Guardian :Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to be lashed over newspaper photograph

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Iranian woman facing death for adultery to be whipped despite Times apologising for using picture of another person

Saeed Kamali Dehghan and Peter Beaumont
PHOTO:vists hold a solidarity rally for Sakineh Mohamadi Ashtiani who was convicted of committing adultery and sentenced to being stoned to death. Photograph: Fabio Campana/EPA

Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to be lashed over newspaper photographIranian woman facing death for adultery to be whipped despite Times apologising for using picture of another person
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Activists hold a solidarity rally for Sakineh Mohamadi Ashtiani who was convicted of committing adultery and sentenced to being stoned to death. Photograph: Fabio Campana/EPA

Iran has reportedly sentenced Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani – the 43-year-old Iranian woman who faces execution after being convicted of adultery – to 99 lashes in prison for "spreading corruption and indecency" after allowing an unveiled picture of herself to be published in a British newspaper.

The claim, which could not be confirmed, comes from her family and a lawyer representing Mohammadi Ashtiani, based on reports from those who have recently left the prison in Tabriz where she has been held for the last four years.

The latest charges against Mohammadi Ashtiani – if confirmed – would appear to suggest that the Iranian authorities have been stung by the international outcry her case has attracted through the campaign of her family and supporters in the media, and could be read as a warning that it is Sakineh who could suffer from the protests.

What has made the latest charges against her even more extraordinary is the fact that the unveiled photograph in question, published by the Times newspaper on 28 August, was not actually of Sakineh but of another woman, for which the paper has since apologised.

In reality, the woman pictured was Susan Hejrat, an Iranian political activist living in Sweden whose photograph had been published on a website along with an article she had written about Sakineh's case, perhaps causing the confusion. In its apology, published on Friday, the Times said that the photograph had been obtained from Mohammad Mostafaei, one of Sakineh's lawyers, who had claimed that he received the picture from her son, Sajad – which he has denied.

Instead, in an open letter today, Sajad Ghaderzadeh accused the Iranian authorities of using the mistaken picture as "an excuse to increase their harassment of our mother".

He added: "My mother has been called in to see the judge in charge of prison misdemeanours, and he has sentenced our helpless mother to 99 lashes on false charges of spreading corruption and indecency by disseminating this picture of a woman presumed to be her [Sakineh] without hijab."

Speaking to the Observer today, Sajad said: "This news reached us through some prisoners who were released from Tabriz prison recently and have informed my mother's lawyer, Houtan Kian, that she has been given a sentence of 99 lashes for the alleged unveiled photo of her published in western media.

"As far as we know, the sentence of 99 lashes has not been administered yet. Once I got the Times apology for the misidentified photo, I instantly informed the lawyer and we are going to ask for an appeal. My mother has been denied visits for the past two weeks, no one has been allowed to visit her, including her family and even her lawyer. She has also been denied access to a phone and we have been completely cut off from her."

News of the latest punishment came amid reports from the family that they had learned her case has been referred for a judicial review to Branch 9 of Iran's supreme court which has requested police documents relating to her case, some of which appear to have gone missing. The reports have also emerged amid an increasingly bitter war of words between Iran and Sakineh's most high-profile supporter, Carla Bruni, the wife of France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was described as a "prostitute" in one Iranian newspaper unhappy with her intervention.

Mohammadi Ashtiani was first convicted in 2006 of having an "illicit relationship" with two men after the death of her husband and was sentenced by a court to 99 lashes. Later that year she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death, even though she retracted a confession that she claims was made under duress. Iran lifted that sentence last month, but now says that she has been convicted of involvement in her husband's killing.

According to the Iranian courts, her husband, Ebrahim Qaderzadeh, 44, was found dead on his bathroom floor in Meshkinshahr, in north-west Iran. Mohammadi Ashtiani is said by Iranian officials to have confessed to having had an extramarital affair with the killer, Eisa Taheri, and to have said that she had seduced him. The judiciary has also claimed that she confessed to having planned the murder in collaboration with Taheri, claims that are vigorously denied by her family.

Last month she was presented on Iranian state television where she "confessed" to involvement in the murder of her husband in a television interview recorded in Tabriz prison, where she is being held. It was suggested at that time that the 43-year-old had been tortured for two days before the recording of the confession.

Sajad also appealed to Mohammad Mostafaei not to make any more comments either on his mother's case or on his father's death.

Since her case has captured world attention, Iranian officials have claimed she was an accomplice to the murder of her husband, although her government-appointed lawyer, Houtan Kian, has accused the government of inventing charges against her.

Sajad has said the only reason his mother is still alive is because of the international campaign for her release

Timeline

2006 Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani lashed 99 times for "adultery" in

Iran, charges she denies


November 2008 she is sentenced to death by stoning for the same offense due to process called "judicial wisdom"


July 2010 Protests begin about her fate


July 12th Iran says the stoning sentence is not for adultery but for the murder of her husband


August in a confession on state TV - which many believe to be forced - she confesses to complicity in her husband's murder


September 3rd News emerges she has been sentenced to 99 additional lashes for allowing the dissemination of a picture purportedly of her (although of another woman) not wearing the hijab

IRAN weekly report : Violence against women

Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prison

Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered mental and physical problems. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Aug. 28, 2010)


Wife of political prisoner and mother of Ashraf resident tried for visiting son in Ashraf
According to reports, Mahin Saremi, wife of (death row) political prisoner Ali Saremi was summoned and tried by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati.
On August 24, Mahin Saremi, 56, was tried by Judge Salavati. This trial started at 10:30 am and ended in less than 15 minutes.
She was charged with visiting her son in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, propagating against the government, and filming and participating in a ceremony to commemorate executed political prisoners on the 19th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners.
She was sentenced to five years of suspended prison before this for visiting her son in Camp Ashraf and going to the gravesite of Dr. Mohammad Mosadeq (late national Iranian leader) but Salavati once again repeated the same charges to issue a sentence for her for the second time.
Mahin Saremi was a political prisoner in the 80’s and was jailed from 1982 to 1983. She was also attacked by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in 2005 while at the gravesite of Dr. Mossadeq and was arrested along with her husband Ali Saremi. She was kept in a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for close to a month. She was also detained for another 2 months in solitary in 2007 for participating in the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Aug. 29, 2010)


Mother of slain prisoner dies after torching herself in protest
The mother of a prisoner who set herself on fire in protest to the murder of her son in prison died in Orumieh hospital.
According to reports, the mother of Bahman Massoudi, an ordinary prisoner in the Central Orumieh Prison, self immolated on August 23 after hearing that her son was killed in prison.
This Azeri mother died after being taken to the hospital despite efforts by the doctors to keep her alive.
Bahman Massoudi was murdered by a prison agent named Khanzadeh after being hit with a baton in the head while in solitary. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Aug. 30, 2010)


Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani subjected to mock execution
Her son Sajad says she was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday and visits by her family and lawyer have been denied
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, was told on Saturday that she was to be hanged at dawn on Sunday, but the sentence was not carried out, it emerged tonight.
Mohammadi Ashtiani wrote her will and embraced her cellmates in Tabriz prison just before the call to morning prayer, when she expected to be led to the gallows, her son Sajad told the Guardian.
"Pressure from the international community has so far stopped them from carrying out the sentence but they're killing her every day by any means possible," he said.
The mock execution came days after prison authorities denied family and legal visits to Mohammadi Ashtiani. Her children were told she was unwilling to meet them while she was told, also falsely, that no one had come to visit her.
Sajad, 22, heard the latest evidence of psychological pressure on his mother when he spoke to her by phone yesterday. "They are furious with the international outcry over my mother's case so they are taking revenge on her," he said. "The more the pressure comes from outside Iran, the more they mistreat her."
Protest rallies highlighting her plight were held in 100 cities on Saturday.
Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was flogged 99 times for having an "illicit relationship outside marriage" in 2006 but another court reviewed her case after her husband was murdered. She was acquitted of murder but found guilty of adultery and sentenced to death by stoning.
Since her case has captured world attention, Iranian officials have claimed she was an accomplice to the murder of her husband although her government-appointed lawyer, Houtan Kian, has accused the government of inventing charges against her.
Sajad said he believes the only reason his mother is still alive is because of the international campaign for her release. "I beg everybody in the world to continue their support for my mother. That is the only way she might be spared from the death sentence," he said.
In a visit to Iran's judiciary office in his home town today, Sajad was told that the file on his father's murder case has been lost. "They are lying about the charges against my mother. She was acquitted of murdering my father but now the government is building up their own story against her."
Last week, Kian's house was ransacked by plain-clothes officials and his documents, including one which shows Sakineh was acquitted of her husband's murder, were confiscated. Since then, they have been unable to find a copy of the sentence. "They are destroying all our evidence," Sajad said. "They were not unusual documents and evidence. They were just the official documents of my mother's sentence. They want to destroy them all because they know there are lots of discrepancies and contradictions in them."
Among them is the fact that no-one has been named as being involved in her putative extramarital relationship.
Mina Ahadi of Iran Committee against Stoning (ICAS) said: "Look how easily they are accusing and insulting Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and you would realise how bad they are treating Sakineh and women in general in Iran and how they can build up dossier against people out of nothing and sentence them to death by stoning."
France, meanwhile, protested to Iran over a hardline newspaper which described Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy, as a "prostitute." Bruni-Sarkozy had condemned Mohammadi Ashtiani's sentence.
The foreign ministry in Paris said it was "unacceptable" for Keyhan to have said she was "proud of her immoral acts" and "deserved to die". Iran's foreign ministry spokesman urged the media to avoid "inappropriate and insulting words." (The Guardian – Aug. 31, 2010)

محبوبه کرمي، فعال حقوق زنان به چهار سال حبس محکوم شد
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-26-53/3632-1.html
محبوبه کرمي، فعال حقوق بشر از سوي شعبه 26 دادگاه انقلاب تهران به رياست قاضي پيرعباسي، به تحمل چهار سال حبس تعزيري محکوم شده است.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، اتهامات خانم کرمي "عضويت در مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ايران"، "فعاليت تبليغي عليه نظام"، "اجتماع و تباني با قصد ارتکاب جرايم عليه امنيت کشور" و "نشر اکاذيب" عنوان شده است.
محبوبه کرمي فعال سرشناس زنان، مسئول سابق کميته ي زنان مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ايران بوده است که در يورش سازمان يافته به فعالان حقوق بشر در 11 اسفند ماه بازداشت شد، وي در طي دوران بازداشت شش ماهه که 80 روز از آن را در بند 2 - الف زندان اوين بسر برده از بيماري روحي و جسمي به شدت رنج برده است. (هرانا – 6/6/89)



محاکمه يکي از زنان زنداني سياسي دهۀ 60 توسط صلواتي قاضي فرمايشي
بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران"خانم مهين صارمي همسر زنداني سياسي علي صارمي به شعبه 15 دادگاه انقلاب فراخوانده شد و توسط صلواتي قاضي فرمايشي ولي فقيه مورد محاکمه قرار گرفت.
روز سه شنبه 2 شهريور ماه خانم مهين صارمي 56 ساله براي محاکمه به شعبه 15 دادگاه انقلاب احضار شد و توسط صلواتي قاضي فرمايشي مورد محاکمه قرار گرفت.محاکمه خانم صارمي از حوالي ساعت 10:30 آغاز و پس از کمتر از 15 دقيقه به پايان رسيد.
صلواتي او را به اتهام ديدار با فرزندش در قرارگاه اشرف در عراق ، تبليغ عليه نظام ، فيلم برداري( شرکت در مراسم نوزدهمين سالگرد قتل عام زندانيان سياسي سال 67 ) مورد محاکمه قرار داد.دادگاه خانم صارمي تا به حال چندين بار به تعويق افتاده بود.
مهين صارمي پيش از اين به دليل ديدار با فرزندش در اشرف و حضور بر آرامگاه رهبر فقيد ملي دکتر محمد مصدق به 5 سال حبس تعليقي محکوم شده بود ولي صلواتي باز هم اتهامات قبلي را تکرار نمود و قصد دارد که بر مبناي آنها براي دومين بار حکم غير قانوني و غير انساني عليه خانم صارمي صادر کند .
مهين صارمي 56 ساله از زندانيان سياسي دهۀ 60 مي باشد او از سال 61 تا سال 62 زنداني بود. خانم صارمي همچنين در سال 1384 وقتي که به مناسبت گراميداشت سالگرد در گذشت دکتر محمد مصدق بر آرامگاه اين رهبر ملي حضور يافته بود مورد يورش مامورين وزارت اطلاعات قرار گرفت و همراه با همسرش آقاي علي صارمي دستگير و نزديگ به 1 ماه در سلولهاي انفرادي بند 209 زندان اوين زنداني بود.خانم صارمي همچنين در سال 1386 بدليل شرکت در مراسم گراميداشت نوزدهمين سالگرد قتل عام زندانيان سياسي سال 67 دستگير و به مدت 2 ماه در سلولهاي انفرادي بند 209 بسر برد. (فعالين حقوق بشر ودمكراسي در ايران – 7/6/89)

