Religious fascism ruling Iran hanged Political prisoner Ali Saremi

Religious fascism ruling Iran hanged 

Political prisoner Ali Saremi 

Supporter of PMOI who had spent more than 23 years of his life in prison

Iran refuses to hand over body of executed political prisoner to his family
According to reports, several family members of executed political prisoner and PMOI supporter Ali Saremi went to Kahrizak Detention Center to get custody of Ali Saremi’s body. They were told by Evin Prison agents to go to Kahrizak for the body.
They were initially banned from entering Kahrizak and finally after persisting, security forces told them to leave and bring a letter from Evin Prison.
According to other reports, after widespread reports in the international media about the execution of this 63 year old political prisoner, the Iranian regime is looking to retaliate against his family and therefore arrested a number of his family members on the day he was hanged. They were finally forced to release them last night after harassing and threatening them. Security forces also raided their family shop today and arrested Ali Saremi’s nephew identified as Mohammad.

Biography of Ali Saremi
Brave supporter of PMOI resisted to the end
Dec. 29, 2010
Ali Saremi, political prisoner and a supporter of PMOI who was executed by the clerical dictatorship on Tuesday dawn Dec. 28, 2010 was born in 1948 in Broojerd. He started teaching at high schools after he graduated from university well knowing five foreign languages.
He spent about 24 years of his live at prisons on the whole suffering different kinds of pressure and torture.
He was incarnated for two years during Shah’s era and was freed by the revolution of 1979. He joined Teachers Movement supporters of PMOI but was arrested after June 20, 1981.
He was imprisoned five times during the rule of religious fascism in decades of 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s and was held in prisons of Gohardasht, Gezelhesar and Evin but each time he was more decisive to continue his struggle after he was freed.
He was last arrested end of summer of 2007 because he attended a ceremony for commemoration of the massacre of political prisoner, 30000 of them, in summer of 1988 and was in prison until the dawn of his execution.
Mr. Saremi has four children and has traveled to Ashraf City (the place of residence of PMOI members in Iraq) in years of 2003, 2004 and 2005.
During these years he was summoned to the reactionary courts of the regime four times but he didn’t accept the charges so they couldn’t allege him with anything in particular.
He was arrested in February 2005 only because he had laid flower on the grave of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh on behalf of the leadership of the resistance. He was tried on late Fall of 2006 because of that and was condemned to 6 years imprisonment along with being exiled for a year to Minab’s prison.
In 1987 he sent his only son Akbar to Ashraf to join NLA.
During the clash that occurred between henchmen of Evin and his family and the families of other political prisoner on Tuesday for receiving his body Poya, Mahin and Mohtaram Saremi his daughter, wife and sister; Akram Sanjari mother of political prisoner Misagh Yazdan Panah and Hadi and Mahbobeh Mansouri the son and sister of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Mansouri were arrested and taken into Evin Prison.
To cover its crime the clerical regime announced that ‘a member of Mohafeghin grouplet’ was executed on charge of ‘Moharebe’ along with Ali Akbar Siadat the ‘element of Zionist regime’s spying service’.
Regime’s media published the decree of execution of Mr. Saremi as:
“The extinct (Ali Saremi) travelled in 2002 to Monafeghin’s camp called Ashraf and was trained and returned back to the country. Then along with some freed prisoners of this grouplet he started propagating for them. Monafeghin paid him to hold gatherings for the group and publish and distribute a publication called ‘Aryaee Land’. He propagated for Monafeghin publicy at his work and distributed the pictures of its leaders. He attracted some and sent them to Monafeghin’s camp in Iraq. He organized sessions and sent their clips to be broadcasted from Monafeghin’s TV. He actively provided and distributed advertising brochures for Monafeghin and the poster of their leaders to be posted in general places. He was in contact with Monafeghin’s contact centers by the order of the grouplet...”.
Then the media continued that he was condemned to death by article 47 of the law of Islamic Punishment and articles 186, 190 and 191.

