3 People were executed in Iran in the past couple days

According to rojhelat.nu, Iranian government executed 3 people in iran in the past couple days.

• Selah Abedini that was held in Urmiye Prison, was executed today at the morning time. He was convicted of drug-dealing. he had been held in the prison since 2009 and was transferred to a quarantine yesterday afternoon. He was executed at the dawn time today.

• another prisoner held in Khoremdere Detention in Zanjan province, was executed yesterday morning. He was convicted of killing security personnel.

Including these cases, 515 people have executed in Iran since the beginning of 2011.

308 religious missionaries to be sent to Sine province by the Iranian Government to weaken the Kurdish movement

rojhelat.nu stated that, Although Iranian regime has established numbers of Islamic groups in East Kurdistan, to develop political Islam in the region, nonetheless, they have also commissioned 308 religions missionaries in different districts of Sine province.
Walliollah Masaebi, deputy minister of Islamic Propagation stated that they will send 115 female and 193 male religious missionaries to the different areas of Sine province.
He also said that such missionaries will be coming from Qom, religious city, and will be sent to the cities of Kamyaran, Qurwe, Bicar and Bane.
It should be noted that such a project would incur a substantial budget. Political analysts believe that the main reason for such a project is to target the culture of Kurdish society.

2 Kurdish Workers killed and 2 wounded by Iranian Government Forces

According to rojhelat.nu, 2 Kurdish workers by the names of Hamid Diwale and Rehmet Nesale came under the gunfire of the Iranian soldiers in Casusan of Serdesht city, and both were seriously injured. eye witness said that Iranian soldiers set their vehicle on fire and destroyed their car .

Also 2 other Kurdish workers by the names of :  Tofiq Haci Mistefa and Selim Ezizi,from kurdish city of banah were trapped in ambush of Iranian soldiers set in between Sersol and Zele areas. Soldiers opened fire on the workers as they were trapped in the ambush and killed them both on the spot. It should be noted that a brother of Selim Ezizi, who was working on the border regions, was also killed by the gunfire of the Iranian soldiers.

Human Right Report on East Kurdistan (Iranian occupied part of Kurdistan)

The Link below is the Human right report of 2011 on East Kurdistan ( Iranian Occupied part of Kurdistan)


The Report

Save Lughman Moradi and Zanyar Moradi by signing this petition

The Iranian regime is continuing its unjust and unprecedented crime against Kurdish political Activists and ready to yet commit another crime!

After recent execution of - Farzad Kamangar, Shirin Alem Holy, Ali Heidarian, Hossein Khezri, Farhad Vekili and Mehdi Islamian - the regime now punished Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi with death sentences issued in public hanging !

They are accused of murdering the son of the Friday Mass Imam in Marivan and "enmity against God and corruption of the earth."

Gunmen killed the victim along with two other people on July 4, 2009. The court maintains that the operation was carried out “with the support of the British intelligence service.”

Both stated later, opposite to the human rights organization CDPP, that they were forced to admit to the murder under torture and sexual abuse.

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Death Penalty Upheld for Two Kurdish Political Prisoners by the Iranian government

HRANA News Agency – The Supreme Court has upheld the death penalty for two Kurdish political prisoners locked up in Rajai-Shahr Prison. Both prisoners, Zanyar Moradi and Lughman Moradi, have been verbally notified of the Supreme Court’s ruling.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the public defender assigned to these cases was unable to confirm the ruling although his clients have already been notified verbally by the authorities.

Zanyar Moradi and Lughman Moradi have been accused of killing the son of Friday Prayer Imam in Marivan and two members of his entourage on the orders of the British Secret Intelligence Services (MI6) and with the help of a Kurdish political party. After their confessions were aired on the state television, Judge Abolqasem Salvati presiding over the Revolutionary Court, Branch 15, sentenced them to be hanged in public.

When Zanyar Moradi and Lughman Moradi were transferred to Rajai-Shahr Prison, they wrote a letter detailing the account of physical tortures endured by them in prison and declared the confessions false and void since they were obtained under means of torture. In their letter, Zanyar Moradi and Lughman Moradi further explained that in addition to being severely tortured, they were threatened to be raped using a bottle if they didn’t confess to the crime.

480 Prisoners Hanged From October 2010 to October 2011 by the Iranian Government

HRANA News Agency – The Statistics and Publications Unit of Human Rights Activists in Iran has reported that from October 2010 to October 2011, 480 individuals charged with various crimes have been hanged in Iran. During the same period of time, there have been 641 prisoners sentenced to death and 46 individuals hanged in public.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the majority of prisoners who received the death penalty were charged with drug related crimes. It is also noteworthy that Iranian Judiciary Branch neither officially announces the majority of death sentences when they are issued nor the time when they are carried out.

