Oct. 6, 2010
Eight were hanged in Kerman Prison.
The Public Relations Office of the Kerman Judiciary announced that after the sentences of these men was upheld by the country’s Attorney General and after the Kerman Amnesty Commission turned down their pleas of amnesty, their death sentence were carried out in the Central Kerman Prison. (ISNA state-run news agency)
Man sentenced to finger amputation
Oct. 5, 2010
After a criminal record was filed in the fourth branch of the Public and Revolutionary Court in Qazvin, the Qazvin Prosecutor, Sadeqi Niaraki, issued a bill of indictment requesting that the maximum punishment (finger amputation) be carried out for this man.
Notably, the above mentioned convict is 42 years old, illiterate and married and his case was referred to the Public and Criminal Court in Qazvin with the bill of indictment for finger amputation. (Qazvin Province Information Network [state-run)
Brother of political prisoner tortured to death for pursuing brother’s case
Oct. 6, 2010
There are reports that the brother of Alireza Naseri, the former mayor of Anbaran, was murdered in prison by security forces.
According to this report, Alireza Naseri, Azeri activist and former mayor of the town of Anbaran was arrested by plainclothes agents last year in his place of work and taken to an unknown location.
He was apparently arrested for giving a speech about Azarbaijan. But before the 2005 presidential elections, he opposed Ahmadinejad and used Ahmadinejad’s negative background and actions while he was the governor of Ardabil to carry out a number of speeches against him.
There is absolutely no news about his current situation. He was sentenced to 10 years of prison and a permanent ban on working for the government.
His brother, Gholam-Hossein Naseri was arrested after following up his brother’s case and was killed in prison.
He was arrested five months ago while pursuing his case and his family was notified after some time that Gholam-Hossein had passed away in prison. His family was then threatened not to talk about this issue or else his other brother, Alireza Naseri would be in danger of execution.
This is while according to the forensics doctor, Gholam-Hossein died because of torture and electric shocks in the Intelligence Agency Detention Center.
His crime was looking to know where his detained brother was and whether he was alive or dead.
Baha’i man sentenced to one year of prison and banned from work
Oct. 6, 2010
Hossein Shaygan, a Baha’i resident of Karaj was sentenced to one year of prison, one year of exile and a complete ban on working.
Shaygan, a longstanding and well-known merchant in the Shahin Villa Bazaar, was arrested on August 24. A court sentenced him to one year of prison in Gohardasht Prison, one year of exile to Saravan Town and a ban on continuing his work (in the Bazaar).
Despite the fact that his court session was held on October 2, his sentence was only announced today.
On August 24, he was asked to bring his work permit and submit it to court so he could open his shop, but when he came to court along with his lawyer, they were both arrested and taken to Gohardasht Prison in Karaj .
Jailed Human rights lawyer on hunger strike for 10 days in protest to prison conditionsOct. 6, 2010
Nasrin Sutodeh, a hardworking human rights lawyer stipulated in a short phone call to her husband that she went on a hunger strike on September 25.
According to reports, her husband Reza Khandan stressed that after this short phone call, all communications with his wife were cut off.
This senior expert in International law who is also the mother of two young children was arrested on September 18.
She had stressed in her last phone call that she would go on a hunger strike if her rights were violated in prison.
Nasrin Sutodeh was the lawyer of a large number of political activists, journalists, civil rights activists and minor offenders in the last few years.
Sanctions for rights violations prelude to more UN sanctions against regime, official warns
Oct. 6, 2010
An official in the Iranian regime’s parliament says the recent US decision to blacklist eight regime officials for gross human rights violations is a prelude to the adoption of fresh sanctions at the UN Security Council against Tehran, the state-run Mehr news agency reported on Wednesday.
The deputy speaker of the Majlis (parliament) Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh , said, “The US is acting as the instigator, imposing additional sanctions and compelling the Europeans to impose their own sanctions on top of (UN) resolutions, in order to build an anti-Iran culture and prepare other countries for future resolutions against Iran.”
Expressing worries about the outcome of Washington’s initiative, he added, “The US is trying to preserve the psychological ambiance characterized by sanctions against Iran and to raise issues that would prompt more sanctions against the country.”
Last month, Washington slapped sanctions targeting eight Iranian regime officials who are complicit in gross human rights violations against the Iranian people. As a result, the US assets of the eight regime officials will be seized and they will be banned from entering the US.
Iranian regime State Security Forces open fire on protesters, wounding 1
Oct. 6, 2010
According to the state-run Central News Unit, the mullahs’ State Security Forces in Rasht (northern Iranian city) opened fire on protesters, leaving 1 injured.
According to received reports, a family staged a protest to the mismanagement to necessary medical care for their loved one, which led to his death. When State Security Forces intervene, the family members clash with the suppressive forces.
State Security Forces open fire in response, injuring the child of the deceased patient and arresting 8 members of the family.
Political prisoners exiled in a bid to increase pressure on them
Oct. 6, 2010
The inhumane clerical regime has transferred a number of political prisoners to prisons with even worse conditions in order to intensify torture and exert more pressures on them.
Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared was abruptly exiled to Gohardasht Prison on Sunday, September 26, even as the Women’s Ward at the prison is already highly overcrowded, and due to a lack of medical and other basic resources, the prison is in dreadful conditions. Deprived of a possibility to sleep at nights, the prisoners spend nights awake in their wards.
Ms. Akbari, 36, is the mother of three young children, and is being held on fabricated charges as a “mohareb” (enemy of God).
She has been sentenced to 15 years at Gohardasht Prison. During a show trial, she contested the sentence and described the judge as incompetent. The mullahs’ judge, Salamati, said she is charged with having relatives at Camp Ashraf, who are members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), and because some of her relatives have been executed for supporting the PMOI.
Two members of Ms. Akbari’s family, Alireza, 20, and Gholamreza, 26, were executed in 1981 and 1985, respectively, while two of her other relatives, Roqieh, 30, and Abdolreza, 23, were executed during the 1988 massacre of political prisoners by the clerical regime.
Political prisoner Hamid Haeri, 60, who suffers from a variety of health problems as a result of being tortured and imprisoned, has also been exiled to Gohardasht Prison. Mr. Haeri suffers from various ailments, including a heart condition and has survived two strokes. He has been sentenced to 15 years in prison because his son and brother are residents in Camp Ashraf.
Hadi Qaemi, who was arrested during the December 27, 2009 Ashura uprising, has also been sentenced to 15 years in prison, and has been exiled to Gorgan’s Minoudasht Prison.
Other exiled political prisoners in recent days include Majid Tavakoli, who has been transferred to Gohardasht Prison, and Zia Nabavi and Majid Dorri, who were sent to the notorious Karoun Prison in Ahvaz.
Iran Students Committee (Supporter of PMOI)
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