news 21 sep.

Av Afsaneh Oskoueinejad - 21 september 2010 21:21

Systematic violations of the right to life

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

Execution

Iran hangs person in Shirvan: report

Iran has hanged a convicted drug trafficker in the northeastern city of Shirvan, the Fars news agency reported on Thursday.

The report did not identify the person sent to gallows, neither did it say when the execution was carried out. (AFP - Sept 15, 2010)

Iran hangs prisoners after 173 lashes

http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-28-00-30-11/4010-1.html

A 25 year old man was hanged yesterday in the Khoran Prison yard in Varamin after receiving 173 lashes.

According to state-run TV, Seyed Reza Hosseini, the Varamin Prosecutor said, “This 25 year old man was sentenced to two deaths, paying a blood money and 173 lashes on charges of kidnapping, intentionally injuring someone, intentional sabotage and using obscene language”. This sentence was upheld in the Supreme Court. Hosseini also said that the convicted man was lashed 173 times before his execution. (Human Rights Activists in Iran, Fars state-run News Agency – Sep. 17, 2010)

Deaths in custody

Kurd prisoner dies under torture in Iran

http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/083116.htm

According to Kurdish sources, Ravand Mohammad Ismail, an Iraqi Kurd citizen from Qale Dizeh located in Soleimanieh in Iraq’s Kurdistan was arrested in the town of Sardasht by Iranian security forces and passed away after severe torture in the Intelligence Agency. (Iran Press News – Sep. 14, 2010)

Death sentence

Woman who killed her rapist in self defense on verge of execution

Mohabat Mahmoudi said in a telephone call to members of the Kurdistan Human Rights Organization that her death sentence has been announced to the Sentence Implementation Unit and she might soon be executed.

According to reports, she sent a letter to this organization asking for a new lawyer and that human rights organizations and other people try to secure her release.

Mahmoudi has been jailed in the Central Orumieh Prison since 2000 for killing a man who intended to rape her. This married woman is on the verge of death after 9 years of prison and her death sentence has also been upheld by the Supreme Court.

It was announced to her on July 11, 2010 that her sentence, which will be carried out on orders of the judiciary, was upheld. According to reports, the wife of the murdered man disagrees with the execution of Mohabat but his brother wants her execution. (Kurdistan Human Rights News Agency – Sep. 14, 2010)

Inhumane treatment and cruel punishments

Amputation, flogging, torture and humiliation

Paralyzed political prisoner returned to prison before surgery

According to reports, political prisoner Hadi (Homayoun) Bakhoda who was paralyzed in the 1980’s after being shot by security forces was prevented from continuing his treatment and was returned to Rasht Central Prison.

He was granted a medical leave and sent to hospital because of his deteriorating health on orders of a legal doctor. He was prevented from receiving further treatment in the middle of his medical tests before surgery and was returned back to prison on September 4.

This 50 year old political prisoner who is suffering from spastic paralysis and neurogenic bladder was jailed in the infirmary of Rasht Prison since November 8, 2009. He was in a critical condition because of his paralysis and several other problems and was kept in inhumane conditions in the infirmary along with newly arrested drug addicts. Also the appalling sanitary, and food conditions and lack of medical treatment made his condition more critical.

Abedi was sentenced to two years of prison in the second branch of the Revolutionary Court. He was also under severe torture in the 80’s in Evin and Qezelhesar Prison on charges of supporting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI)...

His brother Hormoz Abed Bakhoda was executed in the 80’s for supporting the PMOI. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Sep. 11, 2010)

Political prisoner put under pressure on 64^th day of hunger strike

http://www.chrr.biz/spip.php?article11088

Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht Prison) infirmary after two months of hunger strike. He is unable to talk and cannot open his eyes.

Despite his severe critical condition in the infirmary, he was put under pressure to sign a form saying that he would accept the responsibility of the consequences of his hunger strike. He has stressed on continuing his hunger strike until all his demands have been met and refused to sign the form.

Notably, Davoudi’s home was seized under a sentence issued by Judge Hadad who was in charge of his case and was then sold.