Since the beginning of 2011, 478 individuals have been sentenced to die, and the death penalties for 422 of these prisoners have been carried out. If there are no more hangings in the remaining days of 2011, the number of hanging in the current year will be 22% less than last year.

Analyzing the data further, the Statistics and Publications Unit has reported that since the beginning of the current Persian year (March 2011), 442 individuals have been sentenced to die, and 253 prisoners have been hanged. Amongst those executed, 39 individuals were hanged in public. In comparison to the same period of time last year, executions have increased 45%.

During the last twelve months, the relative frequency of death sentences carried out is mostly related to narcotics, murder, rape and theft in the order listed. Amongst those executed, there were 12 women. Furthermore, the majority of drug related death penalties have been issued in eastern provinces of Iran where narcotics are smuggled into the country from Afghanistan.

Baluchi Teenager Exiled & Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison by the Iranian Government

HRANA News Agency - Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi has been sentenced to 5 years in prison by the Revolutionary Court in Zahedan, Sistan and Baluchestan Province. He is a Baluchi teenager arrested by Iranian Intelligence Agency in order to force his oldest brother to return to Iran. Abdol Rahman, Mohammad’s brother, fled the country in 2009 fearing for his life after he refused to be the Intelligence Agency’s spy amongst Sunni scholars and Baluchi tribes.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi was arrested when he was 17 years old and has been in prison for over a year in the Intelligence Agency’s detention center and the central prison in Zahedan. The Revolutionary Court has sentenced him to 5 years in prison. He must serve this prison term in exile.

One of Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi's brothers has reported that Mohammad must spend 5 years in Ardabil Prison away from his family and their residence. The city of Ardabil is in northwestern Iran in Ardabil Province while Zahedan is a city in the south east part of the country. Because of the long distance between two locations, Mohammad will be practically denied visits from his family at the age of eighteen.

During the past year, Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi has also been denied the right to attend school. His only crime is being related to his brother who is outside the country. Iranian Intelligence Agency has threatened Mohammad’s family multiple times with executing him if his oldest brother doesn’t return to Iran.

Mohammad Saber Malek Raisi is one the youngest prisoners arrested for political reasons by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

3 Kurdish deputies facing 150 years prison sentences by the Turkish Government

Kurdish deputies entered Turkish parliament in the hope of finding a peaceful solution but three cases opened against them demanding 150 years imprisonment for Leyla Zana, Nursel Aydogan and Aysel Tugluk on grounds of the speeches they made before the elections and during funeral ceremonies of a guerrilla.

The accusations issued by Amed (Diyarbakir) Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and accepted by the Special Authorized 7th High Criminal Court demanded 45 years in prison for Leyla Zana on charges of "spreading propaganda for the organization” for four times, “opposing the law on meetings and demonstrations” for two times and “committing a crime on behalf of the organization despite not being a member of the organization”.

While the accusation against Diyarbakir deputy Nursel Aydogan claimed that Aydogan committed crime in four activities she took part in and demanded up to a total of 72 years imprisonment for Aydogan who was charged with "spreading propaganda for the organization” and “committing a crime on behalf of the organization despite not being a member of the organization” for four times.

Van Independent MP Aysel Tugluk was also charged with the same accusations on the grounds of joining the funeral ceremony of a guerrilla in Ergan district of Amed. Up to 33 years imprisonment is demanded for Tugluk.

The trials of three deputies are expected to start at the 7th High Criminal Court of Amed in the coming days.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1684-3-kurdish-deputies-facing-150-years-prison-sentences

56 kurdish religious figures sentenced Cumulatively to 164 years imprisonment

According to the local sources, 56 Kurdish religious figures were sentenced to 164 years imprisonment by the Iranian Revolution Court.
The imprisoned are mostly the religious figures from a branch of Wehabi who are Sunni Muslims. They are from the cities of Seqez, Mehabad, Serdesht, Bokan, Sine, Cwanro, Piranshar and Shino.
They were accused of having connection with the fundamentalist Wehabi branch that is located and supported by Saudi Arabia.
Kurds in Iran are not only racially distinct from the ruling ethnic group, but also religiously distinct. Most of Kurds are Sunni Muslims and exposed to discrimination. Being a different ethnic group and having different religion would mean receiving double discrimination on the respecting grounds.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1685-56-religious-figures-sentenced-to-164-years-imprisonment-

