NEWS))))))
Three men hanged in Zahedan and Isfahan in Iran
The Iranian regime’s henchmen have hanged three men, one in the eastern city of Zahedan and the others in the central city of Isfahan, state-run daily Kayhan reported on Monday. It said two men were hanged on Saturday in a prison in Isfahan, while the other was executed on Sunday in a prison in Zahedan.
Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry arrests Bazaar merchant in Tehran
According to NCRI’s statement a Tehran Bazaar merchant has been arrested during a raid by the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) agents and taken to Ward 209 of the notorious Evin prison. Mr. Niakan, 48, is a former political prisoner during the 1980s. He was imprisoned from 1982 to 1990 and placed under medieval tortures during this time. MOIS agents raided his residence at 1:30 AM local time on February 7 and made the arrest. Six agents took part in the raid commanded by an individual known by the pseudonym Alavi. Mr. Niakan’s cell phone, satellite receiver, laptop, telephone list and hand-written documents were confiscated by the agents during the raid. He was interrogated and threatened for an hour in his family house by Alavi, an MOIS chief interrogator. The statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran added: Currently, a number of Tehran Bazaar merchants are imprisoned at Evin prison, including Mohsen Dokmehchi, Javad Lari, and Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi.
An Assyrian leader of the Kermanshah Church in Iran has been arrested
PCTV Newsdesk, Iran: February 21, 2010,
The Farsi Christian News Network is reporting the arrest of the Rev. Wilson Issavi, the Assyrian leader of the Evangelical Church of Karmanshah in Iran.The news source says that the pastor was arrested on February 2, 2010, by local agents of state security while visiting one of his old friends in Shahin Shahr, Isfahan, and moved to an undisclosed location.
’The security agents entered the house unannounced and took him and the host couple and a visiting lady away,’ said the FCCN story. ’Later on, the host’s wife was released. Since the day of the arrest it has been impossible for friends and family to find out about the whereabouts or well being of Rev. Issavi.
The story says that the Rev. Wilson Issavi is the serving pastor of the Assyrian Evangelical Church in Karmanshah, which is an old and historical building in dire need of repair, and is not been extensively used, except for weekly Christian worship. ’On January 2, 2010, one month before the arrest of Pastor Wilson Issavi, after forced entry into his house by a number of plainclothes local security agents, the Kermanshah Church was sealed and ordered not to be reopened,’ the FCCN story stated.’
Despite the fact that FCNN correspondents had immediately become aware of this ’abhorring invasion of a small and only church in the west of the country,’ after a telephone and direct enquiry, Pastor Wilson had requested FCNN not to publicize the news ’lest the authorities are provoked into inflicting more harm and hoping to find a reasonable dialogue and reopen the church!’FCNN says that it had respected the wishes of Rev. Issavi and held back until now on releasing the news.’This cowardly act was perpetrated by the security agents after they had called him on his mobile [phone], enquiring about his whereabouts, and being sure that he was not home to defend his house and his household,’ said the FCCN story. ’As stated by family members to friends, the security agents had ransacked the house in his absence and had taken away much of his personal possessions.’ FCCN concluded its story by saying, ’It is noteworthy that, in line with closure of churches and also shortly before the inhibition imposed on ’Jamaate Rabani’ (Assemblies of God) church to stop Friday evening meetings (which have been conducted from the day the church was inaugurated!), the Assyrian Pentecostal church of ’Shahre Ara’ district of Tehran was closed in March 2009 by direct threats of the government and most regretful collaboration of ’Jonathan Beit Kolia’, the representative of the Assyrian minority in the parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran.’
Sunday, February 21, 2010
NEWS))))))
21-years-old sentenced to death
According to reports, the clerical regime in Iran has sentenced a 21-years-old political prisoner, Amir Reza Aarefi, on the charges of “mohareb” (enemy of God). Mr. Aarefi was arrested in April 2009 and was in prison during the uprising following the sham presidential election last June in Iran. He was among those tried in kangaroo trials charged with “moharebeh; association and collusion against the security of the clerical regime, and propaganda against it,” and participation in post election 'riots.' On January 28, the clerical regime executed two men, Arash Rahmani-Pour, 20, and Mohammad-Reza Ali Zamani, 37, charged with “moharebeh” (enemy of God). The National council of Resistance of Iran believes that the aim of the executions in Iran is to create an atmosphere of terror and fear and to prepare the grounds for suppression of the people’s uprising.
