Update on Iran - May 6, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.591

The Downfall


Regime fears the broadcast of Uprising on May 1
Tehran, May 4, 2010
After scenes of the protest gathering of the laborers of Fars Meat Company were broadcasted the clerical regime has threatened the workers of the company and is looking for the person who has posted the scenes.
One of the workers told ISC: “they have called all the protesting workers and threatened them not to talk with foreign media”.
It is to be mentioned that the workers of this company had daily protest gathering in front of different regime organs protesting against the fact that they have been ousted from the company.

Crises in international scene
Tehran, May 4, 2010
Javad Larijani, a theoretician from Khamenei’s band talking amongst some of the elements of regime’s Judiciary expressed his concern about regime’s crises in international scene and said: “nuclear file and violation of human rights are tough challenges for us. In addition to nuclear file which is a hard task another challenge is the human rights resolutions issued by global human rights organization which is harder than the first challenge”.


Resistance

Call for freedom of detained lawyers, teachers and youths
Tehran, May 4, 2010
On Saturday, May 1, the agents of regime’s Intelligence Ministry summoned Mr. Olyaeefard, a lawyer, to the Prosecutor Office telling him that they want to discuss with him his clients’ files.
But by his reference they arrested him and transferred him to Evin Prison hand-cuffed.
He is the lawyer of detained active workers, activists of children’s rights and some juveniles under execution.
To put pressure on this honorable lawyer regime has charged him with ‘propagation against the state’ and ‘distribution of lies’ and has condemned him to one year in prison during which he will be lashed.
He has once before been arrested on 8th of March and kept in prison for a week.
In another event two youths, Sina, Zoheiri Mesgar and Shayan Sadat Sharif were arrested in Tehran and transferred to unknown location.
On April 27 and 29 Alireza Hashemi, the secretary general of Iran’s Teacher, Ali Akbar Baqhani (deputy secretary general) and Mohammad Beheshti Langroodi (the spokesman of the organ) were arrested.
Mrs Baqhani and Beheshti were transferred to Evin Prison ward 209.
The family of Mr. Hashemi is not aware of why he is arrested and to where he is taken and what his condition is.
Alireza Hashemi was arrested twice before on March 2007 and during the Uprising in which he had been transferred to Evin Prison.
The arbitrary arrests are because the teachers’ organ protests against the deplorable live of the teachers, criminal detentions and decrees in regard with arrested teachers such as Abdolreza Ghanbari, Abdollah Momeni, Hashem Khastar, Mohammad Davari, Farzad Kamangar and Rassol Bodaghi.
Some of the teachers who had gathered by the grave of a slain teacher in Ebne Babooye Cemetery were arrested by elements of regime’s Intelligence Ministry.
Arrest of freedom loving teachers and other scholars was not limited to Tehran.
In Hamedan four teachers; Jalal Naderi, Ali Najafi, Mohmmad Khani and Saeed Jahanara were arrested.
In Hamedan, Tabriz and Kermanshah regime’s intelligence consecutively summoned, interrogated and threatened the heads of Teachers Guild Societies and by issuing decrees of paying fine and being lashed it tried to prevent them of any protest on Teachers Day.
Filtering web logs belonging to this guild was another suppressive measure against them.
Students Committee in Iran calls on International Syndicate of Jurists and Lawyers and international teachers and scholars organs to condemn the suppression of lawyers, teachers, scholars and all political activists by the religious fascism ruling Iran.
We demand immediate action for prevention of arbitrary arrests and for unconditional freedom of all political prisoners.

Political prisoner condemned to death demands public trial
Tehran, May 4, 2010
Political prisoner, Mehdi Islamian condemned to death demands a public trial with the presence of human rights lawyers and advocates.
Mehdi was arrested Ordibehesht of 1387 (April-May of 2008) and after suffering medieval tortures in a detention center belonging to Shiraz Intelligence Bureau he was transferred to ward 209 of Evin Prison.
Mr. Islamian was judged by criminal judge Salavati and was condemned to death by him.
Mr. Islamian’s brother was hanged in Shiraz on March 22, 2009 falsely charged with participation in the explosion of a regime’s base called “Rahpoyane vesal”.
Mr. Islamian is currently in prison in Karaj’s Gohardasht Prison ward one.

