Systematic violations of the right to life

Executions, arbitrary killings, deaths in custody, and death sentences

Execution

Iran hangs minor offender in secret

http://www.hra-news.org/1389-01-27-05-29-40/4151-1.html

On July 10, Iran secretly executed a young man who had committed a crime at the age of 15. The execution of this young man, Mohammad, was not announced from before by the judiciary.

Mohammad was swiftly executed without the knowledge of his family in the Morordasht Prison in Shiraz.

This sentence was issued by the Fars Penal Court and upheld by the 33^rd branch of the Supreme Court. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 25, 2010) 

Iran hangs two men in Orumieh prison

http://www.hra-news.org/1389-01-28-00-30-11/4277-1.html

Two prisoners in the Central Orumieh Prison were executed in the past three days on charges of carrying and possessing narcotics.

According to reports, Yahya Zare from Orumieh was executed on Tuesday morning in this prison on charges of carrying and possessing narcotics.

Another prisoner identified as Saber Amir Hosseini from Sanandaj was also hanged in this prison on those charges today.

State-run media did not report their executions. Judicial officials secretly execute hundreds of prisoners every year without officially announcing their executions. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 30, 2010) 

Arbitrary killing

Iran murders second Kahrizak doctor who had evidence of systematic prison rape and sexual abuse

According to reports, Dr. Abdolreza Soudbakhsh, an assistant professor at Tehran University who was shot and killed last week was linked to the Kahrizak Detention Center its prisoners who were suffering from infections in the urinary tract and damaged reproductive systems (as a result of rape and sexual abuse in Kahrizak) and had orders from security forces to officially announce that all prisoners who came to him for treatment had meningitis.

This university professor was suspiciously shot and killed one day before going abroad.

Therefore, Soudbakhsh is the second doctor who was killed in the past year over this issue. 

Ramin Pourandarjani, another doctor who was serving in the State Security Forces in the

Kahrizak Detention Center suspiciously passed away on November 16, 2009. Officials announced his death as suicide…

According to this report Soudbakhsh was informed about the medical cases of all those killed in the Kahrizak Detention Center. In addition to this, he was specialist and checked and treated all Kahrizak prisoners and had special information in this regard.

This report also said that Soudbakhsh recently felt that his life was in danger because of increased pressure by security forces.

He had a ticket to leave Iran on September 22 and was shot dead outside of his clinic in Keshavarz Blvd in Tehran less than a day before he was to go abroad. (Jaras Website – Sep. 27, 23010)

Security forces kill mother and blind 19 year old girl in forced eviction in Mazandaran

http://www.hra-news.org/1389-01-27-05-27-51/4276-1.html

In an attack to homes near a property in Fereidoon Kenar in the province of Mazandaran, the mother of two mentally disabled children was killed while a 19-year old girl was blinded in one eye.

According to reports, after a woman who recently came from abroad filed a complaint demanding a property she owned which is the home of 3 families, judicial orders were issued for the evacuation and demolition of these homes built in this property. This woman who has lived in the US for the last 30 years is the owner of seven homes in which 7 to 8 families lived in while paying their dues and taxes…

Last Wednesday, security forces came to this property with a warrant for the evacuation and demolition of the homes and clashed with the residents. These clashes reached their climax when people in the vicinity also interfered. In the middle of the clashes a woman of about 60 years who was the mother of a mentally disabled girl and boy was killed after being struck on the head with a baton.

When the clashes increased, security forces used tear gas, plastic bullets and batons to disperse the crowds which led to injuries on both sides of the clashes. According to eyewitnesses, a 19-year-old girl was shot in the eye with a plastic bullet and was blinded. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 30, 2010)

Death sentence

Names of death row minor offenders

A group of minor offenders are in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj. Death sentences have been issued for many of them and they are considered to be on death row. The identification documents of some of these young prisoners have also been invalidated and they do not have a true and legal identity.

Some of these young men are:

1- Saied Mohsen Miri (his death sentence has been issued and his identity has been invalidated)

2- Reza Padashi (on death row)

3- Hamed Pour Heidar (on death row and transferred to cellblock 2)

4- Hossein Ranjbarzadeh (on death row)

5- Kazem Khosravi (on death row)

6- Ehsan Ejdehaki (on death row)

7- Alireza Johari (on death row)

8- Daniel Hassanpour (on death row)

9- Safar Angouti (on death row)

10- Mohammad Aqili (on death row)

11- Saber Sharbati (on death row)

12- Mohsen Taher Nejad (on death row)

All these prisoners were under 18 when committing a crime and some of them have been jailed for up to 3 years. (Center in Defense of the Families of Those Slain and Arrested – Oct. 9, 2010)

Prison

Prison Condition

Prison officials make millions from narcotics trade in prison

Political prisoner Arjang Davoudi who is detained in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj wrote a report on the narcotics gangs in prison and their links to prison officials.

(This letter reads in part):

It has been some time now that the number of prisoners in Rajayi Shahr Prison has passed the line of 5,000 and at least 4,500 of these prisoner use narcotics. If we say that from this number 1,500 are recreational drug users and we will not include them in our calculations, this means that there are at least one thousand professional drug users in this prison.

If we consider that three people only use one gram of narcotics a day this means that at least one thousand grams are used daily in this prison and because crack (kind of chemical narcotic) is used the most because it is cheap, we will use crack in our calculations.

One gram of crack is at most 8,000 tomans outside of prison.

One gram of crack is at least 60,000 tomans inside of prison.

If we say that drug dealers in prison get 12,000 tomans for every gram, every gram of crack will cost at least a total of 20 thousand tomans for those who import the drugs into prison. Therefore the leftovers of this amount will be 40,000 tomans for every gram and because the daily use of crack in prison is 1000 grams, the daily proceeds of narcotics amounts to 40 million tomans (about $40,000). This means that entering only one kilogram of crack in prison amounts to a 1.2 billion toman (about 1.2 million dollar) trade in one month.

The violent and somewhat accurate inspections and body searches of prisoner’s families on visiting days and also the inspections of prisoners who have been sent to court which is carried out in several stages are all to prevent the import of narcotics to prison outside of the narcotics network to keep this million dollar trade under the control and in the grasp (of prison officials)…

The notorious head of Rajayi Shahr Prison, Ali Haji Kazem, is getting the most profits from all of this and after Karaj turns into a province which will see him become the General Manager of the Alborz Province Prisons, he will make even more money because he will get the profits from all other prisons in the province.

Unfortunately, we see that regime elements pocket millions of dollars while many people are desperate for a piece of bread.

Long live freedom, death to the ruling tyranny, Arjang Davoudi (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 26, 2010)

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