Seyed Ahmadreza Ahmadipour, Political Prisoner, Transferred to Hospital

HRANA News Agency – Political Prisoner Seyed Ahmadreza Ahmadipour, due to deteriorating health condition was transferred to Beheshti Hospital in Qom.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Seyyed Ahmad Reza Ahmadpour who was allowed for medical leave several days ago, after 18 days of hunger strike in prison for his condition. He was in his home and afte a heart problem was transferred to Beheshti Hospital, last night.
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“Qisas” issued for Fatemeh Moti

HRANA News Agency – Abdolsamad Khoramshahi, lawyer of Fatemeh Moti, the oldest female prisoner in Iran, informed that the Qisas (death sentence) of Fatemeh Moti has been issued.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), quoted from ISNA, Abdolsamad Khoramshahi told: “the oldest female prisoner in Iran, informed that the Qisas (death sentence) of Fatemeh Moti has been issued and informed by 105 barnch of General Court in Shahr-e-Rey, South Tehran.”
Fatemeh Moti, known as “the oldest female prisoner in Iran”, convicted of murdering “Majid A.” has been imprisoned from 1993. The Qisas sentence has been issued several times and been rejected by supreme court and the death sentence is the last verdict for her up to now.

Amnesty – Iran: Brother of prominent filmmaker arrested

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Behrouz Ghobadi, brother of internationally acclaimed Iranian film maker, Bahman Ghobadi, was arrested on 4 November 2012 by men in plain clothes, believed to belong to the Ministry of Intelligence. He is reportedly being held in a Ministry of Intelligence detention centre, placing him at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.

Behrouz Ghobadi, father of a newborn baby boy and a member of the Kurdish minority in Iran, was arrested in the early hours of the morning of 4 November. He was in a taxi driving from Sanandaj, the capital of the north-western Kordestan province, to a Tehran airport. Plain-clothes men, who were reportedly following him, stopped his car and arrested him around 15 kilometres outside Sanandaj. Judicial officials claim that they had an arrest warrant but the reasons for his arrest do not appear to have been disclosed to his family or lawyer.

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Object: Brother of prominent filmmaker arrested

Your Excellency,

I am writing to you as supporter of Amnesty International, the non governmental organization which since 1961 has been working in defense of human rights, wherever they are violated.

I call on you to ensure that Behrouz Ghobadi is protected from torture and other ill- treatment and is granted adequate medical treatment.

I urge you to allow Behrouz Ghobadi immediate and regular visits from his family and a lawyer of his own choosing.

I stress that if Behrouz Ghobadi has been arrested solely in connection with his or his brother’s film-making activities, he is a prisoner of conscience and must be immediately and unconditionally released.

Thank you for your attention.

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A Child Laborer Gang-Raped and Killed

HRANA News Agency – Eleven Afghani workers kidnapped, gang-raped and murdered a child laborer in a region known as Pardis in the city of Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran.

According to a report by Shargh Newspaper, on Saturday, October 22, 2011, an anonymous caller contacted the police and reported this crime.The caller provided the police with the address of a building under construction in Pardis neighborhood and informed the law enforcement that a child’s body had been abandoned in the basement of this building.

Agents from Police Station 207 in Tehran were immediately dispatched to the scene of this crime where a blood trail led them to the body of a young boy who was tied to a wooden post.Following this discovery, the Special Homicide Prosecutor was notified, and investigators were assigned to the case.

In the basement of this building, investigators also discovered women’s clothing and have concluded that there might be other victims involved.So far, no other bodies have been found.

Further investigations have revealed that the individual guarding this building was an Afghani worker called Ghadier.He has reportedly escaped, and efforts to find him are ongoing.

The young victim has been identified to be a fifteen year old boy called Saeed.His father had reported him missing four days prior to the discovery of the body.Saeed’s father had also received an anonymous phone call about the murder of his son and told the police, “Because of financial problems, my son worked to help paying our expenses.Every day after returning from school, my son sold vegetables on streets.There were no problems until Tuesday night when Saeed didn’t return home.So we called the police and asked Basij Militia for help.Agents started searching for my son but didn’t find him.Since then, we had no news of him until someone called my cell phone and gave me the address of a building under construction.The caller said my son’s body was there.”

Investigations have revealed that an eyewitness had seen Saeed on Tuesday night.This eyewitness told the police that he had seen a few Afghani men first talking to Saeed and then forcing him into a building under construction.At the time, police agents were unable to locate the right building and had searched another location by mistake.The police had also arrested a few Afghani men, but they were released since there was no evidence against them.

After discovering Saeed’s body, the police interviewed the eye-witness again and found new clues resulting in ten new arrests.The suspects have confessed to kidnapping and gang-rapping Saeed and have told the police that he suddenly lost consciousness and died.The suspects also claimed to have wrapped Saeed’s body in a blanket and hidden it in the basement of the building.

The medical examiner has declared the cause of death to be gang-rape.Meanwhile, Ghadier remains at large, and the manhunt for the guard continues.The police is also investigating the possibility that other murders might have occurred in the same location since women’s clothing were discovered there.

