29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strikeAug. 28, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prison
Aug. 28, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
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