Iran: Execution of two Arab political prisoners in Ahwaz

On Wednesday January 29, the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) informed the families of Hashem Sha’bani and Hadi Rashedi, two Arab political prisoners from the city of Ramshir in Ahwaz, that their children have been executed but refused to give their bodies or provide any information such as the date of execution and their burial location.

The two political prisoners had been transferred from Karoon Prison in Ahwaz to an unknown location since December 7, 2013, and the efforts of their families and lawyers to get information about their situation were fruitless.

The regime’s intelligence agents in Ahwaz prevented the victims’ families to hold memorials for their children in mosques by threatening them and told them they can only have mourning in their homes within a maximum of 24 hours. But Ramshir youths, in protesting this crime, rallied in front of the victims’ houses, honouring martyrs while chanting slogans against anti-human clerical regime. A number of demonstrators were arrested.

Mr. Sha'bani and Rashedi, who were both teachers, were arrested in the winter of 2010 and after severe tortures were sentenced to death in few minutes’ trials for "enmity against God, corruption on earth, spreading propaganda against the regime and acting against national security". Earlier in November, four other fellow Arab political prisoners of Shadegan residents were executed.

The Iranian Resistance offers its condolences to the families and survivors of the victims and to the people of Khouzestan and calls on all the people particularly the brave youths of Khouzaestan to rise up in sympathy with the martyrs’ families.

The Iranian Resistance once again calls for urgent international action against summary and mass executions specially execution of political prisoners by the religious fascism ruling Iran and referral of human rights violations in Iran's to the UN Security Council. Silence and inaction against the wave of executions that has heightened after Hassan Rouhani took office, under whatever pretexts, has no other outcome than encouraging the inhuman regime to continue and to increase its crimes.

On Sunday January 26, Moussa Sohrabi, a young athlete in Bandar Abbas central prison, died under torture. The torturers had a lot of hatred toward him because of his refusal to give in to their pressures. The mullahs’ regime said the cause of death was suicide to hide its crime. On January 5, Shahab Farzan, a young 31 years old, graduate of physics from Isfahan university, after enduring eight months of imprisonment, died suspiciously. According to witnesses, the prison guards took Shahab in the morning and when he was returned to the ward, his face and hands showed obvious signs of torture and he had no balance. He fell and died before anyone could help them. Death under torture and murder of prisoners by toxic agents is known methods of physical annihilation of the prisoners by the regime. Sattar Beheshti, who was arrested on October 31, 2012, was martyred just four days after his arrest due to brutal torture in Evin prison. Amir Moussai in Borazjan prison, Alireza Shahbakhsh in Zahedan prison, Afshin Ossanlu, labor activist in Evin Prison and Ali Marashi in Ahwaz prison, were among other prisoners who lost their lives in 2013 due to torture. Mass and arbitrary executions, continuing brutal torture and murder of prisoners under torture, necessitates more than ever the referral of the dossier of human rights violations in Iran to the Security Council. Inaction against crime, torture and execution cycle in Iran only encourages the regime for more torture and executions.

On Sunday January 26, Moussa Sohrabi, a young athlete in Bandar Abbas central prison, died under torture. The torturers had a lot of hatred toward him because of his refusal to give in to their pressures. The mullahs’ regime said the cause of death was suicide to hide its crime.

On January 5, Shahab Farzan, a young 31 years old, graduate of physics from Isfahan university, after enduring eight months of imprisonment, died suspiciously. According to witnesses, the prison guards took Shahab in the morning and when he was returned to the ward, his face and hands showed obvious signs of torture and he had no balance. He fell and died before anyone could help them.

Death under torture and murder of prisoners by toxic agents is known methods of physical annihilation of the prisoners by the regime.

Sattar Beheshti, who was arrested on October 31, 2012, was martyred just four days after his arrest due to brutal torture in Evin prison. Amir Moussai in Borazjan prison, Alireza Shahbakhsh in Zahedan prison, Afshin Ossanlu, labor activist in Evin Prison and Ali Marashi in Ahwaz prison, were among other prisoners who lost their lives in 2013 due to torture.

Mass and arbitrary executions, continuing brutal torture and murder of prisoners under torture, necessitates more than ever the referral of the dossier of human rights violations in Iran to the Security Council. Inaction against crime, torture and execution cycle in Iran only encourages the regime for more torture and executions.

اعدام ۶ زندانی در زندان مرکزی ارومیه

Execution of 6 prisoners in Oromiyeh prison of Iran by the Iranian Mullah regime.30.01.2014.Pic from archive

دست‌کم ۶ زندانی، سحرگاه امروز در زندان مرکزی ارومیه به دار آویخته شده‌اند.

طی گزارشی از اعدام ۵ متهم به قتل در این زندان خبر داده است.