فوت مادر يک زنداني مقتول بر اثر خودسوزي
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مادر يک زنداني که به دليل قتل پسرش در زندان، دست به خودسوزي زده بود، در بيمارستان اروميه فوت کرد.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، مادر "بهمن مسعودي" يکي از زندانيان محبوس در زندان مرکزي اروميه که صبح روز اول شهريور ماه و پس از شنيدن خبر کشته شدن پسرش در زندان، با ريختن نفت بر روي بدنش اقدام به خودسوزي کرد.
اين مادر آذري زبان پس از انتقال به بيمارستان و علي رغم تلاش پزشکان به دليل شدت جراحات وارده بر اثر سوختگي جان باخت.
شايان ذکر است که بهمن مسعودي، يکي از زندانيان عادي محبوس در زندان مرکزي اروميه بود که مورخ سي و يکم مردادماه به علت اصابت باتوم به سر در سلول انفرادي توسط يکي از ماموران زندان به نام "خانزاده" به قتل رسيده بود. (هرانا – 8/6/89)

سكينه محمدى آشتيانى در معرض اعدام ساختگى قرار گرفت
-سجاد فرزند سكينه محمدى آشتيانى به گاردين گفت، امشب معلوم شد كه به سكينه محمدى آشتيانى زن ايرانى كه به مرگ محكوم شده است روز شنبه گفته شده است كه قرار است روز يكشنبه اعدام شود اما حكم اجرا نشد.
محمدى آشتيانى زمانى كه قرار بود به پاى طناب دار برده شود، وصيت خود رانوشت، هم سلولى هايش راقبل از اعدام در زندان تبريز قبل از نماز صبح در آغوش گرفت.
وى گفت، ”تاكنون اين فشار جامعه بينالمللى بوده كه مانع انجام حكم اعدام شده است اما آنها او را روزانه باهر وسيله اي ممكن مىكشند ”.
اعدام ساختگى بعد از اين كه مقامات از بازديد خانواده و وكيل وى ممانعت كردند صورت گرفت. به فرزندان وى گفته شده بود كه او مايل نيست آنها را ملاقات كند و درحالى كه به وى نيز به دروغ گفته بودند كه هيچكس براى ديدار وى نيامده است...(گاردين - 9/6/89)

IRAN weekly report : Basic freedom and rights abused

Higher Education Minister threatens crack down on liberal universities
“If there is a university in which people of religion and the Bassij culture are ridiculed, if there is a university in which the sound of the noon prayer call is not heard (from loudspeakers) under the excuse that classes would be disturbed, if there is a university in which clerics cannot enter, if this university exists, the people of Iran, students, and university employees will tear that university down”, the Minister of Science (Minister of Higher Education) said on Sunday in the opening ceremony of the Architectural Plans of the Science and Industry University in Tehran. (Daneshju News – Aug. 29, 2010)


Suppression of religious and ethnic minorities

Iran brutally suppresses Iranian Sunnis in Saqez
According to reports, Special Guards Forces, Security Forces and plainclothes agents attacked Sunni residents of Saqez and followers of Alameh Mofti Zadeh (Quran Academy) and arrested at least 10 Sunnis.
On Thursday and Friday night, August 19 and 20, Special Guards, Intelligence, and Security Forces, and plainclothes agents attacked a Sunni Ramadan ceremony which was being held in the homes of the followers of Ahmad Moftizadeh (Quran Academy). They were attacked and punched and kicked and beaten with clubs and six people were arrested and taken to unknown locations.
Also at 2 pm on Thursday, August 19, security and intelligence agents entered the homes of these people without a legal warrant and confiscated personal belongings of the detainees including their CDs, books, booklets, pictures, construction documents, national cards, medical services booklets, id cards and car ownership documents among other things.
On August 21 intelligence and security agents once again stormed the homes of the detainees and arrested another 4 people taking them to unknown locations.
For the third time from 5 to 11 pm, at least 1000 Special Guards Forces, plainclothes agents, traffic police and even female riot police surrounded the homes of these people and terrorized the women and children and other defenseless persons. They stormed the residential buildings and broke the windows and doors.
On August 26, from 5 to 8:30 pm, security forces once again surrounded the area where these people were holding their religious ceremony and prevented the ceremony. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 1, 2010)

Suppressive maneuvers

Iran's Karroubi Attacked, Son Says
Iranian OPPOSITION leader Mehdi Karroubi was attacked on Thursday night when a group of militiamen broke into his residential building and fired on his bodyguards, according to a family member.
Militia in plainclothes armed with guns and knives shattered windows, broke the front door and set the parking lot on fire by throwing tear gas and a hand grenade over the wall, Mr. Karroubi's son, Mohamad Taghi Karroubi, said by telephone Thursday night. The militia stormed the hallway, shooting in the air as they ran upstairs to Mr. Karroubi's front door, where they engaged in a 90-minute battle with his bodyguards, the younger Mr. Karroubi said.
Mr. Karroubi and his family were holed up in a safe room, away from the windows and gunfire, his son said, but 11 people were injured in the violence, including Mr. Karroubi's head of security, who was taken to the hospital and remains in critical condition. The shooting attack couldn't be independently confirmed…
The attack was carried out by Basij militia under the command of the Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Mr. Karroubi's family.
The militia had surrounded Mr. Karroubi's residence for five nights. Videos posted on OPPOSITION websites show the militia breaking windows and splashing paint on his house, while chanting their loyalty to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and saying they are under his command…
Tehran's chief of security forces, Hossein Sajad, told Iranian state media that security forces were put on alert on Thursday because of the 'sensitivity of Quds Day and to identify and arrest troublemakers’.
Internet connections were slow in major Iranian cities and the gmail email service wasn't functioning, according to reports on OPPOSITION websites.
Analysts said the government's security measures and the attacks on Mr. Karroubi showed that the Islamic regime is still intimidated by the OPPOSITION and fears mass unrest. (WSJ – Sep. 3, 2010)

وزير علوم: دانشگاه مخالف با فرهنگ بسيجي را با خاک يکسان مي کنيم
وزير علوم امروز يکشنبه در مراسم افتتاح طرحهاي عمراني دانشگاه علم و صنعت، گفت: "اگر دانشگاهي وجود داشته باشد که در آن متدينين، فرهنگ انتظار و فرهنگ بسيج مورد تمسخر قرار گيرد، اگر دانشگاهي وجود داشته باشد که صداي اذان ظهر در آن بلند نشود به بهانه اينکه به کلاسهاي درس آسيبي نرساند، اگر دانشگاهي وجود داشته باشد که روحاني نتواند در آن وارد شود و ... اگر اين دانشگاه وجود داشته باشد مردم ايران، دانشجويان، اساتيد و کارکنان دانشگاه آن را با خاک يکسان مي‌کنند." (دانشجونيوز – 7/

6/89)