European Parliament intergroup called to stop suppression of residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq
'The Friends of a Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament, which includes many European MPs from different political groups and different Member States, called on the US Government, the President of the European Council, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the United Nations Secretary General, immediately to intervene to prevent any further violent attack on Camp Ashraf and to demand an immediate end to the on-going siege which has denied access to the camp of medicines, doctors, food, fuel and family members, for the past 14 months.' In its Press release on Feb. 17, the EP intergroup said: The Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup in the European Parliament calls for the urgent intervention of the international community to stop the cruel suppression of residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to 3400 Iranian dissidents. Since Monday, a group of people have assembled outside the Camp (North East of Baghdad), acting under the direct orders of Iraqi intelligence services who, in turn, are taking their instructions from Tehran. This crude attempt to apply psychological pressure to the camp residents is aimed at setting the stage for a further violent effort to close the camp and deport its occupants, who have become a key strategic target of the Iranian Fascist regime and their Iraqi puppets. The issue became more critical as the Iraqi Government on Tuesday took a group of journalists, mainly from news media affiliated with the Iranian regime, to meet with the individuals gathered outside Ashraf and held a staged-press conference during which the whole deception unfolded. They told the journalists that the camp residents were unwilling even to allow their own family members to visit the camp. In fact, the real situation is precisely the reverse. For the past 14 months, Iraqi forces have prevented family members from entering Camp Ashraf and have not permitted any journalists to enter the Camp to speak to residents except during high-profile, stage-managed media shows organised by the Iraqi security forces.
Iran stops director attending Berlin film fest
Associtaed France Press reported that Award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been denied permission to leave his home country to attend the Berlin Film Festival, organizers said on Tuesday. Panahi, an honorary guest at this year’s festival, had been due to participate in a panel discussion on Wednesday on Iranian cinema with fellow directors Rafi Pitts and Reza Haeri. ’We are surprised and deeply regret that a director who has won so many international prizes has been denied the possibility to take part in our anniversary festival and to speak about his cinematic visions,’ Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement. Pitts, who was in Berlin to present his film ’Shekarchi’ (The Hunter), said: ’I think that he (Panahi) should be here ... I think it is ridiculous to think that you can stop people saying what they think.’ Iranian news agencies cited Panahi as saying in October than he had been prevented from leaving the country for France, saying his passport was confiscated at the airport. On July 30, Panahi and members of his family were arrested in a Tehran cemetery at a protest in memory of demonstrators killed in street violence after the election. They were released shortly afterwards.
21-years-old sentenced to death
According to reports, the clerical regime in Iran has sentenced a 21-years-old political prisoner, Amir Reza Aarefi, on the charges of “mohareb” (enemy of God). Mr. Aarefi was arrested in April 2009 and was in prison during the uprising following the sham presidential election last June in Iran. He was among those tried in kangaroo trials charged with “moharebeh; association and collusion against the security of the clerical regime, and propaganda against it,” and participation in post election 'riots.' On January 28, the clerical regime executed two men, Arash Rahmani-Pour, 20, and Mohammad-Reza Ali Zamani, 37, charged with “moharebeh” (enemy of God). The National council of Resistance of Iran believes that the aim of the executions in Iran is to create an atmosphere of terror and fear and to prepare the grounds for suppression of the people’s uprising.
