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NCRI Human Rights Center Weekly Bulletin
May 28, 2018
Systematic
violations of the right to life
Executions,
arbitrary killings, deaths in custody, and death sentences
Execution
Inmate Executed in Isfahan’s Central Prison
Jafar Firoozkhani, convicted of intentional murder and
sentence to Qhesas (equivalent to eye for an eye), was executed at Isfahan
Central Prison on Sunday, May 13, 2018. He was from Hashtrood Township
(northwest of Iran).
He was formerly confined at a prison in Najaf Abad city
of Isfahan province but was transferred for execution to Isfahan’s central
prison. (The Organization of Human Rights in Iran- May 21, 2018)
Arbitrary killing
Defensless Border Porter Shot and Dead by Agents
In another event on the evening of May 19, Iran’s armed
forces in Piranshahr shot at a group of border porters as a result of which one
of them was severely wounded. He is identified as Ali Hasan Zadeh, 47. (Hengaw-
May 20, 2018)
Two Baluch Youths Dead by Suppressive Agents
In the morning of May 25, 2018 the agents of a post in
Karti, subsection of Kirdof (located in Jusk Township in Hormozgan province)
started throwing stones at a fuel vehicle. Stones hit the drivers’ head, the
vehicle went astray and the driver, Ramin Gorgij, 26 and a 25 year old Rashed Baluch
were killed. (Baloch Activists Campaign- May 25, 2018)
Death sentence
Appeal for Ramin Hossein Panahi to Supreme Court
A Kurd Woman in Danger of Execution at the End of Ramadan
Farideh Salehi from Marivan Township being in jail for 17
years is facing the danger of execution after Ramadan.
In a call she said: “I have been freed on bail of 400
million tomans, provided by a nice women since three months ago until the end
of Ramadan so that I can provide the ransom money…unfortunately no hard I tried
I couldn’t collect the money demanded.” She was arrested by SSF in 2001 charged
with the murder of her husband. She is now 55. (Hengaw- May 22, 2018)
Zainab Taheri Summoned to Court
Ms. Taheri posted a clip on internet regarding the
innocence of her client. She has also recently criticized the filtering of
Telegram. It is said that these are the reasons of her summoning. (Zamaneh
Radio- May 24, 2018)
Inhumane
treatment and cruel punishments
Amputation,
flogging, torture and humiliation
Detained Civil Activist Tortured
He is supposed to be put on trial in a near future for
charges of “gathering and collusion to act against national security” and
“propagating against the establishment”. (VOA- May 20, 2018)
Cable Stokes & Exile for a Convict
Tehran Province’s branch 5 of NO. 1 penal court sentenced
a man identified as Parviz, having unlawful relations with a woman to receiving
cables and exile.
Sentence for Mozafar Naghdi; jail, cable strokes &
fine
Branch 36 of Tehran Province’s revision court sentenced
civil activist, Mohammad Mozafari, who was charged with “propagation against
the establishment” to serve two years in jail, receive 74 cable strokes and pay
a two million tomans fine; endorsing the same sentence issued by the
preliminary court. The sentence was imparted to his lawyer today. Mr. Mozafari
was formerly arrested on Feb. 15, 2015 and was transferred to ward 2A of IRGC’s
intelligence detention center at Evin Prison. (Human Rights Activists in Iran-May
22, 2018)
Prison
Prison conditions
18,000 Inmates of Unintentional Crimes
Asqar Jahangiri, the head of Prisons Organization said:
“As of today we have 29,000 prisoners charged with intentional and
unintentional financial crimes. From this 18,000 belong to the second
category,” he added: “the second in rank of unintentional financial crimes,
about 3000 people are those who owe dowry…”
He cited: “360 women are prisoned on financial
unintentional charges, that’s 2%”.
“70% of the inmates of unintentional crimes are below
40,…86% are married”, (Fars News Agency- May 20, 2018)
Poverty; the Reason of 73% Imprisonments
https://www.mehrnews.com/news/4303862
Asqar Jahangir, the head of Prisons Organization pointed
at the result of a questionnaire and said: “73% of prisoners have said that
poverty is the reason for their imprisonment”. “43% of prisoners are illiterate and suffer from cultural
poverty. 17% of them are jailed for dangerous behaviors,” he added. (Mehr
state-run News Agency- May 22, 2018)
Nazanin zaqari: Second Trial
Qolam-Hossein Ismaili, the head justice of Tehran
province imparted of the second trial for Nazanin Zaqari.