Statement by Society of Engineers in Seek of Freedom in condemnation of the execution of political prisoner Ali Sarami
Dec. 29, 2010 
In the name and memory of those who fall for freedom during Iran’s national uprising.
Hail to all political prisoners who are fully withstanding the henchmen of Velayat.
Hail to the risen students of our homeland.
Hail to people of Iran.
Hail to Ali Saremi the day he was born and the day he joined eternity.
Death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faghieh,
…You henchmen, you will probably get your decisive answer by people like Ali Saremi and we the people of Iran. Once more the trembling hands of Velayat is getting closer to its final…Do you think by killing Ali Saremi this fire will be hushed?
Since the day that Ali Saremi like those other who fall for freedom of their people said no to the oppressor he was ready for this moment and we are ready for it too.
You killed Ali but by this you give birth to thousand other Alies…
The other day Khomeini massacred (political prisoners) in fear of his overthrow and now you are doing the same…
At the end we pay our condolences to the family of Ali Saremi; now the whole Iran, and we strongly condemn this vicious act of brutal mullahs.
Death to the ominous Velayat and to religious fascism
Death to Khamenei
Hail to freedom
Society of Engineers in Seek of Freedom
Iran- Dec. 29, 2010

The Society in Solidarity with Bazaars Guilds condemns the execution of political prisoner Ali Saremi
Dec. 28, 2010 
…Ali Saremi was executed just because he defended the rights of deprived people and just because he withstood the tyranny of the time…
In the dreadful condition of economy recession in Iran and the ever increasing economic pressure on different sectors of the society including guilds and Iran’s bazaar, to suppress people even more the rule of despotism committed a dirty act and at the dawn of Tuesday Dec. 28, 2010 it executed the political prisoner Ali Saremi.
We the Society of Solidarity with Iran’s Guilds strongly condemn this execution and we pay our condolences to his family and friends.
Society of Solidarity with Iran’s Guilds
Dec. 28, 2010

Ali Saremi joined eternity- message of political prisoners
Dec. 28, 2010 
A group of political prisoners of ward 2 of Karaj’s Gohardasht Prison sent a message for the martyrdom of Ali Saremi titled ‘Ali Saremi joined the eternity’.
After paying their condolences to the family of Mr. Saremi and all freedom loving people they said; “…neither us ... believed that this cruel decree will be executed. When he was summoned by Intelligence he had a high spirit and he said goodbye to us. We were awaiting his return…and we never believed that our friend has been transferred to Evin Prison for execution…Regime’s officials blocked our calls to outside the prison from fear. All the freedom loving people of Iran must know that in his last days Ali was roomed in corridors of ward 2 because the ward was so crowded to make him even weaker...
The brutal rulers of Iran must know that by suppression and killing struggle of our nation for freedom and social justice will not end. They will gain nothing but notoriety from executing Ali Saremi. Because he, like other who fall for freedom we be alive for ever.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Dec. 30, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 752

Aftermaths of scraping subsidy of goods 

in different cities of Iran

Scraping subsidy, jeopardizing agriculture
Dec. 28, 2010 
Hussein Naghavi Hosseini a member of regime’s reactionary parliament admitted to aftermaths of subsidy cuts and said: “execution of ‘subsidy overhaul plan’ has faced agriculture with serious problems because of rise in price of gas oil. 50% of water pumps of farmers work with gas oil and the fuel used for tractors is gas oil too”.
He admitted that if the farmers want to buy gas oil in free price they must pay 88 million tomans for each 10000 square meter of land.

Laborers portest in Khozestan
Dec. 28, 2010 
More than 500 laborers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory and Karoon Shoostar’s Industry gathered in protest in front of the general bureau of regime’s social providence in Khozestan.
These laborers protested against the fact that years of insurance have not been counted for them since 2007.

Heat is cut in Varamin’s schools
Dec. 27, 2010 
In schools of Varamin that are equipped with central heating system the system is shot down. The students are told that it is still soon to turn on the heat and they should wear more clothes to warm themselves.

Anti-riot battalions of IRGC on state of alert to confront protests
Dec. 28, 2010
To confront popular protests after subsidy cuts, IRGC anti-riot battalions are in state of alert in Tehran.
IRGC has also provided several landing sites for its helicopters in different regions of Tehran for controlling protests.


