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Three students of the Firdosi University in Mashhad by the names of Mehdi Khosravi, Amin Riahi and Hamid-Reza Amirkhani were sentenced to one year of prison which has been suspended for five years.
This is while Amir Riahi, the editor of the Mohavereh student publication, was severely beaten in Vakil Abad Prison. Eyewitnesses said that the reason he was beaten was for protesting to a soldier in prison…
Riahi disclosed the name of the person who beat him and said, “A soldier named Reza Bayat who was responsible for fingerprinting took me to another room and then started violently beating me for about 10 minutes. In the two or three hours that I was kept in that hall I saw at least four more beatings and two of them were carried out by Mr. Bayat”.
“After that when I was being released from prison, another soldier separated me and another political prisoner and asked us a few questions. I really did not have the ability to answer but the person next to me who decisively answered the questions was beaten and unfortunately he did not have a name tag and I do not know his name”.
These students wrote for their student publication in Mashhad’s Firdosi University and were sentenced to one year of prison on charges of propagating against the government. They were also sentenced to four semesters of suspension in 2008 for their activities in this publication. (Daneshju News – Sep. 6, 2010)
Officially organized instigated clashes in Gohardasht Prison leaves many prisoners severely injured
According to reports from Iran, on Monday September 6, at least seven prisoners were severely injured after bloody clashes in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison. Four of these prisoners were taken to hospitals outside of prison because of the severity of their injuries and are in critical condition.
One of the prisoners identified as Javad Zare was struck on the head with a sword and his eye was scooped out in the prison infirmary. Another prisoner who had a deep wound on his head was taken to a hospital outside of prison.
The clashes in these cellblocks are carried out with the instigation and encouragement of the Prison Intelligence Unit and those who participate in these clashes and attack prisoners are intelligence elements in prison and are also used in distributing drugs and suppressing prisoners.
When a clash starts in a cellblock, prison guards close the cellblock doors and let the gangs attack their victims. These attacks are carried out with the intention of fatally wounding or severely injuring the victims. Prison guards only intervene after the clashes end and start evacuating the wounded prisoners. In most cases the attackers are not held accountable and continue their crimes in the cellblocks.
The organizers of these clashes in various prison cells are Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit in this prison. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Sep. 7, 2010)
Lawyer says Iranian woman could be stoned soon; was lashed 99 times in prison
The lawyer for an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned on an adultery conviction said Monday that he and her children are worried the delayed execution could be carried out soon with the end of a moratorium on death sentences for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
In an unusual turn in the case, the lawyer also confirmed that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was lashed 99 times last week in a separate punishment meted out because a British newspaper ran a picture of an unveiled woman mistakenly identified as her. Under Iran's clerical rule, women must cover their hair in public.
With the end of Ramadan this week, the mother of two could be executed 'any moment,' said her lawyer, Javid Houtan Kian.
The sentence was put on hold in July after an international outcry over the brutality of the punishment, and it is now being reviewed by Iran's supreme court.
Ashtiani was convicted in 2006 of having an 'illicit relationship' with two men after the murder of her husband the year before and was sentenced at that time to 99 lashes. Later that year, she was also convicted of adultery and sentenced to be stoned, even though she retracted a confession that she says was made under duress.
‘The possibility of stoning still exists, any moment,' Kian told The Associated Press. 'Her stoning sentence was only delayed; it has not been lifted yet’…
After putting the stoning sentence on hold, Iran suddenly announced that the woman had also been brought to trial and convicted of playing a role in her husband's 2005 murder. Her lawyer disputes that, saying no charges against her in the killing have ever been part of her case file.
In early August, Iranian authorities broadcast a purported confession from Ashtiani on state-run television. In it, a woman identified as Ashtiani admits to being an unwitting accomplice in her husband's killing.
Kian says he believes she was tortured into confessing.
In the latest twist, authorities are said to have flogged her for the publication of a photo of a woman without her hair covered in the Times of London newspaper. The woman in the photo was misidentified as Ashtiani.
She was lashed on Thursday, Kian said, citing information from a fellow prisoner who was released last week. Kian has been allowed no direct contact with his client since last month.
