Two Baha’i women, Kimia Mostafavi and Kiana Rezvani from
Kerman, were arrested on Saturday, January 19, by security forces and
another Baha'i computer science undergraduate Shirin Bani Nejad, at Sama
Andisheh Azad University, was barred from continuing her education due to her
religion. Paragraph 3 of the bill ratified by the Supreme Council of Cultural
Revolution in March 1991 and endorsed by the Iranian regime’s supreme leader
Ali Khamenei, reiterates, “Once it is confirmed that a student adheres to
Baha’ism, whether at the time admission or during their studies, she/he must be
deprived of education.”
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A female prisoner who had been in the women’s ward of
Sepidar Prison in Iran for a few days described its ghastly conditions.
The female prisoners in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz are
deprived of the most basic needs of a decent life. The prison cells are full of
lice, insects, and cockroaches.
The prisoners who have to sleep on the floor are in a
worse situation. The bathroom’s sewage have problems.
The blankets given to prisoners are dirty and unusable.
On many days of the week, the women’s ward health center has no doctors or even
nurses.
Prison meals are inadequate and extremely poor in terms
of quality. Usually the prison’s food has some kind of scraps of junk in it.
Suicide and self-injury among these women are heavily
prevalent, as the women hope that after self-injury, they will be transferred
to the health center so they can stay in a better condition for a few days or
ultimately die.
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On Sat. Jan. 26, the Iranian_Canadians gathered in
cold weather in front of the Parliament Hill and across from PM office, calling
on Poland conference to support Iranian people's Alternative NCRI(National
Council of Resistance of Iran) led by Maryam Rajavi. The Poland conference will
be held on 13 & 14 of Feb. 2019, focusing on Iranian regime's initiative,
with the participation of representatives from different countries of the
Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa.