Downfall

Death to Khamenei on the wall
Dec. 28, 2010 
In one of Boroojerd’s neighborhoods youths wrote ‘death to Khamenei’ on a wall. Immediately suppressive forces were present and covered it with paint in order to prevent the spread of such acts of opposition.

Nategh Noori is defected
Dec. 29, 2010
Mullah Ibrahimi, the deputy head of Security and Foreign Policy Commission of regime’s reactionary parliament talked about defection of Nategh Noori the former head of regime’s parliament.
He said: “I was one of the members of this society. I went to see Mr. Nategh Noori to ask him to return to Cleric’s Society but he didn’t accept my invitation and didn’t answer us”.

Ahmadinejad complains from regime’s Meyer of Tehran, Ghalibuf
Dec. 28, 2010 
Jafari Dolatabadi while announcing the news also added that Ahmadinejad has complained from Ali Motahari, MP and on side of Larijani.
He also asked regime’s Hezbollah not to attack the judiciary while pointing to the pressure of Ahmadinejad’s band on judiciary for trying the heads of the rival band.
On the other hand Ahmadinejad’s rival bands are putting pressure for trial of Rahimi, Ahmadinejad’s first deputy.

More omission in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet
Dec. 28, 2010 
A site belonging to regime’s defeated fraction wrote about the continuation of dismissals in Ahmadinejad’s cabinet: “now its turn for Minister of Intelligence to be ousted. It is said that Ahmadinejad is negotiating with Hojatol Islami Hussein Taeb to accept the post but Taeb does not accept it”.
Mullah Hussein Taeb is the intelligence deputy of IRGC and one of the former heads of Bassij who had a great role in killings during 2009-2010 uprisings.


Suppression

Clerical fascism condemned two Kurd youths to death
Dec. 28, 2010 
Iran Daily the official organ of Ahmadinejad’s government wrote: “according to a file in branch 15 of Teheran’s so-called Revolutionary Court headed by so-called judge Abolghasem Salavati, two Kurd youths, Zania Moradi 22 and Loghman Moradi were condemned to death on charge of ‘Moharebe’.


Vast detention of political and civil activist in Sanandaj
Dec. 28, 2010 
Though the clerical dictatorship retreated from executing Habibollah Latifi a Kurd student and political activist due to serious quest by human rights groups and political and civil activists; but since last Monday a group of activists in Sanandaj are either arrested of disappeared.
On Monday night regime’s suppressive forces raided Habibollah’s home and viciously arrested every body even kids and guests. The name of some of the detainees are: Pedram Nasrollahi laborer activist and former political prisoner, Hashem Roostami laborer activist, Zahed Moradian laborer activist, Mahmood Mahmoodi journalist, Saeed Saedi journalist, Hamid Malek Al Kalumi environment activist, Simin Chaichi poet and writer, Vahed Majidi former political prisoner, Jyan Zafari former political prisoner, Abbas Latifi Habibollah’s father, Mokhtar Zareie student activist, 3 of Habibollah’s brothers, 3 of his sisters, Habibollah’s sister in law and 5 more whose identity is not known yet.

Detention and torture of a Christian Iranian in Shahryar Township
Dec. 28, 2010 
The suppressive agents of clerical regime summoned Alireza Najafi a Christian compatriot to the township’s intelligence bureau and detained him.
He then went under torture.

Three years of prison for writing slogans
Dec. 28, 2010 
The criminal regime of mullah has condemned Mostafa Kamrani, brother of Kyarash Kamrani who was detained during the uprising, to 3 years imprisonment for writing slogan on the wall of Evin Prison.
A while ago when Mostafa went to visit his brother along with his father and sister in prison he wrote on the wall of the visiting hall: ‘we will turn this place to museum one day’. Then he was attacked by security forces there and detained

Students controlled in Yasooj
Dec. 28, 2010 
Since last Sunday a new plan has been executed in Yasooj University to control the students. Students are asked to give their cell phone number to the university on the excuse that the university might want to inform them of something but the students say that the only aim of such plan is controlling our phone calls.


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)