The execution is not the only way that Iranian government uses to remove its opponents. “Banned to be sent to hospital” is their secondary and more commonly used way for imprisoned political and civil rights activists by its judiciary system, with less cost in the international aspects, in that, even these kind of news are mostly being ignored by human rights organizations in translation, due to their secondary priority.
A solid example of this silent murdering by Iranian judiciary system was imprisoned labor activist, Afshin Osanlou who died in Rajaie Shahr prison in June 2013. “The nurses told us that he was brought to the hospital at around 8 PM on Thursday but he had passed away hours before that. They said my brother could not even have died on the way to hospital and he must have passed away long before that.” His sister, Fereshteh Osanlou, told in an interview.
But, it was not the end and the silent murdering by Iranian regime continues. Just read the following reports I have monitored only in the recent days:
* 86 years old political prisoner, Hassan Fattah who suffers blood cancer is being held in prison in spite that “the lack of imprisonment tolerance” has been issued for him, since one year ago. He is even banned to be sent to hospital.
*Imprisoned Human Rights activist, Narges Mohammadi who suffers neurological paralysis, in spite of the requests by physicians, is still banned to be sent to hospital.
*Afshin Baymani, political prisoner who was sentenced to death and after six years in prison his sentence became life sentence, suffers severe heart disease but until now he is banned for furlough or being sent to hospital. He is serving his 16th year of imprisonment.
*Political prisoner, Saeed Razavi Faghih who suffers heart disease was not sent to hospital by prison authorities with the excuse of weekend holidays.
*Imprisoned activist, Asou Rostami had a partial brain strike, but was not transferred to hospital.
*Imprisoned activist, Saeed Hosseinzadeh Movahed was sentenced to seven year in prison in appeal court. He suffers respiratory disease, arthritis and digestive problems and just once was sent to hospital.
*Imprisoned activist, Atena Daemi who has the symptoms of MS and breast cancer and her gums and jaw are infected, is banned to be sent to hospital. She is sentenced to 14 year in prison.
As an Iranian human rights activist, I monitor several reports like these, every day. It’s necessary to put pressure on Iran’s government to improve the conditions for all of its prisoners and urgently for its political prisoners and prisoners of conscience. Otherwise, the silent murdering method by Iranian judiciary system will take more lives.
HRANA News Agency – A prisoner wrote a letter based on his observations from ward 350 to stress on the need of a better identification of the prisoners and the political activist and to introduce the Seyed Mehdi Khodaei, the human rights activist who recently was released from the prison.
A copy of this letter was delivered to HRANA. The full text of this letter is as follows: Continue reading “Mehdi Khodaei, A True Narrator / A Note from Prison”
HRANA News Agency – July 19th was the birthday Omid Alishenas, the civil Activist of ward 8 of Evin prison. For this reason, Saeed Shirzad the political prisoner of Rajaee Shahr prison wrote a short letter to him which has been delivered to HRANA.
The full text of the letter is as following: Continue reading “For Omid’s Birthday, a Letter from Saeed Shirzad”
On the evening of August 4th 2014, Seyed Jamal Hosseini was at his desk in his small apartment in Turkey. Living in exile as a refugee Jamal spent long solitary days in front of his computer, directing an underground network of human rights activists in Iran. His tireless efforts earned him respect among Iranians everywhere while making him a target of the authorities in Iran. Jamal never left his desk that night, and his lifeless body was discovered by police the next day.
As the world focuses on the impact of a nuclear deal with Iran, little attention is paid to the situation of Iranian dissidents and human rights activists. The Iranian regime leads the world in per capita executions, and has one of the worst human rights records in the world. It also has a long standing policy of using extrajudicial killings to silence dissidents. Continue reading “The Life and Death of Iranian Activist Jamal Hosseini / Hamid Yazdan Panah”
One year ago, on a dire morning “Jamal is not breathing anymore” was the sentence being communicated through the telephone lines. Since then we have faced a sad contradiction, the contradiction of presenting somebody who always refused to be public.
What we never doubted about was the necessity of presenting Seyed Jamal Hosseini comprehensively and throwing light on different aspects of his activities. We believe that presenting the devoted, diligent, creative character of Seyed Jamal Hosseini and his faithfulness in his ideals would help the other activists to learn from the previous experiences and their empowerment. All those who knew Jamal confirm that he was a great man with a short life, however, his activities in accordance with his creativity, perseverance, and faith have had effects which go beyond a single organization. Continue reading “A Short Description of Seyed Jamal Hosseini’s Life and Death / Keyvan Rafiee”
HRANA News Agency – Shahrokh Zamani and Saeid Shirzad, the imprisoned labour and political activists, in a letter asked for more attention on workers’ condition. The full text of this letter is provided to HRANA and is as follows:
Your Excellency, Mr. Ahmad Shaheed,
Considering that you will summit your report to Human Right Council of UN soon, we request you to consider the condition of workers in your report as well. Continue reading “2 Political Prisoners’ Letter to Ahmad Shaheed about Workers’ Situation in Iran”
HRANA News Agency – Since the Baluch civilians have been arrested in Nasir Abad the people of this region have asked authorities to clarify the reason of these arrests, especially the detention of some Red Crescent rescuers who have been arrested in this case. The following is the letter of Amin Eslam Zehi who have been working in the Red Crescent for 15 years:
Continue reading “Untold Stories of Nasirabad – Letter of the Former Red Crescent Rescuer”
HRANA News Agency – Alireza Haghighi, a Baha’i citizen of Arak who has been recently sentenced to 3 years in prison and one year suspended prison by the Islamic Revolutionary Court of the city of Yazd on charges of propaganda against the system and acting against national security, wrote a letter to his judge. The following is the full text of the letter, a copy of which has been submitted to the HRANA: Continue reading “A Baha’i Citizen Sentenced to Prison Addresses His Judge”
HRANA News Agency – Seyed Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has wrote a letter to the Supreme Leader while reporting about the regrettable situation of ward 8 of Evin prison as keeping 27 people in this ward with 6 toilets and 5 bathrooms for 290 prisoners, sleeping on the floor in corridor and opposite the bath, toilet and kitchen, prevalence of infected diseases, abundance of drugs, unhealthy food and lack of separation of prisoners on the basis of their crimes.
Seyed Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, political prisoners who has been transferred to the prison unexpectedly and was arrested with a deceitful method has written a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei while reporting the regrettable situation of ward 8 of Evin prison which was mentioned as an exile and asked the leadership to order an investigation similar to Kahrizak detention center. Continue reading “Hossein Ronaghi Maleki’s Letter to the Supreme Leader of Iran”
HRANA News Agency – Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the former head of the University of Tehran and a retired professor of this university, wrote a letter to Dr. Ahmad Shaheed, the special UN Rapporteur for human rights in Iran and complained about the violations of human rights in Iran, in particular the violation of his basic right to travel abroad and visit his children outside Iran.
“The right to travel and the right to visit children are the essential rights of dissents” Continue reading “A Civil Lawsuit from Mohammad Maleki to Ahmad Shaheed”
