IRAN weekly HR report : Arbitrary arrests

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Political arrests

Iran 'arrests 2 Germans who interviewed stoning woman's son’
Iran has arrested two Germans who interviewed the son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a woman sentenced to death by stoning, public prosecutor Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie told local media on Monday.
‘The initial investigation shows these people had entered the country as tourists' and asked Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son some questions, the prosecutor was quoted as saying by ISNA news agency, before adding that 'these two foreign nationals are now in custody’.
A rights group said on Monday that it feared two German journalists had been arrested in Iran along with Mohammadi-Ashtiani's son Sajjad and her lawyer. (AFP - Oct 11, 2010)

State run daily says Iran has arrested 4 ‘Mourning Mothers’
The state-run Iran daily reported that four members of the ‘Mourning Mothers’ group were arrested.
“Four members of the Mourning Mothers group were arrested while intending to go to Germany to see an important contact of the Monafeqin grouplet (PMOI). They were arrested after their contact with this group became apparent”, this daily said. (Fararou state-run website – Oct. 13, 2010)

Iran arrests mother and sister of former detained protester
http://www.hra-news.org/00/4538-1.html
The mother and sister of Hesam Tarmasi who was arrested after the election protests and was detained in Evin Prison for one year were arrested after security forces raided their home on Saturday night. Hesam Tarmasi was only recently released from prison.
He was arrested in a post-election protest march by security forces. After being released from prison, he came down with a kidney and liver illness and has been hospitalized ever since.
He was also attacked by unidentified persons and according to his family, the knife he was stabbed with was contaminated with an unknown poison and he contracted a blood infection.
His mother and sister were arrested while he was in hospital. His family was not involved in any political or social activities and the reason they were arrested is completely unknown…
Termasi is very concerned about his mother and sister. (Kalameh Website – Oct. 13, 2010)

Iran arrests mother and sister of missing protestor
The mother and sister of Saied Zinali were arrested in their home. Saied Zinali was a political prisoner who went missing when arrested in the 1988 Tehran student uprising. He never came home after being arrested in June 1999 and wherever his family followed up his whereabouts, prison officials said they did not know anything about him. It is still not clear what happened to this student 11 years ago.
According to reports, the Intelligence Department of the Revolutionary Guards Corps was responsible for the arrest of this young man. After the post election events, Mother Zinali once again asked that the head of the RGC tell her what happened to her son.
The Zinali family went to prison every week asking about their missing son. They wanted to know what happed to Saied and if he is still alive.
Security forces arrested Saied’s mother and sister after a raid to their home and confiscated their personal belonging including their computers.
The family and friends of the Zinali family, who were very sad about the painful faith of the son of this family, are now severely worried about the fate of this mother and sister. (Kalameh website – Oct. 24, 2010)

Iran arrests son of prominent conservative cleric: report
Iran has arrested Mehdi Khazali, the son of a prominent conservative cleric who has been fiercely critical of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an opposition website said.
Khazali is being held on charges of 'acting against national security and disturbing public opinion' after being interrogated at the capital's notorious Evin prison, the opposition website Rahesabz reported late on Wednesday.
A medical doctor and veteran of the 1980-88 war with Iraq, Khazali is the son of Ayatollah Abolqasem Khazali, a long-serving member of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body which oversees the work of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Khazali has frequently poked fun at Ahmadinejad and his allies on his widely read blog, criticism which he intensified after his disqualification from standing as a candidate in parliamentary elections in 2008.
His father has disavowed his negative commentaries.
Khazali was also arrested last year as part of the government's crackdown on the wave of mass street protests that greeted official results giving Ahamdinejad victory in a June presidential election. He was later released on bail. (AFP - Oct 14, 2010)

دستگيريهاي سياسي

ايران دوآلماني را که با فرزند زني که به سنگسار محکوم شده مصاحبه کردند را بازداشت کرد
روز دوشنبه غلام حسين محسني اژهاي دادستان عمومي به رسانههاي محلي گفت، ايران دو آلماني را که با فرزند سکينه محمدي آشتياني، زني که محکوم به مرگ به شيوه سنگسار ميباشد مصاحبه کردهاند را بازداشت کرده است.
” خبرگزاري ايسنا بهنقل از دادستان، قبل از آن‌که بگويد، ”اين دو خارجي درحال حاضر در بازداشت هستند ”گفت، ”تحقيقات اوليه نشان ميدهد که اين افراد بهعنوان توريست وارد کشور شده و از فرزند محمدي آشتياني سؤالاتي نمودهاند ”.
يک گروه حقوقبشري روز دوشنبه گفت که از اين بيم دارد که دو روزنامهنگار آلماني در ايران بهمراه سجاد فرزند محمدي آشيتاني و وکيل وي دستگير شده باشند. (خبرگزاري فرانسه - 19/7/89)