Iranian Government distributes drugs in South Kurdistan

The Iranian regime has distributed substantial amounts of drugs in the East of Kurdistan and now is trying to do the same in the South of Kurdistan.
A band of 11 people, distributing drugs were arrested two days ago on 11th Oct in Hewler (Erbil), the capital city of Kurdish Regional Government.
They were under the control of Intelligence Service of KRG for more than 6 months. The members of this band were originally Iranians.
A few days earlier, 9th Oct, another band was arrested in Sulemani, 2 of them were originally Turkish and another was Iranian.
On September this year 2 more bands of distributing drugs were arrested in Xaneqin while they were spreading drugs among Kurds.
The Iranian authorities transport the drugs such as cannabis, heroin, hashish and some others through the artificial Kurdish borders of east and south of Kurdistan, especially through Xaneqin.
In conjunction to this, 56 Iranians were arrested in 2009 in South of Kurdistan and 69 were arrested on 2010 relating to the same matter.
The Kurds in Iran have been exposed to take drugs systematically by the regime, plunging a vast numbers of Kurds into drug addiction. However, this is not enough in the eyes of the Iranian regime and now it is aiming to plunge people from South Kurdistan.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1689-iran-distributes-drugs-in-south-kurdistan

Kurds in Ireland protest against assassination of Mish’al at-Tammo

Kurdish community in Ireland protested against the assassination of the Kurdish prominent politicians Mish'al at-Tammo by the agents of Syrian government on last Friday.
The protest was held outside of the European Union House. Slogans were chanted in support of Mish’al at-Tammo and the Kurdish resistance movement.
This is not the first time that the Kurdish people and their representatives are targeted by the occupying powers of Kurdistan. The history of Kurdish people has witnessed countless instances of killing, murder, and slaughters.
Since the division of Kurdistan between the oppressive states of Syria, Turkey, Iran and Iraq the Kurdish people have always been subjected to the colonialist rules of these aggressive regimes.
The Western powers that played important role in the division of Kurdistan are preoccupied with developing their own economic interests and enhancing their political position in the region; they never happened to break their silence in the face of such atrocities wreaked upon the Kurds.
Kurdish people in Syria are treated like refugees in their homeland as they are denied Syrian citizenship. Some Kurds are even unable to obtain travel document. The Kurds are not allowed to marry Syrian woman and if they do so their marriage is not legally recognized. Kurdish people have no access to private property and can’t own land, housing or business.
Mish’al at-Tammo was resisting such oppressive policies and fighting for the right of Kurdish people in Syria but he was assassinated by the agents of Syrian government.
Kurdish community in Ireland condemned his assassination in the strongest possible manners and calls upon the European Union to stop staying silent in the face of the massacre of the Kurdish people by the occupying powers of Kurdistan.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1691-kurds-in-ireland-protest-against-assassination-of-mishal-at-tammo

Executions Continues in all Around iran by the Iranian Government

According to to http://www.rojhelat.info ,. 4 people were hanged in public by the Iranian Authorities, local sources reported. The victims were executed in public in the city of Khomeini Shahr on 12th October, on the ground of sexual abuse.
Several people had sexually abused a few visitors who travelled to Khomeini Shahr, on May 2011. Some people were arrested in conjunction to this affair. Four of them were executed yesterday, 12th Oct, in the public.

also, 3 people were executed in Simnan Prison on yesterday at the early morning hours, General Publication of Siman Court announced.
The victims were from the cities of Nishaboor, Mashhad and Torbat-heidaria and their alleged charge was dealing drugs.


executions in Iran continues and these executions brings the number of executions from the beginning of 2011 to more then 480 executions. this number is from those executions that we know of, there are many more executions that is taking place secretly

Execution of six in Kurdish city of Orumye by the Iranian Government

According to freedomessenger.com, The Iranian regime, in continuing the wave of repression and increasing executions, has executed 6 others in Orumieh prison on Monday October 10.
The names of six victims who were hanged on Monday are:
Farhad Islam-Doust
Mohammad Jangali
Jamal Sheikh-Zadeh
Farhad Khalkeh
Reza Khalkeh
Dehghan Salamati.

In addition, the Iranian regime has tortured the prisoners in groups and in front of each other to create fear and intimidation.
The regime’s tortures took 12 prisoners out of the ward and transferred them to the prison’s information office. They forced the prisoners to go through the guards who were equipped with plastic batons and sticks.
While passing through the tunnel of guards, the prisoners were beaten and injured by the blows of the guards’ batons and sticks. The prisons’ deputy, Ali Ameri, and The prison’s information chief, Akbar Shahabi, ordered and supervised these brutal actions.

source: http://www.freedomessenger.com/archives/39096

4 Kurds were killed at funeral of Kurdish politician by the Syrian government

Kurdish politician Mish'al at-Tammo was shot dead on Friday evening in the city of Qamishlu. According to local sources Fifty-thousand people attended his funeral.
Two to four people are reported to have been killed in the funeral and as far as 12 people are reported wounded.
Activists and residents at Qamishlu said that gunmen had attacked the residence home in the city and shot at-Tammo dead before his corpse was moved to Faraman private Hospital in Qamishlu.

