Droits humains: sept autres pendaisons en Iran

Samedi matin, le régime des mollahs a pendu trois prisonniers à Racht, au nord de l'Iran. Ils n’ont été identifiés que par leurs initiales et leur âge: S.J. 58 ans, M. M. 38 ans et M.P. 31 ans. Le régime intégriste a également pendu mercredi quatre détenus, dont deux d'origine afghane, dans la prison de Dastgerd à Ispahan, tristement célèbre pour les effroyables violations des droits humains qui s'y déroulent.

Trois autres condamnés dans la ville méridionale de Bandar Abbas ont été transférés jeudi à l'isolement en prévison de leur exécution imminente. Ils ont été identifiés comme suit : Yousef Shahnavazi-Shahdadi, 25 ans; Kamran Zarei, 47 ans et Jamal Kasebkar-Darandeh, 45 ans. Leurs parents ont été invités à les rencontrer une dernière fois.

Trois autres condamnés à mort ont été mis en isolement dans la prison de Zahedan, dans le sud-est de l'Iran, en vue de leur exécution.

Au moins 41 prisonniers, dont deux femmes, ont été exécutés en Iran depuis le 22 juillet. Certaines exécutions ont eu lieu sur la place publique.

Amnesty International a récemment dénoncé la "frénésie des exécutions" en Iran où selon elle près de 700 personnes condamnées à la peine capitale ont été exécutées depuis le début de l'année.

"A ce rythme choquant, l'Iran va dépasser le nombre des exécutions recensées dans le pays" pour toute l'année 2014. Ce pic, a indiqué Saïd Boumedouha, adjoint pour le programme d'Amnesty International pour le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord, "brosse un tableau sinistre de l'appareil de l'Etat qui commet des meurtres à grande échelle".

"Les autorités iraniennes doivent avoir honte d'exécuter des centaines de personnes sans tenir compte de toute procédure légale à la base", a indiqué M. Boumedouha.

Juvenile offender at imminent risk as Iran continues execution spree

29 July 2015 - Salar Shadizadi scheduled to be executed on 1 August for crime committed when he was 15 years old.
A juvenile offender in Iran is at imminent risk of execution amid a horrifying rise in the number of executions in the country, Amnesty International said today.
Salar Shadizadi, who is now 24, is due to be hanged on Saturday 1 August, after he was convicted of murdering a friend in 2007. He was 15 years old at the time of the offence.
“To execute Salar Shadizadi, who was a child at the time of his arrest, flies in the face of international law. The Iranian authorities must immediately halt any plans to carry out the execution and ensure that Salar Shadizadi’s death sentence is commuted without delay,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Program.
“The Iranian authorities’ pledges to respect children’s rights ring disturbingly hollow when they plan the execution of a juvenile offender just months before Iran’s review session at the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.”
At least 72 juvenile offenders are believed to have been executed in Iran between 2005 and 2014 and at least 160 juvenile offenders are believed to be on death row. International law strictly prohibits the use of death penalty for crimes committed by persons below 18 years of age. 
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child is scheduled to review Iran’s children’s rights record in January 2016.
Earlier this month, Amnesty International exposed the shocking surge in executions in Iran during 2015. The reasons behind this year’s spike are unclear but the majority of those put to death in 2015 were convicted on drug charges.

Iran: nurses arrested in Tehran, four suspended from work

Officials of Hassan Rouhani ’s Health Ministry have suspended from work 4 nurses of Tehran’s Amir Elm Hospital. Two of these individuals were representatives of the Nurses Society in the board of directors of a leading nurse body.
This defensive measure by the regime is intended to create a climate of fear amongst Iran’s nursing community that have risen in various cities and are increasingly protesting for their rightful demands. But despite these repressive measures, the Nursing Association of Iran has called for a nationwide protest on Tuesday Aug. 4, 2015.
 With the support of Ministry of Intelligence agents, regime authorities are now summoning each nurse one by one and demanding from them to fill bogus papers promising not to take part in any protest rallies.
It is worth noting that a Rouhani cabinet official has issued an order saying nurses taking part in these rallies must sign commitment papers saying they will stop such activities.

