Systematic violations of the right to life

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

Execution

Iran hangs man in Abadan 

http://www.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8908220187

Farid Boghlani, a chain murderer in Abadan was hanged in the Karoun Prison in Ahwaz.

According to reports, Boghlani who was sentenced to 13 death sentences by the Penal Court in the province was taken to the gallows in the morning after months of anticipation. He was hanged with the presence of the families of his victims, reporters and judicial officials seeing to his case. (Fars state-run News Agency – Nov. 13, 2010)

Arbitrary killing

Another border tradesman murdered by security forces

http://www.hra-news5.info/1389-01-27-05-25-54/5158-1.html

Armed forces of the Islamic Republic stationed in the border area in Kurdistan opened fire on a Kurd tradesman in the Nosoud border region and killed him.

According to reports, on Monday November 15, armed forces opened fire on a group of tradesmen (carriers who carry goods on their backs) in an ambush.

As a result, a carrier identified as Shahu Babayi from the Sarkhaban Village was shot and instantly died. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Nov. 15, 2010)

Iran fatally shoots Kurd border tradesman

In the persistence of the killing of tradesmen in Kurdistan, at least four tradesmen were killed after being shot by security forces of the Islamic Republic.

On the night of November 16, a number of Kurd tradesmen in the Vazin area in Sardasht were targeted by the forces of the Islamic Republic and as a result a tradesman identified as Ribaz, son of Mostafa Babekr was killed.

Another tradesman identified as Savat Haji Ahmad, son of Rasoul was shot and injured. (Ravanews website – Nov. 19, 2010)

Deaths in custody

Young protester suspiciously dies in detention

http://www.hra-news5.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/5142-1.html

Last week, 30 year old Hamid Madmali who was arrested by the Intelligence Unit of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, suspiciously passed away in an unknown detention center. He was arrested on charges of insulting the leader in his contacts a satellite Persian network.

According to reports, Hamid Madmali who was from the town of Masjid Soleiman was arrested some time ago in his home in Tehran for having communications with a satellite Persian network and criticizing the leader and president of Iran.

RGC forces violently beat him upon his arrest and took him to an unknown location. His family’s months long pursuits for his whereabouts led to nowhere.

Finally after constant pursuits, intelligence agents buried his body in his birth place, Masjid Soleiman, under severe security measures and his brother was also threatened for filing a complaint against the relevant institution. (Human Rights activists in Iran – Nov. 14, 2010)

Death sentence

Political prisoner to be hanged in Orumieh

http://www.hra-news5.info/component/content/article/55-1389-01-14-13-18-46/5199-1.html

The Supreme Court asked that political prisoner Hossein Khezri be executed in a letter to the 9^th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Orumieh.

According to reports, this letter which was seen by Hossein Khezri’s lawyer was the last legal way for Khezri’s execution to be revoked. His lawyer also suspiciously resigned as his lawyer after seeing this letter.

Notably, the 9^th branch of the Sentence Implementation Unit in the Orumieh Court has sent the case of this death row political prisoner to the Prosecutor, and his death sentence will be carried out after the prosecutor agrees to it. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Nov. 17, 2010)

Women to be hanged on first of December

The death sentence for Shahla Jahed which was signed last week by Larijani, was announced to the Tehran prosecutor and will be carried out on December 1 if the family of the murdered victim does not grant her amnesty. Shahla Jahed has been convicted of murdering Laleh Saharkhiz, the wife of Naser Mohammad Khani whom she had a relationship with for four years. She initially confessed to murder, but in court she said that she was forced into confession under pressure and torture. Her case is one of the most

controversial murder cases in the past years. (Shahrzad News – Nov. 18, 2010)

Inhumane treatment and cruel punishments

Amputation, flogging, torture and humiliation

Hand of prisoner will soon be chopped off in Mashhad 

The hand of another robber will soon be chopped off in Mashhad. Prosecutor Mahmoud Zoqi and Colonel Ahad Karimi, the State Security Forces Commander in Mashhad said in separate interviews that in the near future, the amputation sentence of a thief who has committed violent crimes would be carried out in Mashhad. (Khorasan state-run Daily – Nov. 14, 2010)

Gohardasht Prison guards attack political prisoners in systematic raid

Prison guards in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj raided the cells of political prisoners in cellblock 4 on Thursday morning and searched their cells and personal belongings.

According to reports from Rajayi Shahr Prison, on November 18, 32 members of the Special Guards Forces in prison along with 14 military officers’ raided hall 10 in this prison which is where political prisoners are kept and violently searched their belongings.

These raids, in which prison guards violently conduct searches, beat prisoners and destroy their personal belongings, have been carried out numerous times in the past months. Some time ago prison guards raided cellblock 4 along with two dogs and searched the belongings of political prisoners in hall 10 in this prison.

Rajayi Shahr Prison is used by security officials to send political prisoners (to as punishment) because of its unsuitable conditions. This prison which is known as the ‘center of exile for political prisoners’ is used to put pressure on political prisoner because of its unsuitable sanitary conditions, detaining political prisoners with methadone prisoners, prisoners who inject drugs, troublemakers and drug addicts who have been arrested on the streets and those who are psychologically ill in one cellblock, the systematic beating of prisoners, limitations in in-person visits and the lack of medical services. (Student Committee in Defense of Political Prisoners – Nov. 18, 2010)

Political prisoner denied treatment in notorious Karaj prison

Political prisoner Mashallah (Hamid) Haeri, who is detained in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj, is in poor physical health and prison officials ignore his condition.

According to reports, this 53 year old political prisoner is in need of a specialist doctor and special medicine because he is suffering from hemorrhage and a critical heart problem. Prison officials prevent him from getting the special medicine his family brings for him.