They also added that Mr Tammo's son, Marcel, is in intensive care and is suffering from fatal injuries as he was accompanied his father at the time the attack took place.

source:http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1675-four-people-killed-at-funeral-of-kurdish-politician

3895 Kurds Arrested in 30 Months and now there are 7748 kurds in Custody of Turkish Government

According to bianet.org, 10 elected mayors, 8 mayor assistants, 2 deputy mayors, 2 former mayors, 2  provincial general assembly presidents, 4 provincial general assembly vice presidents and 29 municipality council members are currently in prison in Turkey.
The Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) announced the number of people taken into custody and being arrested in the course of the so-called KCK operations since April 2009.
The Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK) intends to organize the Kurdish people and also includes the armed outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
According to the announcement of the BDP, 7748 party executives and employees were taken into custody and 3895 were arrested between 14 April 2009 and 6 October 2011.

1548 people in custody throughout the past six months

Based on the figures published by the BDP, only within the past six months, 4148 persons were taken into police custody and 1548 people were arrested:
* 2 provincial general assembly presidents and 4 provincial general assembly vice presidents are detained.
* 29 members of municipality councils are detained.
* 10 mayors are detained, 1 mayor is in police custody.
* 8 mayor assistants, 2 deputy mayors and 2 former mayors are detained.
* 30 people were arrested, among them 1 party assembly member and 1 member of the central steering board (MYK), in the scope of raids in Izmir on 23 September 2011.

Detentions and arrests during the past month

* 47 persons, 3 of whom were mayors, were arrested during searches in Şırnak on 22 September.
* 31 people were taken into custody in the course of raids in Diyarbakır on 2/3 October including two MYK members, one of them a general accountant, 1 co-chair deputy, 5 provincial steering board members, 1 provincial chair assistant, 1 mayor assistant, 1 municipality council member and 1 provincial general assembly member. The whole group is still in custody.
* The Mayor of Derik is still in police custody.
* During operations started in Istanbul on 3 October, a total of 115 people were taken into custody, among them 7 party assembly members, 14 district mayors, 13 provincial executives and 9 former provincial executives.
* 120 people were taken into custody in the course of an intervention at a funeral in Mersin on 4 October. 54 of them are still in custody.
* 20 people who were taken into police custody on 1 October in Gaziantep were arrested on 4 October. This group includes provincial co-chairs, 4 provincial executives, 1 party assembly member and 2 district mayors.
* A total of 11 people, among them mayor assistants and district co-chairs, were arrested in Tatvan. (ÇT/HK)

source: http://www.bianet.org/english/minorities/133252-7748-people-in-custody---3895-arrested-in-30-months

Kurdish mayor sentenced to 20 months in prison by the Turkish Government

Kurdish mayor of Siirt city Mr Selim Sadak was tried by Turkish court and sentenced to one year and eight months in prison for a speech he made in 2010.
Mr Sadak has been charged with "making propaganda on an illegal organization", referring to Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK).

The lawyers of Selim Sadak have announced they will appeal. So far mayor Sadak had received 30 years prison sentence in nine separate trials.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1671-kurdish-mayor-sentenced-to-20-months-in-prison-

Endless executions in Iran by the iranian Government continues

Iranian government  has been executing innocent and political and social and human right activists without any attention to human right laws.according to www.rojhelat.info new website in the past couple days :
3 people hanged in Kerman prison on October 5th
4 were taken to execution section in Kurdish city of urmiyeh central prison on October 6th

Also, according to freedomessenger.com new website, 8 more people were hanged in Iranian city of Rasht's central prison secretly

It is being said that the execution numbers and rates are much higher then the number shows, but estimated Number of execution since the beginning of the year until October, more than 447 people have been hanged by Iranian Authorities.

Turkish Government Dragging Kurdish freedom Fighters bodies in the Kurdish cities

Picture and the News from http://en.firatnews.org

ANF Turkish page has published a very disturbing picture and distributed to many media outlets. The photo was sent to ANF.

It is not clear where and when the photo was taken but the content is unmistakably an intimidation to Kurdish people. It shows the lifeless bodies of two guerrillas, tied with a rope, in front of a monument dedicated to the founder of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

The bust of Atatürk bears the slogan of the Republic, "Happy is he who can say I am a Turk".