نقض حقوق اقليتهاي مذهبي و قومي

گزارشي از يورش به منازل اهل سنت در شهرستان سقز
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آنچه در پي مي آيد گزارشي مختصراز حمله نيروهاي گارد ويژه، اطلاعاتي، انتظامي و لباس شخصي به مردم سني شهرستان سقز و پيروان علامه مفتي زاده (مکتب قران) است که تا کنون دست کم 10 تن از شهروندان سني مذهب توسط اين نهادها بازداشت شدند.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، روز پنج شنبه و جمعه شب مورخ 28 و 29 مرداد ماه نيروهاي گارد ويژه،اطلاعاتي،انتظامي و لباس شخصي با مردمي که براي شرکت در مراسم مذهبي رمضان ويژه مناطق سني نشين، که در منازل شخصي پيروان احمد مفتي زاده (مکتب قران)، در حال برگزاري بود؛ با ضربات باتوم و مشت و لگد حمله ور شده و شش نفر را دستگير و به محل هاي نامعلومي منقل کردند.
همچنين در ساعت 14 روز پنج شنبه مورخ 28 مرداد ماه نيروهاي اطلاعاتي بدون مجوزقانوني وارد حريم خصوصي ومنازل شخصي افراد شده و وسايل خصوصي وشخصي ازجمله: سي دي ،کتاب ،جزوه، عکس، سندساختماني، کارت ملي،دفترچه خدمات درماني ،شناسنامه وسند ماشين و ...بازداشت شدگان را با خود بردند.
سپس در سي ام مرداد ماه نيروهاي اطلاعاتي و امنيتي مجددا به منازل بازداشت شدگان يورش برده و چهار تن ديگر را بازداشت و به مکان نامعلومي منتقل کردند.
در ادامه يورش ها و براي سومين بار از ساعت17 تا 23 ، دستکم هزار تن از نيروهاي گارد ويژه، لباس شخصي، راهنماي و رانندگي وحتي پليس ضد شورش زنان، منازل مسکوني مردم را محاصره کرده، و با ايجاد رعب وحشت براي زنان و کودکان و افراد بي دفاع، بطرف ساختمانهاي مسکوني، حمله ور شده وشروع به شکستن شيشه ها ودرب ورودي منازل کردند.
در چهارم شهريور ماه از ساعت 17 تا 20:30 براي چندمين بار محل برگزاري مراسم مذهبي محاصره شده و از اجراي آن جلوگيري شد. (هرانا – 10/6/89)

مانورهاي سركوبگرانه
كروبى در ايران مورد حمله قرارگرفت
مهدى كروبى رهبر اپوزيسيون ايران روز پنجشنبه شب مورد حمله قرار گرفت…
در راهپيمايى سال گذشته روز قدس وقتى حاميان جنبش سبز شعار نه غزه نه لبنان جانم فداى ايران سر دادند دولتى كه چند دهه حامى حزب‌الله لبنان و حماس بود سراسيمه و دستپاچه گرديد. …
تحليلگران گفته‌اند تدابير امنيتى حكومتى و حملات به آقاى كروبى حاكى از اين است كه رژيم اسلامى كماكان توسط همين اپوزيسيون تهديد احساس مى‌كند و از قيام عمومى نگران است. (وال استريت ژورنال -12/6/89)

IRAN weekly HR report : Arbitrary arrests and Prison

Political arrests

Iran arrests man and two Kurd teenagers in Kurdistan
On the early morning of August 31, security forces stormed the Ney Village in Kurdistan’s Marivan and arrested three Kurd citizens.
According to reports, Amir Kaveh, 22, Mokhtar Afra, 17, and Mosleh Badakhsh, 17 were arrested and immediately taken to the Marivan Intelligence Department.
Intelligence agents have not announced any charges that would have led to their arrest. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 1, 2010)


Prison Condition

Prison gang run by prison officials critically wound prisoner in Gohardasht Prison
According to reports, in a bloody clash in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, a prisoner who was severely wounded and near death was taken to a hospital outside of prison.
On the morning of September 2 at about 2am, a prison gang in cellblock 6 in Gohardasht Prison which acts on the orders of the heads of prison attacked a prisoner identified as Mohammad-Reza Karimi. This prisoner was stabbed at least six times. He was stabbed in the lungs, next to his heart and his back and he was reportedly severely injured.
This prisoner who was on the verge of death was taken to a hospital outside of prison.
These gangs work on the orders of Ali Mohammadi, the assistant head of prison, Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the prison’s Intelligence Unit, and the heads of the cellblocks. They play a part in distributing narcotics and suppressing dissident prisoners.
Despite this clash which led to the injury of this prisoner, none of the gang members have been called in by prison officials for questioning.
This clash took place in cellblock 6 where currently 5 Baha’i leaders are jailed. They are Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naiemi, Saied Rezayi, Behrouz Tavakoli and Vahid Tizfahm. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran –Sep. 3, 2010)

دستگيريهاي سياسي

بازداشت سه شهروند کرد در مريوان
بامداد روز سه شنبه نهم شهريورماه، نيروهاي امنيتي با يورش به روستاي "ني" از توابع شهرستان مريوان در استان کردستان 3 شهروند اين روستا را بازداشت نمودند.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، امير کاوه (22ساله)، مختار افرا (17 ساله) و مصلح بدخش (17 ساله( سه شهروند بازداشتي هستند که بلافاصله به اداره اطلاعات مريوان منتقل شدند.
هيچ اتهامي که منجر به بازداشت اين افراد شده باشد از سوي نيروهاي اطلاعاتي عنوان نشده است. (هرانا – 10/6/89)

زندان
شرايط زندان

درگيري خونين در بند 6 زندان گوهردشت کرج
بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران" در طي يک درگيري خونين در زندان گوهردشت کرج يک زنداني که شديدا مجروح و در آستانه مرگ قرار گرفته بود به يکي از بيمارستانهاي خارج از زندان منتقل شد.
بامداد روز پنجشنبه 11 شهريورماه حوالي ساعت 02:00 گروهي از باند مافيايي در بند 6 زندان گوهردشت کرج که زير نظر مسئولين زندان عمل مي کنند به يک زنداني بي دفاع به نام محمدرضا کريمي حمله ور شدند و او را آماج ضربات چاقوهاي خود قرار دادند. اين زنداني حداقل از 6 ناحيه مورد اصابت چاقو قرار گرفت . ضربات چاقو به ريه و کنار قلب وپشت وي وارد شده بود و گفته مي شود که ريه او بشدت آسيبت ديده است.
زنداني محمدرضا رحيمي که در آستانه مرگ قرار گرفته بود و وضعيتش به حدي وخيم شده بود که ناچار شدند وي را به يکي از بيمارستانهاي خارج از زندان منتقل گرديد.
باندهاي مافيايي زير نظر و به دستور علي محمدي معاون زندان و کرماني و فرجي رئيس و معاون اطلاعات زندان و رئيس بندها عمل مي کنند آنها در پخش مواد مخدر و سرکوب زندانيان معترض نقش دارند.
عليرغم اينکه درگيري منجر به زخمي شدن شديد اين زنداني شده است ولي هيچ کدام از باند مافيايي مهاجم تاکنون مورد بازخواست مسئولين زندان قرار نگرفته اند.
اين درگيري خونين در بند 6 زندان گوهردشت کرج روي داده است که در حال حاضر 5 تن ازرهبران بهايي درآن زنداني هستند.اسامي رهبران بهايي که در اين بند زنداني هستند عبارتند از؛ جمال الدين خانجاني، عفيف نعيمي، سعيد رضايي، بهروز توکلي و وحيد تيز فهم مي باشند. (فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران – 12/6/89)