“Her case has two parts. Regarding the first part the
sentence is intact. The second part is still open and her trial will be held
soon,” he cited.
Nazanin Zaqari British-Iranian citizen was arrested at
Khomeini Airport in Kerman on April 3, 2016 and was first transferred to Kerman
and then Tehran. (Mehr state-run News Agency- May 23, 2018)
770 Financial Culprits in Jail in City of Ardebil
Mohammad Ali Qhasedi, the head justice for Ardebil
Province (in northwest of Iran) said: “Currently the province’s jails confine
770 prisoners sentenced for financial crimes. From this number 245 are there
for not paying dowry, 78 for not paying alimony and 436 for other issues”.
“Unfortunately the number of financial convicts are more and there are 35,000
of them whose files are under scrutiny in different judicial systems,” he
cited. (ILNA state-run News Agency- May 23, 2018)
After 24 Years; Freedom Only After Repenting
The source added: “IRGC has asked for letter of repentant
instead of his freedom.” The political prisoner has rejected and announced: “I
am in jail for 24 years while innocent, how can I now repent for the crime I
have not committed”. Mohammad Nazari, Kurd political prisoner from Shahin Dezh
was arrested by Abozar’s IRGC’s security agents in Bukan (northwest of Iran)
charged with “supporting and propagating for Kurd opposition groups” on May 30,
1994 and was condemned to death at Orumieh’s revolution court presiding judge
Jalil-Zadeh, without having a lawyer.
The decree was commuted one degree in 1999 to
life-in-prison and since then he has been jailed in Orumieh prisons and Karaj’s
Rajaee- Shahr prison without any leave. (Kurdpa- May 23, 2018)
Political Prisoner Deprived of Essential Medical
Treatment
Physical conditions of Kurd political prisoner, Amir
Payqami is reported as dire at Orumieh prison but the IRGC agents oppose his
treatment outside prison.
A year ago, his physical condition was reported as: “He
has a history of ailment in the lymphoid noodles of his left leg and was under
treatment in Shiraz and Tehran before his detention; he received none
afterwards. This exacerbated his problem and as it is said he is suffering from
a severe edema from his sole up to the knee which in addition to a great pain
prevents his movement.”
Amir Payqami, 28, was detained by intelligence forces
affiliated with IRGC’s intelligence protection forces on May 29, 2017, charged
with cooperation with Kurdish opposition parties. He was sentenced to 4 years
imprisonment. (Kurdpa- May 24, 2018)
Political Prisoner under Pressure of Intelligence Agents
1000 Inmate in a Jail with the Capacity of 200
Yahya Kamalipoor a member of Judicial and Legal
Commission of Majlis (parliament) said: “A prison is built for 200 inmates but
right now it confines one thousand. One cannot build silos after silos beside
the prison and put the inmates in them in contrary to legal criteria.”
(Hamshahri Online state-run Website- May 25, 2018)
Prison sentences
Ali Noori, civil activist and former political prisoner
who was arrested last winter and freed on bail after 36 days from Karaj’s
Rajaee Shahr prison is sentenced to 7.5 years imprisonment. (Zamaneh Radio- May
22, 2018)
Two Environmental Activists Sentenced to Jail
Arbitrary
arrests
Social arrests
The Lawyer: 20 Environmental Activists Detained
Ten Boys and Girls Arrested in a Party in City of Rasht
Yesterday (May 20) NAJA forces broke into a party in
Rasht’s Gilan boulevard and arrested more than 10 young girls and boys and
surrendered them to judiciary authorities. (Rokna state-run Web Site- May 21,
2018)
Basic
freedom and rights abused
NAJA Confronts Café Nets Using Anti-Filters
Mehdi Mir-Mehdi the head of Tehran’s Computer
Techs Guild Union cited the increase in use of anti-filters during these days
and said: “The new chief of site-police of NAJA has notified the union about
the regulations of prohibition of using VPN and anti-filters in café nets”.
