UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 27, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 720

Downfall

Fearful reaction by the international adviser of judicature from exposures of Wiki leaks

Oct. 26, 2010

Mohammad Javad Larijani, international adviser of judicature, expressed his worry from exposure of documents showing the regime figure in terrorist crimes in Iraq and said: it is necessary to prevent any political misuse of wiki leaks documents and stand against it.


Effect of Sanction

Factory workers in Qazvin laid off from work
Oct. 24, 2010
A worker in the Tazh Company in Qazvin wrote a letter describing the very hard working conditions in this company.
The state-run Ati News website quoted these workers and wrote, “The Tazh Company produces hygienic goods and is located in the Leilay Industrial Township in Qazvin and its new phase will ended in the summer with Ahmandinejada’s presence. According to him, all officials and contracted workers in this factory will be paid off and new forces will be used instead of them. Currently more than 200 people work in this factory that are either officially hired or contracted.
This worker has said that some of the workers in this factory have contracted lung diseases because of working directly with chemicals and with their current income, they cannot afford treatment for it and now they also have to look for new jobs.


Resistance

Iranians write slogans in public places in Tehran’s Amir Abad regions inviting the public to Student Day protests 

Oct. 26, 2010

University students and young people wrote slogans in Tehran’s Amir Abad region calling for 'Students' Day' Demonstrations on December 7.
Some of these slogans were, ‘we will be there on December 7 – Death to Khamenei
Students fight and Khamenei trembles – don't forget Student Day, December 7'

Public protest and close down of shops in Larestan – Fars
Oct. 23, 2010
People of Larestan in Fars, in continuation of their requests for rejoining of Ooz and Beyrom to Larestan, on Saturday, held a public protest and closed their shops and gathered in front of the Mosque of the city and confirmed on their protest and gathering till they reach to their demands.

Protest move of fast drive line bus drivers of Tehran 
Oct. 23, 2010
Majority of buses of Tehran pars to Azadi, prevented coming to work due to their protest against not paying for excess work which the worker have done.

Protest Act by Tehran Bus Drivers
Oct. 24, 2010
Tehran bus drivers left their work on Sunday, October 24, 2010 in protest to their unpaid salaries.

Protest gathering of workers of PashinehBaft Factory in Qazvin 
Oct. 23, 2010
Workers of PoshinehBaftin protest against their 12 months unpaid salary, gathered in front of the factory.

News on Universities

Taking students cards from Hormozgan students under the excuse of bad veiling
Oct. 26, 2010
On Sunday, October 25, 2010 security agents of Hormozgan University, under the excurse of bad veiling took the cards of the most of girl students and told them for getting their cards, they have to refer to the security department. The pressure was so high that in an hour, 100 cards were detained.

Shiraz university students hold protest sit-in
Oct. 24, 2010
Students of the Shiraz University held a sit in in protest to the clashes which occurred last week in this university which led to the injuries of a number of students. Students blocked off the road leading the university with their cars and prevented classed from being held.



Disturbing the students of Gorgan University
Oct. 23, 2010
Following the plan of separation between men and women in universities, in Gorganuniversity, security forces in many different ways tried to make disturbance for students. As one girl students in Gorgan university said, since a while ago entrance gate of boys and girls were separated and the behaviors of agents were very rude and un polite. These restrictions are harder on girls.

Increase in salary of Boali university of Hamedan and close down of café
Oct. 25, 2010
As students say, this year there has been so much pressure on students and there was an increase of about 130 $ on the university of agriculture of Boali salary and the café of this university is already closed.

Threat and scaring freedom loving university professors by Basijs' agents
Oct. 25, 2010
A group of Basij in Khaligfars in Boushehr, announced that we cannot bear the opposition professors.
Raja News reports, a Basij group named society of Islamic students of Khalijfars university, in a statement, while confessing on resistance of professors said: offenses of new young professors in university , was not the beginning of the story, there has always been samples among other selected professors.


Suppression

33 people including a youth and two women were executed in October
Oct. 25, 2010
Statistic and publication unit for human rights activists in Iran gave the news of at least execution of 33 prisoners.
According to reports, among the executed there are two women and a youth who was convicted to a crime when he was a youth. In the last month Kerman with 9 execution and Isfahan with 6 executions are on top of the list and Shiraz and Ahwaz are the next.
This report adds that dissection of the hand of a man in Tehran and public lashing in Ahwaz and Gonbad for 6 prisoners under the name of god, are same as the range of these facts.

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)

Death sentence for 4 people was issued in Ramsar
 Oct. 25, 2010
Ramsar's judiciary issued death sentence for four people.
The head of Judiciary in Ramsar said:  this sentence will be done after the confirmation of high bureau of the country.

Iranian regime’s widespread suppression of political prisoners
Oct. 25, 2010
Political prisoners who have written or signed statements in Evin or other prisoners have been summoned by the court and have been asked to deny that they have signed these statements and if they refuse, they will be thrown in solitary or receive other punishments.
According to reports, these political prisoners have also been threatened that if they not deny their signatures on these statements, their visits will also be cut off and new charges will be made against them.
Being denied a condition release and leaves from prison is another thing that these prisoners have been threatened with. Fourteen political prisoners in Evin Prison’s cellblock 350 issued a statement some time ago in reaction to Ahmadinejad’s statement in the UN General Assembly that a truth finding independent group had to look into the September 11 attacks to identify the real culprits of this crime. These 14 political prisoners asked that an international truth finding committee do the same thing in Iran and discover the real facts in the Iranian presidential elections and post-election events.
Those who signed this statement were Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi, Seyed Milad Asadi, Mohsen Amin Zadeh, Ali Parviz, Ali Tajenia, Mohammad Davari, Majid Dori, Amir Khosro Dalir Sani, Mohammad Farid Taheri Qazvini, Keivan Samimi, Kouhyar Goudarzi, Ali Malihi, Abdollah Momeni, and Mohsen Mirdamadi.
Political prisoners Abdollah Momeni, Keivan Samimi, Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi, Mohammad Davari and Kouhyar Goudarzi have been under the most pressure so far to deny that they signed this statement.
A number of these prisoners were summoned to court and pressured last week but none have given in to this demand.
They had stressed in their statement that ‘as some of the innocent detained victims of post-election events, we have been charged, arrested and sentenced to unjust prison terms in the same way that Mr. Ahmadinejad cited (in his speech) and we propose that a national independent truth finding group, made up of people who are credible and trusted in the society be established to discover the truth about the elections and post-election events.
According to reports, Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) political prisoners have also received the same kind of threats over publishing political statements.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 8, 2010

Iran hangs 8 people in mass execution
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 conditions
Oct. 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)