Oct. 14, 2010
The mother and sister of Saied Zinali were arrested in their home. Saied Zinali was a political prisoner who went missing when arrested in the 1988 Tehran student uprising. He never came home after being arrested in June 1999 and wherever his family followed up his whereabouts, prison officials said they did not know anything about him. It is still not clear what happened to this student 11 years ago.
According to reports, the Intelligence Department of the Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the arrest of this young man. After the post election events, Mother Zinali once again asked that the head of the RGC tell her what happened to her son.
The Zinali family went to prison every week asking about their missing son. They wanted to know what happed to Saied and if he is still alive.
Security forces arrested Saied’s mother and sister after a raid to their home and confiscated their personal belonging including their computers.
The family and friends of the Zinali family, who were very sad about the painful faith of the son of this family, are now severely worried about the fate of this mother and sister.
Student prisoner banned from family visits and phone calls for expressing solidarity with her detained lawyerOct. 14, 2010
According to reports, the visits and telephone calls of student prisoner Shabnam Madadzadeh were cut off on orders of intelligence agency interrogators.
On Thursday October 24, her contacts to the outside were cut off because she supported her lawyers who were arrested and jailed.
Shabnam Madadzadeh went on a hunger strike in protest to the arrest of her lawyer Nasrin Sutodeh and the ongoing detention of Mr. Oliayi Fard. After her hunger strike, she was taken to the Intelligence Unit of the Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison where she was interrogated and threatened for hours.
The head and assistant head of the Gohardasht Intelligence Unit, Kermani and Faraji, interrogated Madadzadeh while putting her under pressure. They threatened her that they would add other charges to her case and would issue a heavy sentence for her warning that they would transfer her to Bandar Abbas Prison or Ahwaz Prison.
Birjand student refused university degree for participating in post-election protests
Oct. 14, 2010
Birjand University refused to give student activist Himan Khoshvaqt his university degree after he graduated last year.
Khoshvaqt finished his units in this university in 2009 and went to the university in 2010 to get his degree.
He tried in vain to receive his university degree but the heads of the Protection Department in this university announced that they would not give his degree because he participated and was active in the post election protests in 2009.
This is while Khoshvaqt says that all his activities which were related or unrelated to protests to election results were carried out outside of university and in all this time, he did not even set foot in his university.
Iran hangs 5 people in Isfahan
Oct. 13, 2010
The Isfahan Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor said, “Yesterday, five …. were hanged in the Central Isfahan Prison yard”.
“These five people were arrested by the police and were sentenced to death after a legal procedure and after their requests for amnesty were denied and were hanged yesterday in Isfahan Prison”, Mohammad-Reza Habibi added. (Fars state-run News Agency)
Detained lawyer of political prisoners needs urgent treatment for cancerOct. 13, 2010
Mohammad Oliayi Fard, a lawyer of political prisoners who is detained in Evin Prison’s cellblock 350 needs to be urgently sent to special medical center outside of prison.
Today at dawn, this lawyer who has been sentenced to one year of prison and is currently serving his time went to the prison infirmary because of his deteriorating physical health.
According to reports, the doctor in prison diagnosed a lump in his body as ‘blood cancer’ and said that he had to be checked by a specialist.
In light of his critical state, this lawyer who represented political prisoner in court has to be sent to a medical center outside of prison.
Dr. Mohammad Oliayi Fard was arrested on May 1, 2010 to serve his one year prison sentence on charges of propagating against the government by giving interviews (to the media) and is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
Jailed student activist denied treatment
Oct. 13, 2010
Jailed student activist Majid Dori needs to see a specialist for the treatment of his illness but Evin Prison officials refuse to send him to a specialist outside of prison.
Dori is suffering from very severe headaches. The internal Evin Prison doctor told him one month ago that he had to be sent to a brain and nerve doctor and receive a MRI scan.
According to reports, he has still not been visited by a brain and nerve doctor. He is suffering from severe dizzy spells which sometimes plague him for up to 48 hours.
This student was banned from continuing his education and was arrested on June 15, 2009. He was sentenced to 6 six of prison to be served in Izeh Prison. In the past few weeks, Izeh Prison was changed to Ahwaz Prison. He is currently in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison.
State run daily says Iran has arrested 4 ‘Mourning Mothers’
Oct. 13, 2010
The state-run Iran daily reported that four members of the ‘Mourning Mothers’ group were arrested.
“Four members of the Mourning Mothers group were arrested while intending to go to Germany to see an important contact of the Monafeqin grouplet (PMOI). They were arrested after their contact with this group became apparent”, this daily said. (Fararou state-run website)
Juvenile political prisoner arrested at 15 still in prison after 15 years
Oct. 13, 2010
Jamal Amin Zadeh is a political prisoner who has been detained in the Gonbade Kavous Prison without any leaves or visits for more than 15 years.
According to reports, this prisoner was arrested when he was 15 years old and sentenced to life in prison on charges of being a member of a Kurd dissident party.
Amin Zadeh does not have any family members to follow up his case after his mother and father passed away.
He has also been denied of a lawyer in all of his trials.
Gonbade Kavous Prison lacks normal facilities and is used to detain non-political prisoners.
Iran arrests mother and sister of former detained protesterOct. 13, 2010
The mother and sister of Hesam Tarmasi who was arrested after the election protests and was detained in Evin Prison for one year were arrested after security forces raided their home on Saturday night. Hesam Tarmasi was only recently released from prison.
He was arrested in a post-election protest march by security forces. After being released from prison, he came down with a kidney and liver illness and has been hospitalized ever since.
He was also attacked by unidentified persons and according to his family, the knife he was stabbed with was contaminated with an unknown poison and he contracted a blood infection.
His mother and sister were arrested while he was in hospital. His family was not involved in any political or social activities and the reason they were arrested is completely unknown…
Termasi is very concerned about his mother and sister.
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
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