Emphasizing that NAJA is the only organ that can
inspect guild units, he said: “So all guilds must comply with the announced rules
of this organ…”
Regarding as how wrongdoers might be treated,
Mir-Mehdi said that as most of the activities of these units are in months of
June and July the wrongdoers will not be allowed to have any activity. In other
months, their units will be sealed from 15 days to one month.
He emphasized: “As a reminder, I am aware that in
addition to inspections by NAJA, there will be a common patrol formed of this
union and NAJA during the year which will inspect the guild units. In this
patrol all systems in café nets will be inspected”.
Answering the question: “So far how many
wrongdoers you have confronted?” he said: “For example last year 25 café nets
have been sealed”. (Tasnim state-run News Agency- May 20, 2018)
General Prosecutor: Twitter Ban Will Persist
Montazeri the country’s general prosecutor restated
amongst the reporters: “On judicial decree, Twitter is filtered and thus it is
not possible to lay out the issue in the workgroup as subjects having criminal
content…”
“As long as Twitter’s criteria is as before this decree
will prevail,” he added. (ISNA state-run News Agency- May 22, 2018)
Dance Teachers’ Instagram Account Blocked in Iran
In the accounts belonging to Ms. Shadab, Ms. Elnaz
Qhasemi, Ms. Maedeh Hozhabri and some others it’s posted: “This account is
blocked on the order of honorable judiciary official for publishing criminal
content”. Almost all dancing clips are omitted from these pages. In Shadab’s
Telegram you can read: “There will be no dance class today”. (BBC- May 30,
2018)
Arman Daily Convicted
Ali Akbar Kasaeeyan, a member of press court’s jury said
Arman daily is convicted of violating the resolution of High Council of
National Security.
He said: “Today Arman daily, ILNA news agency, Asr-e-Iran
news site, Asr-e- Khaber news site and Hour 24 faced trial”.
He specified: “ILNA was tried in its absence, it was
counted as guilty without any commutation…24 was charged with publishing false
articles like three other cases and was held guilty. Kasaeeyan pointed at the complaints against Arman newspaper and specified:
“This daily was counted as guilty with majority of votes and without any
commutation, for violating the resolution of High Council of National
Security”. (Mehr state-run News Agency- May 20, 2018)
Civil Activist Summoned to the Culture & Media Court
Mehrdad, civil activist and a physics student at Qom
University was first arrested on Jan. 26, 2017 and was freed on Aug. 2, 2017
from Evin prison after five months of interrogation and imprisonment and three
times extension of his illegal detention time. During that time he was confined at wards 2A and 240 of Evin prison. The
reason for his detention is his revelation about Saeed Tooshi’s acts. (Human Rights in Iran – May 19,2018)
Saeed Toosi, Khamenei’s famous Qoran reader has been the
subject of complaints of many youths for his mal treatment towards and raping
of young Qoran readers.
Municipality Agents Attacked Khozestani Photographer
Khozestani photographer, Morteza Yaghooti was beaten by
Municipality agents of region one in Ahwaz as he was taking pictures from a
fire in Rabie Park around Karoon River. Describing the event he said: “I was taking pictures that Municipality
agents from region one tried to stop me. I showed them my card as a journalist
but three agents clashed with me. Hit me hard on the ground and beat me…They
tried to make me embark on their vehicle by force.” (IRNA state-run News
Agency- May 22, 2018)
Journalist and political activist, Ibrahim Ismaili was
summoned to Shazand’s prosecutor’s office by judge Abdollah Sha’abani on May
17, 2018 for clarification.