بنا به این گزارش، کرم رسایی، جواد قاسم‌زاده، حمید اسلام سکان، رشید کرامت و خضر آهوس نام ۵ متهم به قتلی است که در دادگاه به اتهام قتل عمد به قصاص نفس (اعدام) محکوم شده و پس از اسیذان از رئیس قوه قضایئه سحرگاه روز جاری ۱۰ بهمن ماج حکم اعدام در موردشان اجرا شد. هم‌چنین سراج‌الدین رسایی نیز که قرار بود به هم‌راه برادر خود اعدام شود در آخرین لحظات موفق به اخذ رضایت شکات پرونده شده و به سلول خود بازگردانده شده است.

آژانس خبری کردپا نیز در گزارشی جداگانه از اعدام یک زندانی دیگر در این زندان خبر داه است.

بنا به این گزارش ناجی عمرزاده فرزند عمر، زندانی دیگری است که به اتهام قتل در زندان مرکزی ارومیه اعدام شده است

بازداشت چهار فعال دانشجویی و سایبری در تهران و مشهد

Arrest of 4 student activists in Tehran and Mashhad city of Iran, by the Iranian Mullah regime.Jan 2014

طی روزهای اخیر چهار فعال سایبری و کنشگر دانشجویی، توسط ماموران امنیتی در تهران و مشهد بازداشت شدند.

مسلم بوشهریان، فعال سايبري، روز دوم بهمن ماه امسال هنگام ورود به فرودگاه بین المللی تهران، توسط ماموران حفاظت اطلاعات سپاه بازداشت و به محلی نامعلوم منتقل شده است.

اين در شرايطي است كه وي طی ماههای اخیر در چین مشغول به تحصیل بوده و از فعالان حوزه اینترنت و شبکه های اجتماعی به شمار می رفت.

هنوز از دلیل بازداشت، محل نگهداری و سرنوشت این فعال سایبری خبری منتشر نشده و مراجعات مکرر خانواده وی به مراجع قضایی، نتیجه ای در بر نداشته است.

همزمان ساسان و سیاوش جنتیان و رضا آلناصر، سه فعال در شبکه های اجتماعی نیز، روز شنبه پنجم بهمن ماه، در مشهد بازداشت شدند.

گزارش منابع خبری حاکی از آن است که این سه فعال سایبری، روز شنبه هنگام خروج از خوابگاه دانشگاه، توسط دو دستگاه خودروی پژوی سفید رنگ متوقف و توسط چند مامور مسلح و مجهز به بیسیم به زور سوار خودرو می شوند.

سیاوش جنتیان دانشجوی دانشگاه آزاد مشهد و از فعالان وبلاگی – دانشجویی بوده، و ساسان جنتیان نیز، از فعالان دانشجویی بازداشتی در جریان حوادث بعد از انتخابات سال ۸۸ می باشد.

رضا آلناصر، نویسنده وبلاگ «کنکاش» نیز، پیش از این مورد احضار و تذکر توسط نهادهای امنیتی در خوزستان قرار گرفته بود.

هنوز از دلیل دستگیری و سرنوشت این دو برادر و دوست همراه آنان خبری منتشر نشده است.

طی هفته های اخیر، طیف وسیعی از وبلاگ نویسان، فعالان سایبری، کنشگران شبکه های اجتماعی و همچنین فعالان دانشجویی، در شهرهای شیراز، اصفهان، کرج، کرمان، شهریار و تهران، احضار، بازداشت یا ربوده شده اند، که از سرنوشت تعدادی از آنها خبری در دست نمی باشد.

سازمان گزارشگران بدون مرز در گزارش های خود، با توجه به رخدادهای ایران، این کشور را همچنان از بزرگترین زندانهای روزنامه نگاران و فعالان مطبوعاتی سایبری در جهان معرفی کرده است.

Iran: Life of political prisoner Mashallah Haeri at risk

Political prisoner Mashallah Haeri who remains in serious condition following heavy ear and nose bleeding, was transferred to the intensive care unit in a hospital outside the prison and his life is at risk.

Mashallah (Hamid) Haeri, 62, solely because of the presence of his relatives in Ashraf was arrested and sentenced to 15 years in prison in December 2009. His brother, Abdollah Haeri, was wounded in the missile attack on Camp Liberty on February 10, 2013.

Mashallah Haeri suffers from acute respiratory and heart diseases due to brutal torture and prison’s deteriorating situation of brutal torture and imprisonment and so far has twice had heart attacks. But the torturers have denied him medical treatments. Moreover, he had been taken to hospital for poisoning due to a wrong prescription in the past months, but was returned to prison without a medical treatment.

At the same time, henchmen are preventing sending political prisoner Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, 67, who has shoulder, arm and head injuries and fracture from falls to hospital, and have left him with overwhelming pains. Mr. Banazadeh, a reputable businessman in Tehran, who also suffers from cancer, was arrested in December 2009 solely because of contacting her daughter in Camp Ashraf and was sentenced to five years in prison. Three members of his family were executed in the 80s for supporting the PMOI.

