Monday, April 21, 2014



NEWS))))))

The Iranian regime hanged four inmates in a group execution in Bandar Abbas Prison on Thursday morning, April 17th. The names of three of these inmates, who were under the age of 18 at the time of their arrest, are:



1. Zarghan Jahangiri, 27, who had spent 5 years of his life behind bars in Bandar Abbas Prison.
2. Ahmad Rahimi, 21. He had spent 4 years in jail and was 17 at the time of his arrest.
3. Ali Fouladi, 22, who had spent 6 years in jail. He was 16 when arrested.
4. Ali Sharifi, 29, had spent 15 years in jail. He was only 14 when arrested.  

another prisoner Falak Naz Moradi, who was 60 years old when executed, had spent 18 years in prison.
These inmates were transferred to solitary confinement on Wednesday, April 16th. This is while the execution verdict of one of them was suspended just two minutes after he was hanged. He was brought down from the gallows and is now in extremely grave conditions held at the prison clinic


 Iranian cities are the scene of strikes, protests
In Urumieh Brick Factory workers continued their strike for the fifth day on Wednesday, April 16th. Hundreds of workers of this factory went on strike on Saturday, April 12th protesting low wages and vast increase in daily expenses to make ends meet.
Workers of Bukan Brick Factory continue their strike. Over 1,000 workers of this factory went on strike on April 8th, announcing they will not return until their wages are raised.
Workers of the Khoramshahr Soap Company staged a gathering on Tuesday, April 15th, protesting and demanding 22 months of unpaid wages.
A group of people in the town of Saghez in Kurdistan Province rallied on Tuesday, April 15th, protesting slow Internet speed and at times the service being cut off. This gathering was held outside the regime’s municipality building.

Iran: Death penalty for Pol prisoner Mostafa Salimi

The Iranian regime's supreme court in Iran has confirmed the death sentence for Iranian Kurdish political prisoner Mostafa Salimi. This verdict is upheld at a time when he has been on hunger strike.
Mostafa Salimi went on hunger strike on Aril 7th protesting his death sentence. Prison authorities transferred him to solitary confinement in Saghez Central Prison on Tuesday, April 15th. He has been charged with measures against state security.

 

Iran: Ahvaz youths clash with police, 100 protesters arrested

Youths in the restive city of Ahvaz on Wednesday, April 16th, during a game between Khuzestan Foulad and al-Jeish of Qatar clashed with repressive state police forces. The regime’s oppressive forces arrested over 100 youths in these protests.
Last week youths in this city celebrated their team’s victory and while taking to the streets, clashed with repressive forces. “People demand regime overthrow” and “Get lost Rouhani” were heard from the crowd chanting in these protests.

Zahedan Univ. students protest Rouhani visit

Students of Zahedan University chanted slogans against Rouhani the Iranian regime's president before he began his speech on the campus last week, leading to plainclothes agents attacking and clashing with these students. The agents confiscated and broke the students’ mobile phones, and also arrested five of the protesters.

Iran: March in Shahr Kord protesting river water transfer

Following previous calls the people of Shahr Kord marched and protested the transfer of Zayande River and the regime digging tunnels in this area for rosewater production. The Shahr Kord bazaar intersection was the main center of this march.
For many days people were advertising for this event on Internet sites and posting banners across this city calling on everyone to take part. The scope of this popular protest rally reached a point where the regime’s official IRNA news agency was forced to provide coverage in this regard.

TRADE UNIONIST PUNISHED FOR HUNGER STRIKE

Iranian trade unionist Shahrokh Zamani, a prisoner of conscience, has ended his hunger strike after 38 days, which has left him in poor health. He is facing reprisals for demanding prisoners’ rights inside Raja’i Shahr Prison.
After ending his “wet” hunger strike (taking water but not food) on 14 April, trade union activist Shahrokh Zamani as a punishment was transferred to a ward for violent or dangerous prisoners at Raja’i Shahr Prison, in
Karaj, north-west of Tehran, after his initial transfer to Ghezel Hessar Prison, also in Karaj, shortly after he started his hunger strike. 

Calls on int’l community to condemn raid on Evin Prison in Iran: Maryam Rajavi

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, called on the international community, especially the United States, the European Union and member states, the United Nations Secretary-General and High Commissioner for Human Rights, to strongly denounce Thursday’s raid against the political prisoners in the Evin Prison by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards and the agents of intelligence and the battering and transfer of a number of political prisoners to solitary confinement. She also called for binding, effective and immediate resolutions to stop the systematic transgression of human rights by the religious fascism ruling Iran.
 Rajavi said: “The raid on political prisoners in Evin Prison that comes with the escalating trend of group and arbitrary executions that surpass 700 since Rouhani assumed power, demonstrates the fragile state of the mullahs’ regime and its horror of its inevitable demise." "Executions, oppression and discrimination are the principal pillars of mullahs’ rule and any flexibility here will accelerate the trend in regime’s downfall”, she added.