European Parliament intergroup called to stop suppression of residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq
'The Friends of a Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament, which includes many European MPs from different political groups and different Member States, called on the US Government, the President of the European Council, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the United Nations Secretary General, immediately to intervene to prevent any further violent attack on Camp Ashraf and to demand an immediate end to the on-going siege which has denied access to the camp of medicines, doctors, food, fuel and family members, for the past 14 months.' In its Press release on Feb. 17, the EP intergroup said: The Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup in the European Parliament calls for the urgent intervention of the international community to stop the cruel suppression of residents of Camp Ashraf in Iraq, home to 3400 Iranian dissidents. Since Monday, a group of people have assembled outside the Camp (North East of Baghdad), acting under the direct orders of Iraqi intelligence services who, in turn, are taking their instructions from Tehran. This crude attempt to apply psychological pressure to the camp residents is aimed at setting the stage for a further violent effort to close the camp and deport its occupants, who have become a key strategic target of the Iranian Fascist regime and their Iraqi puppets. The issue became more critical as the Iraqi Government on Tuesday took a group of journalists, mainly from news media affiliated with the Iranian regime, to meet with the individuals gathered outside Ashraf and held a staged-press conference during which the whole deception unfolded. They told the journalists that the camp residents were unwilling even to allow their own family members to visit the camp. In fact, the real situation is precisely the reverse. For the past 14 months, Iraqi forces have prevented family members from entering Camp Ashraf and have not permitted any journalists to enter the Camp to speak to residents except during high-profile, stage-managed media shows organised by the Iraqi security forces.
Iran stops director attending Berlin film fest
Associtaed France Press reported that Award-winning Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been denied permission to leave his home country to attend the Berlin Film Festival, organizers said on Tuesday. Panahi, an honorary guest at this year’s festival, had been due to participate in a panel discussion on Wednesday on Iranian cinema with fellow directors Rafi Pitts and Reza Haeri. ’We are surprised and deeply regret that a director who has won so many international prizes has been denied the possibility to take part in our anniversary festival and to speak about his cinematic visions,’ Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick said in a statement. Pitts, who was in Berlin to present his film ’Shekarchi’ (The Hunter), said: ’I think that he (Panahi) should be here ... I think it is ridiculous to think that you can stop people saying what they think.’ Iranian news agencies cited Panahi as saying in October than he had been prevented from leaving the country for France, saying his passport was confiscated at the airport. On July 30, Panahi and members of his family were arrested in a Tehran cemetery at a protest in memory of demonstrators killed in street violence after the election. They were released shortly afterwards.
Filmers of Iran protest death win Polk Award in NY
The unnamed people who captured on video and made public the shooting death of an Iranian protester, Neda Aghasoltan have been chosen to receive a George Polk Award, the first time the journalism prize has honored work produced anonymously. The awards, presented by Long Island University, are considered among the top prizes in U.S. journalism. They were created in 1949 in honor of CBS reporter George W. Polk, who was killed while covering the Greek civil war. The curator of the awards, John Darnton, said in a statement: ’This award celebrates the fact that, in today’s world, a brave bystander with a cell phone camera can use video-sharing and social networking sites to deliver news’.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
NEWS))))))
500 protestors arrested in Tehran’s AryaShahr
On the 31st anniversary of the anti monarcy revolution in Iran,
the people turned this day into another humiliating defeat for the regime. Despite all the suppressive measures over the past two weeks, and despite the presence of several layers of suppressive forces deployed since the early hours of the day, the central parts of Tehran were turned into a battle ground between a disenchanted population on the one hand and the clerical regime’s violent agents on the other.
According to reports by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an assortment of intelligence, military, Bassij and plainclothes agents, just about a meter apart from one another, were deployed in all of the streets surrounding Azadi Square up to Enqelab Street and Arya Shahr district. About 1,000 anti-riot forces and 200 plainclothes agents on motorbikes covering the faces with helmets resorted to suppressing protestors. High-tech armored vehicles were also part of the regime’s arsenal of suppression during the protests on February 11, 2010.
The people and youths exhibited determination, chanting anti-regime slogans, and clashing with the regime’s agents. In the course of the clashes, about 500 protestors, many of them women and young girls, were arrested at Arya Shahr and nearby areas. People managed to free a number of the detained. In one case, a young woman who was fighting with plainclothes agents was freed by the people.
At Azadi Square, regime forces used pellet guns which led to a large number of injuries on the part of demonstrators. Some of those wounded were abducted by the regime’s agents and taken with to unknown locations
At Vali-e Asr Square, youths repeated the chants of “referendum, referendum,” “death to dictator,” and “we have not given our dead in the hopes of compromise or praising a murderous leader."
