A Message from Farzad Kamangar’s Mother for Global Day to Support Political Prisoners

To break this lock, solidarity is essential!

I have said it numerous times in my messages and will say it again that we must think of our beloved prisoners and don’t allow them to be kept in prison, tortured and killed.No prisoner will be set free without our efforts because the cruelest and the most apathetic individuals are tasked to decide the prisoners’ fate.To break this lock, solidarity is essential.

There must be solidarity between families, and people must help them.Certainly, this assistance does exist.We must ask why our loved ones are imprisoned when they are innocent; we must ask what gives the authorities the right to kill our children.Although many years have passed, a large number of families still don’t know in which prison their children are locked up or even whether they are still alive or already slaughtered.Those families whose children are slain don’t know where they are buried.

Thousands of families similar to me are wandering from town to town.What law, which God and which human can accept this?What was my Farzad’s crime?He only said that a human being must live like one.The authorities imprisoned my son for this reason and executed him.

For sure, there are other young individuals who wish to live like a human and state the same desire similar to my son.Why should they be imprisoned?How long must these mothers suffer, weep and wear black for mourning?I am a mother who has suffered immensely both when my Farzad was in prison and now that the authorities have taken him from me.I understand what other mothers go through for their loved ones day and night.I neither wish grief nor pain even for my enemies’ mothers because I am a mother myself.I want no mother wail for her child.

I say this to all the families of political prisoners and to all human beings.The only solution out of the current situation is solidarity.We must become united as one in both inside the country and abroad.From all the defenders of human rights organizations, I request not to forget this country’s youth and not to permit the authorities to imprison our young and murder them.It is enough.

I kiss your all.

Tehran University Student Mojtaba Hashemi Convicted

HRANA News Agency – Mojtaba Hashemi, a student activist in Tehran University School of Law, has been suspended from school for 3 years and sentenced to one year imprisonment and 74 lashes.

According to a report by the Center to Defend Families of Those Slain and Detained in Iran, Mojtaba Hashemi, a key member of student council during the protests on December 7, 2009, was convicted by Tehran Revolutionary Court.

This report also indicates that Mojtaba Hashemi was preparing a program to commemorate Student’s Day and during a gathering for this occasion, his efforts were hindered by the university’s Basij militia and Herasat, [Iran’s semi-secret police tasked to monitor all educational institutes].At the end, Mojtaba Hashemi was expelled from the university because of pressures from these security forces.

Mojtaba Hashemi is waiting to serve his one year prison term.In addition to imposing suspension and imprisonment, security forces are preventing him from journalistic and civic activities.Mojtaba Hashemi is also under pressure and has been threatened.

 

 

Summoning of an Art Student to the Ministry of Intelligence

HRANA – Vahid Akbari Sharghi, Student of Sound Engineering & Cinema in India was summoned by intelligence ministry agents after returning to Iran.

According to The HRANA reporters, News organizations for Human Rights Activists in Iran, on April 15 intelligence Service agents went to house of this artist’s father in order to arrest him and after searching his home and seizing computer and some sound mix equipment summoned him to the Office of the Ministry of Intelligence.

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Staff Rally in Front of Governor’s Office in Mahshahr

HRANA News Agency – This morning, one hundred employees of a special project to safeguard construction plans in the region staged a sit in and demonstration in front of the governor’s office in Mahshahr [Khuzestan Province, Iran].

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), during this gathering, the employees carried various placards and signs some of which read, “Don’t Lay Us Off.”

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Mir Hossein Mousavi’s Head of Security Arrested

HRANA – Mir Hossein Mousavi’s head of security, known as Haj Ahmad Yazdanfar, has been arrested.

According to Kalameh, Yazdanfar who is Mousavi’s most senior bodyguard and head of security was arrested moments ago by police forces.

We will post a more complete report on this breaking news as soon as possible.

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Retrial request of Nasour Naghipour, jailed journalist was rejected

HRANA News Agency – The retrial request of Nasour Naghipour, jailed journalist and cyber activist was rejected by prison’s authorities.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), after passing 4 months, prison authorities has seized the retrial request of Nasour Naghipour, and the efforts of his family have remained with no result.
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Pastor Youcef’s Wife: New Charge is Rumor/ New Court Date Been notified and Death Sentence Remains

HRANA News Agency – Pastor Youcef’s Wife rejects new charge against her husband and called it rumor. She mentioned New Court Date Been notified and “Apostasy” Charge remains.
Fatemeh Pasandideh, Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s wife, in a conversation with the reporter of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) said: “He  is scheduled to appear in court on September 8 and “Apostasy” Charge is the only one in the case. She added “Banditry and Extortion” charge does not exist in the case and is just rumors.
 
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Security Measures for Anniversary of Ghassemlou’s Assassination

HRANA News Agency – On the 22nd anniversary of Dr. Abdual Rahman Ghassemlou’s assassination, a number of cities in western Iran are witnessing increased security measures, and the presence of military forces are felt throughout the region.

Dr. Abdual Rahman Gahassemlou was a political activist and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party from 1973 to 1989.On July 13, 1989, he was assassinated by perpetrators believed to be agents of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on the anniversary of Dr. Abdual Rahman Ghassemlou’s assassination, Kurdish citizens in various cities throughout Kurdistan and Western Azerbaijan Provinces are on strike in order to protest against this crime.This observance has become a long standing tradition amongst Kurdish citizens in the past few years.
In recent days, Iranian security and intelligence forces have summoned businessmen, vendors and salesmen to warn them not to close their shops and the bazaar.
As this report is being prepared, the heavy presence of military forces in various cities throughout West Azerbaijan Province has created tense security atmosphere in places such as Bukan, Saqqez, Urmia and Mahabad.
 

Farid Salvati Was Arrested

HRANA News Agency – Security forces raided Farid Salvati’s house in Esfahan on Sunday evening, June 12, 2011, and arrested him.Farid Salvati is a journalist and political and social activist.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Farid Salvati’s house was searched yesterday evening, and he was detained subsequently.

Farid Salvati is the grandson of Allameh Jafari and the son of Fazollah Salvati who was one of the prominent political activists in Esfahan during the early years of Islamic Revolution.