HRANA News Agency – There is no information about the situation of Mohsen Ghashghai Zadeh, detained student in the “Saraye Ghalam” session, after 13 days.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), after 13 days from when security forces attacked the memorial session of Farahnaz Dargahi, Arash Sadeghi’s mother in “Saraye Ghalam” on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 and arrested several activists, the family of Mohsen Ghashghai Zadeh has no information about the situation, place and charges of their son.
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HRW – Iran: Investigate Detained Blogger’s Death
HRANA News Agency – (Beirut) – Iranian authorities should investigate the death of a 35-year-old blogger in custody and immediately provide his family with information about the circumstances of his death. Initial reports suggest that he may have died from ill-treatment or torture.
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Labor activist, Pedram Nasrollahi, was sentenced to 19 months in prison by the appeals court
HRANA News Agency – Labor activist, Pedram Nasrollahi, was sentenced to 19 months in prison by the appeals court of Sanandaj, Iran.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Pedram Nasrollahi who was arrested on Thursday, March 8, 2012. He had been interrogated for 48 days then was released on 700 million Rls bail. Nasrollahi was sentenced to three years in prison on charges of “propagating against the regime in favor of an opposition group” and “membership in the Coordinating Committee to Help Form Workers’ organizations in the primary court. He objected the verdict and finally was sentenced to 19 months in prison by the appeals court of Sanandaj.
HRW wants Iran to lift women eduation ban
HRANA News Agency – Human Rights Watch (HRW) urged Iran on Saturday to lift restrictions on women attending university and enrolling in certain academic fields. Thirty-six universities across Iran have banned women from 77 different majors, including accounting, counseling, and engineering, for the school year that begins on Saturday, Iran’s Mehr news agency reported in August.
There was no official reason given for the move, but Iranian officials have expressed alarm in recent months about the country’s declining birth and marriage rates, seen as partially caused by women’s rising educational attainment in the last two decades. In a statement released on Saturday, Human Rights Watch urged the Iranian government to immediately reverse the more restrictive policies, and said they were a violation of the international right to education for everyone without discrimination.
“As university students across Iran prepare to start the new academic year, they face serious setbacks, and women students in particular will no longer be able to pursue the education and careers of their choice,” said Liesl Gerntholtz, women’s rights director at Human Rights Watch. Women in Iran make up a majority of college students. Sixty percent of those who passed this year’s national college entrance exam were women, said Hossein Tavakoli, an official at Iran’s National Education Assessment Organization (NEAO), according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA.
Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi argued in a letter to the United Nations in August that the closure of certain academic fields to women was part of a push by the Iranian government to stifle “women’s presence in the public arena”. Human Rights Watch said some of the banned majors include high-paying fields where women have had a greater presence in recent years, like engineering and applied science.—Reuters
17 Year Old Alireza Mullah Soltani Hanged
HRANA News Agency – On Wednesday, September 21, 2011, Alireza Mullah Soltani, born in December 1993, was hanged at 5:30am after the death sentence verdict in retribution for the murder he had committed was read.
According to a report by The Islamic Republic news Agency (IRNA), in retribution for the murder of Ruhollah Dadashi, Alireza Mullah Soltani was sentenced to death by Alborz Province Criminal Court, Branch 1.This verdict was upheld by the Supreme Court, Branch 11 and confirmed by the Head of Judiciary.
The hanging took place in front of thousands of spectators in Poneh Street, 50 yards from where the murder took place.
In recent days, human Rights activists have objected to executing a 17 year old minor and criticized the Islamic Republic of Iran for killing underage criminal offenders.Iran is amongst a small number of countries that executes minors although it is a state signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
The state-run Fars News Agency reported that Alireza Mullah Soltani’s feet slipped twice when he was climbing the stool to face the gallows.He was crying loudly before he was hanged and asking for forgiveness while calling his mother and Shi’a religious figures’ names.
After the execution, Ali Rezwanmanesh, the representative of the Judiciary present at the time of hanging, told news reporters, “According to Sharia, Alireza was not a minor because in Sharia, the lunar calender in which years are shorter is used.”
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At Least 30 PKK Fighters Killed or Injured
HRANA News Agency – An Iranian military commander has announced that at least thirty members of PKK have been killed or injured since fighting resumed ten days ago in Kurdistan alongside the western and northwestern regions of Iran.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Hamid Ahmadi, a military commander with the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution, has reported that at least 30 guerrilla fighters of Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed or injured by Sepah Pasdaran.
Iranian state media has reported, “Sweeping military operations continue in the northwestern regions of the country in order to get rid of members of the terrorist group, PKK.”
HRANA previously reported that on Friday, September 2, 2011, Iranian military forces resumed operations alongside the country’s western borders after a ten-day delay.
Political Prisoners in Evin Go on Hunger Strike in Support of Majid Tavakoli
May 27, 2010
HRANA – A group of political prisoners in Evin prison went on hunger strike on Wednesday to declare their objection to the transfer of Majid Tavakoli to solitary confinement and to support the hunger strike of this student activist.
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Ali Tavakoli “My Mom Has Been on Hunger Strike for Two Days in Solidarity with Majid”
HRANA – On Sunday, May 23, Majid Tavakoli was transferred to solitary confinement for speaking out against the statements by the representative of Tehran’s Prosecutor during a session with the representative and other prisoners protesting the results of the presidential election.
Majid Tavakoli has gone on a dry hunger strike since his transfer, which is extremely dangerous due to the lack of any liquid intake. Yesterday afternoon, certain outlets reported that Mr. Tavakoli’s condition has severely deteriorated.
An Afghan prisoner hanged in Iran
HRANA News Agency – On Saturday, February 2nd of 2013 an Afghan man hanged in Khourin prison of Varamin.
According to the report of human rights activists and democracy in Iran website, Saturday, February 2nd of 2013 the prisoner Haj Mohammad Nourzehi who was 28 years old, hanged. He was been transferred to Khourin prison in Varamin from Ghezel Hesar prison after 7 years imprisonment and been in cell for four days before the execution.
On January 30th, the prison officials informed Haj Mohammad Nourzehi that his lawyer formed a complaint in court against him because he did not pay the lawyer and Haj Mohammad has to go with the prison officers to the court, but they transferred him to a cell in Khourin prison in Varamin.
Because of the protests in Afghanistan against the executions of Afghani people in Iran, now the Iranian official medias do not release the news of Afghani people executions and even the families of executed Afghanis are not allowed to take the cadavers back to Afghanistan legally and have to pay a lot to smuggle the cadavers of their family members who have been executed in Iran.
Imprisonment and monetary penalty for the eldest Baha’i citizen
HRANA News Agency – Southern Khorasan appealed decreased the Birjand revolutionary court from three years imprisonment to one year and fine for Mohammad Hossain Nakh’ie.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), southern Khorasan provincial appealed decreased the 3 years imprisonment verdict of Mohammad Hossain Nakh’ie, the Baha’i citizen who has 85 years old, to one year imprisonment and 6 million tomans fine.
Mohammad Hossain Nakh’ie has arrested since May 13th of 2012 by the Etela’at agents at his home in Khousef village and is in Birjand prison until now.
First this Baha’i citizen has sentenced to three years imprisonment by Birjand revolutionary court on charge of propaganda against regime.