Iranian regime hangs one man, amputates limbs of another

AFP
Iran has publicly hanged a man and amputated the limbs of another for armed robbery in the southern town of Mahshahr, the government newspaper Iran reported on Wednesday.
The two along with a third man had resorted to hijacking trucks and stealing their shipments, the report said.
The man executed on Tuesday in a public square in Mahshahr was identified only by his first name, Adnan.'The amputation of a hand and leg of the other member of the group was carried out in prison,' Mahshahr prosecutor Reza Abolhasani told the paper without giving further details.

45 bodies of secretly executed Afghan prisoners returned to Afghanistan

Human Rights Activists in Iran
The execution of a group of Afghan prisoners in Iran has been met with a serious reaction from members of the Afghanistan parliament.
According to this report, a number of Afghanistan MPs have said in parliament that in the past 3 days, the bodies of 45 executed Afghan prisoners in Iran were returned to Afghanistan via the Islam Qal'eh border region…Despite this, the Afghanistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs claims that only three Afghan prisoners were executed in Iran. The disclosure of the hanging of 45 Afghans has led Fada Hossein Maleki, the Afghan Foreign Affairs Minister, to summon the Iranian Ambassador in Kabul for explanations.

Iranian Minister: Mahsooli,Former rapist of poltical prisoners during the 80s

This is a translation of a Note under the picture showing Ahmadi Nejad and the present State Interior Minister Mahsooli:

Photo showing Sadegh Mahsooli

and Ahmadi,

during the killings

of Political prisoners in Evin

(1980) as torturers and

interrogators where

they used to wed virgin

political prisoners before

death and rape them:

" so as to prevent their souls from going to heaven".

This is from testimony of witnesses , elderly mothers who have themselves identifies the two, as the same ones

"Coming at their doorsteps the

day after the execution of their

beloved ones,
telling them that they are their "Son in law"!"

, giving them a box of pastry to celebrate the betrothal.

Freedom prize for Iranian blogger

Guardian on line:

Jila Bani Yaghoob, an Iranian journalist-blogger and women's rights activist, has been awarded a freedom of expression award by the global press watchdog, Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Her blog, We are journalists, which records news and social issues, particularly those affecting women, has placed her "in the forefront of the struggle for freedom of expression in her country," says RSF.
Bani Yaghoob and her husband, Bahaman Ahamadi Amoee, were arrested in June last year with other journalists during the demonstrations that followed the contested re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as Iranian president. She was freed in August but her husband was sentenced to five years in prison.
Bani Yaghoub's career has been marked by intimidation and abusive arrests intended to silence her. But she has never bowed to the pressure from the Iranian authorities. She has produced more than 4,000 reports on sensitive issues, such as schooling of women, prostitution, Aids-sufferers, suicide among young people, but also the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon.

Extramarital sex leads to earthquakes: Iran cleric!!!

OneIndia News

Tehran, Apr 17: An Iranian cleric has proclaimed that inappropriately dress women leading to extramarital affairs are the resons behind the devastating earthquakes that frequently rattle the country

Speaking to worshipped at the Friday prayers here on Apr 16, senior cleric Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi said, "Many women who dress inappropriately ... cause youths to go astray, taint their chastity and incite extramarital sex in society, which increases earthquakes.""Calamities are the result of people's deeds...We have no way but conform to Islam to ward off dangers," the teligious leader is quoted as saying in newspaper reports.

The Islamic laws prescribe a strict dress code for women. Females are expected to cover hair and bodily contours in public or face punishment and fine.However, the cleric was probably referring to the women who appear on the streets with well-fitted clothes and layers of make-up as the evil forces behind the natural calamities.

etter urges UN Secretary General to take action to protect Ashra

NCRI

Following the assault on Camp Ashraf residents and its buildings on midnight Thursday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi (Known Political opposition figure) wrote a letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, urging immediate UN action to protect Ashraf residents.
Text of the letter follows.

Honorable Ban Ki-moonSecretary General of the United Nations

Dear Secretary General,

I am writing this letter to draw your esteemed attention to an urgent
threat to the lives and safety of the residents of Camp Ashraf, Iraq, who are
members of the Iranian opposition, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran
(PMOI), and to request your immediate intervention to ensure their protection.At
11:30 pm (local time), Thursday, April 15, Iraqi forces attacked the residents
and tried to occupy the buildings inside the Camp's main gate, in an attempt to
lend support to operatives dispatched to Camp Ashraf's main gate by the Iranian
Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Islamic Revolutionary
Guards Corps' terrorist Qods Force.For the past 70 days, these agents, enjoying
the full support of the Iraqi government and the Iraqi Committee to Suppress
Ashraf in the Iraqi Prime Minister's office as well as the Iraqi forces, have
camped out at Ashraf's main gate, threatening the residents round-the-clock with
"setting the camp on fire," and "killing" the Mojahedin. Using powerful
loudspeakers and amplifiers, they have been disrupting the residents' sleep and
tranquility.