Behind there is another slogan, "A country cannot be divided".

The photo is a strike and disturbing reminding that nothing has changed as far as the approach towards the legitimate demands of the Kurds is concerned.

Indeed prime minister Erdoğan said: “It is impossible to have freedom and democracy if people are killed in such an atrocious way”. And he was obviously referring to the soldiers who died fighting a war which only is for the benefit of few.

It is about time everyone takes a closer look to images like this and rise their voice against the brutality of war and the ongoing repression of Kurds.

The photo is quite disturbing and one wonders whether to publish it or not. We have decided to publish it because we believe it deserves an answer by the highest authorities. Democracy begins with justice.

source: http://en.firatnews.org/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3236

38 years old Hatice Batu, a mother of 8 sent to prison with two kids by Turkish Government

The Turkish Supreme Court convicted 38-year–old Hatice Batu, a mother of eight, of “being member of an illegal organization” and sent her to Urfa Prison with her two children aged four and seven. According to the conviction, she is going to serve six years and three months sentence in prison.

She was being tried for attending a celebration for Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan’s birthday in Aligor-Urfa on April, 4 2007.

source: http://en.firatnews.org/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3234

BDP Vice President Mr. Hasip Kaplan criticised Prime Minister Erdoğan by saying " Targeting political parties is a policy of war not peace"

In a strong criticism to Prime Minister Erdoğan for having a “soldier mindset”, BDP Group Vice President Hasip Kaplan said that the operations which target political parties must be seen as a “policy of war”, not “a policy of negotiation”.

Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group Vice Presidents Hasip Kaplan and Pervin Buldan held a press conference about the “memorandum of cross border operation” and “political operations” against the BDP. Kaplan reacted to the "public order" and "security" oriented comprehensive solution seeks for the Kurdish issue for 30 years and said that “The Kurdish issue is a problem with political, economic, social, cultural, historical extents and its solution must be ensured at the Parliament through peaceful and democratic means”.

Reminding that they came to the Parliament to enable the creation of a common mind and a social consensus to end conflicts, Kaplan underlined that the BDP and Block deputies will “unanimously” say no to the “memorandum of cross border operation” which will be brought to the table at the General Assembly of the Parliament today.

Kaplan emphasized that detention operations have been intensified since their return to the Parliament, noting that all the detainees are BDP executives, mayors and central office directors. “An unprecedented unlawfulness is applied by the police and politicized courts with special authorities under the command of the AKP government which wants to suppress the political opponents in politics under cover of “fight against terror”, said Kaplan and added that Erdoğan has already exhibited his bad intention by saying that they will not show “good will”.

Referring to the regulations made in Turkish Penal Code and Anti-Terror Law during the AKP period, Kaplan said; “The Prime Minister knows no bounds, he openly interferes with the legal order.”

Kaplan reacted to the criminalization of BDP’s all activities within the frame of the "KCK operation" and noted that 200 thousand investigations have been opened against the people because of their thoughts.

Kaplan pointed out that the operations target the public support and undermine the desire for common life and warned the government, saying; “The way you are following is the way of crime against humanity and genocide. “Erdoğan must take lessons from the trial of war criminals like Al-Bashir and Milosevich who committed the same crimes.”

Kaplan added; “If they think that we will be suppressed and resigned, we will soon show them that they are wrong. We will respond to attacks by appointing 50 thousand people in the place of five thousand people in prison.”

source: http://en.firatnews.org/index.php?rupel=article&nuceID=3232

Iranian troops establish military bases inside Kurdistan Region

News and the Photos thanks to peyamner.com

 

PNA-The Iranian Revolutionary Guards recently has established two new military bases on the above of overlooking the “Choman” city inside Kurdistan Region.

According to the Peyamner News Agency from Choman, the Iranian bases was established in nearby villages “Mojdeinan”, “Ene” and “vize.”

“Mustafa  Ahamd” told Peyamner News: Iran has established over the past two years ,large Number of bases in  “Balakayaty “ region .
Also established Military fortress in “qarad” ,in “Ghandil ,4 military fortress and recently ,other military fortress in ”bozi” ,these fortresses are connected to Iran’s internal Power grid and Iranian Guards have been deployed in these fortresses .

One of officials in “ Haji Omarn” told to Peyamner News” :over the past two years , large number of bases were established in borders  of Haji Omran and near “Mawatan” ,”Shiwarash” villages.