IRAN weekly report : Inhumane treatment and cruel punishment

Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strike

According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, and impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Aug. 28, 2010)

Kurd political prisoner denied treatment in prison
Prison authorities refuse to give medical attention to Hamzeh Sobhani, a young Kurd political prisoner in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah despite his urgent need of treatment.
According to reports, this young political activist was arrested about 2 months ago along with a number of other Kurds by intelligence agents in this town on charges of cooperating with Kurd parties.
He was transferred to the Intelligence Detention Center in Kermanshah after some time to ‘confess’ and was under the most severe mental and physical torture by intelligence interrogators. Two of his nails were pulled out and several of his fingers broke under torture.
After one month, he was transferred to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah on a temporary detention order. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Aug. 29, 2010)

Political prisoner in coma after 48 days of hunger strike; denied medical attention

According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi went into a coma last night on his 48th day of hunger strike. The life of this political prisoner is in danger.
On Sunday night, august 29, at about 12 am, Davoudi was taken to the infirmary on a stretcher while he was close to a coma. Before being treated, the medical staff put a paper in front of him and asked him to sign it so that he would take full responsibility for anything that might happen to him. But this political prisoner refused to sign the paper. The medics then gave him an unidentified injection and after 45 minutes, left him in the hallway of cellblock 3 even as he was in very critical condition. They refused to keep him in the infirmary.
He has been on a stretcher from last night until now in the hallway. His health has deteriorated and he is unable to open his eyes or talk. The life of this political prisoner is in danger. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Aug. 30, 2010)

Iran tortures two Azeri activists in Tabriz

Eunice Soleimani, the former editor of Ildrim student publication in the Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu were tortured in the Tabriz Intelligence Detention Center.
Yusef Soleimani, the brother of this student activist said, “In the visit I had with my brother on August 25 in Tabriz Prison I realized that he was given electric shocks and injected with mind altering drugs”.
According to Eunice’s brother, he suffered heart problems as a result of the torture and was hospitalized in the Sepah Hospital in Tabriz for three days.
A number of Azeri activists in the Tabriz Intelligence Detention Center told their families in visits that Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu was also tortured and that they could hear him crying out while being tortured by agents.
Biglu has not had any contact with his family in the past month and his family have requested from the fourth branch of the Tabriz Revolutionary and Public Court to visit him and see his face but Judge Hashem Zadeh who is seeing to his case has announced that due to the security nature of the case, he cannot allow his family to see him.
Eunice Soleiman was arrested on June 17, 2009 in Ardabil and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu was arrested on May 10, 2010 in the town of Sufian. Judicial sources have not announced their charges. (Savalan Sassi Website – Aug. 31, 2010)

Urgent call to save life of hunger striking political prisoner in Gohardasht Prison

According to reports, the condition of political prisoner Arjang Davoudi is very critical and dangerous on his 51st day of hunger strike.
There is great danger that his health will reach the point of no return. Davoudi has been taken to the prison infirmary several times in the past few days with a stretcher and has been returned every time after a short time…
According to other reports, his wife went to the 15th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court to see Salavati, the judge on his case regarding her husband’s sentence from a trial that has been going on for three years. She was told that the case had been referred to the Bandar Abbas Revolutionary Court to be seen to and that she has to go to that town to follow up his case. This is while Davoudi is a Tehran resident and is jailed in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj and was arrested by intelligence agents in Tehran. The relevance of his case with the Bandar Abbas Revolutionary Court is not clear. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Sep. 2, 2010)

مورد تهديد و تحت فشار قرار دادن زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در چهل و ششمين روز اعتصاب غذا
http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post_28.htm
بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران" روز شنبه 6 شهريور ماه زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در چهل و ششمين روز اعتصاب غذا ودر شرايط بسيار حاد جسمي با ويلچر به اطلاعات زندان گوهردشت کرج برده شد و براي مدت طولاني مورد بازجويي و تهديد کرماني و فرجي قرار گرفت که بايد به اعتصاب غذاي خود پايان دهد.در پايان آقاي داودي تاکيد کردند تا رسيدن به خواسته هاي به حق خود، به اعتصاب غذا ادامه خواهد داد.
آقاي داودي در چهل و ششمين روز اعتصاب غذا وضعيت جسمي اش نسبت به روزهاي گذشته بسيار حاد شده است و جانش در معرض خطر جدي قرار دارد. او از عوارضي مانند افت شديد فشار خون ،کاهش زياد وزن ،ضعف شديد و کاهش ديد،اکثر اوقات بصورت دراز کش مي باشند و کارهاي شخصي خود را با کمک ديگران انجام ميدهد.
از طرفي ديگر همسر زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در طي اين مدت در تلاش مستمر براي ملاقات با همسرش بود. خانم داودي با سهراب سليماني رئيس سازمان زندانهاي تهران تماس گرفت و خواستار ملاقات با همسرش شد اما او گفت:که بايد با علي حاج کاظم رئيس زندان گوهردشت کرج هماهنگ کند و متعاقبا جواب خواهد داد. هنگامي که خانم داودي مجددا با سليماني تماس گرفتند او گفت :«علي حاج کاظم مي گويد،آقاي داودي تظاهر به اعتصاب غذا مي کند و در ادامه گفت :علي حاج کاظم مي گويد که او تخلف قانوني کرده است که در اعتصاب غذا بسر مي برد و ملاقات حضوري شامل شما نمي شود».(فعالين حقوق بشر ودمكراسي در ايران – 6/6/89)

هرانا؛ عدم رسيدگي پزشکي به يک زنداني سياسي کرد
مسئولين از رسيدگي پزشکي به حمزه سبحاني نوجوان کرد محبوس در زندان ديزل آباد کرمانشاه، با توجه به نياز فوري وي سرباز مي زنند.
بنابه اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، حمزه سبحاني، نوجوان اهل شهر جوانرود حدود دو ماه قبل توسط نيروهاي امنيتي اين شهر به اتهام همکاري با احزاب کردي مخالف نظام همراه چندين شهروند ديگر در اين شهر بازداشت شده است.
وي که پس از بازداشت به بازداشتگاه اداره اطلاعات کرمانشاه منتقل شد، جهت اعتراف گيري تحت شديدترين شکنجه هاي فيزيکي و روحي بازجويان وزارت اطلاعات قرار گرفت؛ به طوريکه دو ناخن وي را کشيده و چند انگشتش در زير شکنجه شکسته مي شود.
گفتني است وي پس از گذشت يک ماه با قرار موقت بازداشت به زندان ديزل آباد کرمانشاه منتقل شده است. (هرانا – 7/6/89)

زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در چهل و هشتيمن روز اعتصاب غذا به کما فرو رفت
http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2010/08/blog-post_30.html
بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران" زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي از شب گذشته در چهل و هشتمين روز اعتصاب غذا در حالت کما فرو رفت جان اين زنداني سياسي در معرض خطر جدي قرار گرفته است و احتمال وقوع يک حادثه ناگوار براي اين زنداني سياسي بسيار محتمل است.
يکشنبه شب 7 شهريور ماه حوالي ساعت 24:00 زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در حالت نيمه اغما با برانکارد به بهداري زندان منتقل شد. در آنجا قبل از معاينه پزشکي اين زنداني سياسي در مقابل او برگه اي قرار دادند و از او خواستند در صورت روي دادن هر اتفاقي مسئوليت آن رابعهده نخواهند گرفت.اما آقاي داودي از امضاي آن خوداري کرد . آنها به او آمپول نامشخصي تزريق کردند و بعد از 45 دقيقه به با برانکارد و در حالي که در حال فرورفتن به اغماي بود در کريدور بند 3 رها کردند و از نگهداري او در بهداري و درمان وي خوداري کردند.
او از شب گذشته تاکنون در کريدور بند 3 زندان گوهردشت کرج بر روي برانکارد قرار دارد و امروز وضعيتش به حدي حاد است که قادر به باز کردن چشمانش و يا صحبت کردن نيست.جان اين زنداني سياسي در معرض خطر جدي است. (فعالين حقوق بشر ودمكراسي در ايران – 8/6/89)

شکنجه دو فعال آذربايجاني در بازداشتگاه اداره اطلاعات تبريز
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/3692-1.html
يونس سليماني مدير مسئول سابق نشريه دانشجويي "ايلديريم" دانشگاه بوعلي سيناي همدان و فعال دانشجويي آذربايجاني و آيت مهرعلي بيگلو در بازداشتگاه اداره اطلاعات تبريز شکنجه شده اند.
يوسف سليماني برادر اين فعال دانشجويي به ساوالان سسي مي گويد "طي ملاقاتي که روز چهارشنبه سوم شهريور ماه در زندان تبريز با برادرم داشتم متوجه شدم که وي با دادن شوک الکتريکي و تزريق آمپول هاي روانگردان شکنجه شده است." به گفته وي برادرش زير اين شکنجه ها سه بار دچار ناراحتي قلبي شده و مدت سه روز در بيمارستان سپاه تبريز بستري شده است.
خبر شکنجه يونس سليماني در حالي منتشر ميشود که تعدادي از فعالين بازداشتي آذربايجاني در بازداشتگاه اداره اطلاعات تبريز در ملاقاتي که با خانواده هايشان داشته اند خبر از شکنجه آيت مهرعلي بيگلو داده و گفته اند که صداي وي را شنيده اند که زير شکنجه مامورين فرياد مي کشيده است.
آيت مهرعلي بيگلو از يک ماه پيش تا کنون هيچ گونه تماسي با خانواده نداشته و خانواده وي براي اطمينان از عدم شکنجه او به بازپرسي شعبه چهارم دادسراي عمومي و انقلاب تبريز مراجعه و خواستار ملاقات و يا مشاهده چهره آيت مهرعلي بيگلو شده اند اما قاضي هاشم زاده بازپرس پرونده اعلام کرده است که بدليل امنيتي بودن پرونده نمي تواند اجازه ملاقات خانواده اين فعال آذربايجاني را صادر کند.
يونس سليماني 27 خرداد 89 در اردبيل و آيت مهرعلي بيگلو 20 ارديبهشت 89 در شهر صوفيان بازداشت شده بودند و مراجع قضايي تا کنون از اعلام اتهام اين افراد و دليل بازداشتشان خودداري مي کند. (ساوالان سسي – 9/6/89)

فراخوان فوري براي نجات جان زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي

بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران"وضعيت زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در پنجاه و يکمين روز اعتصاب غذايش در شرايط به غايت حاد و خطرناکي قرار دارد.
زنداني سياسي ارژنگ داودي در پنجاه يکمين روز اعتصاب غذا در شرايط بسيار خطرناکي قرار گرفته است و خطر جدي وجود دارد که او به نقطه غير قابل برگشتي وارد شود.آقاي داودي در طي چند روز گذشته وضعيت جسمي اش به حدي حاد شد که او را چندين بار با برانکارد به بهداري زندان منتقل کردند و پس مدت کوتاهي دوباره به بند بازگردانده شد...
از طرفي ديگر همسر آقاي داودي به صلواتي قاضي فرمايشي ولي فقيه در شعبه 15 دادگاه انقلاب براي اطلاع يافتن از حکم دادگاهي که 3 سال در جريان است مراجعه کردند. به خانم داودي گفته شد که پرونده به شهر بندر عباس براي رسيدگي ارجاع داده شده است و بايد آنجا به اين پرونده رسيدگي شود.اين در حالي است که آقاي داودي ساکن تهران مي باشد و در حال حاضر در زندان گوهردشت است و همچنين او در تهران توسط مامورين وزارت اطلاعات دستگير شده است اما ربط داد آن به دادگاه انقلاب بندر عباس نامشخص مي باشد. (فعالين حقوق بشر ودمكراسي در ايران – 11/6/89)

IRAN: Weekly HR report : Stoning

Man and woman sentenced to death by stoning
HRA
According to reports, the Supreme Court upheld the death by stoning sentence of two prisoners in an adultery case who are currently in Orumieh Prison.
Vali Janfeshan and Sarieh Ebadi were sentenced to death by stoning before this in the Public Orumieh Court and this sentence was confirmed by the 12th branch of the Western Azarbaijan Court of Review.
Both suspects have been jailed in Orumieh Prison since 2008. This sentence was confirmed even as both suspects were denied the right to have their chosen lawyers and did not have the chance to defend themselves. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Aug. 29, 2010)

هرانا؛ حکم سنگسار يک زن و يک مرد توسط ديوان عالي کشور تاييد شد
حکم سنگسار دو متهم يک پرونده به اتهام زناي محصنه از سوي ديوان عالي کشور تاييد شد.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، ديوان عالي کشور روز گذشته حکم سنگسار براي دو متهم به زناي محصنه محبوس در زندان اروميه را تائيد کرده است.
"ولي جانفشاني" و"ساريه عبادي" پيش تر از سوي دادسراي عمومي شهر اروميه به اتهام زناي محصنه به سنگسار محکوم شده و اين حکم از سوي شعبه 12 دادگاه تجديد نظر استان آذربايجان غربي تائيد شده بود.
هر دو متهم اين پرونده از سال 87 در زندان مرکزي اروميه به سر مي برند،علاوه بر پروسه مبهم قضايي اين حکم در حالي تائيد مي شود که متهمان فاقد وکيل مدافع منتخب و امکان دفاع از خود را در هيچ يک از مراحل قضايي نداشته اند. (هرانا – 7/6/89)