Torturing prisoners to death by deprivation of treatment and killing them with toxic drugs is a known method in the clerical regime's prisons. On January 5, Akbar Golipour, 40, died in Maragheh prison due to deprivation of medical care.

The Iranian resistance calls on all international and human rights organizations specially Special Rapporteur of Human Rights in Iran and Special Rapporteurs on Torture and Arbitrary Arrests to urgently address the situation of ailing political prisoners particularly Mr. Mashallah Haeri and Mohammad Banazadeh

Iran: Prisoner hanged in public in Qazwin

A prisoner has been hanged in public in the Iranian city of Qazwin. Chilling photos showing every stage of the latest execution in Qazwin, north-west Iran, on Tuesday morning have been published by the state-run Fars news agency.

The victim, a 44-year-old married man, known only by his initials H.L. was hanged from a crane in a public space as crowds and a TV news crew watched the horrific spectacle.

The prisoner had been sentenced to death on drug related charges.

At least five more prisoners were hanged last Thursday in the southern province of Hormozgan, according to reports from inside Iran. Prison authorities refused to hand over the body of one executed prisoner named Jafar to his family because they could not afford the charges for the execution, reports said.

And seven more men were hanged in Qezelhesar prison, Karaj, on Monday. The victims named as Bahram Soltani, Mohsen Davoudi, Hadi Beigi, Maisam Haji, Faiz Mohammad Saberzehi, Nazar Ali Fakouk and Yunis Karami had all been convicted on drug related charges.

One of the prisoners is said to have fainted prior to the execution, and was hanged once he regained consciousness, according to reports.

Three students lashed in public in Iran

Three Iranian university students have been lashed in public in the city of Shahrekord after bogus accusations of selling and drinking alcoholic beverages, according to a report received.

The three, all studying Management at Shahrekord Azad University, were convicted of charges trumped up by regime officials, classmates said.

The regime has been implementing a new wave of suppressive measures in all universities since December last year.

The three students were lashed on January 22 in a crowded area of the city.

Meanwhile, students are continuing to defy security forces with ongoing protests across Iran, which many demanding the resignations of their deans.

Degrading punishments are systematically used in Iran by the State Security Forces in order to embarrass and humiliate the youth in their neighborhood.

Iran: Seven prisoners hanged in Kermanshah

The Iranian regime executed seven prisoners on Thursday in the central prison of the city of Kermanshah in western Iran, state-run news network reported.

The prosecutor general of the Kermanshah province said: "Five of them were sentenced to death for having 102 kilogram drugs but two others were sentenced to death for murder."

The report gave no further information on the name, gender or age of the victims.

The executions takes place a day after the United Nations Special Rapporteurs on the situation of human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, and on summary executions, Christof Heyns, called on the Iranian regime to urgently halt the abrupt surge in hangings in the country since the start of 2014.

“We are dismayed at the continued application of the death penalty with alarming frequency by the authorities, despite repeated calls for Iran to establish a moratorium on executions,” the independent experts said, stressing “the inherently cruel, inhuman and degrading nature of the death penalty.”

At least 40 persons have been reportedly hanged in the first two weeks of January, of which at least 33 executions were carried out in the past week alone. 625 executions, including at least 28 women and a number of political prisoners were reported to have been carried out in 2013.

نگرانی گزارشگران ملل متحد از «افزایش ناگهانی» اعدام‌ها در ایران

در تازه‌ترین گزارشی که گزارشگران ویژه سازمان ملل متحد در امور حقوق بشر منتشر کرده‌اند از دولت ایران خواسته شده است تا جلوی اعدام‌هایی را که از آغاز سال جدید میلادی، در سه هفته گذشته، به‌طور فزاینده‌ای انجام شده است، بگیرد.

کریستوف هاینز، ناظر بر «اعدام‌های فراقانونی، شتاب‌زده یا خودسرانه»، خوان مندز، ناظر بر «شکنجه، تنبیه یا درمان غیرانسانی» و احمد شهید، ناظر ملل متحد بر حقوق بشر در ایران، که گزارش دوم بهمن‌ماه را امضا یا تائید کرده‌اند به «۴۰ اعدام» طی دو هفته نخست سال میلادی جدید اشاره کرده‌اند.

این همان چیزی‌ست که در ۲۷ دی سازمان عفو بین‌الملل نیز به آن پرداخته بود؛ این سازمان اعلام کرده بود که ایران طی دو هفته اول سال ۲۰۱۴، «۴۰ نفر» را اعدام کرده است. معاون این سازمان نیز در همان زمان گفته بود «تعداد اعدام‌هايی که تاکنون در ايران انجام شده، هراس‌برانگيز است».