Davoudi was arrested on November 9, 2003 on charges of acting against national security and writing the Manifesto for Iranian Secularism and has been detained ever since. (Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Sep. 15, 2010)

Hunger striking political prisoner writes letter to freedom lovers

Letter written by political prisoner Arjang Davoudi from Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj:

I want to inform everyone of the below issues:

1- The prison medic sets conditions and terms to treat me and asks me to sign that if anything were to happen to me he is not responsible which means he wants me to sign my own murder sentence!

2- The prison nurse reports my blood pressure as 10/8 while the sphygmomanometer which belongs to a prisoner shows that my pressure is 7.5/6

3- The head of the cellblock is indifferent and only says that hunger strikes are illegal!

4- The head of the Prison Protection Unit says that my demands are logical but that I have to end my hunger strike and write my demands down so that they could eventually and slowly meet my long demands and inform higher officials!

5- A prison agent says, so many people have died in prison, you will just by another dead person! ...

10- The Manager of Iran’s Prison Organization has asked the prison manager to see to it that I could visit my family but the prison manager refuses and says that lets punish him some more so that he is forced to end his hunger strike!..

13- The assistant head of security says that his family gives interviews to the foreign media so he can get his requests from them! ...

Now as I enter my 65^th day of hunger strike, I salute all those who were killed for freedom and persistently ask freedom lovers around the world, democratic people, human rights institutions especially the Human Rights Commission of the UN and the Secretary General of the UN, Mr. Ban Ki Mon to obligate the Iranian regime to follow the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and if they do not, suspend their chair in the United Nations.

I will stand until my death behind the ideals of freedom and democracy which go back 200 years in Iran.

Arjang Davoudi, teacher, poet and writer, political prisoners in Rajayi Shahr Prison in Karaj – Sep. 15, 2010 (Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Sep. 17, 2010)

Davoudi in danger of death in prison

Sources from inside Rajayi Shahr Prison in Karaj say that political prisoner Arjang Davoudi is in very critical condition in prison.

These reports say that last night Mr. Davoudi was in a state of delirium and talked about death and his weight has decreased to only 35 kilograms (77 pounds).

According to his cellmates, this political prisoner has continued his hunger strike for 66 days in protest to not being allowed to contact his family and because his complaint against the head of this prison Haj Kazem has not been seen to. His home was also seized and sold off by the justice system. (Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Sep. 17, 2010)

3 Baluch political prisoners in danger of death in prison

http://www.hra-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-25-54/4014-1.html

Three young Baluch citizens identified as Nasser Sheh Baksh, Khan La’l Mohammad Sheh Bakhsh and Khaled She Bakhsh who have been arrested on charges of having links to a political organization are in danger of death in prison.

According to Baluchistan human rights activists, these men were arrested around six months ago because their last name resembled that of Haj Khodabakhsh Sheh Baksh, the head of an armed dissent organization. They are in danger of being executed. The family of Nasser was recently able to visit him in prison after many attempts. They said he was in critical condition.

Nasser has severe breathing difficulties because of mistreatment and being kept in an unsuitable place. The families of Nasser and the two other men are concerned that their sons will face the fate of another one of their relatives (Shir Mohammad Sheh Baksh) who was arrested along with

these three and died after being tortured in the Zahedan Intelligence Agency. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 17, 2010)

Prison gang run by officials attempts to behead jailed kickboxing instructor

http://www.hr-news6.info/1389-01-27-05-27-21/4009-1.html

On Sunday night, unidentified elements in the Rajayi Shahr Prison in Karaj attempted to kill a jailed kickboxing instructor by beheading him.

According to reports, in this attempt Hassan Armin who is paralyzed in the legs due to torture by the police was severely wounded in the neck and after a light intervention (by prison guards) was taken to a hospital outside of the prison by the infirmary.

Human Rights Activists in Iran had disclosed the existence of gangs inside Rajayi Shahr Prison who physically eliminate prisoners and act in an organized manner upon the orders of prison officials. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 17, 2010)

Arbitrary arrests

Political arrests

Iran jails political activist

http://www.hra-news6.info/00/3946-1.html

Meisam Roudaki was taken to Evin Prison on Saturday September 11 to serve his three years of prison.

According to reports, this political activist was sentenced to three years of prison in June by the 15^th branch of the Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Salavati.

He was charged with acting against national security, membership in a political party and cooperating with the opposition.

Notably, he is suffering from a severe digestive illness and is in a bad health. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Sep. 13, 2010)

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