The crowd of protestors in front of the Jam-e Jam building (state-run radio and TV) in Tehran reached 4-5 thousand people by the afternoon on Thursday. There were clashes and hit and runs between people and the regime agents. People chanted “death to dictator” and “Khamenei is a murderer, his rule is illegitimate.” Some were carrying lit torches.
The State Security Forces (SSF) had sealed off the entire Mossaddeq Street from the north and prevented inflow of traffic. But starting from the south side, half of the street was occupied by protestors.
On the Azadi-Enghelab route, youths were distributing Iranian flags missing the regime’s official emblem at the center. Anti-riot forces arrested people carrying those flags and interrogated them on the streets. Smoke of tear gas and scenes of clashes had filled Enghelab Street.
Unprecedentedly dense populations of suppressive forces had amassed from the beginning of Karimkhan Street all the way to the intersection of Palestine-Keshavarz. The regime’s plainclothes agents were also on buses on Haft Tir Street heading towards Arya Shahr district, monitoring the number of people going towards Arya Shahr and using two-way radios to communicate constant updates.
State Security Forces (SSF) in Greater Tehran stationed all units from the Khomeini Brigade of its Special Forces near the local headquarters in Marvdhasht Street near Qasr Prison, and from there units were dispatched to suppress the protests.
This brigade, which is part of the logistical forces of the SSF Special Forces in Greater Tehran, was responsible for protecting northern and central Tehran, and the Revolutionary Guards forces were responsible for guarding Azadi Square and Azadi and Enghelab streets.
Revolutionary Guard Brig. Gen. Tavaf, commander of the SSF Special Forces, on Wednesday debriefed all his forces and reiterated that protestors must at all costs be “swept away” and arrested since it would otherwise the entire regime will be discredited. The large-scale arrests thoroughout the capital have taken place in this regard.
The youths in Shahrak Gharb, west of Tehran, set fire to a motorcycle belonged to the suppressive forces. They also brought down portraits of Khomeini, founder of the clerical regime, and Ali Khamenei, mullahs’ Supreme Leader, and trampled over them.
Canada to use its G8 presidency to press for Iran sanctions
Associated France Press reported that Canada will use its G8 presidency to press the club of world’s richest nations for more sanctions against Iran to try to curb its nuclear ambitions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. "Canada will use its G8 presidency to continue to focus international attention and action on the Iranian regime’ and ’work with its allies to find strong and viable solutions, including sanctions, to hold Iran to account,’ Harper said in a statement. It is time for Iran to end its defiance of the international community, suspend its enrichment activity and take immediate steps toward transparency and compliance by halting the construction of new enrichment sites, and fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency,’ he said. Harper’s announcement came as the US Treasury Department ordered a freeze on assets of an individual and four companies linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
500 protestors arrested in Tehran’s AryaShahr
On the 31st anniversary of the anti monarcy revolution in Iran,
the people turned this day into another humiliating defeat for the regime. Despite all the suppressive measures over the past two weeks, and despite the presence of several layers of suppressive forces deployed since the early hours of the day, the central parts of Tehran were turned into a battle ground between a disenchanted population on the one hand and the clerical regime’s violent agents on the other.
According to reports by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, an assortment of intelligence, military, Bassij and plainclothes agents, just about a meter apart from one another, were deployed in all of the streets surrounding Azadi Square up to Enqelab Street and Arya Shahr district. About 1,000 anti-riot forces and 200 plainclothes agents on motorbikes covering the faces with helmets resorted to suppressing protestors. High-tech armored vehicles were also part of the regime’s arsenal of suppression during the protests on February 11, 2010.
The people and youths exhibited determination, chanting anti-regime slogans, and clashing with the regime’s agents. In the course of the clashes, about 500 protestors, many of them women and young girls, were arrested at Arya Shahr and nearby areas. People managed to free a number of the detained. In one case, a young woman who was fighting with plainclothes agents was freed by the people.