Shazand in located in Central Province. (Human Rights
Activists in Iran- May 22, 2018)
Showing Soccer Games Is Prohibited in Cafés
A Play Stopped in Iran
More than 80% of the Kids in South Khorasan’s Villages
Suffer from Skin Problems
Religious
and ethnic minorities
Two Girls Dismissed from University Being Baha’i
Sepideh Kiaee, mother of Kyana Kiaee as student at
private university of Mirdamad in city of Gorgan (north of Iran) imparted the
dismissal of her daughter on the pretext of being a Baha’i and said: “A weak
after Javad Zarif expressed in New York that Baha’is face no problem in Iran,
my daughter was dismissed”. (Iran Human Rights Campaign- May 23, 2018)
Iran: Prison doctors abuse and deny treatment to
persecuted women
Women prisoners of conscience from Iran’s Gonabadi
Dervish religious community are being subjected to verbal abuse, including
sexual slurs, and denied proper medical
treatment by doctors and other health professionals at
Shahr-e Rey prison on the outskirts of Tehran, Amnesty International revealed
today.
The organization has received testimonies indicating that
doctors at the prison, a former industrial chicken farm in Varamin, are
routinely dismissing the women’s complaints of pain and discomfort as “fake”
while refusing to prescribe them medication on a timely basis or carry out
thorough diagnostic tests. They are also failing to ensure that medical
equipment in the prison clinic is functioning properly and poses no threat to
patients’ health.
“Deliberately denying medical treatment to any prisoner is unlawful, cruel
and inhuman and can amount to torture. These women from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish
community should not even be imprisoned in the first place. It is deplorable
that the Iranian authorities are seeking to intimidate and torment them
further,” said Philip Luther, Amnesty International’s Research and Advocacy
Director for the Middle East and North Africa.
“The Iranian authorities must ensure all individuals in custody receive
adequate health care and are treated with respect and dignity. Any prison staff
suspected of abusing or withholding medical treatment from detainees must be
investigated and prosecuted in trials that meet international standards.”
At least 10 women from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish community
have been arbitrarily detained in Shahr-e Rey prison in inhuman conditions,
without access to their lawyers, since February 2018. They were arrested for
their peaceful participation in a protest in Tehran by members of the
persecuted minority, which turned violent when security forces used water
cannons, firearms and tear gas to disperse the crowds.
As a result of their ill-treatment by security forces,
these women have had a range of health problems in custody, including head
injuries, broken arms and vaginal bleeding. They also have been denied adequate
treatment for pre-existing medical conditions such as asthma, diabetes and high
blood pressure.
According to reports received by Amnesty International,
the women have been subjected to hostile interrogation-style questions about
their court cases and insults over their beliefs by doctors at Shahr-e Ray
prison. There are concerns that doctors have also sought to degrade the women
by exploiting cultural taboos around sexuality, asking the women intrusive
questions about their sexual relations, such as whether they have “boyfriends”
or are “sleeping around with men”.
A source told Amnesty International that women requesting
emergency medical care in the evening or at night have been refused treatment
by doctors and nurses until the following day and even berated for purportedly
disturbing the medical staff’s sleep in the middle of the night.
There are concerns about the reliability of medical
equipment at the prison clinic, as, during the last three months, it has shown
prisoners as having normal blood pressure even when they were experiencing
symptoms of high blood pressure, including severe headaches, vision problems,
chest pain, difficulty breathing and an irregular heartbeat. High blood
pressure exposes people to the risk of stroke and heart disease.
Detainees also said a lack of stretchers and wheelchairs
has resulted in fellow detainees being forced to carry sick prisoners out of
their rooms and into the clinic, which has led to falls and other accidents.
“Prisoners’ access to health care is a right enshrined in both international
and Iranian law. The international community, including the European Union,
must demand that the Iranian authorities urgently grant access to international
monitors including the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights
in Iran, so that they can carry out unannounced inspections of Shahr-e Rey
prison, including private interviews with prisoners,” Philip Luther said.
There are concerning reports that in a further deliberate
attempt to abuse and degrade the prisoners, the Gonabadi Dervish women have
also been forced to pick weeds in the prison yard with their bare hands as a
condition for being permitted telephone calls with their families and a couple
of hours of fresh air during the day.
