HRANA News Agency – Beigom Yadi is the mother of the political prisoner Gholam-Reza Khosravi Savad-Jani. She has written letters to Ban Ki-moon, the UN Secretary General, and Ahmad Shahid , United Nation Reporter for Human Rights in Iran. After expressing her gratitude for their efforts, she said the actions taken so far have not helped much.
In her letter to Ahmad Shahid she said ‘Gholam-Reza has been in prison for more than 5 years and he will finish his sentence soon but has not been given access to visitors or permission for an outside visit. Continue reading “Gholam Reza Khosravi’s Mother’s Letter to Ahmad Shahid and Ban Ki-moon”
(AFP) – Iranian judges, media officials and a special police Internet monitoring unit linked to the death of a dissident in custody were added Tuesday to the EU’s sanctions list against Tehran for grave human rights violations.
The Iranian Cyber Police unit was set up in 2011, taking on anti-revolutionary and dissident groups who organised protests in 2009 against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the European Union’s Official Journal said. Continue reading “EU SANCTIONS IRAN JUDGES, CYBER POLICE FOR RIGHTS ABUSE”
The testimony of 41 political prisoners in ward 350 of Evin: Sattar Beheshti had been tortured
HRANA News Agency – According to reports published by media outlets, Sattar Beheshti was arrested by the cyber police, a subsidiary of the nation’s security forces on October 30th 2012. On November 6th, Mr Beheshti’s family was reportedly informed of his passing, requesting that his body be collected at the Kahrizak morgue. All along, the family was threatened not to speak to anyone regarding this matter. Continue reading “Sattar Beheshti had been tortured”
HRANA News Agency – Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran 1988, is one of the darkest human rights violations in Iranian history. WNN Iranian reporter Elahe Amani shares insight and history into the increasing need for Iranian government accountability.
1988 is a year that thousands of political prisoners were executed in Iran followed by dumping their bodies in a mass grave in the outskirt of Tehran. Who were these prisoners in Iran? What crimes did they commit? Why were they executed en masse? Continue reading “Justice Delayed: The massacre of political prisoners in Iran”
HRANA News Agency – Human rights campaigners are increasingly worried that funding to combat the narcotics trade is providing indirect assistance to a judicial system that is engaged in what has been described as ‘a killing spree of staggering proportions’.
In Vakilabad prison, northern Iran, there is a long beam that can take up to 60 nooses. The condemned are made to stand on stools which are then kicked away. Vakilabad’s record is 89 executions in one day. Continue reading “Has Britain’s war on drugs led to more executions in Iran?”
HRANA News Agency – The West’s single-minded focus on the nuclear dossier has permitted Iranian authorities to widen their violations of human rights.
With tensions mounting over Iran’s nuclear program, the West has dealt the Tehran regime crippling blows on several fronts, including through sanctions, the targeted killing of scientists, and cyber operations such as the Stuxnet virus. Tehran is no doubt reeling but regime leaders have spotted a silver lining: The West’s single-minded focus on the nuclear dossier has permitted them to widen their violations of human rights. Continue reading “Mehdi Khalaji: Iran and the Human Rights Opening”
Asieh Amini, journalist and human rights activist once said: ”Our children aren’t civil activists or political activists. Nevertheless they experience double the suffering. They first suffer when their parents’ activism makes them aware of the hostility and violence and cruelty that exist in society. Then they suffer from the political violence imposed on their parents by the state.” Continue reading “Impact of Harassment & Imprisonment on Children of Human Rights Activists”
A disturbing video of the public execution of three men in Iran has sparked anger among human rights activists.
The graphic video, released by Amnesty International on Thursday, showed guards standing on top of buses draping ropes around necks of three convicts sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of rape. The men were later hanged from an overhead bridge after the vehicles drove away. Continue reading “Iran Public Execution Outrages Human Rights Groups”
HRANA – The following letter has been written by Shadi Sadr to Maryam Majd, an Iranian photographer who was arrested shortly before her trip to Germany to attend the Women’s Soccer World Cup.
Recipient: Maryam Majd, Isolation Cell, Ward 209
Shadi Sadr
I place a picture of the isolation cell in Ward 209 in front of me and stare at it. Thousands of thoughts, images and past events come to life. I try to fight them back, but it isn’t possible because now, you’re there in a solitary confinement in Ward 209. Continue reading “Recipient: Maryam Majd, Isolation Cell, Ward 209”
Wall Street Journal – Iran is taking steps toward an aggressive new form of censorship: a so-called national Internet that could, in effect, disconnect Iranian cyberspace from the rest of the world.
The leadership in Iran sees the project as a way to end the fight for control of the Internet, according to observers of Iranian policy inside and outside the country. Iran, already among the most sophisticated nations in online censoring, also promotes its national Internet as a cost-saving measure for consumers and as a way to uphold Islamic moral codes. Continue reading “Iran Vows to Unplug Internet”