At Azadi Square, regime forces used pellet guns which led to a large number of injuries on the part of demonstrators. Some of those wounded were abducted by the regime’s agents and taken with to unknown locations
At Vali-e Asr Square, youths repeated the chants of “referendum, referendum,” “death to dictator,” and “we have not given our dead in the hopes of compromise or praising a murderous leader."
The crowd of protestors in front of the Jam-e Jam building (state-run radio and TV) in Tehran reached 4-5 thousand people by the afternoon on Thursday. There were clashes and hit and runs between people and the regime agents. People chanted “death to dictator” and “Khamenei is a murderer, his rule is illegitimate.” Some were carrying lit torches.
The State Security Forces (SSF) had sealed off the entire Mossaddeq Street from the north and prevented inflow of traffic. But starting from the south side, half of the street was occupied by protestors.
On the Azadi-Enghelab route, youths were distributing Iranian flags missing the regime’s official emblem at the center. Anti-riot forces arrested people carrying those flags and interrogated them on the streets. Smoke of tear gas and scenes of clashes had filled Enghelab Street.
Unprecedentedly dense populations of suppressive forces had amassed from the beginning of Karimkhan Street all the way to the intersection of Palestine-Keshavarz. The regime’s plainclothes agents were also on buses on Haft Tir Street heading towards Arya Shahr district, monitoring the number of people going towards Arya Shahr and using two-way radios to communicate constant updates.
State Security Forces (SSF) in Greater Tehran stationed all units from the Khomeini Brigade of its Special Forces near the local headquarters in Marvdhasht Street near Qasr Prison, and from there units were dispatched to suppress the protests.
This brigade, which is part of the logistical forces of the SSF Special Forces in Greater Tehran, was responsible for protecting northern and central Tehran, and the Revolutionary Guards forces were responsible for guarding Azadi Square and Azadi and Enghelab streets.
Revolutionary Guard Brig. Gen. Tavaf, commander of the SSF Special Forces, on Wednesday debriefed all his forces and reiterated that protestors must at all costs be “swept away” and arrested since it would otherwise the entire regime will be discredited. The large-scale arrests thoroughout the capital have taken place in this regard.
The youths in Shahrak Gharb, west of Tehran, set fire to a motorcycle belonged to the suppressive forces. They also brought down portraits of Khomeini, founder of the clerical regime, and Ali Khamenei, mullahs’ Supreme Leader, and trampled over them.
Canada to use its G8 presidency to press for Iran sanctions
Associated France Press reported that Canada will use its G8 presidency to press the club of world’s richest nations for more sanctions against Iran to try to curb its nuclear ambitions, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. "Canada will use its G8 presidency to continue to focus international attention and action on the Iranian regime’ and ’work with its allies to find strong and viable solutions, including sanctions, to hold Iran to account,’ Harper said in a statement. It is time for Iran to end its defiance of the international community, suspend its enrichment activity and take immediate steps toward transparency and compliance by halting the construction of new enrichment sites, and fully cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency,’ he said. Harper’s announcement came as the US Treasury Department ordered a freeze on assets of an individual and four companies linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Sunday, February 07, 2010
NEWS))))))
Uprising in Lar in its fifth day running
According to news from Iran, uprising of Lar residents continued on Saturday, February 6. People’s protest was so intense and widespread that the regime could not hold the weekly Friday prayers in the city. A large crowd, gathered outside the Hosseinieh Azam mosque chanting anti-regime slogan.
On Thursday evening, the Special Guard units attacked protesters by pellet bullets and bettons injuring at least 40 including children, women and elderly men
On Friday, people retaliated the suppressive forces’ aggression on the previous night and attacked the headquarters of the State Security Forces in the city. The suppressive guards ran away in fear.
Iran’s Alborz tire factory workers go on strike
National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement on 03 February 2010 saying on Sunday, January 31, workers from the Alborz tire factory staged a protest gathering at the factory premises and set up bonfires. According to this report they protested against the lay off of 9 of their colleagues and demanded their unpaid salaries of five months of last year and two months of this year.