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Dire Physical Condition of a Kurdish Prisoner in Orumiyeh Prison


HRANA – Hossein Mirzaei’s physical condition, one of the Kurdish prisoners held in Orumiyeh Central Prison, is in poor physical condition and the authorities at the prison clinic are not providing him with any medical care.
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Banning the bail of Saied Abedini and threatening it’s provider

HRANA News Agency – The illegal Evin prosecutor banned the bail for Saied Abedini the Iranian-American pastor.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), also the islamic revolutionary guards interrogators threatened the person who tried to put bail to prevent this prisoner’s furlough.

Saied Abedini is the Iranian-American who is accused to establishing home-church in 2009 and after his arrival to Iran in 2012 has been arrested by islamic revolutionary guards Etela’at and transferred to ward 2A.

More than eighty US senators from both Democrat and Republican parties on Thursday February 14th wrote a letter to John Kerry the United States Secretary of States and asked him to try to do all what is needed for freedom of Saied Abedini the Iranian-American pastor.

Iran: Six Prisoners Hanged Last Week/ Two of Them Publicly

HRANA News Agency– Iranian regime executed six prisoners within last week. Two of them were publicly.

According to the reports by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), six prisoners were hanged by Iranian regime last week:

Two prisoners convicted of drug trafficking were hanged in Arak Central Prison on Tuesday, February 12, 2013.

A prisoner convicted of murdering was hanged publicly in east of Tehran on Wednesday, February 13, 2013. Farsi report includes photo report.

A prisoner convicted of rape was hanged publicly in Shiraz on Thursday, February 14, 2013.

A prisoner, Sabah Loymi 38, convicted of drug trafficking was hanged in Ahwaz Central Prison on on Thursday, February 14, 2013.

A prisoner, Omar Shahbazi 28, convicted of murdering was hanged in Sanandaj Central Prison on Saturday, February 16, 2013.

A Kurd arrested by Iranian Etela’at officers on security charges

HRANA News Agency– It is more than two weeks that a Kurd has been summoned and arrested by Etela’at of Khoy and there is no news about his condition.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), A Kurd whose name is Feisal Doudkanlou the son of Hassan from Agh Dash village belongs to Khoy municipality, has been arrested more than two weeks ago by Etela’at and since that time he has not contacted his family.
Despite of his family’s haunt to Etela’at and security departments, they could not ind out any news about Feisal’s condition.
According to the same report, Iranian security officials claimed that Feisal Doudkanlou accused to security charges.
The charges on him by Iranian regime and no news about his condition worried his family too much.
Also Feisal’s father has been killed by Iranian polices a few years ago on charge of cooperation with Kurdish subversive parties.

Mehdi Khodaei, Student Prisoner, Was Rejected for Medical Leave

HRANA News Agency – Recently, prison authorities has rejected imprisoned student and human rights activist, Mehdi Khdoaei’s request for medical leave.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), It is around three years that Mehdi Khodaei and his family are trying to get medical leave, but recently, prison authorities has rejected the request.
Mehdi Khodaei is the former Secretary of Azad University Islamic Association in Shahr-e Rey, and a human rights activist. He was an electrical engineering student at the time of his arrest. Khodaei was arrested on 2 March 2010, five days after receiving a sentence of four years in prison on the charge of “acting against national security through organizing gatherings.” Previously, he had spent 38 days in detention in the summer of 2008.
After his arrest on 2 March 2010, he was transferred to IRGC’s Ward 2-A inside Evin Prison, where he spent ten months in solitary or two-person cells. Khodaei’s family had no information about him for months after his arrest. During his detention inside Ward 2-A, he was subjected to repeated interrogations and severe physical and psychological pressure to make forced confessions against himself.
Khodaei was tried on 21 August 2010 in Branch 28 of Tehran Revolutionary Court, with Judge Moghisseh presiding. On 12 October 2010, Khodaei was sentenced to an additional three years in prison on charges of “acting against national security through organizing gatherings,” and “propagating against the regime.”
Separately, in December 2010, his earlier four-year prison sentence was upheld by a Tehran appeals court. Therefore, with his three-year prison term also upheld, Khodaei is currently serving his seven year prison term. In late December 2010, Khodaei was transferred to Evin Prison’s General Ward 350. Despite his long prison term, he has not been allowed furlough since his detention. Khodaei remains defiant and active in prison and has participated in several protest hunger strikes and has signed several group letters in prison.
 

Two more journalists arrested

HRANA News Agency – As Etela’at ministry promised in their last statement about the arrested journalists and continuation of recent repressions, Reyhaneh Tabatabaie and Fatemeh Sagharchi have added to the arrested journalists.

According to the reports by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Fatemeh Sagharchi and Reyhaneh Tabatabaie have been arrested on January 27th and January 31st.

Fatemeh Sagharchi’s lawyer, Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaie, said that his client’s case is related to the recent journalists detentions.

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