Families of detainees of May Day Uprising gather in protest in front of Evin
Tehran, May 5, 2010
On Monday May 3 the families of detainees of May Day gathered in protest in front of Evin Prison and demanded immediate freedom of their beloveds.
The gathering started at 9 am and continued till evening.
The families gathered in front of the building were ‘Security Inspectors” are stationed. The door of the building was shut on their faces.
The guards and the inspectors offended the families and thus they verbally clashed. The Pasdars present threatened the families with offensive language and told them: “if you don’t go away we will pour you down”.
During May Day tens have been arrested and transferred to Evin Prison some of them were just passer-byes and those shopping in the stores who were dragged out of them and transferred to Evin.
Some of the detainees were freed due to the protests of their families but most of them are still in the prison.
In one of the intersections of Azadi Street 12 men and women, participants in the gathering were arrested and taken directly to Evin.

Students sat-in
Shahre Kurd, May 4, 2010
Students of Shahre Kurd’s Azad University sat-in in protest against regime’s suppressive measures.
They chanted: ‘zealous student support, support’ and ‘a student will die but will not yield to oppression’.

Kermanshah’s students on hunger strike
Kermanshah, May 4, 2010
On Sunday May 2 students of different universities announced a hunger strike in solidarity with Teachers Day.
To break this strike the government has distributed high quality foods including in Kermanshah’s university were the food was terrible every day before.


Suppression

Increasing pressure on families of residents of Ashraf
Tehran, May 4, 2010
Henchmen in Gohardasht Prison have increased pressure on political prisoners who are families of PMOI members residing in Asharaf City (the resident of PMOI members in Iraq).
ISC reported that it is close to a month that the henchmen of clerical regime have put Mr. Reza Joshan in a cell in ward 6 of this prison and have prevented him from getting out of there or calling his family or visiting them.
Mr. Joshan’s mother, Mrs. Zahara Asadi is also imprisoned in women ward of the prison. She too is deprived of any visit or call to her family for more than a month. She is prohibited from any connection with outside world.


Amnesty International urges action for imminent execution of Jafar Kazemi
May 3, 2010 - Amnesty International has issued an urgent statement about the imminent execution of Jafar Kazemi in the next few days:
"The danger of imminent execution in Iran"
An Iranian, Jafar Kazemi, is in imminent danger of execution for participating in anti-government demonstrations. He has also been accused of collaborating with the MKO (Mujahedeen Khalgh Organization).
Jafar Kazemi was arrested on September 18, 2009 during a demonstration and was transferred to Evin prison. He has been accused of participating in a demonstration where 100,000 others participated and he has not been accused of any violent actions.
He has been sentenced to death for being ‘an enemy of God’ and propaganda against the regime. He was arrested along with at least one other person, Mohammad Ali Aghaii who has been accused of similar charges but Amnesty International has no information whether he has been sentenced to death as well.
According to reports, Jafar Kazemi has been interrogated for months and has been under pressure appear in fake v. confessions but he has refused.
In April 2010 he was informed that his order of execution has been re-confirmed by a court of appeals. His lawyer who has had limited access to his client has asked the Judiciary office to review this case. Unless this request is accepted, then the execution could happen at any moment.
In 1980s and 1990s Jafar Kazemi was arrested for being a member of MKO and for spending time at Ashraf Camp in Iraq. One of his sons is in Iraq.
Others who are in danger of execution for protesting after the election:
Amir Reza Arefi, Mohammad Amin Valian, Motahareh (Simin) Bahrami and her husband Mohsen Daneshpour Moghadam and their son Ahmad Daneshpour, two friends: Hadi Ghaemi and Reyhaneh Ghanbari.


A detainees of Ashura Uprising was condemned to 6 years imprisonment
Tehran, May 4, 2010
According to reports, Porya Ghorbani a detainee of Ashura Uprising who is kept in ward 350 in Evin Prison is condemned to 6 years imprisonment; four years for acting against ‘national security’, one year for ‘propagating against the state’ and one year for offending Khamenei.

