Human Rights Watch – Iran’s judiciary immediately should halt plans to execute a man convicted at age 17 of terrorism-related crimes for an armed opposition group and vacate his death sentence.

Iran’s Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence for the man, Saman Nasim, in December 2013. His lawyer and family fear that authorities may carry out the sentence in less than two weeks despite an absolute ban on the execution of child offenders in international law. Iranian media reports indicate that Iran has executed at least eight child offenders since 2010. Reports by Amnesty International and other rights groups, however, suggest as many as 31 child offenders may have been executed during that period, making it one of the countries with the world’s highest number of reported child offender executions. Continue reading “Human Rights Watch: Halt Execution of Child Offender”

Amnesty International – Iranian juvenile offender, Saman Naseem, could be executed as early as 19 February 2015 for crimes allegedly committed when he was 17 years old. He was sentenced to death after an unfair trial.

The family of Saman Naseem, who is now aged 22, have received reliable information that he will be executed on 19 February. Amnesty International understands that the authorities have prevented Saman Naseem’s lawyer from pursuing the case and have not allowed him to appoint another lawyer. Continue reading “Amnesty International: Execution Looms for Saman Naseem”

HRANA News Agency – A group of political prisoners and political and civil activists signed a letter to the Iranian people to join the campaign for the unconditional implementation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The following is the full text of this statement:

Dear compatriots!

Sixty-six years ago in the United Nations General Assembly, a declaration was adopted   that resulted from thousands of years of human effort and struggle to “recognize the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family.” The General Assembly in 10^th of December 1948 adopted the Article 30 of the Declaration as the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights and published it as “a common standard achievement for all people and nations.” In 1975 after the approval in the National Congress, this Declaration was adopted as a law in Iran. Continue reading “Civil Activists and Political Prisoners Call for “Yes to the Unconditional Implementation of the Declaration of Human Rights””

HRANA News Agency – Tens of political prisoners in ward 350 of Evin prison who were transferred to Quarantine basement of ward 7 and are being kept in an inhumane difficult condition since last summer, wrote a letter asking for the help from the UN General Secretary, Human rights Council and some of the human rights organization to improve their condition.

In this letter which has been signed by 45 political prisoners as: Omid Kokabi, Mehdi Sajadifar, Hamidreza Derakhshandeh, Amir Mirza hekmati, Salaar Sotoudeh, Assdollsh Asadi, Esmael Barzegar, Rasool Heydarzadeh,Yaghoob Maleki, Behzad Abasi, Amir Dorousti and Majid Mohammadi Moein, the prisoners have complain about their inhumane condition in prison. Continue reading “45 Political Prisoners Ask Ban Ki-moon to Address their Situation”

HRANA News Agency – On Wednesday 3 December 2014, Behnam Ebrahimzadeh was transferred from Ward 12 of Karaj Rajaee Shahr Prison which is designated to Political and Conscious Prisoners to another ward which is home to prisoners with heavy sentences and criminals on his return from the court.

He had initiated a hunger strike on the same day and was in extreme health condition during the hunger strike.

In a letter, a group of Political Prisoners invited BehnamEbrahimZadeh to end his hunger strike which is in the following: Continue reading “Political Prisoners Invited Behnam Ebrahimzadeh to End Hunger Strike”

HRANA News Agency – A group of political women prisoners has signed an open letter to complain against the illegal exile of Hakimeh Shokri to Gharchak prison and asked the authorities to answer it.

Rooz On-line had published the Persian format of the statement, the English translation of which is being published by HRANA:

Hakimeh Shokri is a green movement prisoner in Evin and a member of mourning mothers of Park-e-Laleh. She was transfered to Gharchak prison in 15 December, unexpectedly.

She was expecting the parole while only 7 months of her 3 years imprisonment sentence remains. Under the pretext of her calling up to the prosecutor of Evin, they took her out without giving permission to collect the little amount of her personal properties.

The condition of Gharchak prison in Varaamin is known to any one, even keeping the criminals there is a kind of problematic. Inhumane condition of women’s ward was announced to the authorities in different ways but it has not been worked so much.

Besides, Hakimeh Shokri the green prisoner has been transferred to Gharchak Varaamin, unexpectedly. In our opinion, this transfer is an “exile” and she is forced to spend the rest of her imprisonment in a horrible situation.

As usual, the authorities of the prison bring typical excuses to exile dozens of our friends in ward 350 of Evin during these 5 years.
Keeping the political prisoners in such a condition which is not even valid for the ordinary prisoners is unavoidable and not permissible.

In another view, this exile is the reverse of Hakimeh Shokri’s rights and is double overcharge against the one who is imprisoned because of supporting the green movement.
We complain about this sudden, unreasonable unjustified exile and ask the judicial authorities to return back or free this political prisoner.

Bahareh Hedayat, Sajedeh arab sorkhi, Maryam Shafi poor, Farideh
Shahgooli, Fariba Kamal Abadi, Faraan Hesami, Nasim Bagheri, Nooshin Khadem, Shahin Mohajer, Maryam Naghash zargaraan, Ellahe Barmaki, Sedigheh Moradi, Maryam Akbari monfared

HRANA News Agency – The prisoners of the unit 2 of Karaj-Ghezelhesar prison who have been sentenced to death on drug-related charges started a hunger strike from Monday (December 1^st) to Sunday (December 7^th), protesting against the recent increasing of the number of executions in Iran in the last couple of weeks.

These prisoners issued a statement, a copy of which has been submitted to HRANA as follows: Continue reading “Statement of Death-Row Prisoners at Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj”

HRANA News Agency – In a statement, “Step by Step to Stop Death Penalty” campaigners demanded the freedom of Conscious Prisoner, Mohammad Ali Taheri the founder of Erfane Halghe (Interuniversalism Mysticism).

According to the HRANA report, this statement says: Continue reading “Statement of “LEGAM” Campaigners on Mohammad Ali Taheri’s Situation”

HRANA News Agency – The political prisoners of section 12 who started a hunger strike 23 days ago are in grave physical and health conditions. Yesterday, eight prisoners were transferred to the clinic of the prison because of deteriorating health condition but were turned back to their wards after refusing to receive medical aid.

The prisoners are demanding the enforcement of the law of separation of penalties and creation of independent section for the political prisoners. Currently, 30 political prisoners are being held in the section 12 of Uremia prison and more than 40 political prisoners are scattered are scattered in different sections of this prison. Moreover, these political prisoners are protesting against the pressure enforced by the office of the ministry of information located in the prison. Continue reading “Civil and Political Activists Issued a Statement in the Support of Prisoners in the Prison of Uremia”

HRANA News Agency – Iranian authorities must immediately respond to the health and security concerns of 27 Kurdish political prisoners on a month-long hunger strike in Orumiyeh, said 21 human rights organizations today. These organizations also urged Iranian authorities to immediately investigate and remedy the broader set of rights violations these men have allegedly faced while in detention.

These Kurdish political prisoners, detained in Orumiyeh (Wermê) Central Prison, have been protesting the conditions of their detention since 20 November 2014. The hunger strikers object to the ongoing transfers of political prisoners to wards housing inmates convicted of violent crimes, such as murder, and the simultaneous introduction of such inmates to Ward 12 of the prison, which typically houses only political prisoners. Iranian law requires the overall humane treatment of all prisoners and specifically mandates that political detainees be separated from those convicted of serious common crime. Continue reading “Rights Groups Urge Iranian Authorities to Address Month-Long Hunger Strike of Kurdish Political Prisoners”