Shahr-e Rey prison is a disused chicken farm that holds
hundreds of women convicted of violent offences in conditions falling far below
the UN Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson
Mandela Rules). Common complaints include urine-stained floors, lack of
ventilation, insufficient and filthy bathroom facilities, prevalence of
contagious diseases, poor quality food containing small pieces of stone and
salty water. (Amnesty
International - May 25, 2018)
Suppressive
maneuvers
“Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice” Patrol Starts Its Work in Ardebil Province
Naser Atabati, Ardebil’s prosecutor said: “In harmony
with Bessij (Iranian regime’s paramilitary force) and IRGC of the province,
patrols for “Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice” will start their activities
in the province.
“We will guide and warn mal-veilers in different
districts…” (Jamaran state-run Web Site- May 23, 2018)
Kurd Border Porters Were Barraged
IRGC forces in Piranshahr Township (in West Azerbaijan
Province) barraged at a group of Kurd border porters and sellers on May 23,
2018, as a result of which two border porters were severely injured. One of
them is identified as Morad. The forces confiscated the goods of 20 of them.
(Hengaw- May 24, 2018)
Baluch Woman Wounded during Agents Shooting
Friday May 25, 2018, at noon, NAJA forces pursuing a
vehicle started shooting while in the crowded Friday Bazaar wounding a woman in
the leg. The woman was taken to emergency room. She is not identified yet.
(Baloch Activists Campaign- May 25, 2018)
Security Agents Stopped Writers Club’s Ceremony
Security agents prevented the Writers Club from holding
its 50th anniversary on Friday, May 25, 2018. A member of this club, Akbar
Masoom Baigi explained that security agents “Savagely raided” the house where
the ceremony was to be held in and blocked the street there. The report also
says that they confiscated all the posters, souvenirs and other stuff that the
members have collected during a year for this ceremony. (Radio Farda- May 25,
2018)
Violence
against women
There are news published in state-run media of
broadcasting soccer World Cup matches at cinemas.
Qhanoon state-run daily pointing to the ban of women
entering sport stadiums wrote in its first page: “World Cup matches will be
broadcasted in cinemas; (this means) banning women from entering cinemas”.
(Qhanoon state-run daily- May 23, 2018)
Appendix
Situation of Ahwazi
Detainees
The following report speaks of the latest news regarding
detainees of the vast demonstrations in Khozestan in March 2018.
Ahwazis staged demonstrations to protest against the
offense that one of the state-run TV channels made against them and what they
call “racialist behavior”.
Method & quantity of arrests
These were all arbitrary arrests. A detainee cited that
the agents arrested the whole family even children and transferred them to detention centers.
For example; Jalil Hawaii (Saedi) was arrested along with
his wife, son in law, daughter, his 12 years old son; Heydar and his three
years old child. They were all transferred to Fajr Prison.
A detainee speaking on condition of anonymity said: “Only
in Sheyban Prison we were 500 detainees in one separate ward. More than 25
youths were transferred to Fajr Prison or Youths Center.
Amongst us were disabled people from Mullah Shieh and
Eigndou (Seyed Karim) regions. For example; Saeed Nemati was a retard from
Mullah Shieh and there was a mentally ill person from Eigndou who has just left
a psychiatric hospital…”
Detention and torture centers
The detainees were under pressure, interrogation and
torture in these prisons and detention centers:
·
Sepidar Prison (men and women
wards)
·
Sheyban Prison (Ahwaz
Professional Training Complex)
·
Ahwaz’s intelligence bureau’s
detention center at Chahar Shir
The state officials have reopened old and remote
detention centers and transferred the detainees there; including:
·
Golf Detention Center (belonging
to IRGC at Modares Boulevard in Ahwaz)
·
Ahwaz’s Corps No. 6 detention
center
·
Youths Center (previous Fajr
Prison)
Conditions of detention
·
Men under 18 are jailed at Fajr
Prison (Youths Edification Center)
·
Women are jailed at Sepidar
Prison in Ahwaz. The number reaches 150, 15 of which have been arrested during
Ahwaz demonstrations; including:
- Khadijeh Naysi
- Ayesheh Naysi
- Leila Barvayeh
- Ezat Ka’abi
- Nadia Mohammadi Poor (Hamidi)
·
The bails issued are 100 to 500
million tomans. Many families cannot provide such money so their children have
remained in jail. (No to Prison, No to Excution- May 23, 2018)
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