Mashhad Political prisoner: more than 500 prisoners secretly executed since last year

http://www.peykeiran.com/Content.aspx?ID=21530

After reports of secret executions in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad were published, a political prisoner in Mashhad Prison has also disclosed these executions in a letter:

“The tragedy going on in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad is too atrocious to describe. Section 5 in Vakil Abad Prison is the most mysterious and secret section in this prison and when international inspectors come for inspection, blankets are lined in front of the door and it is introduced as a blanket storage room and only a few people are aware of what actually goes on in there. Section 5 has four cellblocks including:

Cellblock 101: more than 500 death row prisoners who have been convicted of dealing narcotics

Cellblock 102: about 300 prisoners sentenced to retribution and 250 prisoners with other crimes

Cellblock 103: about 600 prisoners between 18 to 25 year of age with charges such as robbery, adultery, and selling narcotics

Cellblock 104: about 600 prisoners over 25 year with charges such as robbery, narcotics and adultery

In cellblocks 102, 103 and 104 there are about 200 death row prisoners who have been transferred from cellblock 101 with the approval of the Prison Protection Unit.

Cellblock 101 is the most sensitive in Vakil Abad Prison. Severe security measures have been carried out in this cellblock. Unlike other cellblocks, 101 has a two layered iron door and it is impossible to see inside of the cellblock from outside. People rarely use this door and all movements are approved by the Protection Unit. Prisoners in this cellblock are only allowed to call the phone numbers that have been pre-approved by the Protection Unit and are only allowed calls every other day for five minutes. Their death sentences are not announced to them, their lawyers or their family in a written form and they are only verbally informed in the Revolutionary Court or by an agent in prison that they have been given the death sentence. None of them know when they will be executed and until their death sentence is carried out they all have to count themselves dead. This means that before their execution, they are executed in their minds many times. In the time between July 2009 and April 2010 close to 250 people were executed in Vakil Abad prison. Sixty eight prisoners were hanged in august 2009, 40 in November 2009, 30 in January 2010, about 20 in February 2010 and in April 2010 more than 50 prisoners were hanged. This number excludes women who have been hanged in each incident from the women’s cellblock. There are no exact numbers on how many female prisoners and those who have been brought for execution from towns near Mashhad especially Torbate Heidarieh and Fariman were executed.

In August 2010, in four counts of group hangings about 70 people were hanged in each incident. In August 4, 2010, 70 prisoners and on August 18, 67 people were hanged. On the two days of July 28 and August 10, 60 to 70 prisoners were hanged but the exact numbers are still unknown”. (Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Sep. 9, 2010)

Student activist tortured in prison to give false confessions

Abdollah Momeni, the spokesperson of the student Office for Consolidating Unity who was arrested in the post election events and is currently in prison detailed severe torture, false confessions, a show trial and also the complete absence of judicial independence in his trial in a letter to the leader of the Islamic Republic Khamenei and requested that a truth seeking committee be established to see to these issues.

This student activist is currently serving his 4 years and 11 months of prison in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison in Tehran…

In this letter, Abdollah Momeni said he was severely beaten and was choked until he passed out. His interrogator also put his head in a toilet bowl and he was kept in a solitary cell for 86 days (in a 1.6 by 2.2 meter cell). He was constantly threatened that he would be executed, and sexually harassed. Momeni was also forced to practice his false confessions before his trial. He said that the judge on his case, Abolqasem Salavati, and other judiciary officials who were involved in his trial did not have judicial independence and that interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence had too much influence in the court process which all show the political nature of his trial. (Human Rights Campaign in Iran – Sep. 9, 2010)

Iran puts more pressure on jailed dissident cleric

http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2010/09/blog-post_09.html

According to reports, on September 8, Ayatollah Borujerdi was once again verbally attacked and abused by prison officials in Evin Prison for protesting the lack of the minimum human needs and the violation of prisoners’ rights.

Prison officials said, “Why do you report prison news to the outside and do not stop propagating against the government even here?”

“Instead of animosity with this victimized government, you have to condemn the US on TV so that we could provide the conditions for your hospitalization”.  

Mr. Borujerdi said, “I am not political and I only request that religion be separated from state and that is why I have been under torture in jail for years. In Iran the clerics and officials are the ones committing the crimes and not the US. You intend to kill prisoners of conscience and if the news does not get out of prison, you will kill everyone. It is your inhumane measures that have had an international reaction”.

The latest reports from prison are that the heated exchange of words deteriorated Borujerdi’s heart condition to the extent that he fell unconscious to the ground for a few moments. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Sep. 9, 2010)

Female death row political prisoner taken to hospital

http://www.rahana.org/archives/24883

Death row political prisoner Farah Vazehan was taken to a hospital outside of Evin Prison after she suffered severe heart problems.

Vazehan, who was arrested two days after Ashura Protests (Dec. 27, 2009) in her home, was taken to the prison infirmary after she suffered severe pain from her heart condition. She was mistreated by the personnel in the infirmary was mocked and asked why she chose this day to become sick.

After being checked, the prison medic transferred her to the Modares Hospital in Tehran to receive more treatment. (Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Sep. 9, 2010)

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