HRANA News Agency – United Nations: Human rights activists in Iran are subjected to beatings with batons, mock hangings, rape, sleep deprivation, and threats that family members will be raped or killed, about 670 people were executed in Iran in 2011, 223 People in First Five Months of 2012. the UN rights investigator said in a report released on Thursday.
HRANA News Agency – Dr. Hamid Reza Shaeri, the President of AIDS Society in Iran, said, “In order to stop the spread of HIV virus through sexual intercourse, AIDS education must begin in schools and universities and among the young people.”
In an interview with Khabar Online News Agency, Dr. Hamid Reza Shaeri added, “Since 1996, those infected with the HIV virus have increased in Iran.In 2004, this number reached its peak while the infection spread rapidly amongst drug addicts and prisoners.During the last seven years, the disease has been under control.”
Dr. Hamid Reza Shaeri said, “When the young population in Iran can’t even search for the word “AIDS” on the Internet because this word is being filtered, how do we expect them to know anything and have accurate information about this disease?”
HRANA News Agency – The spokesperson of Catherine Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice President of the Commission, issued the following statement today:
“The High Representative is deeply concerned about reports that the execution of Iranian prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani may be imminent. She appeals for clemency and urges that the sentence be commuted. His death sentence contravenes Iran’s international obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The EU holds a strong and principled position against the death penalty. The High Representative restates her call on Iran to halt all pending executions and to introduce a moratorium on the death penalty.”
HRANA News Agency – Baha’i student Farnod Jahangiri was expelled from Babolsar University in Mazandaran Province on October 12, 2011.
According to a report by Population of Combat against Education Discrimination (PCED), Farnod Jahangiri is a resident of Hamadan and was studying English Language and Literature at Babolsar University.
During the last few months, a number of Baha’i students have been expelled from universities in Iran.Ruhollah Tashakor, Alborz Norani, Ava Tavakol, Mona Momeni, Arkideh Aghaie, Hananeh Kanaanie, Homan Rahmanian and Malika Vazirzadeh are amongst those students.
Furthermore, Iranian authorities have blocked the entrance of many Baha’i students into universities during the process when students choose their majors and receive the admission papers.Similar to past years, Baha’i students are told that their application files lack all the necessary documents.This excuse is particularly used in order to deny admission to Baha’i graduate students and political and social activists seeking to enter graduate schools.
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HRANA News Agency – GENEVA — The UN human rights agency on Tuesday voiced deep concern over the arrest and imprisonment of a number of prominent human rights and political activists, lawyers and journalists in Iran over the past two weeks.
HRANA News Agency – The first phase of Iran’s national Internet project has already been launched in the country’s government departments. Activists fear it’s a step toward cutting the population off from the World Wide Web.
In the past few days, several Iranian officials have mentioned the imminent launch of “our own Internet,” or what has previously been described as the “Halal Internet.”
Reza Taghipour, Iran’s information and communications minister, announced last week that the first phase of this nationwide project, which covers governmental institutions in 29 provinces, was set to launch on September 21. Taghipour said all Iranian universities would become part of this network by early 2013, putting Iran a step closer to disconnecting itself entirely from the global Internet.
As the news spread, government officials also announced that Iran was blocking access to Google and Gmail in reaction to the US-made anti-Islam film that has triggered protests across the Muslim world in recent weeks.
Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, an Iranian official from the online censorship department, claimed the decision had been made because of request from the censorship committee.
“We received the written announcement from the Internet censorship committee this morning,” Mohammad, a software engineer living in Tehran, told DW earlier this week. “The committee described it as an act against YouTube, but YouTube was already filtered out several months ago.”
Human rights organizations and Internet activists believe the move marks the beginning of the end for digital freedom in Iran. But Iranian officials deny this, insisting the project will work side by side with the global Internet to “improve its speed and quality.”
“Pulling out of the global Internet is like a self-imposed sanction. It’s not logical,” said Mohammad Soleimani, the former communications minister, in an interview with the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) last week.
“There is no clear, detailed information about Iran’s national Internet project,” Amin Sabeti, a London-based Iranian blog researcher, told DW. “But I do not think Iran has the necessary infrastructure to completely cut Iranian Internet users’ access to the Internet.” But, he adds that Iranian censorship authorities can sometimes do the unexpected, such as the decision to block Google and Gmail.
Many of the official statements coming out of Iran have been worrying. Two months ago, the Communications Ministry claimed that “in 95 percent of cases you don’t need a connection to the international network to use the Internet.” Meanwhile, many Iranian officials have said a “Halal Internet” is the best way to protect “religious and national values.”
Nearly 5 million websites, including social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter, are already blocked in Iran, and the country is ranked fourth in a list of the world’s most censored countries compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists – after Eritrea, North Korea and Syria.