They also demanded the factory to pay for their insurance benefits and provide raw materials so the factory’s operations could be revived. In response to the regime’s officials who appeared on the scene to control the protest, the workers warned that unless their demands are fulfilled they will continue with their strike.
Political prisoner Alborz Ghasemi dies due to refusal of medical treatment in Notorious Evin Prison
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement that the Navy Colonel Alborz Ghasemi, a 51-year-old political prisoner, died on January 19, 2010, after spending 20 months in the medieval prisons of the mullahs’ regime under the most brutal forms of torture. NCRI added: He suffered from chronic pain as a result of stomach cancer and died at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The regime’s henchmen deprived him of hospitalization and receiving proper medical treatment by specialists. Ghasemi was a former commander of the Center for Expert Naval Training in the city of Rasht and an instructor at one of the Army’s Naval Forces universities.
Ghasemi was arrested in May 12, 2008, and accused of transferring intelligence to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). His brother, Hamid Ghasemi, a Canadian resident, was also arrested after returning to Iran. The two political prisoners were sentenced to death after preliminary hearings on charges of moharebeh (waging war against God).
The names of some of the ailing political prisoners and their state of health have been published by the NCRI as such:
1. Ali Saremi, who has a history of infarction, is now in danger of having another stroke because of high blood pressure
2. Dr. Mohammad Maleki, former President of Tehran University, suffers from cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure
3. Ali Moezi is suffering from hydronephrosis (acute kidney ailment) and is in a critical state
4. Hamed Rouhinezhad suffers from multiple sclerosis and is losing his sight. He can hardly maintain his balance
5. Mansour Ossanlou, suffering from variety of ailments including severe damage to his eye sight and back pain which affects his legs
6. Mansour Radpour has severe kidney complications
7. Misaq Yazdan-nezhad suffers from acute nervous problems
8. Houri (Fatemeh) Ziai suffering from multiple sclerosis
9. Behrouz Javid Tehrani’s sight has been damaged due to severe torture and violent blows to the head by heavy objects such as fire extinguisher capsule and chair
10. Alireza Karami Kheirabadi suffering from acute hepatitis
Hamid Haeri suffering from chronic heart complications11.
12. Hadi (Homayoun) Abed Ba-Khoda is facing death due to lack of medical treatment in Rasht prison. He is a political prisoner from 1980s. At the time of his arrest he was shot and his spinal cord fractured. When his condition became very serious, the regime was compelled to send him to hospital for treatment under pressures by international human rights organizations;
13. Abbas Khorsandi has had an operation on his heart and is in need of attention;
14. Farhad Vakili has already suffered from a heart attack and needs special care;
15. Mohammad Hassan Fallahizadeh is suffering from hepatitis.
Iranian regime to produce higher-enriched uranium
According to Associated France Press the Iranian regime's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his regime's atomic energy agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher-enriched uranium. The order from Ahmadinejad, announced during a live broadcast on state television, would raise Iran's uranium enrichment level from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent. "If the international community will stand together and bring pressure to bear on the Iranian government, I believe there is still time for pressure and sanctions to work," Gates said in Rome, where he met Sunday with Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa. Ahmadinejad said he decided to ramp up production because Western governments have balked at his proposal for a fuel exchange to keep the medical reactor operating. Western powers see the potential swap as a means to ensure Tehran does not further enrich its uranium to make weapons, but Gates said he did not believe an agreement was close. Iranian regime and the West have been discussing a plan under which Iran would export its low-enriched uranium stocks for enrichment abroad. The plan, which comes from the International Atomic Energy Agency, was first drawn up in early October at a meeting in Geneva between Iran and the six world powers.
Uprising in Lar in its fifth day running
According to news from Iran, uprising of Lar residents continued on Saturday, February 6. People’s protest was so intense and widespread that the regime could not hold the weekly Friday prayers in the city. A large crowd, gathered outside the Hosseinieh Azam mosque chanting anti-regime slogan.
On Thursday evening, the Special Guard units attacked protesters by pellet bullets and bettons injuring at least 40 including children, women and elderly men
On Friday, people retaliated the suppressive forces’ aggression on the previous night and attacked the headquarters of the State Security Forces in the city. The suppressive guards ran away in fear.
