HRANA News Agency – Prison officials told the family of Mohsen Amir Aslani that he was executed but, his body has not been delivered to his family.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the authorities of Rajai Shahr prison say, on Wednesday 24 September, “Mohsen Amir Aslani” prisoner of conscience was executed by hanging on charges of “corruption on earth and heresy in religion”. Continue reading “A prisoner of conscience has been executed in Iran”
HARANA News Agency- Alireza Rasoli, political prisoner in Uremia central prison (Darya), is suffering from blood disease and it is couple of days that he has gone on hunger strike.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Alireza Rasoli, from Mahabad city who has been kept in Uremia central prison (Darya) for political charges, has been attacked by a kind of blood disease and due to lack of medical treatment, has gone to hunger strike from couple of days ago.
One of his close relatives told HRANA’s reporter: “From several months ago, Alireza Rasoli was suffering from chest pain but he was not given any treatment and was not visited by a doctor. Now he has got two active cancer tumours, one in his chest and one in his pelvis and he has gone on hunger strike because of not being treated.”
Alireza Rasoli has been sentenced to three and a half years imprisonment for cooperating with one of the Kurdish political parties whilst his friends and relatives say that he just attended a gathering opposite the Education authority office of Mahabad with some other people in support of burned pupils of Sheen A’bad when he was arrested and was encounter with this accusation.
Alireza Rasoli is now, kept in political prisoners’ ward in Uremia central prison (Darya).
HRANA News Agency – On September 20, Shahram Chiniyan Miandavab, a Bahai shopkeeper from Tehran who is serving an 8-year sentence, was beaten as he was being taken to a judge because he refuses to wear the standard prison uniform.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), prisoners of conscience in Iran generally do not wear the prison uniform. Mr. Chiniyan is held in block 1 of Rajai Shahr prison, which is reserved for dangerous prisoners.
One of the other prisoners told HRANA that he was summoned to a judge outside the prison, in relation to one of the cases against him that has not been concluded. At the prison gates, the prison guards demanded that he put on prison uniform, which he refused. The guards beat him and stripped him. He was bruised in many places, and was later treated at the prison clinic because of the severity of his injuries. He was also beaten on August 19, by Mr. Amirian, one of the Deputy Directors at the prison, and a number of prison guards, and his clothes were torn.
Mr. Chiniyan was first arrested in March 2009 and released on March 3, 2010, after using his business license as bail. He was sentenced to 70 lashes and 8 years in prison on a charge of insulting Islam, and began serving his sentence, first in Evin prison in Tehran and then in Raja’i Shahr prison, early in March, 2012. On May 28, 2014, he was transferred to section 1 of Raja’i Shahr, where dangerous criminals are kept.
He was punished with one week in solitary from June 25 to July 1, and four days in solitary on August 20, following his first beating by prison guards.
HRANA News Agency – After a young man was beaten in traffic police shelter in Chabahar market, people clashed with police and the conflict lasted for an hour.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), in the early evening of Monday 22nd September, in the police Shelter at Chabahar Market (Imam Khomeini Street), traffic police of Chabahar severely beat a young motorcyclist named “Shakeel Qaderi” after a cash fine. Continue reading “Conflicts between people and the police in Chabahar”
HRANA News Agency – Security and Intelligence office of Rajai Shahr Prison prohibited books and legal goods for prisoners which were delivered by their families.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), political prisoners in Rajai Shahr prison are facing illegal rigor against them by the prison security and intelligence office. Continue reading “Authorities put pressure on political prisoners at Rajai Shahr Prison”
HRANA News Agency – Mohsen Amir Aslani, prisoner of conscience has been transferred to solitary confinement in order to be executed. He has been charged with “Corruption on the earth and innovation in religion.”
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Mohsen Amir Aslani, 32, has been transferred from ward 2 of Rajai Shahr Prison in Karaj to solitary confinement on September 23rd in order to be executed next morning. Continue reading “A prisoner of conscience will be hanged by tomorrow morning”
HRANA News Agency – Barzan Nasrollah Zadeh, a Sunni prisoner of conscience awaiting execution in Iran’s Rajai Shahr prison, was transferred to hospital yesterday following a deterioration in his condition.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), despite doctors saying that Barzan was in urgent need of surgery, he was transferred for an unknown reason back to Rajai Shahr prison within a few hours, without receiving medical treatment. Continue reading “Sunni prisoner awaiting execution transferred to hospital”
HRANA News Agency – The one year in prison sentence of Adnan Rahmat Panah, the Bahai citizen has been confirmed in appeal court.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the revolutionary court of Shiraz has informed the family of Adnan Rahmat Panah that his one year in prison sentence has been confirmed. Continue reading “The sentence of Adnan Rahmat Panah was confirmed in court of appeal”
HRANA News Agency – Two men and two women who were charged with drug trafficking, were hanged at central prison of Zahedan, on Saturday.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), two men and two women were executed by hanging in central prison of Zahedan on Saturday September 20 at dawn. Continue reading “Two men and two women executed in central prison of Zahedan”
HRANA News Agency – On 20 September, 2014, HRANA News Agency published the latest list of Political prisoners at Ward 350 Evin Prison. This Ward is the most famous of all in Iran to imprison Political Activists. At the moment, there are 54 Political and Conscience Prisoners kept at this ward.
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), after the mass transfer of prisoners from Ward 350 at Evin prison – the most renowned place in Iran to jail Political Prisoners –only 54 out of more than 200 Political and high security prisoners are now kept at this ward. Those removed from this ward was sent to other wards at Evin Prison or prisons in other cities, especially Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj. Continue reading “The latest list of Political prisoners at Ward 350 Evin Prison”