The director of Haft Tapeh’s worker’s syndicate summoned to court at the wake of his freedom
Dezful, May 4, 2010
Ali Nejati the head of Directive Board of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Syndicate who was imprisoned in Dezful Prison for six months because he had defended the rights of the workers is summoned to Shosh’s so-called Revolutionary Court.
Ali Nejati’s term would be over on May 12 and he should be freed but he is summoned officially to court for May 19!
Mr. Nejati and his other colleagues Fraidon Jalil Ahmadi, Ghorban Alipoor and Mohammad Haydari are imprisoned on the regime-made allegation of ‘propagating against the system’ and such other allegations.
Now Nejati must defend himself on the same allegation again which means he has been tried for one allegation twice.

A female student arrested
Tehran, May 4, 2010
Maryam Abbasinejad, a student of Tehran University was arrested on May 2 by regime’s agents.
She was arrested because of her protest against the unannounced presence of Ahmadinejad at the university on May Day.

Provoking climate of fear and horror
Hamedan, May 4, 2010
Regime’s elements in Chamran University of Hamedan ousted 7 students of this university to provoke climate of fear and horror amongst the students.

Baha'i man sentenced to six months of prison
May 4, 2010
Moshfeq Samandari, a Baha'i from Babol, was sentenced to six months of prison.
Samadari, who was arrested last May for 'advertizing Baha'ism', was sentenced to six months of prison by the Mazandaran Review Court.
He introduced himself to court on May 1, 2010 and was arrested and taken to Babol Prison.

Prisoners in Gohardasht Prison group tortured by guards
May 4, 2010 - On the night of May 2, prison guards at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj attacked prisoners who were in a cell called the Hosseinieh. This cell is located at the end of Hall 2 in Cellblock 2 in Gohardasht Prison. The guards beat the prisoner which led to clashes between the prisoners and guards… They then blindfolded and shackled three prisoners by the names of Hassan Sharifi, Bahram Tasviri and Mohammad Mohammadi and forced them to go back and forth through a human tunnel made by the guards. The guards then barraged them with clubs while they were moving through the tunnel. When one of the prisoners fell on the ground, they were attacked and violently beaten.
Other prisoners in the hall woke up from the moaning and sobbing of the prisoners and their cries could even be heard in the next block. These three prisoners who had fractured bones in their hands and black and bloodied bodies were sent to solitary without being treated (for their wounds).


Other News

“God’s Forces” nickname for regime’s meddling in Lebanon’s 33days War
Tehran, May 4, 2010
Larigani regime’s head of parliament conceded that in Lebanon’s 33days War he had met Khamenei holding the war plan in his hands and have asked him how to help Hezbollah.
Larijani said: “when the 33days War started the region was in a harsh condition and US and Israel thought that everything would be over we went to see the honorable leader of revolution with some other officials and showed him the situation on a map”.
Larijani deceptively painted regime’s help to Hezbollah by giving armaments and also financial helps as “God’s army” and added: “he was inspired and in that meeting he changed the destiny of war. The Leader said this war will be won by endurance and it is a divine test if they endure ‘God’s army’ will come to help”.

Bassijies yell against international sanctions
Tehran, May 4, 2010
At the wake of approval of the resolution of UN’s National Security against regime’s nuclear programs regime has mobilized his mercenaries to provoke unrest in front of the representative office of UN in Tehran.
Fars news agency affiliated with RGC reported: “student unions issued a statement demanding a demonstration ‘against the nuclear file in (UN’s) National Security’”.
This statement issued by Bassiji mercenaries reads in part: “… it is for a while that National Security has started a psychological operation in media to represent our peaceful nuclear activities as a military quest…”.
Predicting the consequences of this resolution and in fear of it the agency adds: “illegitimate international powers are doing their best to use complicated political and propagating tactics to provoke the world against Iranian nation (read regime and its subordinates). By this they intend to make people and the officials of the sacred System of Islamic Republic to retreat and to accept their demands”.

Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)