Absolutely no news on Mitra Ali, Sharif University student

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After 20 days of Mitra Ali's detention, student of Medical engineering faculty of Sharif University faculty, there is no news of her condition and where-abouts.
With the coming of the Iranian new Year, some prisoners were released and some hat contacted family members, but Mitra has not been heard of since her arrest.
Mitra approached the security forces offices to collect her confiscated belongings and was not heard of since.

New interogations for Badri Alsadat Mofidi, activists and journalist

Badri AlSadat Mofidi, secretary of Iranian journalists, during a visit with her family, spoke of pressures she is facing in her interrogations.

While complaining of the rough treatment by her interrogators in prison she said : "During all these days, I have been interrogated constantly " She has been telling her family.

Her family have told HRANA, that Mrs. Mofidi has complaint of heart problems.

Reza Khanadan, neglected, despite leaving heavy bail for the last 2 weeks

Reza Khanadan, member of Writers Guild and child activist, has paid a heavy sum for his bail and yet has been refused release by authorities.
Mr Khanadn was severely tortured when he was abducted from the streets in January, and was later transferred to section 350 of Evin from 209, and has not been heard of since.
Mr Khandan has been founder of the Iranian NGO "Struggle for a world fit for children" (translated from the Farsi name)

Labor Activists-Osanlou- under immense pressure during Norwooz

Mr. Osanlou, has been sent to solitary confinement for a week during Nowrooz New Year. He was later transferred to section 5, which is known to bear, violent inmates, killers and addicts.
Mrs. Osanloع has been in prison for the past 3 years for "instigating National insecurity" and was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.

Deprived of all RIGHTS

According to regime laws, Article for "Prisoner separation", prison authorities are bound to keep separate prisoners who have completely different charges n their profiles. Mrs. Osanlou however, having been a political prisoner, has not been kept separate.

Mrs. Osanlou : " Mansoor has been in prison for the past 43 months. According to the official law, when a prisoner serves two third of his conviction time, he will undergo pardon or be re-assessed for a shorter period of serving, but Mansoor has not been able to exercise any of these officially recognized rights. Prison Doctors have also acknowledged that he is in a critical state and has to be treated outside prison, but there is an intentional reluctance to see to these needs"

Parvaneh Osanlou says that her husband is undergoing severe conditioned and is amongst prisoners who uses drugs non stop


She has reiterated that according to Officials, the Iranian Intelligence has refused to agree with her husband's permission to take leave for a few days for treatment.

"When he calls me, hew keeps coughing constantly and says life has become impossible among these drug addicts" says Mrs. Osalnlou

" Even when they do give permission to meet, it is regulations that women relatives visit on one day and men members of family and relatives the next, in this way , we can never see him together. They never accept books or anything else for him"

Mr Osanlou suffers from lung, heart and eye problems and has complaint of a critical nervous illness which has hampered his breathing as well as giving him skin disorders.

Washington Post:In Iraq's election, a defeat for Iran

Hold the fireworks for Ayad Allawi, Iraq’s former prime minister, who won his country’s election by the proverbial razor-thin margin of just two seats. It’s too early to say how --or even, if -- Allawi will be able to form the secular government of reconciliation he has promised.
But we can say one thing with certainty: The election was a stunning defeat for Iran and its spymaster, Qassem Soleimani, who commands the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Soleimiani had spent millions trying to stop an Allawi victory. He failed. If nothing else, that shows the resiliency of Iraqi nationalism, and anti-Iranian feeling, which the Shiite religious parties who have been governing Iraq these past five years failed to crush.
Soleimani and his Quds Force waged a broad covert-action campaign, according to U.S. military commanders and de-classified U.S. intelligence documents. Their first aim was to derail Allawi’s Iraqiya coalition, by using the Iran-backed De-Baathification Commission to disqualify as many candidates as possible. Allawi’s coalition howled about the commission’s arbitrary work, but Iraqiya quickly replaced most of those who were scratched.
Iran’s second tactic was to pressure Nouri al-Maliki, the current prime minister, to join an alliance of Shiite religious parties known as the Iraqi National Alliance. That would probably have guaranteed victory, but Maliki -- understanding that Iranian meddling was unpopular -- decided late last year to go it alone. He’s trying to join with those same Shiite parties now, in the hope of gaining the necessary 163 seats, but it’s probably too late.
The third Iranian tactic was to pump money to the two Shiite parties in the Iraqi National Alliance that it was supporting. A U.S. military commander told me in February that Iran was sending $9 million a month to the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq and $8 million a month to the political party of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
The election result was a setback, too, for Ahmed Chalabi, former darling of the neo-conservatives in the U.S. and now one of Iran’s best friends in Iraq. According to a de-classified intelligence document I was given in February: “Iran supports de-Baathification efforts engineered by Ahmed Chalabi for the purpose of eliminating potential obstacles to Iranian influence. Chalabi is also interested in Iran’s assistance in securing the office of prime minister.”
The document noted that Chalabi met with Soleimani in Iran last November to plan strategy. I guess there won’t be any victory parties at Chalabi’s house in the Mansour district of Baghdad this weekend.
Despite its election setbacks, Iran is sure to have influence in Iraq no matter who becomes prime minister. Even Allawi is said to have made contact with Iran before the elections to assure Iranian leaders that, while he wants Iraqi sovereignty, he won’t be hostile to his neighbor

Rights Activist Abdolreza Ahmadi Remains in Prison

After Abdolreza Ahmadi called home a few days ago to inform his family of his detention in Evin prison, and since then, there has been no further news available [on his condition].
According to a RAHANA reporter, on March 3, 2010, intelligence agents entered the house of Ahmadi’s parents after presenting a search and arrest warrant. After conducting a thorough search and seizing Ahmadi’s personal items, the agents forced the family to lure him back to the house under the pretext that his mother was in critical condition. Upon his arrival, Ahmadi was arrested and taken to Evin prison.
In the past few weeks the family has been waiting in silence hoping for his release. Their visits and attempts to seek information from the judicial authorities have been unsuccessful.
In March 2010, a significant amount of human rights activists were arrested across Iran. Following the arrests, state media began to fabricate a case against the arrested activists and called the operation the annihilation of the cyber network.
Abdolreza Ahmadi has an open history of human rights activities and is a member of the Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran. He focused his work on educating human rights, an area he was particularly attentive to. There is still no information available on Ahmadi’s charges since judicial officials have not yet released any details.
Ahmadi is the author of the Farda Roozi Keh Miayad blog (translation of blog name: tomorrow will come).
Translation by: RAHANA

Details on Hesam Firoozi’s Condition in Detention Remain Unknown

On March 3, 2010, blogger and independent human rights activist Hesam Firoozi was arrested and taken to Tehran’s Evin prison. He called his wife three days after the arrest to inform her of his detention in ward 209 of Evin prison.
Firoozi’s wife told a RAHANA reporter that since the date of the phone call, Firoozi has not contacted her, nor does she have any information on his mental or physical condition. The lack of information surrounding Firoozi’s situation has caused a lot of pain for his wife.
On March 3, 2010, intelligence agents arrested Hesam Firoozi after searching his house as well as his sister-in-law’s house (Alireza Firoozi’s mother). Firooz’s nephew Alireza was arrested on January 2, 2010 in Orumiyeh. He is is [also] currently detained in Evin. Blogger and journalist Alireza Firoozi was arrested three times in the course of 1388 (Persian calendar year ending March 20, 2010).
Translation by: RAHANA Additional editing by: Persian2English.com