80 Kurdish political prisoners on hunger strike in Rajaee-shahr prison

The Kurdish political prisoners are facing the most dreadful situations in the Iranian prisons. Responding to such brutal condition they launched a hunger strike.
80 Kurdish political prisoners held in Rajaee-shahr prison of Karaj city have announced that they will continue their strike for 3 days starting from 4th October.
Name of some of these prisoners are as follows:
Remezan Seydi, Hadi Emini, Enwer Xizri, Kamran Shexe, Fowad Rezazade, Ebrahim Qaderifer, Xusrew Besharet, Qasim Awesta, Dawud Abdullahi, Cefer Ceferi, Hejar Elizade and Mesud Resuli.
These prisoners have claimed that they are accommodated with the most dangerous criminal prisoners such as murderers, drug dealers, and people with very serious illnesses.
They are not provided with a sleeping place in the prison and every day facing with interviews and fearsome tortures. In addition, they are confronted with insolence both to themselves and their families.
One of the most dreadful prisons in Iran is Rajaee-shahr Prison in Karaj city and most Kurdish political prisoners are sent to there.
This prison contains gangs that are distributing drugs among prisoners; also with the advice of prison officers they are forcing political prisoners to use drugs or the political prisoners are injected forcibly.
This situation has caused many prisoners to commit suicide when they are released from prison.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1657-80-kurdish-political-prisoners-on-hunger-strike-in-rajaee-shahr-prison

Iranian Women’s Rights Activist in Prison Without Family Contact

According to http://www.iranpressnews.com/english , An informed source close to 38-year-old women’s rights activist Fereshteh Shirazi told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that since her arrest on 3 September 2011 in the city of Amol, she has had very little contact with her family.
The source told the Campaign that Shirazi’s trial was held on 28 September, and despite promises made to her that she could see her son on 25 September, she was not allowed to do so and her visit was postponed.
Last week, security officials searached Shirazi’s home and seized some of her personal belongings. Since her arrest she has only been able to see her brother once and only for a very short period of time. She is prohibited from seeing other members of her family, including her son.
Shirazi is a management student and women’s rights activist who has been active in the Campaign for Change for Equality since March 2009. She was interrogated several times in the past year because of her civil society activities and what she has written in her blogs. Her arrest was probably connected to these activities. According to the source, since her arrest she has been forbidden from seeing or calling her family members.
In her blogs, Shirazi had written several personal notes about one of her brothers who was executed in 1983. According to the source, Shirazi’s family is worried about her detention in Amol Prison because she has very little contact with others outside of the prison and she is being held with other dangerous criminals. The conditions at Amol Prison are very poor due to the fact that it was originally a residential home, confiscated by the government, and is located in the middle of the city in a residential area. Prisoners in Amol Prison, unlike in Evin, are not allowed to cook food and they can only eat prison food that is of very low quality. Unlike Evin and Rajaee Shahr prisons, there is no exercise equipment or educational classes and there are no rehabilitation programs.
Amol Prison is estimated to be able to hold 250 prisoners, but currently houses over 700. According to the source, the prison holds about 60 female inmates, and the rest are men. According to former prisoners from Amol, due to the overcrowding of the facility prisoners frequently engage in infighting. The majority of those held in this prison are charged with drug-related crimes, and include both native and non-native prisoners.
Source: International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran

Iranian Government has executed more then 100 people in the month of September

According to freedomessenger.com, State-run ISNA news agency, reported on October 3 that 7 individuals who were detained in cities of Abadeh, Neyriz, Kazeroun, Bovanat and Shiraz were executed in Shiraz after their verdicts were reviewed, confirmed and reissued by the General Prosecutor.
In another occasion, Mullah Jafari, regime’s prosecutor in Sari in northern Iran, refrained from revealing the name of the victim that was hanged in that city.

According to a communiqué by the Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the number of executions in Iran in the month of September has come up to 100 people. As such, 8 more victims were added to the crime book of dictatorial regime of the mullahs.
Condemning the crimes of the unleashed dictatorial monster of Iran, the Iranian Resistance is calling upon UN Secretary General, Human Rights High Commissioner, other UN organs and all human rights societies to condemn such criminal acts in Iran. The Resistance is demanding immediate action to put a halt on the growing number of executions. The only viable method to confront this barbaric regime is to adopt a firm international policy against it and to exclude it from the international community.

