The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.652
Anniversary of Student Uprising July 9, 1999
PMOI’s call for uprising on the anniversary of Students Uprising July 9, 1999
The People’s Mojahedin Organization in Iran issued a call on July 1, 2010 urging various social strata to voice their protests against the clerical regime chanting for freedom and for the defiance of the principle of Velayat-e-Faghih on the anniversary of the Students Uprising June 9, 1999.
The call emphasizes that regime’s suppressive measures such as vast arbitrary arrests, medieval decrees of execution and the accusation of ‘Moharebe’ (fighting against God) will never be able to stop the freedom seeking movement of the Iranian Nation; “People will chant once more ‘death to dictator’ and ‘death to Khamenei’ at the anniversary of Students Uprising”.
Student’s protest at Payame Noor University
Karaj, July 2, 2010
Students of Payame Noor University in Karaj gathered in protest for the anniversary of arbitrary arrests of last year of this university on June 26.
Students chanted ‘we will stand firm till the end’; this disrupted the final exams.
After this protesting act some students were summoned by Harast and were under detention for three days.
Regime’s measures to confront potential uprising of students
Poldokhtar, July 1, 2010- Security agents at Poldokhtar have taken away the grave stone of Ezat Ibrahim Nejad a student martyr of Students Uprising of July 9, 1999 and his family is under control.
Tehran, July 1, 2010- As the anniversary of Students Uprising comes Guidance Patrols are stationed around Ponak Square and are controlling youths. Their support unit too stops the cars and searches them down the street. It is about two days that the number of patrols has increased.
Tehran, July 1, 2010- Since June 30 Tehran University’s dormitory was closed and it will be closed till July 11 to prevent any student protest gathering at Tehran University.
Tehran, July 1, 2010- recently in main streets of the city regime agents ask youths for their document of their military service and if they don’t have it or if he is doubted that he has not gone to service he is taken away. This kind of check has not been seen for years and regime is trying to provoke fear and horror to stop any uprising at the anniversary of Students Uprising.
Tehran, July 1, 2010- regime’s elements at Allameh University are trying to close the dormitory of the university as quickly as possible in fear of students protest for the anniversary of Students Uprising. They have cut dormitories water and are taking other measures in that accord.
Suppression
Jailed student activist in poor health in prison
June 29, 2010
Majid Tavakoli, a well known jailed student activist is suffering from severe gastric hemorrhage. Officials have so far refused to take him to hospital and as a result his condition has deteriorated.
According to reports, Tavakoli was recently transferred to cellblock 350, which lacks any kind of medical facilities and because of severe coughing and lack of medical attention, he developed severe gastric hemorrhage.
He has had constant nose bleeds in the past week but prison officials have paid no heed to other prisoners’ requests to see to the condition of this political prisoner.
Majid Tavakoli is a shipbuilding student at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University, who was arrested on December 7, 2009 and has been jailed ever since. He was sentenced to eight and a half years of prison.
Iran arrests two teachers’ rights activists
June 29, 2010
Mohammad Baqeri, a member of the Teacher Center in Iran was arrested in Tehran.
Mokhtar Asadi, another teacher activist, was also arrested today by security forces in Karaj.
A number of the members of this center were threatened over the phone in the past few days to end their activities for teachers’ rights.
Iran arrests 5 Christian converts in Tehran
June 30, 2010
One of the relatives of five Christians arrested on June 18 in Tehran said, “Our meetings are religious but are thought to be political”.
Five Christian converts by the names of Afshin Vafadari, Mehdi Karbalayi Ali, Omid Keleydar Nejad, Alireza Seyedi and Fatemeh Tork Kajuri, wife of Behrouz Sadeq Khanjani (arrested before this), were arrested on Friday June 18 in Tehran in Khanjani’s home.
Iran sentences Kurd man to prison
June 30, 2010
Naser Saiedi was sentenced to 18 months of prison by the Saqez Revolutionary Court for cooperating with an illegal (Kurd) party.
According to reports, this political prisoner from Baneh has recently been transferred to Baneh Prison from Saqez Prison to serve his sentence.
Female political prisoners kept under growing pressure in Evin Prison
June 30, 2010
The pressure and abuse of female political prisoners in Evin Prison has increased. About 28 female political prisoners are all cramped into one cell. This cell lacks any kind of cooling system in the swelling Tehran heat which has reached 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in the past few days. The heat is so severe that prisoners fall in a faint.
In the past few days, the water has been constantly cut off and prisoners are deprived from drinking water. When the water does come on, only warm drops come from the tap. (Officials) cite installation problems as the cause of the warm water in the pipes and say that they are not able to solve the problem.
Female prisoners have also been suffering from severe food poisoning in the past few days and are denied treatment. They suffer from nausea and severe diarrhea.
Student prisoner Mahdieh Golro was summoned by the Prosecutor of Tehran, Abbas Jafari Dolat Abadi, and pressured and threatened for supporting her executed cellmate Shirin Alamhouli.
“Do you know who they are when you defend them?” he asked her. “They are a grouplet and should not be defended”.
The Tehran Prosecutor also told another political prisoner that in the future, they intend to separate political prisoners from the ‘Monafeqin’ (PMOI members and supporters). Dolat Abadi and interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence have from some time ago unsuccessfully tried to create divisions and clashes between female political prisoners.