«نگرانی» در گزارش گزارشگران ملل متحد که در وب‌سایت آقای شهید منتشر شده‌است نیز به چشم می‌خورد. آنها می‌گویند شمار اعدام‌ها از آغاز سال میلادی جهش داشته و «به شکل نگران‌کننده‌ای مرتبا» انجام شده است.

احمد شهید در این گزارش می‌گوید «اعدام مداوم افراد به این خاطر که از حق خود برای آزادی تجمع، تشکل و وابستگی به گروه‌های اقلیتی استفاده می‌کنند، در تضاد با هنجارها و اصول پذیرفته شده حقوق بشر است».

در این گزارش آمده است که «دولت ایران برای احترام گذاشتن به زندگی انسان‌ها، که پایه و اساس تمام اصول حقوق بشر است، تعهدات قانونی و اخلاقی دارد».

این گزارش عمیقا در مورد اعدام‌هایی که از نظر جهانی به خاطر «جدی‌تریم جرایم» صورت نمی‌گیردند، ابراز نگرانی می‌کند.

گزارشگران ویژه ملل متحد می‌گویند عمده اعدام‌های صورت گرفته به جرایم مربوط به مواد مخدر باز می‌گردند ولی گروهی از افراد نیز به‌جرم «محاربه» اعدام شده‌اند.

کریستف هاینز می‌گوید چنانچه قرار است در کشوری که هنوز حکم اعدام را منسوخ نکرده، اعدامی انجام شود، باید این حکم پس از آن صادر شود که روندی را با عالی‌ترین و بهترین استاندارهای قضایی، استوار بر دادگاهی عادلانه طی کرده باشد.

این گزارش یک روز پس از آن منتشر می‌شود که سازمان دیدبان حقوق بشر در گزارش سالانه خود از وضعیت حقوق بشر در جهان، گفته است در ایران «بار دیگر اعدام‌ها، به ویژه اعدام محکومان مواد مخدر با شتاب بیشتری ادامه پیدا کرده است».

در گزارش دیدبان حقوق بشر به اعدام‌ کودکان و نوجوانان زیر ۱۸ سال نیز اشاره شده و آمده است که ده‌ها تن از محکومان زیر ۱۸ سال همچنان در انتظار مجازات اعدام هستند.

مقام‌های ایرانی عمدتا از گزارش‌های منتشر شده در مورد وضعیت حقوق بشر در ایران انتقاد می‌کنند. علاوه براینکه بر اعدام و ادامه صادر کردن احکام مربوط به آن با استناد به دین، تاکید می‌کنند.

آنها در عین حال به کسانی مانند احمد شهید نیز تاخته‌اند؛ مصطفی پورمحمدی، وزیر دادگستری، هفته گذشته، گزارشگر ویژه سازمان ملل در امور حقوق بشر در ایران را فردی «فاسد» خواند و گفت او «به صورت يک عمله سياسی وارد عرصه شده و از همان ابتدا عليه ملت ايران موضع گرفته است».

بنا بر گزارش‌های سازمان عفو بین‌الملل، چین و ایران بالاترین رتبه از نظر اجرای حکم اعدام را در جهان دارا هستند.

اعدام دست‌کم دو زندانی در تبریز و زاهدان

خبرگزاری هرانا – روز دوشنبه یک متهم به قتل در زندان مرکزی تبریز و یک زندانی متهم به قتل دیگر در زندان مرکزی زاهدان از طریق چوبه دار اعدام شدند.

بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، ارگان خبری مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران، سپیده دم دوشنبه ۳۰ دی ماه جوان ۲۷ ساله‌ای بنام «سجاد پورنجف» که از فروردین ماه سال ۱۳۸۷ به اتهام قتل عمد در زندان مرکزی تبریز بسر می‌برد، در محوطه این زندان از طریق چوبه دار اعدام شد.

یک منبع مطلع به گزارشگر هرانا گفت: «سجاد پورنجف در یک نزاع دسته جمعی در روستای شجاع از توابع شهرستان جلفا مرتکب قتل شده بود و دادگاه عمومی وی را به اتهام قتل عمد به قصاص نفس (اعدام) محکوم کرد.»

حکم اعدام وی در ساعت ۶ صبح روز دوشنبه به اجرا در آمد.

همچنین سحرگاه روز دوشنبه ۳۰ دی ماه یک زندانی دیگر به‌نام «چنگیز شهنوازی» به اتهام قتل عمد در محوطه زندان مرکزی زاهدان، از طریق چوبه دار اعدام شد.

این زندانی که حدود ۴۰ سال سن داشت، از ۷ سال پیش در زندان مرکزی زاهدان بسر برده و به اتهام قتل عمد به قصاص نفس (اعدام) محکوم شده بود.

انتقال چهار زندانی اهل سنت قزل‌حصار به نقطه‌ای نامعلوم

 ساعتی پیش چهار زندانی اهل سنت زندان قزل‌حصار که با حکم اعدام روبرو هستند به مکان نامعلومی منتقل شدند.

بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، ارگان خبری مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران، صبح روز جاری چهارشنبه ۲ بهمن ماه حامد احمدی، کمال ملایی، جمشید دهقانی و جهانگیر دهقانی از واحد ۳ زندان قزل‌حصار کرج به مکان نامعلومی منتقل شدند.
از آنرو که این چهار زندانی با حکم اعدام روبرو هستند انتقال ناگهانی ایشان باعث بروز نگرانی در مورد اجرای حکم اعدامشان شده است.

حامد احمدی، کمال ملایی، جهانگیر دهقانی و جمشید دهقانی از تاریخ ۱۳ آبان ماه سال جاری در اعتراض به حکم اعدام که برایشان صادر شده و آن را ناعادلانه می‌دانند و همچنین عدم رعایت تفکیک جرایم در مورد ایشان دست به اعتصاب غذا زده و مدت ۷۵ روز را در اعتصاب غذا بسر بردند و در ‌‌‌نهایت با قول مساعد مسئولین مبنی بر انتقالشان به زندان رجایی شهر کرج و بررسی مجدد حکم اعدامشان در دادگاه به اعتصاب خود پایان دادند

کسری نوری پس از نزدیک به ۲ سال در حبس به زندان نظام تبعید شد

کسری نوری٬ وب نگار و فعال حقوق دراویش ساعاتی پیش به زندان شمارهٔ ۲ استان فارس موسوم به زندان نظام انتقال داده شد.

به گزارش مجذوبان نور؛ کسری نوری که نزدیک به ۲ سال را در زندان عادل آباد شیراز محبوس بود بصورت ناگهانی و بدون هیچ توضیحی، توسط ماموران امنیتی به زندان شماره ۲ استان موسم به زندان نظام منتقل شده است

گفتنی است کسری نوری از لحاظ جسمی وضعیت مناسبی ندارد و از کمر درد شدید رنج می‌برد که تاکنون حتی از اعزام وی برای انجام ام‌.آر‌.آی و عکسبرداری جلوگیری شده است.

تاکنون علت این انتقال مشخص نشده و پیگیری‌های خانواده این درویش زندانی از مراجع قضایی ذیربط در باره علت این انتقال، بی‌پاسخ مانده است.

کسری نوری، در دی ماه سال گذشته به همراه صالح الدین مرادی، در اعتراض به وضعیت هفت وکلای زندانی دراویش در بند ۲۰۹ اوین به مدت ۹۰ روز دست به اعتصاب غذا زد که سرانجام با رسیدگی به خواسته‌اش به اعتراض خود پایان داد٬ وی که از همکاران سایت خبری مجذوبان نور نیز به حساب می‌آید با اتهاماتی همچون تبلیغ علیه نظام و عضویت در گروه به چهار سال و چهار ماه حبس تعزیری محکوم شد که این حکم عینا در دادگاه تجدید نظر نیز به تایید رسید.

Iran hangs 40 people in two weeks amid surge in executions

Iran has carried out a total of 40 executions since the beginning of 2014, with at least 33 carried out in the past week alone, said Amnesty International today. 

“The spike in the number of executions carried out so far this month in Iran is alarming. The Iranian authorities’ attempts to change their international image are meaningless if at the same time executions continue to increase”, said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa. 

The death penalty is a violation of every human being’s right to life and is a cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment. 

“The Iranian authorities must urgently take steps to abolish the death penalty, which has been shown again and again not to have any special deterrent effect on crime,” Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui said. 

Since the beginning of 2014, Amnesty International has recorded 21 executions which were officially acknowledged by the Iranian authorities, as well as 19 additional executions reported through reliable sources. 

In the week since 9 January 2014 more officially acknowledged executions were carried out in Iran than during the whole month of January 2013. 

At least one public execution was carried out on 13 January 2014 in Sirjan, Kerman Province, southern Iran, of an individual convicted of murder. 

Public executions in Iran are usually carried out using cranes which lift the condemned person by a noose around the neck in front of a crowd of spectators. 

The organization is calling on the Iranian authorities to immediately adopt an official moratorium on all executions and commute all death sentences. The Iranian authorities must also end all secrecy surrounding their use of the death penalty.

Most of those executed in Iran had been convicted of alleged drug-related offences. Under international standards, non-lethal crimes such as drugs offences do not meet the threshold of “most serious crimes” to which the death penalty must be restricted. There is also no right to a meaningful appeal for drugs offences under Iran’s Anti-Narcotics Law, contrary to its international obligations to ensure that anyone convicted of a criminal offence has the right to appeal the conviction. 

“In Iran drug-related offences are tried in Revolutionary Courts which routinely fall far short of international fair trial standards. The reality in Iran is that people are being ruthlessly sentenced to death after unfair trials, and this is unacceptable,” said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui. 