As the Iranian Resistance has declared repeatedly over the past few months,
these actions amount to psychological torture as well as provocation and
creating chaos in order to set the stage for an even bigger humanitarian
catastrophe than the one on July 28 and 29, 2009.

Around midnight Thursday, while the Iranian regime's agents were continuing
to shout profanities and threatening the residents of Ashraf through their
loudspeakers, an Iraqi Colonel and Captain, named Ali and Jawad, ordered the
residents of Ashraf that loudspeakers on PMOI buildings inside the Camp
broadcasting music, had been ordered turned off by the Iraqi government within
10 minutes, so that what the agents' chants could be heard all over the
camp.

They said that if the order was not complied with, they would use
force to occupy the buildings inside the main gate of Ashraf.The residents asked
that the loudspeakers for the Iranian regime's agents be turned off as
well.

Iraqi commanders told them that on orders of the government, the
agents were free to broadcast any program, but Ashraf residents were not allowed
to do so. At the same time, a large number of armed Iraqi forces, some equipped
with sticks, clubs daggers and batons, backed up by five armored Humvees entered
Ashraf and threatened to shoot and kill the residents.

These forces subsequently beat up the residents, using electric and shock
batons as well as iron bars. Five residents, Karim Gomasaee, Mehdi Abdol-Rahimi,
Azim Mishmast, Rahim Sohrabi and Khaled Shah Karami, were injured and taken to
hospital.

The assailants tired to take a number of the residents hostage as
they had done in July. They attempted to drag away one of the female residents,
but were unable to do so after she resisted and other residents protested.

Around 3:00 am, the Iraqi forces left Ashraf after protests and chants by
the residents.The incident last night serves as a new warning, demonstrating
that not only the Iraqi government is unqualified, unable and unwilling to
protect Ashraf, but, on the contrary, influenced by the Iranian regime and
acting on its behest, it continues to conspire against the residents and is
trying to suppress and eliminate them.

In view of the parliamentary elections and the uncertain political
situation in Iraq, the Iraqi government has stepped up its efforts in this
regard.The Committee formed in the Prime Minister's office last year, is acting
on the orders of the Iranian regime's embassy.

In a letter to the Iraqi Prime Minister on December 2, 2009, a copy of
which was provided to the residents of Ashraf, Vice President of the European
Parliament wrote "The committee formed at your office known as 'Committee to
Close Down Ashraf' is a suppressive apparatus pursuing the aims of the Iranian
regime."

In a statement yesterday, the Iranian Resistance revealed, "Reports sent by
the Iranian regime's embassy in Baghdad to the terrorist Qods Force and the
regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) reveal that Iraqi Prime
Minister’s office and the Iraqi Army battalion stationed at Ashraf are
cooperating fully with the MOIS agents camped out at Ashraf’s main gate ..

The Commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 37th Brigade of the 9th Division
of the Iraqi Army and the battalion's chain of command, supposedly responsible
for protection of Ashraf residents, are providing logistical support to the MOIS
agents posing as families of Ashraf residents…

In the past two months, the battalion commander, his deputy, two officers
of the Iraqi Army's intelligence branch and two other battalion officers are
also helping them."You no doubt confirm that these actions are a manifest case
of systematic psychological torture and the violation of many international laws
and conventions, including provisions of international humanitarian law and the
United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading
Treatment or Punishment.

Because the conduct of the Iraqi government and forces as well as the
stated goal of the Iranian regime to massacre the residents of Ashraf
undoubtedly constitute a case of crime against humanity, the time has come that
as a staunch advocate of the Responsibility to Protect and in order to defend
the basic rights of the residents of Ashraf which have been blatantly violated
in the past 15 months, you undertake the necessary measures to ensure the
protection of the defenseless residents of Ashraf.

I assure you, Mr. Secretary General, of the expression of my highest
regards

Maryam Rajavi

Prisoner Artin Ghazanfari Suffers from Lung Infection

The trial of Baha’i citizen Artin Ghazanfari was held without his presence on April 13, 2010. Ghazanfari was arrested on April 10th, 2010, one week after his release on bail.

According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), Ghazanfari suffers from a lung infection caused by medical neglect, and according to his doctor, the infection has now spilled into his blood stream. He became ill in Evin prison during Norooz and was not able to visit the prison doctor because the clinic remained closed for the holidays.
Ghazanfari was held in solitary confinement for two months and was subjected to harsh pressures by his interrogators.
Gazanfari was released on bail on April 2, 2010 and received medical treatment outside prison. On April 10, 2010, one week after his release, Ghazanfari was informed that his release was a mistake and his case needs to be further investigated. However, Ghazanfari was guaranteed that the process would be complete within 48 hours and then he may be released on bail.
Artin Ghazanfari was initially arrested on January 3, 2010, along with twelve other Baha’is. The interrogators have tried to prevent their release despite orders issued by the presiding jud