Iran’s Alborz tire factory workers go on strike
National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement on 03 February 2010 saying on Sunday, January 31, workers from the Alborz tire factory staged a protest gathering at the factory premises and set up bonfires. According to this report they protested against the lay off of 9 of their colleagues and demanded their unpaid salaries of five months of last year and two months of this year.
They also demanded the factory to pay for their insurance benefits and provide raw materials so the factory’s operations could be revived. In response to the regime’s officials who appeared on the scene to control the protest, the workers warned that unless their demands are fulfilled they will continue with their strike.
Political prisoner Alborz Ghasemi dies due to refusal of medical treatment in Notorious Evin Prison
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement that the Navy Colonel Alborz Ghasemi, a 51-year-old political prisoner, died on January 19, 2010, after spending 20 months in the medieval prisons of the mullahs’ regime under the most brutal forms of torture. NCRI added: He suffered from chronic pain as a result of stomach cancer and died at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The regime’s henchmen deprived him of hospitalization and receiving proper medical treatment by specialists. Ghasemi was a former commander of the Center for Expert Naval Training in the city of Rasht and an instructor at one of the Army’s Naval Forces universities.
Ghasemi was arrested in May 12, 2008, and accused of transferring intelligence to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). His brother, Hamid Ghasemi, a Canadian resident, was also arrested after returning to Iran. The two political prisoners were sentenced to death after preliminary hearings on charges of moharebeh (waging war against God).
The names of some of the ailing political prisoners and their state of health have been published by the NCRI as such:
1. Ali Saremi, who has a history of infarction, is now in danger of having another stroke because of high blood pressure
2. Dr. Mohammad Maleki, former President of Tehran University, suffers from cancer, diabetes, and high blood pressure
3. Ali Moezi is suffering from hydronephrosis (acute kidney ailment) and is in a critical state
4. Hamed Rouhinezhad suffers from multiple sclerosis and is losing his sight. He can hardly maintain his balance
5. Mansour Ossanlou, suffering from variety of ailments including severe damage to his eye sight and back pain which affects his legs
6. Mansour Radpour has severe kidney complications
7. Misaq Yazdan-nezhad suffers from acute nervous problems
8. Houri (Fatemeh) Ziai suffering from multiple sclerosis
9. Behrouz Javid Tehrani’s sight has been damaged due to severe torture and violent blows to the head by heavy objects such as fire extinguisher capsule and chair
10. Alireza Karami Kheirabadi suffering from acute hepatitis
Hamid Haeri suffering from chronic heart complications11.
12. Hadi (Homayoun) Abed Ba-Khoda is facing death due to lack of medical treatment in Rasht prison. He is a political prisoner from 1980s. At the time of his arrest he was shot and his spinal cord fractured. When his condition became very serious, the regime was compelled to send him to hospital for treatment under pressures by international human rights organizations;
13. Abbas Khorsandi has had an operation on his heart and is in need of attention;
14. Farhad Vakili has already suffered from a heart attack and needs special care;
15. Mohammad Hassan Fallahizadeh is suffering from hepatitis.
Iranian regime to produce higher-enriched uranium
According to Associated France Press the Iranian regime's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ordered his regime's atomic energy agency on Sunday to begin the production of higher-enriched uranium. The order from Ahmadinejad, announced during a live broadcast on state television, would raise Iran's uranium enrichment level from 3.5 per cent to 20 per cent. "If the international community will stand together and bring pressure to bear on the Iranian government, I believe there is still time for pressure and sanctions to work," Gates said in Rome, where he met Sunday with Italian Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa. Ahmadinejad said he decided to ramp up production because Western governments have balked at his proposal for a fuel exchange to keep the medical reactor operating. Western powers see the potential swap as a means to ensure Tehran does not further enrich its uranium to make weapons, but Gates said he did not believe an agreement was close. Iranian regime and the West have been discussing a plan under which Iran would export its low-enriched uranium stocks for enrichment abroad. The plan, which comes from the International Atomic Energy Agency, was first drawn up in early October at a meeting in Geneva between Iran and the six world powers.