Iran: security agents attack female surgeon

Reports from Iran’s Fars Province indicate that on July 26 security agents attacked a female doctor and severely beat her. This surgeon, Mrs. Razmjouie, was visiting a patient when security agents pressured her to finish her checkup faster. The surgeon refused to give in to their demands. In response the agents arrested her and transferred her to the public prosecutor’s office with her hands cuffed where she was severely beaten. People at the scene protest these harsh measures and stage a protest gathering outside the governor’s office.
It has also been reported that physicians and hospital staff went on strike protesting this vicious arrest and beating.

( NCRI Women’s Committee – July 27, 2015)

More than 500 on hunger strike in new Iran prison

NCRI – A protest erupted this week in Tehran’s new central prison over sub-human living conditions.

The newly-opened Greater Tehran Central Prison is still under construction, but the mullahs’ regime has already begun to move prisoners in despite a lack of facilities.

More than 500 prisoners Thursday evening protested their conditions and lack of basic services and began a hunger strike. The prisoners’ hunger strike continued throughout Friday.

Among the problems that the prisoners are complaining about are lack of sanitary or functioning toilets, water and heating outages, lack of medical care to ill prisoners and constant harassment of inmates by prison wardens. Of the 542 prisoners currently housed there, only 240 have a bed and the others are forced to sleep next to the toilets and in the hallways.

The regime says it plans to transfer 15,000 prisoners, including some from Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar Prison, to the new jail once construction is completed.

Iran: 32 executions in one week, including two women

Youths in Karaj attack executioners during public hanging of three

Wednesday morning, July 29, the youths in Karaj attacked the regime’s executioners by hurling stones and clashing with them in protest to a public execution of three in Golshahr, Karaj, thereby breaking up an attempt by the authorities to ratchet up an atmosphere of terror in the society. In fear of the expansion of the people’s wrath, the executioners quickly wrapped up the scene of their crime and left.

On the same day, Paridokht Molaifar, a 43-year-old mother, was executed in Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar Prison.

On July 27, eleven prisoners, between 25 to 35 years of age, were executed in Karaj’s Ghezel Hesar and Central prisons. Nine of them were collectively hanged in the Central Prison.

The hanging of five prisoners, including a woman, in Kerman’s Shahab Prison; one prisoner in the Central Prison ofArdebil on July 30; four prisoners in Esfahan and one prisoner in Tabriz Prison on July 29; and six prisoners in prisons inIlam, Central Prison of Zahedan, and prison of Bandar Abbas on July 25-26 were among other crimes of this regime in the past week alone.

The criminal executions of the past week, the announcement of a death sentence for political prisoner Mohammad-Ali Taheri, and the destruction of a Sunni prayer house in Tehran on July 29, concurrent with visits to Iran by senior European officials, demonstrate that the West’s overture toward this regime, in the aftermath of its “drinking the chalice of poison” of the nuclear deal, only emboldens and encourages a regime fighting for its survival to ramp up its suppression of the Iranian people.

Human Rights: Four hanged in central Iran prison

NCRI - Iran’s fundamentalist regime hanged four people in a prison in Isfahan, central Iran, while two other groups of prisoners have been transferred to solitary confinement in other prisons to face imminent execution.

The four individuals, two of Iranian origin and two of Afghan origin, were hanged on Wednesday in Isfahan’s Dastgerd Prison, which is infamous for the appalling human rights abuses that go on there.

Three other death-row prisoners in the southern city of Bandar Abbas were on Thursday transferred to solitary confinement in preparation for their imminent execution.

They were identified as Yousef Shahnavazi Shahdadi, 25; Kamran Zarei, 47; and Jamal Kasebkar Darandeh, 45.

Their relatives on Friday went to the prison to meet for a final time with their loved ones.

Three other death-row prisoners have been transferred to solitary confinement in Zahedan Prison, south-east Iran, in preparation for their execution.

At least 41 prisoners, including two women, have been executed in Iran, in some cases in public squares, since July 22.

Faced with escalating popular discontent and unable to respond to the rightful demands of the majority of the Iranian people who are living under the poverty line, the religious fascism ruling Iran - dubbed the ‘godfather of ISIS’ by the Iranian people - is ramping up suppression and human rights abuse.