The deputy Prosecutor of Qom announced that a number of Monafeghin members (literally meaning hypocrite used by the regime to refer to the PMOI) who had communications with this organization and with Camp Ashraf were arrested.
Mahmoud Talebi said, "In a number of operations a monafegh group that carried out activities against the government was arrested in Qom"."These people were carrying out activities against the Islamic Revolution and government and intended to subvert the revolution and velayate faqih (leadership)".
The deputy Prosecutor of Qom announced that a number of Monafeghin members (literally meaning hypocrite used by the regime to refer to the PMOI) who had communications with this organization and with Camp Ashraf were arrested.
Mahmoud Talebi said, "In a number of operations a monafegh group that carried out activities against the government was arrested in Qom"."These people were carrying out activities against the Islamic Revolution and government and intended to subvert the revolution and velayate faqih (leadership)".
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According to reports from the town of Bukan in the past few days, three labor activists in this city identified as Omar Minayi, Hadi Tanoumand and Karim Fatehi were arrested by security forces. Official sources in Bukan have still not announced the charges of these activists but their arrests were reportedly linked to an International Women's Day ceremony and on charges of being members of the Coordination Committee to Create Labor Associations. These men are currently jailed in the Central Bukan Prison
The social assistant of the Tehran Security Forces said that 694,000 flammable materials were discovered in Tehran
"In light of the measures taken out by the police like mobile and immobile checkpoints, and undercover and non-undercover patrols, the police have so far found 694,549 flammable materials and 501 kilos of the primary materials for explosives", Yarandi said regarding the latest measures taken out by police for the last Wednesday of the year (when Iranians celebrate the ancient Zoroastrian tradition of the Fire Festival). "In this regard, 41 people were arrested as suspects in Tehran".
Vadoud Sa'adati, Behrouz Alizadeh, Ali Abassi and Rahim Gholami, political Azeri prisoners in Ardabil Prison were beaten and injured by prison thugs on Saturday March 6 on orders of the head of the this prison.
According to sources close to these political prisoners, Enzayi, the head of the Ardabil Prison has transferred a number of death row thugs to section 7 of this prison, where political prisoners are kept, and has tasked them with harassing and abusing political prisoners.
According to this source, these thugs prevented prisoners in section 7 from watching a live football (soccer) game which was being shown in this section and subsequently attacked Sa'adati, Alizadeh, Abassi and Gholami with knives, injuring them. There are reports that Vadoud Sa'adati was severely injured in the face and his nose was broken.
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Mehdi Sadeq Lu, a young man who has been charged with committing murder while a minor (under 18) is in danger of being executed. This young man who is imprisoned in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj killed a boy identified only by his last name as Buy in 2007 and was sentenced to death.
Mehdi Ismaili, a prisoner in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj was executed last week.
A prisoner in Gohardasht Prison who was jailed on charges of murder at 19 was executed.
Mehdi Ismaili, 26, had been jailed for 7 years in this prison before his death sentence was carried out last week.
(Human Rights Activists in Iran – March 7, 2010)
Iran hangs two men: report
Iran has hanged two convicted drug traffickers in the western city of Khorramabad, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.
The report identified them only as Gh. B. and H. R and added the two were hanged early this week -- the Iranian week begins on Saturday. No other details were given.
(AFP - March 8, 2010)
Iran hangs two people in Qom
The head of the Qom Revolutionary Court Mahmoud Talebi said, "From the beginning of the current (Iranian) year, 10 death sentences have been carried out for drug smugglers in Qom and this shows our serious confrontation with smugglers".
"The latest hangings were in the morning when two drug smugglers were hanged".
"Hamid Kh. and Zeinolabedin Q. were two people who were executed today on charges of smuggling various kinds of drugs", he added.
(Asre Iran state-run website – March 10, 2010)
Iran hangs man in public; two others to be hanged in coming days
On Wednesday May 10, a man was publicly hanged in the Ramezan Center in Ahwaz.
The ILNA state-run news agency said that the execution sentence of this drug smuggler identified only as S.M was carried out in the evening. According to this report, another person will be hanged in public on charges of moharebeh (enmity with God) on Saturday May 13 in the Salman Farsi intersection and another man will be hanged in public on charges of smuggling drugs on Sunday May 14 in the Mashali Center in Ahwaz.
(Human Rights Activists in Iran – March 12, 2010)