On the other hand, female political prisoners who report their severe problems to outside prison sources are under growing pressure and threats. These threats are made by Dolat Abadi. One of his methods is to raise pressures against political prisoners when news on the problems of female prisoners is published in the media (by a particular prisoner) and in this way officials blame the growing pressure on that particular prisoner to create divisions between prisoners.
Husband of slain mother of two: they took my wife and gave me a card instead
June 30, 2010
Hassan Mir Asdolahi, the husband of Fatemeh Semsarpour said in an interview that the military court asked him to accept blood money (for his wife’s murder) but he refused. Fatemeh Semsarpour was shot by security forces along with her son, Kaveh Mir Asdolahi on June 20 last year in the post election protests. Mrs. Semsarpour died that day, but her son was able to survive after two major surgeries.
According to her husband, Mrs. Semsarpour’s body was buried in Babol.
Mr. Asdolahi filed a complaint demanding that the murderer of his wife and shooter of his son be identified and introduced.
“The last answer I got was that the shooter has not been identified and that I should accept blood money instead”, he said.
Kusha Mir Asdolahi, the youngest son of the family, was looking out of his home window on June 20, 2009 when his mother and brother were shot and according to his father he has had psychological damage and is being treated by a psychiatrist. This 13 old boy has written a poem describing his mother’s death.
“Her flowers fell and the petals fluttered away but these eyes did not see”, he wrote in this poem. “They took her flowers; her seeds are in our hearts… They took her body; her roots are in our body…”
Political prisoners still denied minimum rights after 10 years of prison
June 30, 2010
Dr. Saied Masouri, a political prisoner in the Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj who has been sentenced to life in prison is still denied the right to a leave after having served one third of his sentence.
According to reports, Masouri was initially sentenced to death for cooperating with and having contacts with a political organization (PMOI) but his sentence which was commuted to life in prison. He has been denied the right to a leave from prison which is the minimum right of a prisoner in the face of the law. His family announced that last month they went to the Tehran Prosecutor to seek his acceptance of a leave but Prosecutor Dolat Abadi said he would answer their request in the future because he was not aware of the state of this political prisoner’s case.
Dr. Saied Masouri’s mother said that her son was arrested on December 2000 upon arrival to Iran but the Ministry of Intelligence informed his family of his arrest on April 2001.
Student activist tried without lawyer
July 1, 2010
Javid Haj Hemati, a student activist in the Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran was tried in the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Moqiseh on June 30.
According to reports, this is while he had not received a summons to be present in trial and was called and told to go to the Revolutionary Court to complete his case. He defended himself without a lawyer in this trial.
Haj Hemati was arrested on December 7, 2009 after being summoned to the Ministry of Intelligence and was detained for 70 days in cellblocks 240, 209 and 350 of Evin Prison.
More than 90,000 married children in Iran
June 30, 2010
A children’s rights activist said that according to official statistics, there are 950,000 married children in Iran and 85 percent of them are girls.
“Official sources say that there are 900,000 to 950,000 married children in Iran even as this is against the International Children’s Rights Convention”, Mohammad Banazadeh said.
“The law considers children to be under 11 and considers them mentally incompetent to participate in the elections and choose a candidate but the marital age in the country is between 9 to 13 years. (ILNA state-run News Agency)
Ill political prisoner gradually becomes paralyzed because of lack of medical attention
July 1, 2010
The psychological and physical condition of political prisoner Hamed Rouhi Nejad who is detained in cellblock 8 in Evin Prison is critical because of the deterioration of his multiple sclerosis (MS) and lack of medical attention.
According to reports, one of his hands is completely paralyzed and he is suffering from serious problems in the eyesight of both eyes. This political prisoner is even having problems hearing. But despite his numerous problems from his disease, prison officials are completely oblivious to his illness.
This lack of attention by officials is so serious that aside from not taking him to hospital, they even refuse to give him medicine provided by the Rouhi Nejad family. It seems that officials are oblivious to the dangers of MS or at best have no knowledge about its dangers.
There is a high chance of this disease paralyzing the whole body of the victim from lack of medication.
Hamed Rouhi Nejad is a philosophy student who has been jailed since May 2009 on charges of being a member of a dissident group and has been denied even a one day medical leave from prison.
He was sentenced to death in the mass post election show trials but his sentence was commuted to 10 years of prison in a court of review.
Political prisoner’s detention in solitary extended on orders of Ministry of Intelligence
July 1, 2010
Rajayi Shahr prison officials have extended the detention of political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani in solitary until after the anniversary of student protests on July 9 for an unknown amount of time.
According to the reports, political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani who is detained in cellblock 1 in this prison in Karaj was transferred to solitary on May 31 for unknown reasons.
He has been kept in solitary for one month and is kept under severe conditions. Prison officials prevent him from receiving medical attention and deprive him from minimum sanitary facilities. He is allowed to bathe once a week and use the restroom once a day.
Iran issues 20 death sentences and executes 8 people in unknown timespan
July 1, 2010
The head of the Judiciary’s Popular Staff for Social Prevention and Security in Kurdistan said, “Up to now, the death sentence for 20 people has been issued and the sentence for eight of them has been carried out. (Ravanews state-run website)
(Note: The date for the execution of these prisoners was not mentioned in this report.)
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