‘We have no access to Ashtiani, but there is no reason for the released prisoner to lie' about the flogging, he said.
There was no official Iranian confirmation of the new punishment.
The woman's son, 22-year-old Sajjad Qaderzadeh, said he did not know whether the new lashing sentence had been carried out yet, but that he also heard about the sentence from a prisoner who recently left the Tabriz prison where his mother is being held.
‘Publishing the photo provided a judge an excuse to sentence my poor mother to 99 lashes on the charge of taking a picture unveiled,' Qaderzadeh told the AP.
The Times apologized in its Monday edition but added that the lashing 'is simply a pretext’.
‘The regime's purpose is to make Ms. Ashtiani suffer for an international campaign to save her that has exposed so much iniquity,' the newspaper said…
Ashtiani's two children remain in Iran and her son is a ticket seller for a bus company in the northern Iranian city of Tabriz. He said he and his younger sister, Farideh, 18, have not seen their mother since early August.
‘We have really missed her,' he said. 'We expect all influential bodies to help to save her’.
The Vatican on Sunday raised the possibility of using behind-the-scenes diplomacy to try to save her life as well. (AP – Sep. 6, 2010)
Political prisoner attacked by mentally ill prisoner; mentally ill prisoners jailed in prison instead of asylums
On Sunday September 4, a prisoner in cellblock 4 in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison attacked political prisoner Saleh Kohandel and tried to choke him by wrapping a shirt around his neck. Kohandel was saved by other prisoners. There are many prisoners in Rajayi Shahr Prison who are mentally unstable and jailing them in hard prison conditions deteriorated their mental illnesses and not separating mentally ill prisoners from other prisoners has led them to hurt both themselves and other prisoners.
The person who tried to choke Saleh Kohandel has been recently released from an asylum and instead of being kept in a center for the mentally ill, he was sent to Public Cellblock 2 in this prison.
Prisoners have to be checked in terms of their mental health before being accepted in prison but unfortunately there are many prisoners who are suffering from mental illnesses who sometimes inflict severe injuries to other prisoners by attacking them without reason. They sit without clothes for hours in other prisoner’s rooms or sleeping places and even kill other prisoners. There have been many forgotten mysterious deaths in this prison.
These incidents are very common in Rajayi Shahr Prison in Karaj because usually ordinary prisoners are attacked and reports of these attacks never find their way to the media. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 8, 2010)
Prison official sends prison gang to take revenge from prisoner in Gohardasht
According to reports, Abbas Tavakoli Berazjani who is jailed in cellblock 6 in Gohardasht Prion in Karaj on charges of clashing with security forces was attacked by a prison gang which struck him in the left eye and left hand with a knife severely wounding him.
On September 7 at about 2 pm a number of gang members who work as informers of prison officials in cellblock 6 attacked Abbas Tavakoli Berazjani intending to kill him.
One of the assailants was Sayid Yazdani who says he is a relative of the head of this prison Ali Haj Kazem.
Despite his severe injuries and being wounded in the eye, Abbas Tavakoli has been denied treatment under the excuse that there are no specialists in the prison. His eye can get infected.
After this attack, Abbas Tavakoli was summoned to the Prison Inspection Unit this morning and was interrogated and threatened that they would make new charges against him.
His assailants who were also in the Inspection Unit office threatened and insulted him in front of the head of the Inspection Unit, Reza Torabi. But Torabi backed the assailants and told Tavakoli that he would be transferred to the notorious cellblock 1 known as the ‘end of the line’.
Tavakoli had defended and supported jailed teacher Rasoul Badaqi when he was attacked by prison guards. He had also defended jailed Baha’i leaders who were brought to this cellblock against the insults of the prison gang and stood up to the gang.
Because of defending political prisoners who were attacked by prison guards and the prison gangs, he had been threatened a number of times by Ali Haj Kazem that if he continues defending them or if he even talks to political prisoners, he would have to face the dire consequences.