IRAN weekly HR report : Systematic violations of the right to life

Execution

Silent executions continue in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad
They bring those who are to be executed in groups of 70 to the visiting hall of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad and an hour before sunset, they are hanged in a mass execution with nooses sent from Tehran. Those who are to be executed do not know until moments before their execution why they have been summoned to the Prison Office and only when all the prison phones go dead an hour before sunset do other prisoners realize that it is time for the executions.
This is the horrific state of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad in the past few months. A human rights activist in Mashhad described what he had heard from soldiers in prison saying that in the past weeks at least 60 to 70 people were taken to the gallows every week without their own knowledge or that of their families; prisoners that did not have lawyers and did not receive fair trials.
It seems that the heads of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court had the order, according to a directive issued by Mohsen Ejeyi, to send all drug related death row prisoners to the gallows in a speedy and ceaseless manner.
The death sentences are mostly issued by the four judges of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court – Kavousi, Kaboli, Soltani and Yasayi and have been promptly carried out. The haste in carrying out the executions is to the extent that prisoners realize their fate moments before their execution. According to a prison guard, only a few moments after a prisoner met with his wife, the prison guard took him to the hall where sentences are carried out while the prisoner and his wife did not know anything about his execution.
The numbers of hangings in Vakil Abad Prison have reached 500 according to reports from cellmates and the few families who are willing to talk. The lack of communications, fear among the families and even prisoner employees has made the task of getting reports on the fate of prisoners very hard. But according to reports in the past 5 months, a number of prisoners have been executed every week in an alternate fashion and the families only realized that the number of executions are very high after collecting the corpses of their loved ones (from prison). Prison officials intimidate these families who are mostly from poor classes and prevent them from spreading the news. They also had to pay 7 thousand tomans for the noose (their loved ones were hanged with). Most of the prisoners did not have lawyers and because lawyers charge between 10 to 15 million tomans to appeal the death sentence, most families cannot afford lawyers.
The hangings of Vakil Abad was not limited to only Iranians and in a number of instances Afghan nationals and in one instance a Nigerian was also executed. They have all been charged with narcotics trafficking but according to the human rights activist in Mashhad, the death sentence was given to light crimes which prisoners usually receive prison terms for. There are reports that the Mashhad public prosecutor's office has said that Mohsen Ejeyi, the Prosecutor General of Iran, intends to commemorate Khalkhali by executing narcotics traffickers.
In the beginning of the 80’s, Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali sent many drug addicts and small time narcotics traffickers to the gallows in a speedy plan to eliminate narcotics in Iran. It is said that Khalkhali believed that if a death sentence was wrongly given to a prisoner, that prisoner would go to heaven after his execution. (Jaras Website – Aug. 30, 2010)


Arbitrary killing

Another innocent border tradesman fatally shot by security forces; more than 900 tradesmen murdered by security forces last year

Security forces in the Hassan Salaran Base in Saqez shot and killed 20 year old Mohammad Khoda Rahmi and severely injured Anvar Khoda Rahmi after they opened fire on their automobile. Anvar Khoda Rahmi was taken to this town’s general hospital.
According to reports from the Saqez Information Center, security forces claimed that they opened fire on these two citizens because they were carrying smuggled goods in their automobile. This is while villagers from several villages have announced that they are willing to testify in court that these two men were not smugglers and were going to Saqez from their village for automobile maintenance.
Last year, more than 900 border tradesmen and carriers were shot and killed by security forces. (Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Aug. 31, 2010)


Deaths in custody

Political prisoner dies from cancer; denied on-time treatment
Kaveh Kordi Moqadam, a Kurd political prisoners from Ashnavieh who was serving his time in Orumieh Prison passed away yesterday on August 29 in Orumieh Hospital.
According to reports, this political prisoner who suffered from stomach and lung cancer was granted a medical leave one month ago to receive treatment, but passed away because of the delay in treatment.
Doctors had warned about his critical condition from a long time ago and had told officials that he had to be under the care of a hospital and treated by specialists but prison officials refused to grant him a medical leave until a month ago.
Kaveh Kordi Moqadam was arrested in 2008 on charges of ‘acting against national security’ and was sentenced to 3 years of prison by the first branch of the Orumieh Revolutionary Court. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Aug. 30, 2010)


Tortured prisoner murdered in prison
HRA
Mohsen Bikvand, a non-political prisoner in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) in Karaj was murdered in prison on August 31.
According to reports, Mohsen Bikvand was severely tortured several times by prison agents and was murdered in cellblock 6, Hall 16 in this prison.
Bikvand was transferred to solitary in the beginning of June 2010.
Gohardasht Prisoners believe that prison officials ordered his murder and the murder of other dissident prisoners is carried out systematically by prison officials.
The Human Rights Activists in Iran published a film of the tortures of this prisoner and according to this document, both of his feet broke as a result of torture, his hands were made useless and his body was burned.

Direct link of the video: http://hra-news21.info/Video/002.mpg (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 2, 2010)

