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Student activist murdered under torture in Iran

A student activist has been murdered under torture by agents of the Iranian regimes’ Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), a students’ news website reported on Friday.
Keramatollah Za’erian, 27, was studying theatre directing at Tehran University. Prior to his last arrest in November, he had been arrested three times for his active participation in 2009 uprisings. One month after the arrest in Nov. 2012, after killing him under torture, the MOIS agents took his body to his residence in Tehran. They placed Keramatollah’s corpse in the bathtub and left the hot water running. Four days later, when the neighbours noticed the water leaks and odour, they contacted the fire department. Keramatollah’s body was decomposed to an extent that was difficult to identify or transport. The medical examiner’s report described the cause of death to be severe torture and spinal cord injury.
Tehran’s Ministry of Intelligence offered the student’s family large sums of money for their silence. Keramatollah’s family was told that he had insulted the Supreme Leader and he was punished. They claimed returning Keramatollah's body was a favour. The MOIS agents have warned the student’s family from contacting the media and making a statement.

Three prisoners executed  in Iran

According to state-run media a prisoner was hanged in Gohardasht Prison on Wednesday and two other prisoners were hanged in Parsilon Prison in western city of Khoramabad on Monday. The 2 prisoners in Khoramabad were sentenced to death on drug related charges.

Gholamreza Khosravi, on death row, denied family visits

The Iranian regime has barred political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi, who is on death row, from having family visits. Mr Khosravi, 47, was sentenced to death for financial assistance to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) on the bogus charge of “Moharebeh” (enmity against God). In the 1980s, when he was only 16, Mr Khosravi was imprisoned for five years in Kazeroun for supporting the PMOI. He was subsequently arrested in 2008 in Rafsanjan and sentenced to six years in prison. In 2011 he was transferred to Evin Prison and retried for financial assistance to the PMOI and sentenced to death. He has spent a total of more than 40 months in solitary confinement since his arrest in 2008 and is currently awaiting his death sentence in Ward 350 of the notorious Evin Prison.

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The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom in a statement Jan. 9, 2013 demanded the expulsion of Iranian regime's spies from UK.  The statement says that a new report by the Federal Research Division of the US Library of Congress, commissioned by the Department of Defence and entitled “Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security: a Profile”, exposes Iran’s spy network in Europe and North America. The report confirms the earlier findings of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom which published its own report in 2007 entitled: “Spying for the Mullahs - Iran’s Agents in UK”.
The BPCIF report also mentions that “In March and April 2004, Iran mobilized its agents inside and outside the country to carry out acts against the opposition. Massoud Khodabadeh was one of the agents who traveled to Paris from the UK. He and others traveled to Auvers-sur-Oise, where the National Council of Resistant of Iran’s headquarters are located. Local mayors and town hall officials refused to meet them and told them they had to leave the town and that their activities were illegal. Apart from Massoud Khodabandeh, about ten others had gone to Auvers-sur-Oise that day. They were mainly from the Iranian regime’s embassy in France, although some had been dispatched from Tehran”.
“Massoud Khodabandeh and his wife Anne Singleton, through their website, as well as other activities, appear to lead a small number of individuals engaged in an aggressive demonization campaign against the PMOI.

The statement continues, Now five years after this revelation the US anti-terrorism services have reached the same conclusion. Regrettably, during this time period Iran’s intelligence agents had first hand access to State Department officials and were able to influence their policies vis-a-vis Iran, Iraq and the PMOI in Camp Ashraf. The statement reads: We call on the UK and US governments to expel Iran’s agents from their territory without delay. This would make our countries safer and make dealing with Iran more straightforward as we rid ourselves from the regime’s misinformation campaign.