Abbas Tavakoli Berazjani was arrested in a raid to his home in 2008 by agents of the Intelligence Agency. His aunt, 50 year old Soudabeh Shadpour was shot in the neck in this attack and was severely wounded. All of his family members present in his home were arrested and were severely tortured for a long time in the Shahpour Detention Center. His brother, Amir-Hossein Tavakoli Berezjani, 33, died under the brutal torture. Agents of the Shahpour Detention Center forced his mother, Mahin Shadpour to sign a paper which said that her son had died from a lung illness and that she has no complaints.
Abbas Tavakoli was suddenly taken to court on August 17 without his chosen lawyer and was sentenced to death by branch 71 of the Penal Court headed by Norollah Aziz Mohammadi on charges of clashing with security forces. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Sep. 8, 2010)
Student activist tortured in prison to give false confessions
Abdollah Momeni, the spokesperson of the student Office for Consolidating Unity who was arrested in the post election events and is currently in prison detailed severe torture, false confessions, a show trial and also the complete absence of judicial independence in his trial in a letter to the leader of the Islamic Republic Khamenei and requested that a truth seeking committee be established to see to these issues.
This student activist is currently serving his 4 years and 11 months of prison in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison in Tehran…
In this letter, Abdollah Momeni said he was severely beaten and was choked until he passed out. His interrogator also put his head in a toilet bowl and he was kept in a solitary cell for 86 days (in a 1.6 by 2.2 meter cell). He was constantly threatened that he would be executed, and sexually harassed. Momeni was also forced to practice his false confessions before his trial. He said that the judge on his case, Abolqasem Salavati, and other judiciary officials who were involved in his trial did not have judicial independence and that interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence had too much influence in the court process which all show the political nature of his trial. (Human Rights Campaign in Iran – Sep. 9, 2010)
ابلاغ احکام حبس سه دانشجو مشهدي همراه با ضرب و شتم امين رياحي در زندان وکيل آباد مشهد
سه دانشجوي دانشگاه فردوسي مشهد به نام هاي مهدي خسروي، امين رياحي و حميد رضا اميرخاني به يک سال حبس تعزيري که به مدت پنج سال به حالت تعليق در آمده است محکوم شدند.
به گزارش دانشجونيوز، اين در حالي است که مديرمسئول نشريه محاوره، امين رياحي در زندان وکيل آباد مشهد به شدت مورد ضرب و شتم و شکنجه قرار گرفت. شاهدان علت ضرب و شتم را اعتراض او به فرياد زدن سربازان عنوان کردند...
وي با فاش کردن نام افرادي که وي را ضرب وشتم کردند به دانشجونيوز گفت: يک سرباز به نام رضا بيات که مسئول انگشت نگاري بود مرا به اتاق ديگري برد و در آن جا به شدت مرا کتک زد، کل اين زمان حدود ده دقيقه بود. من در دو سه ساعتي که در آن سالن نگهداري مي شدم حداقل چهار مورد ديگر هم ديدم که دو مورد ضرب و جرح ها به وسيله همين آقاي بيات بود. پس از آن هم وقتي داشتم از زندان مرخص مي شدم، يک سرباز ديگر من و يک زنداني سياسي ديگر را جدا کرد و از ما چند سوال پرسيد. من واقعا توان پاسخگويي نداشتم اما فرد کناري من که جواب هاي قاطع مي داد را کتک زد، متاسفانه اتيکت نداشت و نامش را متوجه نشدم.
گفتني است اين دانشجويان که در نشريات دانشجويي دانشگاه فردوسي مشهد فعاليت روزنامه نگاري مي کردند و به اتهام تبليغ عليه نظام در نشريه محاوره به يک سال زندان محکوم شدند پيش از اين در سال ۸۷ نيز به دليل فعاليت در نشريات دانشجويي به چهار ترم محروميت از تحصيل محکوم شده بودند. (دانشجو نيوز – 15/6/89)
درگيري شديد و خونين در بند 1 زندان گوهردشت کرج
بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران" صبح روز دوشنبه 15 شهريور ماه در طي يک درگيري خونيني که در بند 1 زندان گوهردشت کرج روي داد . حداقل 7 نفر از زندانيان بشدت زخمي شدند. چهار نفر از زخمي شدگان به دليل شدت جراحات و قرار گرفتن در شرايط حاد جسمي به بيمارستانهاي خارج از زندان منتقل شدند.
