Iran: prisoner with cancer transferred to Evin

Kurdish political prisoner Afshin Sohrabzadeh was transferred on Monday, August 24th from Minab prison to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison .
“Afshin’s health conditions is extremely dire, in a way that his blood pressure was 7 over 8,” an informed source has said.
Sohrabzadeh, 24, is in very dire health conditions as he is suffering from intestinal cancer and internal bleeding. He was arrested by Kamiyaran Intelligence Department on June 8, 2010 and condemned to suffer 25 years in prison for ‘moharebe’ (enmity against God). This prisoner was reportedly tortured by Shahram Rahimi, then deputy of Kamiyaran Intelligence Department. He was returned back to Sanandaj Intelligence Department 20 days later after receiving no medical treatment at all.

 (August 24, 2015)

Camp Liberty: Eight patients with eye surgery and ear treatment obstructed from going to hospital

On Sunday, August 23, upon orders from the Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Ashraf that works under Faleh Fayyad, the National Security Advisor to Government of Iraq, Iraqi officers stopped four patients from going to the hospital in Baghdad. This is the second time that these patients who have eye surgeries scheduled for a long time in a hospital in Baghdad are prevented from going to the hospital.
Meanwhile, on Thursday, August 20, this committee also opposed the transfer of four other patients seeking ear treatment to a hospital in Baghdad. Previously, on August 16, the Iraqi forces had prevented these same eight people from going to the hospital.
Residents’ representatives have repeatedly raised this issue with UNAMI and the U.S. Embassy to no avail.
At the same time, since the last week, the Iraqi forces prevented clothes and textile bought by the residents from getting into the camp despite the fact that residents’ representatives had informed UNAMI on the details prior to the purchase and on the day that the clothes would be delivered.
Meanwhile, for the fifth week, forces under the command of Faleh Fayyad who has supervised seven years of siege and six massacres against Ashraf and Liberty are preventing basic necessities from getting to Liberty by ramping up the siege.
The medical and logistical blockade of Camp Liberty is a grave violation of human rights and humanitarian standards, as well as a flagrant breach of the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United Nations and Government of Iraq on 25 December 2011, and a criminal act.
Given the repeated and written commitments of the U.S. government and the United Nations to the security and wellbeing of Camp Liberty residents, the Iranian Resistance is calling for immediate action for ending this antihuman siege, especially the free and unconditional access of residents to medical services.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 24, 2015

Report: Iranian women dying due to lack of medical services

Mehrkhane.com, a state-run website in Iran, has published a report on the dire conditions of women in Iran and their deprivation of the most basic hygiene and medical care necessities:
“Pregnant woman dies in Ahvaz hospital due to absence of medical specialist”, “Pregnant woman dies in Lodab due to absence of a physician”, “Three young mothers die in Gonabad in span of six months” are the titles of news reports showing many women in Iran are losing their lives due to the fact that they are living in regions deprived of medical supplies and specialists.
The fact that women medical specialists are not equally distributed across the country is nothing new. It has been years that women in deprived areas are suffering numerous problems due to lack of 24-hour medical treatment centers, lack of adequate supplies and equipment in medical centers, absence of female specialists, obstetricians and other hygiene and medical services. Currently many towns don’t have even one female specialist. For example, in the provinces of Kerman, Kurdistan, Lorestan, Sistan & Baluchistan, Hormozgan, Bushehr, Southern Khorasan and even Khorasan Razavi one can vividly see how physicians are not orderly distributed.
Maryam is a woman living in Bandar Lange in Hormozgan Province (southern Iran). She is pregnant and due to illnesses such as appendix pains, problems after giving birth and infection she has been forced to go to the city of Bandar Abbas.
“In Bandar Lange we only have one medical center and there is only one obstetrician. There is a Shohada Hospital without any medical specialist and people are forced to go to Bandar Abbas or the city of Yazd. There are a lot of medical restrictions imposed on us,” she said.
Sahar is another young woman living in the city of Sabzevar, northeastern Iran, and she refers to the lack of bare minimums. She talks about women who need caesarean surgery when they cannot undergo natural childbirths. However, due to the lack of medical specialists, their surgery is carried out in a way that they suffer serious infections afterwards.
This state-run source stipulated: What has been mentioned is just a tip of the iceberg for women in deprived areas. Such difficulties end in people losing their lives.

(State-run Mehrkhane website – August 23, 2015)

45 % des prisonniers en Iran n’ont pas été reconnus coupables – un officiel

45 % des prisonniers en Iran n’ont pas été reconnus coupables – un officiel

CNRI- Quelque 45 pourcent des détenus dans les prisons iraniennes n’ont pas été reconnus coupables d’un crime, a reconnu un officiel du régime de Téhéran.

« Je pense que 45 pourcent de ceux qui sont emprisonnés n’ont pas été reconnus coupables », a affirmé l’ancien directeur des prisons de la province de Gilan, au nord de l’Iran, et ancien conseiller du directeur de l’Organisation des établissements pénitenciaires de l’état. Ses remarques ont été publiées dimanche par l’agence de presse de l’état Tasnim.

La semaine dernière, un conseiller du Ministre de la Justice du régime a reconnu le taux élevé d’iraniens emprisonnés par le régime chaque année.

« Parmi les diverses punitions appliquées, l’une des principales punitions est l’emprisonnement » a affirmé Mozafar Alvandi. «Chaque année quelque 600 000 personnes sont envoyées en prison. »

Plus tôt ce mois-ci, le Ministre adjoint de l’Éducation iranien a reconnu que plus de 1000 enseignants étaient actuellement emprisonnés en Iran.