Revolutionary Court trials are frequently held behind closed doors and judges have the discretion to restrict lawyers’access to the defendant during pre-trial investigations in limited cases. 

Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in all cases without exception.

Iran: 19 executed in one week, including minors

Wave of barbaric executions continues in the new year in Iran. From January 6 to 12, the Iranian regime has hanged 19 prisoners.

It hanged seven prisoners in cities of Urumiyah, Salmas and Mashhad. Ahmad Shafiegh Khani, one of the four prisoners collectively hanged in Urumiyah was only 19 years old at the time of his arrest.

Two days earlier, five prisoners had been hanged in Qazvin, Gachsaran and Tabriz. Hanging of a prisoner in city of Sari (on January 6) and a 45 year old prisoner from Zabol in the prison of Yassouj (on January 12) are among the registered executions of this past week.

A shocking report that has leaked out of Adelabad Prison in Shiraz by the inmates discloses unceasing clandestine executions in this dreaded torture center. The leaked report states that on January 4, two prisoners, Hamid Tabkhi and Aghil Mohammadi, were secretly executed. Hamid Tabkhi was a minor. And on January 8, three other inmates, Omid Hosseini, 21, Majid Hayati and Bashir Assadi, were secretly executed.

The report partly reads: “Here, they kill men like sheeps… here is Adelabad of Shiraz with not an iota of justice!... This is that foremost dreaded prison of the century. Here, you cannot find any sunshine, light, joy or laughter. This is a graveyard. Everything here has a damp smell of wretchedness and villainy. Here is Adelabad with not an iota of justice!”

Meanwhile, cleric Mohseni Gorkani, head of regime’s supreme tribunal, called amputation of hand as in the interest of the society. He added that the sentence for mullahs’ fabricated charge of “Moharebeh” is death. He underscored the need to amputate hands and feet of thieves (Revolutionary Guards’ news agency of Tasnim – January 7, 2014).

JAILED BLOGGER’S HEALTH WORSENING The health of jailed Iranian blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, a prisoner of conscience, is worsening. He is in urgent need of specialized medical treatmen

Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, aged 53, was taken to the medical facility of Ghezal Hesar Prison on 4 January when he was suddenly unable to breathe. He was given an injection, but the medical staff would not tell him what it contained when he asked.

The Prosecutor General of Alborz Province, in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, had asked the prison authorities on 6 November 2013 to have Mohammad Reza Pourshajari undergo a medical examination to assess his health requirements. As a result, Mohammad Reza Pourshajari was taken to Imam Khomeini Hospital in Tehran on 25 December for one hour: he was examined by a nurse who was unable to examine his heart, for which he requires specialized care after he suffered two heart attacks for blockage in his arteries. Mohammad Reza Pourshajari’s daughter, Mitra Pourshajari, has told Amnesty International that no diagnostic examination or medical tests were carried out during this check-up to assess her father’s heart condition. Mohammad Reza Pourshajari has been in poor health since at least September 2012 when he suffered the first of two heart attacks. After his second, in February 2013, he was taken to a hospital outside the prison for five days.

Mohammad Reza Pourshajari is serving four years in prison after he was convicted of the vaguely worded charges of “insulting Islamic sanctities”, “insulting the Leader” and “acting against national security” in relation to his blog postings which are critical of the religious and political establishment in Iran. He spent eight months in solitary confinement awaiting trial, during which, according to his daughter, he was tortured and otherwise ill-treated: this included a mock execution to make him “confess”. He has been denied access to a lawyer since he was arrested.

Iranian regime agents killed a Kurd citizen then dragged his body on the ground

Eyewitnesses said that after killing a young Kurd citizen, Sumun Khezri, son of Rahman and known as 'Souri', in town of Sardasht, Iran's SSF elements dragged his body on the ground. "Last night governmental military men shot dead a 26 years old youth and then tied his body to a car and dragged him for two kilometers on the ground," stated an informed source. (Kurpa)

Prisoner dies after being refused access to medical treatment

In the northwestern city of Maraqeh, a 40-year-old prisoner died on January 5 due to lack of medical treatment. He is reported to have approached the prison clinic many times in vain before he finally lost his life.

Prison officials in Evin Prison have also deprived political prisoner Hani Yazarlou of access to a doctor and medical treatment for the past three months. Mr Yazarlou, who had open-heart surgery ten years ago, is in urgent need of a three-stage heart scan in a hospital outside the prison, but he has been denied access to the third stage of treatment.

He is a political prisoner sentenced to one-year imprisonment with physical punishment and 15 years forced exile to the city of Iranshahr on charges of propaganda against the government and provoking the public to act against national security.