يکي از زندانيان بنام جواد زارع بر اثر وارد شدن ضربه شمشير بصورتش پس از انتقال به بهداري زندان يکي از چشمان او را تخليه کردند. يکي ديگر از زندانيان سر او زخم عميقي برداشته بود که به خارج زندان منتقل شد.
درگيريهاي که در بندها روي ميدهد به تحريک و تشويق اطلاعات زندان صورت مي گيرد و افرادي را که در اين درگيريها شرکت مي کنند و به زندانيان يورش مي برند از عوامل اطلاعات زندان مي باشند که در پخش مواد مخدر و سرکوب زندانيان بکار برده مي شوند.
هنگامي که در بند درگيري روي ميدهد پاسداربندها دربهاي بند را مي بندند و به باندهاي مافيايي اجازه مي دهند با دست باز به قربانيان خود حمله کنند اين حملات به قصد کشت و يا از دور خارج کردن قرباني صورت مي گيرد.پاسداربندها پس از پايان درگيري دخالت مي کنند و اقدام به تخليه زخمي شدگان مي نمايند و در اکثر مواقع حمله کنندگان مورد بازخواست قرار نمي گيرند و به جنايتهاي خود در بند ادامه مي دهند.
سازمان دهندگان درگيريهاي خونين در بندهاي مختلف زندان گوهردشت کرج کرماني و فرجي رئيس و معاون اطلاعات زندان مي باشند. (فعالين حقوق بشر ودمكراسي در ايران – 16/6/89)
وكيل: رژيم ايران روز پنجشنبه خانم سكينه آشتيانى را 99 ضربه شلاق زده است
در يك چرخش غيرمعمول در پرونده خانم سكينه آشتيانى، وكيل وى تائيد كرد كه هفته گذشته موكل وى را در زندان 99 ضربه شلاق زدهاند.
اين مجازات به دليل چاپ عكس بدون روسرى در يك روزنامه انگليسى صورت گرفته است كه به اشتباه ، اين روزنامه صاحب عكس را سكينه محمدى آشتيانى قيد كرده بود .
جواد هوتان كيان وكيل اين مادر صاحب دو فرزند گفت، بعد از اتمام ماه رمضان در اين هفته، وى مىتواند ”هر لحظه ”مواجه با اجراى حكم سنگسار باشد…
در آخرين تحول پيچيده در موضوع پرونده خانم آشتيانى گفته شده است كه مقامات ايران وى را به دليل عكس بدون روسرى چاپ شده در روزنامه تايمز لندن شلاق زدهاند. اين عكس اشتباها به او نسبت داده شده بود.
وكيل وى جواد هوتان كيان گفت، بر اساس گفته يك زنداني آزاد شده در هفته قبل، خانم آشتياني را روز پنجشنبه شلاق زدهاند. فرد آزاد شده، با وى در زندان بوده است.
او گفت ”ما دسترسى به خانم آشتيانى نداريم ولى دليلى ندارد كه يك زندانى آزاد شده دروغ بگويد ”.
در رابطه با اين موضوع، موضعگيرى رسمى از طرف مقامات ايراني انجام نشده است… .
روزنامه تايمز روز دوشنبه در رابطه با چاپ عكس اشتباهٴ معذرت خواهى نمود…
روزنامه تايمز نوشت ”هدف رژيم ايران اين است كه خانم آشتيانى را از بابت كمپين بينالمللى انجام شده مورد آزار و اذيت قرار بدهد… “ …
فرزندان خانم آشتيانى در ايران هستند و پسر وى فروشنده بليط در يك شركت اتوبوس در شهر تبريز مىباشد. او گفت وى و خواهرش فريده كه 18سال دارد مادر خود را از اوايل اوت تابحال ملاقات نكردهاند… (آسوشيتدپرس- 15/6/89)
حمله يک زنداني رواني به صالح کهن دل در زندان رجايي شهر
http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/3849-1.html
روز يکشنبه 14 شهريور ماه يکي از زندانيان محبوس در بند 4 زندان رجايي شهر با حمله و هجوم به آقاي صالح کهندل و با انداختن پيراهن بر گردن اين زنداني، قصد خفه کردن و کشتن او را داشت که با سر رسيدن چند زنداني از وقوع يک فاجعه جلوگيري شد و اين زنداني از خطر مرگ نجات يافت. به گزارش کمپين صالح کهن دل، در ميان زندانيان رجايي شهر آنهايي که علايم اختلال مشاعر را بروز ميدهند به وفور ديده ميشوند و محبوس بودن آنها و شرايط سخت زندان موجب تشِِّديد ناهنجاريهاي رواني دراين زندانيان بيمار ميگردد و عدم جداسازي زندانيان مبتلا به بيماريهاي رواني، آسيب رساندن به خود و ديگران را در اين زندان تشّديد ميدهد.