منبع حکومتي: دستگيري چهار تن از مادران عزادار
روزنامهايران طي گزارشي از دستگيري چهار نفر از اعضاي گروه ”مادران عزادار“ خبر داد و نوشت: « 4نفر از اعضاي گروه «مادران عزادار» پس از آنکه ارتباطشان با اعضاي گروهک تروريستي منافقين مسجل شد هنگام سفر به آلمان جهت تماس با رابط مهم اين گروهک دستگير شدند.. (سايت فرارو - 21/7/89)

دو نفر از اعضاي خانواده حسام ترمسي بازداشت شدند
http://www.hra-news.org/00/4538-1.html
مادر و خواهر حسام ترمسي از زندانيان حوادث پس از انتخابات که يک سال را در زندان اوين گذراند و مدت کوتاهي است از زندان آزادشده، شنبه شب با هجوم ماموران امنيتي در منزل شان بازداشت شدند.
به گزارش کلمه، حسام ترمسي از شهروندان معترض به نتايج انتخابات است که در يکي از راهپيمايي هاي اعتراضي پس از انتخابات بازداشت شده بود. او پس از آزادي از زندان به بيماري کبد و کليه مبتلا شد و از مدتي پيش نيز در بيمارستان بستري است.
وي يکبار نيز مورد سو قصد نيروهاي ناشناس قرار گرفت که به گفته خانواده اش با چاقوي آلوده به سموم ناشناخته به وي ضربه وارد و خونش دچار عفونت شد.
خواهر و مادر حسام در حالي بازداشت شده اند که او هم چنان در بيمارستان به سر مي برد. خانواده حسام هيچ گونه فعاليت سياسي يا اجتماعي نداشتند و دليل بازداشت شان کاملا نامشخص است.
حسام ترمسي اکنون در بيمارستان به شدت نگران حال خواهر و مادرش است. (کلمه – 21/7/89)

بازداشت خانواده زينالي از مفقود شدگان کوي دانشگاه
مادر و خواهر سعيد زينالي زنداني سياسي مفقود شده از ۱۸ تير ماه شنبه شب در منزل شان بازداشت شدند .
به گزارش کلمه، سعيد زينالي از جمله بازداشت شدگان در ۱۸ تير ماه ۱۳۷۸ است .وي پس از بازداشت در منزل پدري اش، هرگز به خانه بازنگشت و هربار خانواده اش پي گير وضعيت او شدند مسولان زندان درباه او اظهار بي اطلاعي کردند . هنوز مشخص نيست بر سر اين زنداني در اين يازده سال چه آمده است.
گفته مي شود حفاظت و اطلاعات سپاه عامل بازداشت اين جوان بوده است .مادر زينالي پس از حوادث انتخابات دوباره خواستار آن شد که مسولان سپاه به او بگويند که چه بر سر فرزندش آمده است .
با اين همه خانواده زينالي همچنان هر هفته به زندان اوين مي روند و درباره پسر گمشده شان پرس و جو مي کنند. آنها مي خواهند بدانند بر سر سعيد چه آمده است؟ آيا او زنده و همچنان زنداني است يا بلاي ديگري به سرش آمده است .
به دنبال هجوم نيروهاي امنيتي به خانه سعيد زينالي مادر و خواهر او بازداشت شده و وسايل و کامپيوترهاي شخصي شان نيز ضبط شد .
خانواده و دوستان زينالي که سرنوشت دردناک مفقود شدن پسرشان همه را ناراحت کرده ،اکنون به شدت نگران سرنوشت مادر و خواهر وي هستند. (كلمه – 22/7/89)

گزارش: ايران فرزند روحاني محافظهکار برجسته را دستگير ميکند
يک وب سايت اپوزيسيون گفت، ايران مهدي خزئلي فرزند روحاني محافظهکار برجسته را که شديداً منتقد محمود احمدينژاد رئيسجمهور تندرو بود را دستگري کرده است.
سايت راه سبز متعلق به اپوزيسيون اواخر چهارشنبه گزارش کرد که، خزئلي بعد از اين‌که در زندان مخوف اوين مورد بازجويي قرار گرفت متهم به ”اقدام عليه امنيت ملي و برهم زدن نظم عمومي ”شده است .
خزئلي که يک پزشک و سرباز قديمي جنگ ايران و عراق در سالهاي 1980 تا 1988 با عراق بوده است، فرزند آيتالله ابوالقاسم خزئلي يکي از اعضاي قديمي مجلس خبرگان، مجمعي روحاني که بر کارهاي رهبر عالي علي خامنهاي نظارت دارد، ميباشد. . (خبرگزاري فرانسه - 22/7/89)