Sunday, August 13, 2017

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The Iranian-Canadian held thier weekly protest in front of the Paliament and across from Prime Minister's office yesterday Saturday condemning 1988 Massacre in Iran and the execution of Alireza Tajiki who was a teenager at the time of his arrest-6 years a go- and sentencing 4 years a go and the mass executions of 13 people in one day in Iran on Thursday Aug. 10. This protest drew people's attention and their support.



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On Saturday, August 12, a senior delegation from the United States Senate met with Maryam Rajavi, the president elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in the Albanian capital, Tirana, and discussed the situation of the members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Albania, the latest developments in Iran and the Middle East as well as solutions to end to current crisis in that region. The Senate delegation was comprised of Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference, and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees; John Cornyn, the Majority Whip, and a member of the Judiciary, Select Intelligence, and Finance committees; and Thom Tillis, a member of the Armed Services, Judiciary, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs committees.
The meeting, at one of the centers of the MEK in Albania, was initiated by Senator Roy Blunt, as the delegation was on a visit to Albania.

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, Asma Jahangir, condemned the execution of a young man who received the death penalty as a child. Alireza Tajiki was arrested at the age of 15 in 2012 and sentenced to death in 2013 at the age of 16. He was executed on August 10 despite repeated interventions by UN human rights experts, who said the death penalty should never be used against a child, and noted that Mr. Tajiki had reportedly been tortured and had not received a fair trial. Amnesty International also called the execution of Alireza Tajiki as "utterly shameless act by the Iranian authorities". On Thursday Aug. 10 the Iranian regime executed 13 prisoners in Iran.

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According to the State-run Tasnim news agency Aug. 9, the IRGC- Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in Isfahan, Iran, arrested 64 young men and women for participating in a party. The arrests were carried out on Tuesday, August 8. According to official sources, the files of defendants has been turned over to judiciary officials for examination and review.



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"The plan to raise the age of marriage for girls in Iran faces opposition by a number of religious scholars". Fatemeh Zolghadr, a member of regime's parliament, added: “In the current law, the minimum age for marriage of girls is 13, but there are amendments which allow exceptions for example with the permission of the father, considering child’s interests, court approval and lack of complainants. For these reasons, we continue to see marriages of girl children who are not eligible for marriage, but instead spend their childhood, becoming spouses and mothers.” (The state-run Entekhab news website – August 11, 2017)

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The IRGC Commander of the Revolutionary Guards Corps in Shahroud, northeastern Iran, announced the arrest of young women and men on the charge of participating in a mixed dancing course.
“Members of a network teaching Western dances who recruited young men and women to teach them western dances, were arrested while teaching and producing a videoclip,” Hamid Damghani said.
“The IRGC Intelligence forces in Shahroud investigated and identified the group’s main location. Then the Prosecutor of Shahroud issued a judiciary warrant, sanctioning a raid during which members of this group, including four young men and two young women, were arrested while making a video together,” he added. (The state-run Farda News – August 9, 2017)

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Managed by female judges, units of the Special Women’s Patrol of the Prosecutor’s Office of Qom, Iran, are going to inspect places exclusively for women, including studios, pools, gymnasiums and hair saloons. Mehdi Kaheh, the Public Prosecutor of Qom, added, “The activities of the Prosecutor’s Office’s Special Women’s Patrol teams are going to be stepped up… These teams have so far visited more than 45 hair saloons and 10 pools and issued legal notices to each of the places that had problems or breached the law… If they do not correct their conduct, they will be dealt with legally.” (The state-run ISNA news agency, August 9, 2017)

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The Head of the Prisons Organization of Iran, Asghar Jahangir, told a Judiciary meeting that “25 percent of women prisoners are in jail on drug related charges.” (The state-run ILNA news agency – August 9, 2017)





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Tehran’s Friday prayer leader, Sedighi, stressed on the need to confront women in Iran over their covering and hijab inside their cars. He said, “The issue of hijab is an obligation stated in the Quran. If someone commits a crime in her car, it will be considered as an obvious crime. In such cases, not only the culprit must be dealt with based on the ruling of the Quran, but she must also be dealt with according to the law passed by the parliament.” (The state-run ISNA news agency, August 8, 2017)

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Nasim Bagheri, a Baha'i prisoner of conscience detained in Evin, has been denied leave. The latest follow-ups by her family have been futile.
According to the Prosecutor's Office, intelligence agents have issued their final response, opposing grating leave to this Baha'i prisoner. Nasim Bagheri has been detained in Evin Prison since April 27, 2014. She has been granted leave only once.

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In an open letter of protest, a number of female political prisoners Mahvash Shahriari, Fariba Kamalabadi, Elham Hosseinabadi Farahani, Zahra Zehtabchi, Elham Barmaki, Fatemeh Mosanna, Narges Mohammadi, Maryam Akbari Monfared, Golrokh Iraee, Azita Rafizadeh, Nasim Bagheri and Atena Daemi in Iran’s Evin Prison have demanded the removal of restrictions on their imprisoned male relatives and the opportunity to contact them.
The letter was written in the wake of the relocation of a number of political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison, Karaj. Following the transfer, prison authorities forbid any and all contacts with them. While protesting the imposition of the new restrictions, the women political prisoners in Evin called in their letter for the resumption of their visits with their husbands and brothers and lifting of medical and medicinal ban presently in place.

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The nursing community in Iran launched protests on August 6, in a number of cities across the country. Women nurses actively participated in these protests and insisted on their demands. In the Tehran gathering in front of the Ministry of Health, protesters chanted, "Hospital is not a place for experimentation", "do not decide without me about my future", "disregard for nursing disregards social health". They demanded termination of the nurses training program in hospitals and in non-academic ways.
Nursing students and nurses held similar protest gatherings in Shiraz, Isfahan, Ahwaz and Bojnourd.
In Isfahan, students formed a human chain around the nursing school. More than 200 students from the nursing schools of Isfahan, Khorasgan, Najafabad and Falavarjan participated in this move.
A university professor attended the nurses’ gathering in Bojnourd said, "Since nurses protect the lives of patients, the implementation of the (hospital training) plan will take back the field of nursing for about 50 years."

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Sunday, August 6, a large number of women participated in a protest outside the UN office in Tehran to express their protest against losses inflicted on them by the Caspian Credit Institute. Similar protests were held in Tehran and Rasht on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, in front of the offices of the Caspian Institute.




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Women nurses of Iran staged a protest against the state’s new plan for training of hospital nurses. Their protest began at 9 a.m. on Sunday, Aug 6, 2017, outside Jondishapour University in Ahwaz, capital of the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzistan, where the city’s nurses and students actively took part. “The training of hospital nurses plan should be revoked because it undermines the academic credibility and expertise of nursing and threatens people's health through its non-professional approach,” the protesters said. Earlier, women nurses had held a protest rally in front of Ahwaz University of Medical Sciences on Aug 2, 2017, demanding payment of their past due salaries.