May 31, 2010

UPDATE ON IRAN - No. 617 - May 30, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.617

Uprising of June 10-20

People clashed with suppressive forces chanting ‘death to Khamenei’
Tehran, May 30, 2010
On Thursday May 27 people who were in lines for receiving gasoline clashed with SSF chanting ‘death to Khamenei’ and ‘Allah O Akbar’ in Mosadegh Street after Africa Cinema.
The clashes were so severe that the security forces started shooting in the air.

Mansour Osanloo Transferred to Methadone Ward of Gohardasht Prison


Karaj, May 29, 2010
Mr. Mansour Osanloo the head of Bus Driving Syndicate of Tehran has been transferred to Methadone Ward of Gohardasht Prison where drug addicts and prisoners with infection are kept.
Reports say that an inmate Rohollah Hashemi who is imprisoned for murdering his brother and sister in law has complained in a conspiracy against Mr. Osanloo, provoked by Kermani and Faraji the head and deputy of the prison and as the result Mr. Osanlo was transferred to Methadone Ward.
Mr. Osanlo is in incarceration since summer of 2007 when he returned from a session in London.
Methadone Ward belongs to RGC and in the transfer the henchmen didn’t permit Mr. Osanloo to even take his personal belongings and medication.
Physicians of the prison have emphasized for three times that Mr. Osanloo needs treatment outside the prison but the henchmen don’t permit it.

Spread of writing slogans for June Uprising
Tehran, May 30, 2010
Writing slogans calling for the uprising in June continues on back of bus sits, walls, universities and bills.

Veil, regime’s tool for suppression
Tehran, May 30, 2010
The number of ‘invisible patrols’ have increased in Tehran. Regime’s suppressive agents in West Shahrak of Tehran stopped a lady accompanied with her husband and child at the wake of June’s Uprising and took pictures of her face several times and wrote down her car’s license number to provoke fear and horror amongst people.

Henchman Larijani defended executions
Tehran, May 28, 2010
Mohammad Javad larijani advisor of international affairs of regime’s Judiciary defended executions: “execution has many reasons in Islamic Republic’s Judiciary. Sometimes it is executed for smugglers of narcotics (we remind that regime has executed many political prisoners under this disguise)... and some decrees cannot be compromised...”
Speaking in a meeting with ambassadors of Norway and Australia he ruled out the human rights are global and said: “each culture has its own human rights values”.

Collecting dishes in Pakdasht
Pakdasht, May 28, 2010
Commander of Pakdasht’s SSf, Ziaedin Zendeh admitted that regime is collecting dishes in fear of public unrests in June and said that at the first stage of a suppressive plan called “Increasing Social Security in Townships” 868 receivers have been confiscated and 41 people have been arrested in that regard.

Militarization of Tehran Bus Driving Company
Tehran, May 28, 2010
To imply a climate of militarization on Tehran’s Bus Driving Enterprise Ahmadinejad’s government has appointed the managers of high speed BRTs from retired heads of RGC.


Resistance

Regime yielded to Majid Tavakoli’s demand
Tehran, May 30, 2010
Following international and domestic pressure and after 6 days of dry hunger strike of Majid Tavakoli a student activist of Amirkabir University arrested during Uprising, regime henchmen had to yield to the demands of this political prisoner and transferred him to public wards.

Freedom loving women of Iran resists regime’s coercion
Tehran, May 28, 2010
 Mullah Javadi Amuli conceded to the resistance of Iran’s freedom loving women oppose to reactionary coercion of clerical regime including compulsory veil and said: “by this they intend to mock us to show their protest. Unemployment and injustice is what make them to speak out of their limits and mock the state with their unveiling”.


Suppression

Father arrested for his son's stay in Camp Ashraf
Karaj, May 29, 2010
 His wife and other son have been in jail for the past six months
Mr. Mohammad Salam Joshan, 52, father of a member PMOI residing in Ashraf City, Iraq, was arrested on Monday evening, May 24, at his work place in Sorkhe-Hesar of Karaj, west of Tehran and taken to Evin prison. He was charged with rebellion and acting against national security.
His wife, Zahra Asadpour Gorji (Joshan), 52, and his son, Reza, 25, have been arrested within one week in December 2009 and put in solitary confinement in Ward 8 of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. The regime is putting pressure on this family and torturing them in order to force their son leave Ashraf and return to Iran.
Mrs. Asadpour has previously been jailed for 16 months for visiting her son in Ashraf together with her daughter, Fatemeh.
Mrs. Asadpour and her son have previously been imprisoned for one year in Zanjan prison and sent to exile for additional four years in Qilar, a village near Zanjan, for having a family member residing in Ashraf. .
Students Committee in Iran calls on all human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and relevant special rapporteurs and working groups, to take urgent measures to investigate the state of political prisoners in Iran and get them released.


Workers of Iran

500 workers on protest
Tehran, May 28, 2010
More than 500 workers of Zarin Metal Production Company in Tehran gathered in protest to 7 months of non-payment of their wages at the entrance of the company.

Drivers of private section on strike
Tehran, May 28, 2010
On May 26 the drivers of private section of Tavoni Hamkar Enterprise went on strike at the end-station of Park-e-Shahr because they are deprived of all help and support from the enterprise including maintenance, car wash and etc...
As soon as Harasat forces were informed of the event they went to the station and arrested the protesting drivers.
Security forces immediately replaced these buses with public buses to prevent any protest gathering.

Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

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