Sunday, April 22, 2018

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On Friday, April 20, thousands of residents of Kazerun, southern Iran, staged anti-regime protests for the fifth consecutive day. People also gathered in the city's grand mosque and denounced the regime's plan to divide the city. The demonstration was held while the city's city council, Friday prayers’ leader and state media had announced that all gatherings were banned until the Kazerun city separation plan is determined. The angry protesters chanted: "Honorable Iranians, support us," "Honorable Kazerun, hail to your dignity," "Our state TV is a disgrace," “Beware of the day when we arm ourselves. If we are betrayed, hell will be raised against the regime" and “We are ready to defend Kazerun.” Following the massive demonstration of the people of Kazerun, local authorities announced on Wednesday that the plan for the separation of Kazerun was being paused. However, people did not pay any attention to the regime’s promises and demanded the governor respond. The presence of women in theses demonstrations is noticeable. The people of Kazerun oppose a proposed bill to divide their city. According to a bill which is due to be confirmed by the government, the districts of Chenar Shahijan and Qa’emieh will be separated from Kazerun to form a separate city called Kouh Chenar.

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According to Iranian resistance's statement on Saturday, April 21, the strike of merchants and shopkeepers in the provinces of Kurdistan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan continued for the seventh consecutive day. The merchants of Sar-e-Pol-e Zahab and Mahabad also had joined the protest on Friday. Meanwhile, repressive forces have arrested a number of strikers in recent days to prevent the spread of these protests. On Saturday, Sardasht merchants protested in front of the governorate building against rising customs duties. In Baneh, a young man was arrested because he had protested in front of Saeed Jalili, Khamenei’s representative, against the killings of border porters, the hunger of the people in the area, and stoppage of their business on Wednesday, April 18. Jalili's visit to Baneh, which was aimed at deceiving the protesters and forcing them to end the strike, failed ignominiously. In Piranshahr, regime mercenaries set fire at one of the cars of the strikers in the Kani Shinkah area in order to intimidate them. In the border town of Bazargan (West Azarbaijan), people protested against the closure of border routes, which has been their only way of earning money and making their living, by blocking the main street of the city. In yet another development in Sanandaj, workers from the Mohammadi manufacturing company stopped working in protest against the expulsion of one of their colleagues. Following a visit by a representative of Khamenei and the governor, one of the workers objected to the severe exploitation of the workers and the low level of wages. The employer immediately fired the worker, which provoked a strong protest by the workers.

The Iranian-Canadians in Ottawa on Sat. April 21, gathered in front of the Parliament Hill and across from Prime Minister's office in support of the people of Kazerun (In Fars province), and Kurdish cities.






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Students and graduates of laboratory sciences in Tehran staged a protest on Thursday, April 19, outside Tehran’s Medical Organization. The majority of protesters were women. They protested against integration of unrelated fields with laboratory sciences, elimination of PhD degree education, failure to issue license of medical organization, and low wages for heavy work.

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The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran- NCRI- strongly condemned brutalizing of a young woman in Tehran by agents of Guidance Patrol (Gasht-e Ershad) under the pretext of improper veiling.
The NCRI Women’s Committee urged all international organizations defending human rights and women’s rights on Thursday April 19,  to condemn such despicable and inhuman action on the part of the regime’s suppressive forces.
On Wednesday, April 18, the suppressive forces of the Guidance Patrol attacked and badly beat up a young woman until she went unconscious. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, said the brutality and savagery committed against a young ailing woman once again revealed the ugly, inhuman and anti-Islamic visage of the misogynous mullahs ruling Iran. She called on Iran's youths to counter and confront such disrespect and violation of Iranian women’s dignity by the clerical regime's revolutionary guards and mercenaries and do not allow their sisters to be insulted, suppressed and tortured.

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Shokoufeh Yadollahi, a Yarsan woman imprisoned in the notorious Qarchak Prison of Varamin needs urgent medical care and treatment. Shokufeh was badly brutalized during her arrest and subsequently under torture as a result of which she has lost her sense of smell. Amnesty International distributed a video clip on Thursday, April 19, calling for support for the release of 11 Yarsan women, from Gonabadi Dervishes of Iran, who were arrested and jailed in a protest in February and are being detained under inhuman conditions in Qarchak, AKA Shahr-e Ray Prison, without any access to lawyers.

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Political prisoner Golrokh Iraee is in critical conditions after 75 days of hunger strike and refusing food. Ms. Iraee has lost 22 kilograms and suffers from low blood pressure. She is not able to walk or talk. Ms. Iraee who is presently hospitalized in the IRGC Baghyatollah Hospital told her father in a brief visit that she would continue her hunger strike.
On Tuesday, April 17, 2018, Ms. Iraee accepted to have serum injection upon the appeals of 1,000 civil and human rights activists and mothers and families of political prisoners and martyrs.
Writer and a human rights activist, Golrokh Iraee has been sentenced to six years in jail for writing an unpublished book about stoning. She was banished to the notorious Qarchak Prison along with Atenat Daemi on January 24, for resisting interrogations after she called on Iranian protesters on January 9 to endure and pay the price of freedom by continuing their uprising.

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There is no information on the whereabouts or conditions of the two women arrested in the course of protests in Ahwaz, capital of Khuzistan Province in southwestern Iran. The family of Ayesheh Neassi, student of English at Payam Nour University of Ahwaz, have not been able to contact her or obtain any news on her. It is said that she is probably detained in Sepidar Prison of Ahwaz.
Ms. Neassi was arrested in the protests in Ahwaz against an offensive program broadcast by the state television network insulting Arab Iranians.
On Monday, April 16, 2018, families of those arrested in the recent protests in Ahwaz staged protests in three parts of the city, in front of the Governorate’s Office and the offices of two parliamentary deputies from Ahwaz. The protesters which included a large number of women demanded freedom of their loved ones and determination of their status.

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Plundered women of Caspian institute continued their protests in Tehran, Rasht, and Ahwaz on April 16. The protests by men and women plundered by various fraudulent financial institutes have been going on since last year, but they have not received any response to their demands. 




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A 3 year baby girl was among the passengers of a car targeted by the State Security Force in Delegan, in the southeastern province of Sistan-o Baluchistan in Iran. The four passengers of the car were shot to death by the SSF on Thursday, April 12. Moslem Bameri, 27, his brother, a friend and his three-year-old neice, Hasna Bameri, were in a gas station when the State Security Force opened fire and killed them. Moslem Bameri was being followed by the SSF for throwing stones at an SSF station and “disrupting the order” in February.

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The Iranian Interior Minister ordered the State Security Force on Sunday, April 15, to deal with women who violate the official dress code. Rahmani Fazli, the Iranian Interior Minister, said, “Those who undertake damaging measures, in an organized manner, with regards to the dress code, commit a crime and the State Security Force is duty bound to deal with them.” Women who drop their veil in their cars are among those who commit a crime according to the law, and they must be dealt with.