HRANA News Agency – Javad Abuali was sentenced to one year in prison and has reported to the authorities to begin serving his term.Javad Abuali is a political and social activist and a student at Azad University in the city of Behbahan, Khuzestan Province.
According to a report by Daneshjoo News, Javad Abuali was arrested in August 2010 by Iran’s Intelligence Agency in Behbahan and held incommunicado for months.The 2nd branch of Revolutionary Court in Mahshahr sentenced Javad Abuali to 12 months in prison, and the 13th branch of Khuzestan Province Appeals Court upheld the verdict.
For propaganda against the regime, Javad Abuali received 6 months in prison and for insulting the Supreme Leader, another 6 months were added to his punishment.
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HRANA News Agency – Security forces attacked the memorial session of Farahnaz Dargahi, Arash Sadeghi’s mother in “Saraye Ghalam” on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 at 7:00 PM and arrested several activists.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in this attack, Mahdieh Golru, Ghasem Sho’leh Sa’di, Akbar Amini, Pezhman Zafarmand, Mohamad Parsi, Mehdi Khaz’ali and several attendees were arrested and transferred to an unknown place.
Farahnaz Dargahi, the mother of student activist Arash Sadeghi suffered a stroke after security forces raided his home just days after he was temporarily released from prison. His mother passed away four days later in hospital.
Arash Sadeghi is a member of the central council of the Islamic Association of Allameh Tabataba’i University who was arrested during the aftermath of the fraudulent 2009 presidential election. He was temporarily released after more than eighteen months in prison. His mother suffered a stroke a few days into his release after security forces raided his home at 4 O’clock in the morning without any verbal or written notice prior to the raid.
Sadeghi was sentenced to a six-year jail term and received another three-year suspended prison sentence after being tried in court after the disputed re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president. While in prison Sadeghi’s shoulder was dislocated twice and he received a broken tooth during his interrogations.
Sadeghi is a member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (Mosharekat) and a master’s student in philosophy at Allameh Tabataba’i University.
Subject: Save Gholamreza Khosravi and other prisoners sentenced to death in Iran
To Whom it may concern;
“I beg you, calling on the Iranian authorities, not to execute Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani, or anyone else sentenced to death and remind them that under international law, the death penalty can only be carried out for “the most serious crimes” which must be “intentional crimes with lethal or other extremely grave consequences. “
“I am expressing extreme concern that Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani did not receive a fair trial, and urging the authorities to investigate the allegations that he was tortured and to bring to justice anyone found responsible for abuses.”
“Also, I am asking the authorities to make sure Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani is protected from torture and other ill-treatment, is granted all necessary medical treatment, and is allowed immediate and regular contact with his lawyers and family.”
Sincerely,
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موضوع: غلامرضا خسروی و دیگر زندانیان محکوم به اعدام را نجات دهید
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از شما تمنا داریم از مقامات ایران بخواهید حکم اعدام غلامرضا خسروی سوادجانی و دیگر زندانیان محکوم به اعدام را متوقف کنند. به آنان یاد آور شوید تحت قوانین بین المللی، حکم اعدام تنها مختص “جرایم بسیار خطرناک” می شود که بایستی شامل “جرایم عمدی مرگبار و یا دیگر عواقب بسیار وخیم” باشند.
شدیداً تأکید می کنیم که غلامرضا خسروی سوادجانی از دادگاه صالحه برخوردار نبوده، و مقامات ایران را تحت فشار قرار دهید تا مورد شکنجه شدن تا دادگاه وی را تحت پیگرد قانونی قرار دهند و کسانی که در این پروسه از مسئولیت خود سوء استفاده کرده اند را محاکمه کنند.
همچنین از مسئولین جمهوری اسلامی می خواهیم اطمینان دهند که غلامرضا خسروانی از هر گونه شکنجه و بد رفتاری ها مصون خواهد بود، کمک های پزشکی مورد نیاز را دریافت کرده و اجازه خواهد داشت به طور منظم با وکیل و خانواده اش در تماس باشد.
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HRANA News Agency – The Commander of Tehran’s Relief Special Unit released the news of a project to collect satellite dishes in the west regions of the capital city and added, “A large number of LNB satellite reception components together with satellite dishes have been discovered and confiscated.”
According to a report by ISNA News Agency, Colonel Ardeshir Motahari announced the implementation of a project to collect various satellite equipment in the west of capital city on Thursday, May 19, 2011, and added, “There were thirteen operation units each consisting of eight agents who operated within the area enclosed by Ferdowsi Blvd., Marzdaran St. and Alborz St.”
Colonel Ardeshir Motahari reported, “In this project, 2,732 satellite dishes, 4,018 LNB satellite reception components, 39 rotating engines and 92 switches were confiscated.”
