of two and has a dual Dutch-Iranian nationality. She came to Iran to see her child and was arrested in the Ashura protests. She was then mentally and physically tortured while detained. Intelligence interrogators in the Sepah Cellblock in Gohardasht Prison and in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison have put her under severe pressure and torture and forced her into giving televised confessions against herself which was broadcasted from state-run TV. These interrogators have used these confessions against her in court .
Academic activist sentenced to 6 years of prisonAug. 18, 2010
Rasoul Bodaghi who has been charged with participating in gatherings with the intention of disrupting national security and propagating against the government was sentenced to 6 years of prison and a 5 year ban on party activism.
This member of the Managing Board of the Iran Teacher Association who is also a member of the Solitary Council for Democracy and Human Rights in Iran was trialed in the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Salavati.
He is also one of the former heads of the Human Rights Activists in Iran and is currently jailed in cellblock 6 in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj.
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