Kurdish political prisoner Mr. Aziz Khakzad,was hanged secretly in Iranian City of Kerman by the iranian Government

HRANA News Agency – On Tuesday morning, October 4, 2011, political prisoner Aziz Khakzad was secretly hanged in Kerman Central Prison on charges of Waging War Against God (Moharebeh). He was a resident of Salmas County in Kurdistan Province and was exiled to Kerman to serve his prison term.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Aziz Khakzad was a 29 year old political activist arrested in 2007. The Revolutionary Court in Khoy County sentenced him to death on charges of Waging War Against God and helping opposition groups. As a result of efforts made by his family and friends, the Appeals Court had reduced the death sentence to 5 years in prison and exiled him to Kerman.

Last night, Aziz Khakzad was unexpectedly transferred from the general prison population to solitary confinement and was hanged in Kerman Prison this morning. Aziz Khakzad’s family received the news of his execution this morning but Iranian government officials have yet to confirm the report

source: http://www.en-hrana.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=536:political-prisoner-aziz-khakzad-hanged-secretly-in-kerman&catid=15:execution&Itemid=10

Turkish Government continues their bombing of Kurdistan Region

According to peyamner news agency, The villages in the border areas of “Choman “,still these villages are targeted of air attack from Turkish fighters plans. The life of People in the borders areas for reason of these attacks were disturbed and people left their homes.

According to the Peyamner News agency from Choman areas, the Turkish fighters continuously flying over the villages border and during last 8 hours bombard different areas in “Bale Yaninan “. These attacks did not have any casualties but the environment of these areas have been damaged by Turkish attacks. 
  

Arrest of 21 Baha'i Citizens in Iranian City of Esfahan by the Iranian Government

HRANA News Agency – On Thursday, September 29, 2011, twenty one Baha'i citizens were arrested in Esfahan and taken to an unknown location.  Amongst the detainees, there was a 9 year old child.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Thursday, Iranian security agents arrested the following Baha'i citizens in Esfahan:

1. Anisa Daneshgar
2. Arman Rahimi
3. Ataullah Daneshgar
4. Darab Yazdani
5. Dariush Dastpiesh
6. Dina Safarpour (9 years old)
7. Fardoas Niki
8. Farid Eshtiagh
9. Farzad Rohani
10. Fazel Behnam
11. Heshmatullah Niki
12. Laleh Namjoian
13. Lava Daneshgar
14. Parisa Rahmani
15. Roheia Hakimon
16. Saha Behnam
17. Samira Ghaneh
18. Shahla Sanaei
19. Sohela Davardan
20. Sohela Vahedian
21. Taj Almalok Janamian

On Saturday, October 1, 2011, Dina Safarpour, Shahla Sanaei, Fardoas Niki, Saha Behnam, Sohela Davardan, Samira Ghaneh, Sohela Vahedian and Taj Almalok Janamian were released. Thirteen other detainees still remain in custody while their whereabouts are unknown.

After these Baha'i citizens were arrested, the houses of Parisa Rahmani, Farzad Rohani and Ataullah Daneshgar were searched and Baha'i religious artifacts were confiscated.

source: http://www.en-hrana.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=532:twenty-one-bahai-citizens-arrested-in-esfahan&catid=13:religious-minorities&Itemid=13

Iranian Government prohibits all publication in Kurdish language

Accoring to rojhalat.info, The weekly newsletter ‘Niday Gerroos’ was mandated to be published only in Farsi.
Niday Gerroos is a social and political weekly newsletter that has been publishing since 1994 in both Kurdish and Farsi languages. This newspaper was issued in Bicar, a Kurdish city in east of Kurdistan.
Mehmud Mehmudi, the editor of the newspaper protested against the decision and alleged that ‘although our newspaper has not been completely closed but we are told by the Office of Islamic Culture and Public Relations that we are not allowed publishing it in Kurdish’.
Language is one of the most important tools in preserving the culture and the literature of a nation and by destroying a language, a nation is killed; as all the main cultural elements are buried once the language is annihilated.
In Iran the Kurdish language is not prohibited in Media only, this language has never been allowed to be used in education and all educated Iranian Kurds are Kurdish natives fluent in Farsi and do not know how to write and read in Kurdish. Their mother tongue is strongly influenced by Farsi and in some Kurdish cities; near the borders of Persians the Kurdish language is almost forgotten.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1642-iran-prohibits-publication-in-kurdish-language

4 Kurdish protesters arrested in Qelereshe by the iranian Government

Four people were arrested by Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Qelareshe village around the city of Serdesht, Koordpa News Agency reported.
The detainers Zanast Hesennnijad, Aram Sherifpur, Resul Resuli and Kawe Ehmedi had been captured early morning of 29th September 2011 by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and transferred to the department of the Iranian Intelligence Service (Ettilaat).
Another person named Azad was arrested in the Cacoka village nearly 7 kilometres far from Qelereshe.
These captures carried out because the villagers protested on Wednesday 21th September against the brutal acts of the Iranian soldiers killing Kurdish workers.
In the protest, a military vehicle of Iranian Intelligence Service (Ettelahat) was attacked by the villagers and a member of Intelligence Service was seriously injured, their weapons and car were burned.
Although, Iran’s nations are faced with high poverty as the economy of the country has harshly declined due to the sanctions imposed by Western countries, Iranian Authorities are further militarising the country instead of caring about people and solving their economic problems.

