Sunday, February 05, 2017

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The Iranian regime has sentenced a man and a woman to stoning in Lorestan Province. The man has been identified as kh-A and the woman as S-M. Stoning has been carried in Iran many times before.





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The US Treasury Department on Friday issued sanctions against 25 organizations and individuals aiding Iranian regime's ballistic missile program, as well as for acting for or on behalf of, or providing support to, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF). According to Reuters, 13 individuals and 12 entities based in the Gulf, Lebanon and China come under the new US sanctions. The new sanctions against Iranian regime came after Iran in violations of the UN Security council article 2231, launched ballistic missile. The 2015 Article 2231 wants Iran to avoid ballistic missile activities and such capable of carrying warheads for 8 years.

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Amnesty International, January 30 warned that Hamid Ahmadi, an Iranian man arrested as a juvenile, is at imminent risk of execution. He has been transferred to solitary confinement in Lakan prison in Rasht, northern Iran, in preparation for his execution on 4 February. He was 17 years old when he was arrested for the fatal stabbing of a young man during a fight between him and four others in 2008. Hamid Ahmadi, is now 26 years old. The Iranian resistance on Sat. called on all international human rights organizations, especially the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights and Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, to take urgent and effective action to stop the execution of Hamid Ahmadi. The National Council of Resistance of Iran in its Feb. 4 statement said: according to a report issued by former UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, “As of March 2016, at least 160 juvenile offenders were reportedly on death row,” A large number of the 88 individuals executed in Iran in January were under the age of 18 when arrested.

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The Iranian regime hanged four young men, aged 22 to 26, in Mashhad and Bandar Abbas (northeast and southern Iran respectively) on Sunday, January 29. The two hanged in Mashhad had been charged with Moharebeh, or “waging war on God.” The total number of executions since the start of year stands at 87, two-and-a-half times the figure for December. The victims, mostly young, included two women and two adolescents. Seven were hanged in public.

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Ms. Raheleh Rahemipour was sentenced to two years in jail on the charge of acting against national security.  Raheleh pursues the fate of her niece, Golrou Rahemipour, who was born in prison in 1983. Golrou was separated from her mother when she was only 14 days old. In response to her parents' inquiry, prison guards told them that Golrou was dead.


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In a meeting on Tuesday, January 31, Maryam Kian Erssi, lawyer, revealed, "According to the surveys done by the Ministry of Interior in 2004, some 66 per cent of Iranian women are battered at least once during their marriage. At the same time 56 per cent of battered children are girls, 44 per cent of whom have been abused by their fathers."
Kian Erssi said, "Based on these figures, girls comprise 70 per cent of subjects of sexual harassment. Half of such harassment is done by family members." (The state-run Tasnim news agency – January 31, 2017)
It's said that the figures published by the Iranian regime with 13 year delay should not be considered as accurate. Rather, they are an attempt to play down the severity of the situation of women and girls in Iran who are badly abused at home and enjoy no government support. A considerable number of Iranian women are forced by their husbands and fathers into prostitution, drug-trafficking, panhandling, etc. due to the horrible economic conditions as well as the violent male-dominated culture promoted by the regime. The phrase of "battered at least once during their marriage" is a bitter joke piercing through the hearts of the oppressed women of Iran.  

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Parvaneh Hossein Panahi, elder sister of human rights activist Amjad Hossein Panahi, was arrested at home by plainclothes agents of the Department of Intelligence in Dehgolan in Iran Kurdistan Province on January 30.
The intelligence agents arrested Parvaneh in front of her family. Subsequently, her husband was also arrested when he referred to the Intelligence Department to follow up on her case.

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The temporary arrest warrant for Ms. Tahereh Riyahi was extended by the Iranian regime judiciary on January 29. Tahereh, a journalist, was arrested on December 26, 2016, on the charge of disseminating anti-government propaganda and having contacts with dissident networks.
Tahereh Riyahi suffers from Asthma. She is held in a solitary cell and has run out of medications. Interrogators have refused to provide her new medicines.
Ms. Riyahi's mother has been hospitalized due to the pressure she has felt because of her daughter's arrest and is in a critical condition.

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The lawyer representing prisoner of conscience Massoumeh Zia was not allowed to study her files when he referred to the Prosecutor's Office for Culture and Media on January 28. Ms. Zia is held in Ward 209 of Evin Prison with an undecided status. She was arrested on January 6, at the airport, when she returned home from a family visit abroad.