فردي که صالح کهندل را در معرض خطر مرگ قرار داد به تازگي از بيمارستان رواني مرخص شده بود و به جاي نگهداري در مراکز حفاظت شده ويژه بيماران رواني به بند عمومي 4 اين زندان فرستاده شده بود.
بررسي سلامتي زندانيان قبل از ورود آنها به بند بايد توسط پزشکان تائيد شود ولي متأسفانه شرايط و وضعيت در زندان جور ديگري است، زندانيان زيادي از اختلالات رواني رنج ميبرند و گاهي با حمله و هجوم بيدليل به همبندان خود باعث بروز صدمات جّدي ميشوند و زندانيان را به راحتي دچار نقض عضو ميکنند، ساعتها و روزها برهنه در اتاق يا در محل خواب ديگران مينشينند و گاهي هم اقدام به کُشتن ديگران ميکنند . مرگهاي مرموز در اين زندان فراموش شده حقوق بشر کم نبودند.
لازم به ذکر است، اين اتفاقات در رجايي شهر کرج بسيار عادي و معمولي است و چون غالباً براي زندانيان عادي اين مسائل پيش ميآيد هيچگاه رسانهاي نميشود و انعکاس نمييابد. (هرانا – 17/6/89)
يورش باند مافياي علي حاج کاظم به يکي از مدافعين زندانيان سياسي در زندان گوهردشت کرج
http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_1004.html
بنابه گزارشات رسيده به "فعالين حقوق بشر و دمکراسي در ايران" زنداني عباس توکلي برازجاني که به جرم درگيري با نيروي انتظامي در بند 6 زندان گوهردشت کرج زنداني است مورد يورش باند مافيايي زندان قرار گرفت و از ناحيۀ قرنيه چشم چپ و دست چپ مورد اصابت چاقوي مهاجمين قرار گرفت و بشدت زخمي شد.
روز گذشته 16 شهريورماه حوالي ساعت 14:00 بعد از ظهر چند تن از باند مافياي و از خبرچينهاي علي حاج کاظم در بند 6 زندان گوهردشت کرج به زنداني عباس توکلي برازجاني يورش بردند و قصد قتل او را داشتند.مهاجمين با چاقو به وي حمله ور شدند. يکي از مهاجميني که آقاي توکلي را مورد تهاجم قرار داد فردي بنام سعيد يزداني است که بنابه گفته خودش از بستگان علي حاج کاظم رئيس زندان گوهردشت کرج مي باشد.
عليرغم جراحت عميق دست او در اثر ضربه چاقوي مهاجمين و زخمي شدن قرنيه چشم چپش اما از درمان وي به بهانه نبود متخصص خوداري کردند. خطر جدي وجود دارد که چشم او دچار عفونت شود.
در پي حمله ديروز به زنداني عباس توکلي ،صبح امروز 17 شهريور ماه او را به بازرسي زندان فراخواندند و مدت طولاني وي را مورد بازجويي و تهيدد به تشکيل پرونده جديد نمودند. مهاجمين که در دفتر بازرسي زندان حاضر شده بودند در مقابل چشمان رئيس بازرسي زندان( رضا ترابي) آقاي توکلي را مورد تهديد و توهين قرار دادند. ولي رضا ترابي به حمايت از مهاجمين برخواست و از آنها دفاع کرد و به آقاي توکلي اعلام کرد که او را به بند1 معروف به بند آخر خطيها منتقل خواهد کرد.
