Jafar Kazemi’s Death Sentence Confirmed

HRANA- An appeals court has upheld the death sentence handed down to Jafar Kazemi. His sentence was confirmed by the 36th Branch of the court of appeals presided over by Hojatoleslam Zargari.

His lawyer Ms. Ghanavi told a human rights website that her client has spent long periods of time in solitary confinement.

Jafar Kazemi, a lithograph for textbooks and pamphlets for Amir Kabir University was arrested on September 18, 2009 in Haft e Tir Square and transferred to the solitary ward in section 209 for seventy four days before being transferred to ward 350 of Evin Prison. Prior to this he had been imprisoned between1981 and 1989.

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Hussein Rounaghi” Was Transferred To Hospital With His Hands and Ankles Cuffed

HRANA – After several months being in severe physical condition, on Wednesday morning April 20th, authorities finally transferred “Hussein Rounaghi Maleki” to a hospital with his hands and ankles cuffed.

According to The HRANA reporters, News organizations for Human Rights Activists in Iran, Today morning Hussein Rounaghi was taken to Hospital with his hands and ankles cuffed.

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Twenty People Executed over the Last Month

HRANA- Three prisoners from the city of Kerman’s central prison and one prisoner from Shirvan in the Khorassan province were executed yesterday.

HRANA has learned that the three men executed in Kerman were accused of trafficking narcotics and that the prisoner from Shirvan was accused of transportation and possession of narcotics.

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A Citizen Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison

HRANA News Agency – Seyed Javad Mahsomi Kouchsfhany was sentenced to seven years in prison by Tehran Revolutionary Court, Branch 28.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Seyed Javad Mahsomi Kouchsfhany was tried last year on November 30, 2010, but the verdict was recently handed down by Judge Moqayaseh and verbally communicated to the accused.

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Four Executed in Esfahan Prison

HRANA- Four people were executed by hanging in Esfahan’s central prison on Tuesday morning.

According to the Esfahan province’s justice department these four individuals were charged and sentenced to death for “drug trafficking”. No further information, including the names of the individuals is known at this time.

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Death of a prisoner in solitary confinement under torture in City of Karaj “Rajaie prison “

HRANA – Monday, April 11, 2011, the body of a prisoner who had killed under unbearable torture was transferred from solitary confinement in section 1 to the clinic of “Rajaie Prison” in city of Karaj.

According to The HRANA reporters, News Organizations for Human Rights Activists in Iran, on Monday the body of a prisoner named Javad Asgari who was imprisoned for financial charges (not paying the dowry), was taken to the prison Clinic in serious condition.

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Families of Executed Political Prisoners Face Uncertainty

HRANA- Although forty days have passed since the executions of Farzad Kamangar, Ali Heydariyan, Farhad Vakili, Shirin Alam-Hooli and Mehdi Eslamiyan family members are still uncertain of where their bodies have been buried. It is reported that security forces have stepped up pressure on the families of the five executed political prisoners.

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For the Lack of Medical Care, Mohsen Dokmechi Died

HRANA News Agency – It has been reported that last night, on March 28, 2011, the condition of Mohsen Dokmechi deteriorated, and due to lack of medical care, he died in hospital. Mohsen Dokmechi was a political prisoner in Rajaei Shahr Prison in Karaj, Tehran. Prior to his arrest, he was a well-known merchant in Tehran’s bazaar.

In mid March, having no hope for Mohsen Dokmechi to survive because his cancer had spread, doctors had said that he would die within one to three months.

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Abdolmalek Rigi Has Been Executed

HRANA – Iran’s judiciary announced that Abdolmalek Rigi, leader of the militant opposition movement Jundollah, has been executed.

Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, was the founder and leader of the People’s Resistance Movement of Iran (Jundollah). He and another member of the group were arrested last March. He was found guilty of a number of charges including of being a “mohareb” by Judge Tohidi of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court because of the organizations armed attacks. He was hung early Saturday morning in Evin prison.

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Secret execution of a Jewish-Armenian couple in Tehran’s Evin Prison

Hrana – At dawn on Monday March 14, 2011 a Jewish-Armenian couple along with one women and two other men were secretly executed.

According to the Iranian Christian News Agency “Mohabat News” and Based on reports from the human rights activists in Iran, the 28th divisional court of the Revolutionary Court, located inside the Evin prison, in confirming this execution refused to provide any further details about the surrender of the executed bodies of the prisoners.

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