Judiciary Official Urges “Maximum Punishment” for Detained IT Professionals Even Before Trial

The Iranian Judiciary has announced charges against the seven Internet specialists arrested in December 2013, accusing them of collaborating with hostile foreigners and insisting on the harshest punishment available. One month after the IRGC Intelligence Unit arrested several Internet specialists in the city of Kerman, the Head of the Kerman Province’s Judiciary has stated the detainees’ charges as “executing projects and plans of anti-revolutionary foreign residents,” alleging that they worked for BBC Persian Service and the Green Voice of Freedom Website.

“With a legitimate appearance and seemingly legal activities, this gang carried out several projects and plans for the foreign-residing anti-revolutionaries, specifically the BBC Persian Service, including designing and implementing the Green Voice of Freedom Website for the Heads of Sedition”—the Iranian officials’ way of referring to the 2009 post-election protests and opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi—”after the 2009 Sedition,” said Ali Tavaokoli, Head of the Kerman Judiciary, during a press conference on January 6.

Tavakoli also claimed that this “gang” of “enemy cyber activists” has received financial assistance from London through several intermediaries under the pretense of helping charities, and that the group’s manager has traveled to several countries, including Malaysia, India, and Afghanistan, as a coach and teacher, “funded by British intelligence organizations.”

Citing the detainees’ confessions as evidence, Tavakoli stated, “According to the arrested members’ confessions, these individuals were supposed to publish their inductions and doubts into society, riding on the wave of social friction.”

The Head of the Kerman Judiciary emphasized that there will be “maximum punishment” for such individuals, although no trials have taken place and the suspects have not yet had a chance to defend themselves. “These individuals, who implemented propaganda against the Islamic Republic regime and acted against the regime knowingly and objectively based on the plans of sworn enemies of this country, deserve the harshest punishment,” said Ali Tavakoli.

Narenji, a popular website specializing in computer and Internet technology, announced on December 3, 2013, that seven members of its editorial and technical team, Ali Asghar Honarmand, Abbas Vahedi, Alireza Vaziri, Nassim Nikmehr, Maliheh Naghaei Mohammad Hossein Mousazadeh, and Sara Sajadpour, had been arrested by the Intelligence Unit of the IRGC in Kerman. The next day, Kerman’s Deputy Prosecutor announced the arrests of 16 website designers and Internet professionals in Kerman Province, stating the charges facing the group of individuals “who worked within a complex security-media network” were “committing cyber crimes and relations with foreigners.”

On December 22, 2013, the Kerman IRGC issued a statement boasting that “the Kerman Province Sarallah Army’s Intelligence Unit cyber forces” had hacked nine websites of “enemies of the sacred Islamic Republic” in a “widespread technical operation in virtual space.” In its statement, the IRGC’s Sarallah Army announced that “these enemy websites, which had been designed with the cost of millions and support from domestic seditionists, became completely inaccessible.” The hacked sites were listed as Green Voice of Freedom, Ostanban, 30Mail, and Norooz News, among others. There is speculation that the Kerman detainees may have been coerced to participate in the hacking operation.

Immediately after Ali Tavakoli’s statements were published, the Green Voice of Freedom websiteannounced that it does not have any partners in Iran, and expressed concern about forced confessions and the conditions of the detainees.

The BBC’s Persian Service has repeatedly stated that it has no staff or presence in Iran. In 2012, during another wave of journalist arrests in Iran, the director of BBC Persian TV told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “BBC would like to reiterate that its Persian language service does not have a presence in Iran. No staff whatsoever, no reporters, no stringers. Any confessions [to that effect] broadcast will be completely baseless, false, and pre-planned, and would have been taken under coercion.”

Protesting college students arrested & tortured by Iranian regime

Repressive police agents of the Mobarake station in Isfahan identified and arrested three college students on charges of taking part in Student’s Day protests a month ago. These individuals were placed under torture after their apprehension. These three students, Morteza and Alireza Salehi, along with Sohrab Nikuei, had taken part in the Student’s Day gatherings in their university this yea

Iran: A young man hanged in northern city

The Iranian regime's henchmen hanged a young man in the main prison in the northern city of Sari.

The prisoner was identified by his initials as A.Y. but no other information was given about the victim.

Since the beginning of 2013 till December 31, execution of at least 660 prisoners was registered in Iran with 430 of them executed after the June 14 election.

This is while news on many executions never finds its way out of the prisons.

Twenty-five of those executed were women.

Public execution of two young men of 20 and 23 years old for stealing the equivalent of 35 Euros, execution of three youngsters who were 12, 15 and 17 years old at the time of their arrests, hanging a bleeding 28 year old who a few hours prior to his execution had committed suicide, hanging the body of a 23 year old in Zahedan who had already died a few hours back of a heart attack, hanging of Ms. Geitei Marami, 34, whose body was bleeding due to 100 lashes she received prior to her execution, emphasizing on the execution of a wretched prisoner who had come alive after his execution in the mortuary, are but a minute segment of mullahs’ regime record replete with crimes in 2013.