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1644-4-protesters-arrested-in-qelereshe

Another Kurdish Worker was murdered by the Iranian Government Military

Accoring to www.rojhelat.info , A Kurdish worker was killed after he was shot by a corps of Iranian soldiers guarding the border regions, report said today.
According to our local correspondents the Iranian soldiers opened fires on a bunch of Kurdish workers in Anciran district of Meriwan city.
It was reported that a worker known as Xebat was killed on the spot and few head of horses belonging to the workers were also killed by the gun fire.
The soldiers took the workers’ goods away with themselves.

771 Kurds taken into custody by the Turkish Government in September

The Kurdish BDP (Peace and Democracy Party) entered Parliament on 1 October aiming to secure peace but only in September Turkish government have taken 771 Kurds into custody.
Of 771 Kurds taken into custody, 286 have been detained including 4 mayors, 11 minors, a 75 year-old citizen and 3 journalists. They were convicted of “aiding and supporting an illegal organization”, referring to Kurdistan Worker Party (PKK).

source: http://www.rojhelat.info/english/component/content/article/1650-turkey-771-kurds-taken-into-custody-in-september

Group rapes of Prisoners in karaj prison under orders of Iranian Government prison officials

According to Freedommassenger.com, three young prisoners were transferred to other prison cellblocks to be group raped by prison gangs.
In the past few weeks, at least three young prisoners who were transferred to cellblocks 1, 4 and 6 on orders of prison officials Mohammad Mardani and Khadem, were tied up by prison gangs and group raped. These three teenagers were hospitalized for a week after this incident and are now suffering from severe physical and psychological problems…
These cases were disclosed because most prisoners were aware of it but there are reportedly high numbers of rape cases which are kept secret. Prison gangs carry out this violent act with assurances from Mardani and Khadem that they will not be prosecuted and punished. Some of these young prisoners are used as sex slaves and are sometimes rented to other prisoners.
Currently, a large number of teenage prisoners and young prisoners are kept with dangerous criminals in cellblocks 1, 3, 4 and 6 and are at risk of sexual assault and being infected with dangerous diseases such as HIV.

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more than 62 Executions in the month of September by the Iranian government

During recent days, seven prisoners were hanged in prisons of Shahr Kord, Zabol, Qom and Varamin amounting to 62 executions in Iran in September. Twenty-three of them were executed on September 18 (22 in Gohardasht and Evin prisons and 1 in Ghazvin). At least 38 more prisoners have been executed secretly bringing the number of executions in September to 100. Among those executed were a 17 year old juvenile and two teens at ages of 19 and 20 who were under 18 at the time of their alleged offence.
Other suppressive measures of the mullahs’ regime during recent days have been lashing in public of prisoners in Tabas and southern cities for charges of theft, issuing brutal verdict of eye gouging for a young man, arbitrary arrests, assassination of opponents, repression of women under the fabricated banner of “Ifaf Project” (chastity), raiding residential houses using excuses such as rounding up satellite equipments and etc.
Resorting to such unbridled savagery is indicative of clerical regime’s failure to restrain the crisis that has engulfed this wicked regime in its totality and has escalated its fear of public anger explosion.

source: http://www.freedomessenger.com/archives/38027

Execution of 10 people in iranian Prisons

Iranian government coninues his execution of Innocent people in all around Iran.
Today , 1 Kurd was executed in North of iran by the name of molud alizadeh.  also, yesterday HARNA news reported that one person in Sari province in iran was hanged in Prison . Esna News agency reported that today 8 Prisoners were executed by the Iranian government in the city of Shiraz. from the beginning of the year until now 423 people have been executed by the iranian government. these numbers are those that we know and we also know that many more hidden executions have been done by the iranian government.
 the names of 8 prisoners hanged in Shiraz are :

1. Abdolmajad A.
2. Mohammad Reza A.
3. Abdolrasol T.
4. Mohsen A.
5. Ahmad K.
6. Hadi K.
7. Masih K.
8. Mohsen Z

source of the names : http://www.en-hrana.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=535:eight-prisoners-hanged-in-fars-province&catid=15:execution&Itemid=10