Oct. 25, 2010
According to reports, in a bloody clash in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, a prisoner was severely wounded and was transferred to a hospital in Tehran on the verge of death.
On Sunday, October 24, prisoner Vahid Khodabakhsh who was being brought back from court by prison guards was intentionally returned to cellblock 1 so that he would be attacked by prison gangs. When this prisoner was completely surrounded by the gang, prison guards left the scene so that the gang could easily attack him.
The assailers who were about 7 or 8 people attacked him with knives and stabbed him several times. Vahid Khodabakhsh was stabbed in the stomach, shoulder, lungs and his legs. His lung has been punctured in two places and his leg artery was also severed.
Khodabakhsh was taken to a hospital in Tehran where he is reportedly in very critical condition. According to reports, this organized attack was to take revenge over the beating of a prison guard by prisoners a few weeks ago.
Prison gangs who are in various cellblocks in Gohardasht Prison have been organized by Ali Haj Kazem, and Ali Mohammadi, the head and assistant head of prison and Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit in this prison. They are active in selling drugs, attacking dissident prisoners and political prisoners. They have cell phones in prison and are also armed with knives and even swords and daggers. Prison officials and guards do not interfere while they are clashing with other prisoners and only after the fight is over, they evacuate the slain and injured prisoners from the cellblock.
Prisoner hanged in Karoun prison on moral charges
Oct. 25, 2010
A prisoner was executed in the Karoun Prison in Ahwaz on Saturday October 23.
The Public Relations Office of the Khuzestan Judiciary said that M.S was charged with ‘immoral conduct’. His charge has not been confirmed by an independent source.
According to this report, his death sentence was issued by the provincial penal court and was upheld by the Supreme Court
New reports on secret mass executions in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad
Oct. 25, 2010
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is constantly getting credible reports from former prisoners in Vakil Abad Prison (in Mashhad) regarding numerous group hangings which are carried out without prior notice. Trusted sources show that in the past year (Persian Year starting from March 24) there have been numerous executions in Vakil Abad Prison and at least 600 people are waiting for their death sentences to be carried out.
According to the latest reports, on Tuesday October 12, 10 prisoners were hanged in Vakil Abad Prison. The number of announced executions by officials is much fewer that the real figures…
Iranians officials do not present any figures for the number of executed prisoners, do not announce the names of hundreds of people who are executed throughout the year and do not announce the crimes that these people have been accused of. A number of former prisoners in Vakil Abad have reported that officials have tried to limit the information stream regarding group executions in the prison.
“Families, lawyers and death row prisoners do not receive a written sentence after it has been issued, they also do not know when the sentences will be carried out so that they can be present at the time of execution. The day after the execution, they pay the fee for the noose (used to hang their loved one) and receive the bodies”, a former Vakil Abad prisoner said regarding the executions carried out in prison.
“When they intend to carry out the execution sentence, the prison telephones are cut off at 4 pm so that no one would be able to notify the outside, the prison yard is evacuated of prisoners and all prisoners except the cellblock deputies who are prisoners themselves are led to their cellblocks. At that point, everyone knows that it is time for the executions. No one knows whose turn it is until the names are read out. The head of the prison Protection Unit (Alizadeh), the prison judge (Anvari) and the assistant prosecutor or the prosecutor go into the cellblocks and with the help of guards, read out the names of prisoners and send them outside the cellblock”, this former prisoner said.
Sources have reported that in prison those who are ‘cellblock deputies’ are actually prisoners themselves and are allowed to be present in the stages before the executions.
“After the sentences are carried out and the executions have ended, the names and number of hanged prisoners become known to prisoners because the cellblock deputies are allowed to be present in the stages before the executions”.
“Because I was in cellblock 6-1, I was able to see with my own eyes the number of executed prisoners (46) and their Ghosl (religious washing of the body before death) and when they were writing their wills and after carrying out these stages, they were taken for execution”, a former prisoner said regarding a group execution. (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran )
Iran chops off hand of another man Yazd Prison
Oct. 23, 2010
The hand amputation sentence was carried out in the Central Yazd prison.
The convict was identified as 32 year old ‘M’. His amputation sentence was carried out after it was upheld by the Supreme Court and after his request for amnesty was turned down by the Judiciary’s Amnesty and Sentence Commutation Commission in the Yazd Central Prison. (Asre Iran state-run daily)
Iran murders political prisoner in Kermanshah prison
Oct. 24, 2010
Another defenseless political prisoner was killed by a prison gang working under orders of prison officials in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah.
Peiman Khanjari, 30, was from Qasre Shirin and had been detained in this prison for 9 years. He was suffering from several illnesses which he got in his time in prison. Khanjari was severely beaten by mercenaries of prison officials and was severely wounded. He died on October 11 because he was denied treatment.
Iranian regime attacks political prisoners through death row prisoners which have been chosen (for this job) after being threatened and bribed. These mercenaries attack and beat political prisoners to the point of death and after which the prison infirmary finishes their unfinished job by not treating the beaten prisoner which leads to his death.
Peiman Khanjari was severely mentally and physically tortured and pressured to give interviews on state-run television but refused to cooperate with the Iranian regime and was therefore hated by his interrogators. Prison officials had transferred him to a cellblock where ordinary prisoners, drug addicts and prisoners with deadly diseases were kept to put more pressure on him.
His father, mother, sister and wife were also arrested by the Intelligence Agency in Kermanshah and detained for three years.
Election protestor sentenced to prison and lashesOct. 24, 2010
According to reports, the 36th branch of the Tehran Court of Review confirmed the 33 month prison term and 75 lashes which was issued by a court of first instance for Seyed Navid Kamran who was arrested on Ashura (December 27, 2009).
After his sentence was confirmed by the court of review, he was summoned to the court in Evin Prison and was notified of his sentence.
According to reports, he was mistreated while his final sentence of 2 years and 9 months of prison and 75 lashes was announced to him.
He was charged with ‘assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing a crime against the security of the country’ and ‘disrupting public order’.
Political prisoner on hunger strike in protest to violation of rights
Oct. 24, 2010
According to reports, Mehdi Khazali has been on a hunger strike since Monday in protest to his arrest and being subjected to pressure in a solitary cell.
Khazali was summoned to the Evin Prison Revolutionary Court on October 13 and was then arrested and taken to a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in this prison. He was arrested for writing his views in his weblog.
According to an informed source he was arrested with the request of his father (a cleric in the Iranian regime) and has been under extreme pressure from his father not to write in his weblog. He cut off his contacts with his family because he refused to stop writing.
Khazali went on a hunger strike on October 18 in protest to the interrogations and inhumane pressure. An intelligence agency interrogator nicknamed Saiedi is in charge of his interrogations. After Khazali’s hunger strike, this interrogator took him to another cell and has placed an intelligence agent who pretends to be a prisoner in his cell so that he can mentally harass him. This method has been used from a long time ago by intelligence interrogators to force political prisoners to give in to their demands.
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