On December 11, head of regime’s judiciary system Mullah SadeqLarijani called reports by international bodies on degrading condition of human rights in Iran as fabricated and prejudiced and said: “Opposing the death sentence is opposing Islam’s orders

دو سال زندان برای دراویش مجروح واقعه کوار

ابراهیم فضلی، محمدعلی سعدی و اصغر کریمی که در جریان واقعه حمله تندروان مذهبی به دراویش گنابادی کوار، مورد اصابت گلوله قرار گرفته بودند با حکم دادگاه کوار به اتهام اقدام علیه امنیت ملی و برهم زدن نظم عمومی هر یک به دو سال حبس محکوم شدند.

به گزارش تارنمای مجذوبان نور، این افراد از جمله دراویشی بودند که همراه با یکی از کشته شدگان این حادثه «وحید بنایی» مورد اصابت تیرجنگی معارضین قرار گرفتند که در این جریان وحید بنایی کشته شده و این سه نفر مجروح و به بیمارستان منتقل شدند.

شایان ذکر است که این سه درویش پس از بستری‌شدن در بیمارستان، توسط ماموران اطلاعات وقت به مکان نامعلومی منتقل شدند که پس از چندی مشخص شد با وجود وضعیت بد جسمی مورد بازجویی قرار گرفته‌اند.

وضعیت وخیم جسمی دو تن از زندانیان عقیدتی زندان اوین

خبرگزاری هرانا – شهرام احمدی و آرش شریفی دو تن از زندانیان عقیدتی بند ۳۵۰ زندان اوین در وضعیت جسمی نگران کننده‌ای بسر می‌برند.

بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، ارگان خبری مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ایران، شهرام احمدی زندانی عقیدتی بند ۳۵۰ زندان اوین که پیش‌تر کلیه چپ خود را از دست داده بود، بخاطر عفونت کلیه دیگرش با مشکلات جسمی حادی روبرو گردیده.

مسئولین تاکنون هیچ اقدامی برای درمان این زندانی عقیدتی محکوم به اعدام انجام نداده‌اند.

شهرام احمدی متولد ۱ مهر ماه ۱۳۶۶ بوده و در تاریخ ۶ اردیبهشت ماه ۱۳۸۸ بازداشت و مدت ۳۳ ماه را در بازداشت‌گاه اداره اطلاعات بسر برد و در ‌‌نهایت در شعبه ۲۸ دادگاه انقلاب تهران به اتهام هواداری از گروههای سلفی به اعدام محکوم شد. وی در تمام مدت این اتهام را رد کرده است.

گفتنی است، برادر وی بهرام احمدی نیز در تاریخ ۷ دی ماه ۱۳۹۱ در زندان قزل‌حصار به همراه ۵ تن دیگر اعدام شد.

آرش (رامین) شریفی دیگر زندانی عقیدتی است که از ناحیه هردو چشم دچار قوز قرنیه شده و پزشکان اعلام کرده‌اند وی چشم چپ خود را تقریبا از دست داده است و چشم راست وی هم در وضعیت بسیار وخیمی قرار دارد. پزشکان برای وی عمل جراحی برای هر دو چشم را تجویز کرده‌اند و گفته‌اند باید فورا مورد پیوند قرنیه قرار گیرد. با این وجود اکنون شش ماه است که هیچ اقدامی برای عمل چشم وی صورت نگرفته و هنوز نتوانسته مجوز عمل چشم‌هایش را از مسئولین وزارت اطلاعات و قوه قضائیه اخذ نماید.

مشکل بینایی وی تا حدی پیش رفته که امکان مطالعه کتاب از فاصله بیش از ۱۵ سانتی‌متری برایش فراهم نیست.

آرش (رامین) شریفی فرزند توفیق متولد ۲ بهمن ماه ۱۳۶۸ در شهرستان سنندج بوده و دیپلم ادبیات فارسی دارد.

وی در تاریخ ۲۱ تیر ماه ۱۳۹۰ توسط وزارت اطلاعات بازداشت و یک سال را در بازداشت‌گاه اداره اطلاعات سنندج سپری کرد.

آرش شریفی سپس به زندان رجایی شهر کرج منتقل شد و بعد از ۱۵ ماه به زندان کاشان و سپس بعد از ۳ ماه به بند ۳۵۰ زندان اوین منتقل شد.

وی نیز در شعبه ۲۸ دادگاه انقلاب تهران به اتهام هواداری از گروه‌های سلفی به اعدام محکوم شده و در تمام طول دادگاه اتهام فوق را تکذیب کرده است.

گفتنی است، آرش شریفی از بیماری آسم مزمن نیز رنج می‌برد و پیش‌تر گزارشاتی در مورد مشکلات وی به‌دلیل این بیماری در رسانه‌ها منتشر شده بود.