آقاي توکلي در جريان يورش پاسدار بندها و بخصوص افسر کشيک پاسدار اکبري سليم معروف به شيخ به معلم زنداني رسول بداقي به دفاع از او برخواست و از وي حمايت نمود. او همچنين هنگامي که رهبران بهايي را به اين بند منتقل کرده بودند و باند مافياي قصد توهين به آنها را داشت به دفاع از آنها بر خواست و قطعانه در مقابل توهينهاي باند مافياي زندان از رهبران بهايي دفاع نمود.
به دليل دفاع از زندانيان سياسي که مورد تهاجم پاسداربندها و باندهاي مافياي قرار گرفته بودند او چند بار توسط اطلاعات زندان و بازرسي و حتي توسط علي حاج کاظم مورد بازخواست قرار گرفته بود و وي را تهديد کرده بودند که در صورت دفاع و يا هم صحبتي با زندانيان سياسي عواقب وخيمي متوجهش خواهد شد.
لازم به يادآوري است که زنداني عباس توکلي برازجاني در سال 1387 در پي يورش مامورين نيروي انتظامي به منزلشان و شليک گلول به گردن خاله اش ،خانم سودابه شادپور 50 ساله که بشدت زخمي شده بود.همراه با تمامي اعضاي خانواده اش دستگير و براي مدت طولاني در آگاهي شاهپور تحت شکنجه هاي وحشيانه قرار گرفتند. برادرش امير حسين توکلي برازجاني 33 ساله در زير شکنجه هاي وحشيانه به قتل رسيد.مامورين آگاهي شاهپور، خانم مهين شادپور 62 ساله( مادر عباس و حسين توکلي) را وادار کردند که برگه اي امضاء کند که در آن ذکر شده است که فرزندش در اثر نارحتي ريه فوت کرده است و از کسي شکايتي ندارد واز او رضايت گرفتند. زنداني عباس توکلي 26 مرداد ماه بطور ناگهاني بدون داشتن وکيل انتخابي به شعبه 71 کيفري برده شد و توسط فردي بنام نورالله عزيزمحمدي به اتهام درگيري با نيروي انتظامي محاکمه و به مرگ محکوم شد. (فعالين حقوق بشر ودمكراسي در ايران – 17/6/89)
روايت تکان دهنده عبدالله مومني از شکنجه ها و اعتراف گيري در زندان
عبدالله مومني، سخنگوي سازمان دانشجويي ادوار تحکيم وحدت که در جريان حوادث بعد از انتخابات بازداشت و اکنون در زندان به سر مي برد، طي نامه اي از زندان اوين خطاب به رهبر جمهوري اسلامي، مطالبي را در خصوص شکنجه شديد، اعترافات ساختگي و محاکمه نمايشي خود، و همچنين فقدان کامل استقلال قضايي در محاکمه اش شرح داده و خواستار تشکيل يک کميته حقيقت ياب پيرامون رخدادهاي صورت گرفته شد.
اين فعال دانشجويي هم اکنون در حال گذراندن محکوميت ۴ سال و ۱۱ ماه خويش در بند ۳۵۰ زندان اوين تهران است...
در اين نامه، عبدالله مومني ازضرب و جرح شديد، اقدام به خفه کردن تا حد بيهوشي، و نگهداشتن سر وي در کاسهء توالت توسط بازجويانش، حبس در سلول انفرادي براي ۸۶ روز (در يک سلول ۱٫۶ متر در ۲٫۲ متري)، تهديد مکرر به اعدام ، تهديد به آزار واذيت جنسي، وادار شدن توسط بازجويانش براي تمرين اعترافات ساختگي قبل از جلسهء دادگاه، و فقدان کامل استقلال توسط قاضي پرونده اش، ابوالقاسم صلواتي، و ساير مقامات قوهء قضاييه که دست اندرکار محاکمهء وي بوده اند و همچنين نفوذ بي حد بازجويان و ماموران اطلاعاتي در روند محاکمهء وي که همگي بيانگر ماهيت سياسي اين محاکمه است سخن مي گويد. (کمپين بين المللي حقوق بشر در – 18/6/89)