Iran: Exécution d'un prisonnier politique kurde

Le régime iranien a exécuté ce matin, mercredi 26 août, un prisonnier politique kurde à Oroumieh - M. Behrouz Alkhani

Le régime iranien a exécuté ce matin, mercredi 26 août, un prisonnier politique kurde à Oroumieh. M. Behrouz Alkhani avait subi six ans d'emprisonnement et de torture. Ce prisonnier politique kurde avait été transféré, le mardi 25 août, à l'isolement dans la prison d'Orumieh, en prévision de son exécution. Les sbires du régime avaient dit à sa famille qui lui a rendu visite mardi pour la dernière fois, qu'il va être exécuté le lendemain.

La Résistance iranienne condamne fermement cette exécution. Le CNRI avait appelé les Etats-Unis, l'UE et ses Etats membres, ainsi que l'Organisation des Nations Unies et le Haut-Commissaire aux droits de l'homme et les institutions des droits humains dans le monde entier, à prendre des mesures urgentes pour empêcher l'exécution de ce prisonnier politique.

La Résistance condamne fermement le silence de la communauté internationale, notamment de l'Union européenne, au sujet de la hausse des exécutions et en particulier des exécutions politiques par la théocratie iranienne.

En l’absence de positions fermes condamnant ces exécutions criminelles, les visites de Hauts Représentants de l'UE et de hauts fonctionnaires et de ministres des Affaires étrangères des Etats membres de l'UE encouragent la machine d'exécution, de terreur et de répression du fascisme religieux au pouvoir en Iran.

Amnesty International avait publié un communiqué le 25 Août déclarant que : "les autorités ont déjà effectué 700 exécutions en Iran cette année. Permettre la condamnation à mort de Behrouz Alkhani va davantage souiller leurs mains de sang ".

Ce régime qui a fait exécuter plus de 2000 personnes seulement durant la présidence du mollah Rohani, doit voir ses dirigeants traduits en justice.

URGENT: Iran: Halt #execution of Kurdish man due to be carried out tomorrow morning

Behrouz Alkhani, a 30-year-old man from Iran’s Kurdish minority has been transferred out of Oroumieh prison’s general ward and placed in solitary confinement in preparation for his execution tomorrow, despite the fact that he’s still awaiting the outcome of a Supreme Court appeal, said Amnesty International.

“The Iranian authorities must urgently halt Behrouz Alkhani’s execution. Carrying out a death sentence while a prisoner is awaiting the outcome of his appeal is a serious violation of both Iranian and international law, and is an affront to justice,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International.

“Behrouz Alkhani faced a grossly unfair trial where basic safeguards such as the right to access a lawyer were ignored. He also says he was tortured and otherwise ill-treated in custody. The authorities must immediately stop this execution and grant him a fair retrial, in proceedings that are in line with international standards, without delay.

“The authorities have already carried out nearly 700 executions in Iran so far this year. Allowing Behrouz Alkhani’s death sentence to be implemented will only leave them with more blood on their hands.”

Amnesty International understands that Behrouz Alkhani informed his family early this morning local time that he was going to be transferred out of the general ward. His family was granted a last visit earlier today. They were told by prison officials that the execution will be carried out tomorrow.
Behrouz Alkhani was arrested in January 2010 in Salmas, West Azerbaijan, a province in northwest #Iran, and held in solitary confinement apparently for more than a year without access to a lawyer or his family.

In 2011, he was convicted by a Revolutionary Court on charges of “effective collaboration with PJAK” (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan) and “enmity against God” (moharebeh) for his alleged role in the assassination of the Prosecutor of Khoy, West Azerbaijan province. He was also sentenced to 10 years in prison in relation to the possession and procurement of arms. His sentence was later overturned by the Supreme Court and sent back to Branch 10 of the Appeal Court of Oroumieh province for a retrial. The Appeal court however sentenced Behrouz Alkhani to death once again. He has appealed the sentence but has not yet been informed of the outcome.

Iran is the second most prolific executioner in the world after China, according to Amnesty International’s latest global death penalty report.

#Amnesty International

The BBC has been hoodwinked by Iran’s President Rouhani

The following is an article by renowned British columnist Christopher Booker published in The Daily Telegraph on Saturday, August 22nd:

Under the supposed moderates, the regime has launched what Amnesty recently called ’a staggering execution spree’
'Suddenly last week, all over the BBC, we had Iran, the explanation being that it has been allowed to send a reporter into the country, a young Lebanese woman, Kim Ghattas, for the first time since there were mass-demonstrations against the regime in 2009,'Mr. Booker wrote.
“The all-too familiar line we got was that Iran’s [President] since 2013, Hassan Rouhani , is a ’moderate’, fighting to ’reform’ his country against the ’reactionaries’ surrounding its Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei. Rouhani’s only wish is to spread “peace and security” across the Middle East. Naturally Ms Ghattas did not press too far the large question marks over the recent much-vaunted ’nuclear deal’ with the West, by which Iran got what it wanted: a promise of the lifting of the sanctions that have been crippling its economy in return for very dubious concessions over its continued nuclear programme, riddled with holes.”
'Wholly off the agenda, of course, was any mention of the fact that, since the arrival of the ’moderate’ Rouhani, the regime has launched what Amnesty recently called ’a staggering execution spree’, hanging and shooting some 2,000 victims, more than at any time in 25 years, giving it the highest per capita execution rate in the world (not to mention chopping the hands and feet off scores more inmates of some of the world’s most inhuman prisons).'
'The BBC never seems to learn that totalitarian regimes only allow its reporters into their countries on condition that they mislead their audience with exactly the false picture their propaganda purposes require,' Mr. Booker added.