He is detained for being a member of a dissident group and has been sentenced to 15 years of prison by the Revolutionary Court. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Nov. 19, 2010)

Arbitrary arrests

Political arrests

Iran arrests 3 activists in Saqez

http://www.hra-news5.info/1389-01-27-05-25-54/5131-1.html

According to reports from Saqez, in the past few days, security forces arrested three Kurd activists in this town.

Haj Saied Fatahi, a 60 year old Bazaar merchant, Ali Mohammadian (Ali Khorkhoreyi), artist and Rozgar Moradi, a law student at Tabriz University were arrested.

Judicial officials in Saqez have not given any reason for the arrest of these men as yet. (Mukerian News Agency – Nov. 14, 2010)

Iran arrests another labor activist in Saqez

http://www.hra-news5.info/1389-01-27-05-29-12/5141-1.html

On Thursday, November 11, labor activist Omar Ismail Pour, was summoned and arrested by the Revolutionary Guards Corps.

According to reports, no one knows where he was taken and what his current condition is. (Human Rights activists in Iran – Nov. 14, 2010)

Iran detains 5 lawyers on security charges - report

Five lawyers have been arrested in Iran for security-related offences, a local news agency said on Sunday, the latest in a series of arrests of human rights' activists since last year's disputed presidential election.

Tehran general prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi said three of the lawyers were arrested when they returned from a trip to Turkey, the semi-official Fars news agency reported.

"Two other lawyers related to the three were also detained in Iran," the prosecutor told Fars.

"They have been detained for committing security-related offences and violating the Islamic Republic's moral standards outside Iran," he said, without elaborating on the charges.

Sara Sabaghian, Maryam Kian-Ersi and Maryam Karbasi were arrested at Tehran's International Imam Khomeini Airport on Saturday, the Sharq newspaper reported…

Judiciary chief Sadeq Larijani has warned lawyers over criticising the judicial system and on giving interviews to foreign media, the moderate Arman newspaper reported on Sunday. (Reuters - Nov 14, 2010)

Iran arrests cleric

According to reports, on Monday November 16, security forces raided the home of Allah Verdi Rohi and arrested him and one of his relative identified as Hamid. These forces searched his home and seized some of his personal belongings such as his computer. It is still not clear where these two are being kept. His family and relatives have pursued the reason behind their arrest but have not been given any information as yet. Raids by security forces to the homes of political and human rights activists especially in the weeks leading up to Student Day (December 7) has become prevalent in Iran. (Center in Defense of the Families of those Slain and Detained – Nov. 17, 2010)

Prison

Prison Condition

Political prisoner banned from mourning father’s death in prison

According to reports, prison guards in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj prevented a memorial ceremony for the late father of political prisoner Karim Poursamadi in cellblock 2 in this prison. 

Close to a week after the death of this political prisoner’s father, political prisoners intended to hold a memorial ceremony to give condolences to their fellow inmate Karim Poursamadi which was unfortunately met with the refusal of prison agents and they were told that they did not have the right to hold any kind of ceremony in prison.

About four weeks ago, the Intelligence Agency called Poursamadi’s father and told him that his son would be hanged in the morning. His father subsequently had a brain stroke and suddenly passed away. 

Notably, because there is no evidence against Poursamadi, his detention order had been changed to a 50 million toman (about 50,000 dollar) bail by the Revolutionary Court but he has not been released from prison. He was under severe pressure because he was not allowed to say his last farewell to his father when he was ill and because he was banned from participating in his funeral. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Nov. 14, 2010)

Another prison murdered in fight instigated by Gohardasht Prison officials

http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2010/11/5.html

According reports, in a deadly clash in cellblock 5 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, prisoner Mohammad Baba Alian was murdered.

On the morning of November 14, at about 3 pm, 22 year old Mohammad Baba Alian was wounded after being stabbed in three parts of his body in a clash. His fellow inmates cried for help for about thirty minutes from behind the closed doors of cellblock 5’s hall before he was finally transferred to the infirmary. He was not immediately treated in the infirmary and no one did anything to stop his bleeding. Prison officials also refused to take him to a hospital outside of the prison and he passed away in front of other inmates without being given first aid.

Before this clash and in the past few days, Alian and his cellmate were reportedly summoned by the assistant head of prison Ali Mohammadi and Faraji, the head of the Intelligence Unit, to the Intelligence Unit and were instigated to fight with one another. They were separately told that if they murder the other prisoner, their sentences would be commuted. Despite the fact that these two prisoners had a friendly relationship with each other, threats and promises by the assistant head of prison and the head of the Intelligence Unit led to this horrific crime. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Nov. 15, 2010)

Post-election protester in poor mental and physical condition in prison

Ayub Qanbarpourian, who was arrested after the elections, is in very poor mental and physical condition in prison but the Tehran Prosecutor and prison officials have refused to grant him a leave from prison.

He has been detained for more than a year and has been only able to see his family a few times because they live in another town and cannot easily come to Tehran.

He was sentenced to five years of prison after months of being kept in a state of limbo in cellblocks 350 and 209 in Evin Prison.

This 20 year old political prisoner is from Koh Dasht Village in Lorestan and worked as a construction worker in Tehran. He was arrested for participating in the peaceful demonstrations in protest to election results.

Qanbarpourian supported his family after he lost his father and his family has been facing financial hardships in the past few months.

He is currently detained in cellblock 350 in Evin along with many other political prisoners. His family and fellow prisoners are severely concerned for his mental and physical condition to the point that everyday, a number of political prisoners in this cellblock take the responsibility of looking out for him in prison. (Saham News – Nov. 17, 2010)

No news on condition of political prisoner after he was thrown in solitary

http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2010/11/blog-post_18.html

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