Friday, February 05, 2010
NEWS))))))
Nine At Risk of Execution over Iran Protest
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities not to execute nine people sentenced to death who were arrested in relation to the protests that followed last year’s disputed presidential election. The organization said it fears the Iranian authorities are planning to execute some or all of the nine in public before 11 February, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when further protests are expected. According to Iranian media reports, Deputy Judiciary Head Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that, after the execution of two men last week, the nine others will be executed 'soon'.
Those sentenced did not have had a fair trial,' said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director. 'They were denied access to a lawyer in the initial stages of their detention, and some or all appear to have been coerced into giving confessions.. It is also not clear whether those condemned have been able to exercise their right to appear.
Iran’s judiciary is reported to be under political pressure to execute more opposition supporters to end the continuing protests.Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were hanged in public last Thursday after being convicted in unfair trials of 'enmity against God' and being members of Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), a banned group which advocates the restoration of an Iranian monarchy.They were the first executions known to be related to the post-election violence that erupted across Iran in June and has continued since.
According to Iranian officials, over 40 people have died in demonstrations since the election, which were violently repressed by the security forces. Amnesty International believes the number to be much higher. More than 5,000 people have been arrested, many of whom were tortured or otherwise ill-treated.Scores have been sentenced to prison terms, and in some cases flogging, after unfair trials, and at least 12 have been sentenced to death. One man – Hamed Rouhinejad - had his death sentence commuted to a 10-year prison term on appeal in January 2010.
Iran’s Alborz tire factory workers go on strike
National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement on 03 February 2010 saying on Sunday, January 31, workers from the Alborz tire factory staged a protest gathering at the factory premises and set up bonfires. According to this report they protested against the lay off of 9 of their colleagues and demanded their unpaid salaries of five months of last year and two months of this year.
They also demanded the factory to pay for their insurance benefits and provide raw materials so the factory’s operations could be revived. In response to the regime’s officials who appeared on the scene to control the protest, the workers warned that unless their demands are fulfilled they will continue with their strike.
Nine At Risk of Execution over Iran Protest
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities not to execute nine people sentenced to death who were arrested in relation to the protests that followed last year’s disputed presidential election. The organization said it fears the Iranian authorities are planning to execute some or all of the nine in public before 11 February, the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when further protests are expected. According to Iranian media reports, Deputy Judiciary Head Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday that, after the execution of two men last week, the nine others will be executed 'soon'.
Those sentenced did not have had a fair trial,' said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Deputy Director. 'They were denied access to a lawyer in the initial stages of their detention, and some or all appear to have been coerced into giving confessions.. It is also not clear whether those condemned have been able to exercise their right to appear.
Iran’s judiciary is reported to be under political pressure to execute more opposition supporters to end the continuing protests.Mohammad Reza Ali-Zamani and Arash Rahmanipour were hanged in public last Thursday after being convicted in unfair trials of 'enmity against God' and being members of Anjoman-e Padeshahi-e Iran (API), a banned group which advocates the restoration of an Iranian monarchy.They were the first executions known to be related to the post-election violence that erupted across Iran in June and has continued since.
According to Iranian officials, over 40 people have died in demonstrations since the election, which were violently repressed by the security forces. Amnesty International believes the number to be much higher. More than 5,000 people have been arrested, many of whom were tortured or otherwise ill-treated.Scores have been sentenced to prison terms, and in some cases flogging, after unfair trials, and at least 12 have been sentenced to death. One man – Hamed Rouhinejad - had his death sentence commuted to a 10-year prison term on appeal in January 2010.
Iran’s Alborz tire factory workers go on strike
National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement on 03 February 2010 saying on Sunday, January 31, workers from the Alborz tire factory staged a protest gathering at the factory premises and set up bonfires. According to this report they protested against the lay off of 9 of their colleagues and demanded their unpaid salaries of five months of last year and two months of this year.
They also demanded the factory to pay for their insurance benefits and provide raw materials so the factory’s operations could be revived. In response to the regime’s officials who appeared on the scene to control the protest, the workers warned that unless their demands are fulfilled they will continue with their strike.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)