Suppression

Execution for 4 members of a family
Tehran, April 19, 2010
The clerical regime issued decrees for death penalty for 5 political prisoners, 4 of them members of a family.
Motahareh (Simin) Bahrami Haghighi along with her husband Mohsen Daneshpoor Moghadam, her son Ahmad Daneshpoor Moghadam, one of their relatives Raihaneh Haj Ebrahim was arrested during Ashura Uprising.
Hadi Ghaemi a very close friend of Mr. Mohsen Daneshpoor was also arrested then. All five are charged with ‘Moharebeh (fighting against God)’ and condemned to execution.
Another son of this family resides in Ashraf City, Iraq (residence of PMOI members) since years ago and this is the base for the allegation of Moharebeh and the following death penalty decrees.
Simultaneously Abdolreza Ghanbari a 47 years old teacher in one of schools in Pakdasht was charged with Moharebeh and condemned to execution. Mr. Ghanbari was arrested on January 14, 2010.


Number of executions: 19 in 10 day
April 19, 2010
Two inmates Faizollah and Nazar were hanged in Kerman’s prison on Sat. April 17; these two were from Zahedan from Barahoee tribe.
In fear of the wrath of deprived people of Sistan and Baloochistan the clerical regime hangs Balooch inmates in cities outside the province.
Formerly on April 8 two inmates were hanged in southern cities of the country Behbahan and Shadegan; the hanging in Behbahan was in public.
People booed the henchmen at the scene.
Summing up the number of executions in the last 10 days 19 hangings can be counted.
Students Committee in Iran calls on all international human rights organs especially the High Commission of Human Rights and the Reporters of Arbitrary Arrests and Executions to act immediately for stopping this criminal trend in Iran.


Two prisoners beaten to death in Orumieh Prison
April 19, 2010 - On Sunday, April 18, two prisoners were beaten to death in cellblock 9 and 11 in Orumieh Prison by special guards' forces in prison.
According to reports, an ordinary prisoner identified as Iraj Gham Angiz was killed for unknown reasons by prison guards yesterday afternoon.
This report says that other prisoners protested this murder and prison guards under the command of Akbar Pishevar beat these prisoners to counter the protests.
In these clashes, Seifoddin Yahya Zadeh was struck on the head with a club and died instantly.

Iran kills two tradesmen in border region
April 19, 2010 - On Thursday April 15, security forces in Marivan shot and killed two citizens identified as Khebat from the Roz Ave Village in Sarv Abad and Kiomars from Sanandaj.
According to reports, Kiomars sustained severe injuries from the shooting and died after being caught up in a river on the border. 


Iran attacks church in Karaj, beats and arrests protestant priest
April 19, 2010 - On April 14, a number of plainclothes agents who introduced themselves as agents of the Ministry of Intelligence attacked a home used as a church by Christians in Karaj. These agents threatened those in the church and beat and insulted father Behnam Irani. They subsequently arrested him and took him to an unknown location.
These forces were armed with guns in the attack. They interrogated all those in the church asking them to fill out forms. They were forced to answer questions such as who converted them to Christianity, how they were converted, why they had converted and who baptized them.
They were also threatened and told that they had participated in a ceremony in an illegal church. These agents also stressed that they would be called in the next few days and had to come to the Intelligence Agency to answer further questions.
These 10 young Christians in the church were only participating in a religious ceremony.

Student activist arrested to serve one year prison term
April 19, 2010 - According to reports, student activist Nader Ahsani was arrested in the morning to serve his one year prison term. This student activist was arrested before this on student's day in 2007. He was transferred to the quarantine section in Evin Prison.
He was answering a summons to the Revolutionary Court when he was arrested. The 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Moqiseyi aka Naserian who was a member of the Death Commission responsible for the massacre of political prisoners in the 80's, sentenced this activist to one year of prison.  


Female political prisoners in Evin Prison jailed alongside criminals
April 19, 2010 - The detainment of political prisoners with other prisoners charged with murder, financial corruption, drug trafficking and other crimes has led to many problems for them.
According to the law, prison officials are obligated to at least provide a separate room for political prisoners but unfortunately female political prisoners are harassed on a daily basis by their cellmates.
According to reports, (political prisoners) have told the head of the women's cellblock, Rezayi, to provide a separate room for them but she has announced that she has been ordered not to do such a thing. 

Prison guards attack and abuse prisoners in Gohardasht Prison
April 19, 2010 - On Sunday, April 18, at about 8 am, prison guards in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj violently attacked defenseless prisoners in this prison under the pretext of searching prisoners and threw them in the prison yard. These forces then started breaking and confiscating the prisoner's personal items in their cells. This attack continued until about 11 am.
In the end of the attack, Hassan Akharian, the head of cellblock 1 in this prison gathered all the prisoners in the yard again and started crying out insults using profane language against them.
According to other reports, the pollution of prison water and the constant lack of water still continue in prison. Another number of prisoners were taken to the infirmary after being poisoned including Morteza Sadeqian from cellblock 1.


Judicial chief: improper veiling with be dealt with
April 19, 2010 - The head of the Iranian Judiciary said that those who have improper veiling with be dealt with.
Sadeq Larijani said on Sunday, "The fact that some people do not oblige the values (of the society) and break social norms and appear with improper veiling in the society is a kind of disrespect to the rights of others and the Judicial System and security forces will definitely deal with those who undermine Islamic values based on Islamic laws".
Before this, the head of Friday Prayers in Mashhad said that those who come on the streets with improper veiling are like 'creatures'.  

Iran sentences student activist to 3 years of prison
April 18, 2010 - Arash Sadeqi, a student of Alameh Tabatabayi University in Tehran was sentenced to 3 years of prison.
According to reports, this student used to attend Amir Kabir University in Tehran but was expelled last year because of political issues. He was arrested on Ashura (December 27, 2009) and received a new years furlough after three months of prison. He was once again jailed on April 4.
Arash Sadeqi told his friends while on break that he was severely beaten in prison to the extent that his shoulder was dislocated two times.

Afghanistan: Iran executed 6 Afghans recently
April 19, 2010 - The Afghanistan government has announced that six of its nationals were recently executed in Iran. According to this report, the Afghanistan National Security Council said that the bodies of four of these people were transferred to Afghanistan on April 5 and April 16 via the Islam Qal'eh border region.
According to reports, they were hanged on charges of drug trafficking.