اعدام

اعدامهاي خاموش در زندان وکيل آباد مشهد ادامه دارد
اعدامي ها را در گروههاي هفتاد نفره به سالن ملاقات شرعي زندان وکيل آباد مي آورند و ساعتي به غروب مانده به طور دسته جمعي و با طناب هاي داري که از تهران فرستاده شده به دار آويخته مي شوند. اعدامي ها تا چند لحظه مانده به موعد اعدام نمي دانند که براي چه به دفتر زندان احضار شده اند و تنها وقتي تلفن هاي زندان در يک ساعت به غروب مانده به کلي قطع مي شود، ديگر زندانيان خبر دار مي شوند که ساعت اعدام فرارسيده است.
اين وضعيت وحشتناک زندان وکيل آباد مشهد در چند ماه اخير است. يک فعال حقوق بشر در مشهد با وصف آنچه از سربازان زندان شنيده است، مي گويد در هفته هاي اخير هر هفته لااقل 60 تا 70 نفر بي اينکه خود و خانواده هايشان بدانند به پاي چوبه دار رفته اند. زندانياني که نه وکيلي داشته اند و نه دادگاه عادلانه اي براي آنها برگزار شده است...
گويا مسوولان دادگاه انقلاب مشهد بنابر بر بخشنامه اي که از سوي محسني اژه اي صادر شده بود حکم داشته اند تا تمامي متهمان به قاچاق مواد مخدر را که حکم اعدام دارند به سرعت و بي وقفه به پاي چوبه هاي دار بفرستند.
احکام اعدامها عمدتا از سوي چهار قاضي دادگاه انقلاب مشهد_کاووسي ،کابلي ، سلطاني و يثابي _ صادر و به سرعت به مرحله اجرا رسيده است . شتاب در اجراي احکامي که همگي در دوسال اخير صادر شده بود به حدي است که حتي خود زندانيان هم تا لحظاتي مانده به اعدام بي خبر از پايان زندگي بوده اند. بنابر گفته هاي يکي از زندانبانان ، تنها چند لحظه پس از ملاقات يکي از زندانيان با همسرش ، گارد زندان، زنداني را به سالن اجراي حکم برده اند در حاليکه خودش و همسرش از اعدام خبري نداشته اند.
آمار هر روزه اعدامها در زندان وکيل آباد مشهد، تابه حال با شنيده هاي جسته و گريخته از هم بندها و خانواده هاي معدودي که حاضر به گفتگو شده اند به 500نفر رسيده است. نبودن وسايل ارتباطي ،وحشت خانواده ها و حتي کادر زندان ، گرفتن اطلاع از سرنوشت زندانيان را بسيار سخت کرده است. اما بنا بر شنيده ها در 5 ماه گذشته هر هفته به طور متناوب شماري از زندانيان اعدام شده اند. و خانواده ها در زمان تحويل اجساد متوجه شده اند که شمار اعدامها بسيار است. مسوولان زندان با ارعاب خانواده زندانيان که بيشتر از طبقه بي بضاعت هستند ، اجازه هر گونه اطلاع رساني را گرفته اند و براي تحويل جسد نيز 7هزار تو مان هزينه طناب دار گر فته اند.اغلب زندانيان فاقد وکيل بوده اند و از آنجا که وکلا براي شکستن حکم اعدام از 10 تا 15 ميليون تومان حق الوکلاله مي گيرند، اغلب خانواده ها از داشتن وکيل محروم شده اند.
اعدامهاي زندان وکيل آباد مشهد تنها محدود به ايراني ها نبوده است و در چندين مورد اتباع افغاني و يک مورد هم يک تبعه نيجريه به چوبه دار رفته است . جرم تمامي محکومين قاچاق مواد مخدر است اما آنچنان که فعال حقوق بشر در مشهد مي گويد، براي جرايم سبک و مستحق زندان هم حکم اعدام صادر شده است و در دادسراي مشهد گفته مي شود که محسني اژه اي دادستان کل کشور مي خواهد خاطره خلخالي در اعدام قاچاقچيان را زنده کند.
در اوايل دهه شصت آيت الله صادق خلخالي درطرحي ضربتي و براي محو مواد مخدر در ايران ، معتادان و قاچاقچيان جزء بسياري را به جوخه هاي اعدام سپرد، گفته مي شود خلخالي معتقد بود حتي در صورت صدور حکم اشتباه اعدام، اعدام شدگان به بهشت خواهند رفت. (جرس – 8/6/89)

قتل خودسرانه

کشته و زخمي شدن تو شهروند سقزي توسط نيروي انتظامي
http://www.rahana.org/archives/24320
بر اثر تيراندازي نيروهاي پاسگاه «حسن سالاران» از توابع شهر سقز جواني بيست ساله بنام «محمد خدا رحمي» کشته و «انور خدا رحمي» به شدت زخمي و به بيمارستان عمومي اين شهر منتقل شده‌ است.
به گزارش رهانا به نقل از «مرکز اطلاع رساني سقز»، نيروهاي امنيتي علت تيراندازي به سوي اين دو شهروند را حمل کالاي قاچاق در اتومبيلشان عنوان کرده‌اند.
در همان حال اهالي چندين روستاي اطراف اعلام آمادگي کرده‌اند که در دادگاه شهادت بدهند که اين دو شهروند مشغول کار قاچاق نبوده و جهت تعمير اتومبيل خود از روستايشان به سوي شهر سقز حرکت کرده‌اند.
سال گذشته بيش از ٩٠۰ کاسبکار و کولبران مرزي بر اثر تيراندازي نيروهاي انتظامي کشته شدند. (رهانا -9/6/89)

مرگهاي مشكوك در بازداشت

هرانا؛ کاوه کردي مقدم زنداني سياسي، درگذشت
کاوه کردي مقدم زنداني سياسي کرد اهل اشنويه که در زندان اروميه تحمل حبس مي نمود، روز گذشته مورخ هفتم شهريورماه 89 در بيمارستاني در اروميه فوت کرد.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، اين زنداني سياسي که به بيماري "سرطان معده و ريه" مبتلا بود از يک ماه پيش در مرخصي دير هنگام استعلاجي جهت درمان بيماري قرار داشت، اما به دليل تاخير در درمان و پيشرفت بيماري سرانجام درگذشت.
پزشکان از مدت ها پيش نسبت به وضعيت وخيم کردي مقدم هشدار داده و به مسئولان گفته بودند که بايستي در بيمارستاني مجهز تحت مداواي متخصصان قرار گيرد اما مسئولان تا ماه گذشته با درخواست مرخصي استعلاجي وي مخالفت مي نمودند.
کاوه کردي مقدم در سال 87 به اتهام "اقدام عليه امنيت ملي" توسط شعبه يک دادگاه انقلاب اروميه به تحمل سه حبس تعزيري محکوم شده بود. (هرانا – 8/6/89)


محسن بيک وند از قربانيان شکنجه در زندان به قتل رسيد
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/3740-1.html
محسن بيک وند، يکي از زندانيان عادي محبوس در زندان رجايي شهر کرج، سه شنبه شب، مورخ نهم شهريورماه، در زندان به قتل رسيد.
بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، محسن بيک وند که بارها توسط ماموران زندان مورد شکنجه هاي سخت قرار گرفته بود، در بند 6، سالن 16 زندان رجايي شهر کرج به قتل رسيده است.
محسن بيک وند، اواسط خردادماه سال جاري به سلول انفرادي بند يک زندان رجايي شهر کرج منتقل شده بود.
گفتني است زندانيان محبوس در زندان رجايي شهر معتقدند که دستور قتل اين زنداني توسط مسئولين زندان صادر شده است و قتل زندانيان معترض توسط زندانيان ديگر به صورت سازمان يافته و از سوي مسئولين زندان هدايت مي شود.
خبرگزاري هرانا، ارگان خبري مجموعه فعالان حقوق بشر در ايران، در خردادماه سال جاري اقدام به پخش فيلمي از شکجه ي اين زنداني از درون زندان نموده بود که بر اساس اين سند، مسئولان به دليل شکنجه هاي سخت هردو پاي اين زنداني را شکسته، دستانش را به طور موقت از کار انداخته و بدنش را سوزانده بودند.
لينک مستقيم دانلود ويديو: http://hra-news21.info/Video/002.mpg (هرانا – 11/6/89)