The Iranian_Canadians yesterday
Sat. April 13, during their weekly gathering stood in solidarity in front of the Parliament Hill and across from Prime Minister's office with the Iran
flood victims and called for Canada to designate IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps) as a terrorist entity. US designated IRGC as a terrorist entity on
Monday April 8.
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Emergency officials in Iran said a
minibus carrying elementary girl students crashed on Thursday, leaving 20
injured and 3 other passengers dead. According to Fasa emergency
in south-central Iran, some of the injured were in critical conditions.
While the Iranian regime spends
billions of dollars not only in the wars in Syria and Yemen, and on missile
tests and terrorist activities, but to rebuild Syria, and other countries
little budget is allocated to the country’s infrastructure and education.
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According to Women's committee of the NCRI(National Council of Resistance of Iran) on Thursday, April 11, Mrs. Monireh
Arab-Shahi, mother of the civil activist and theater actress, Yasamin Ariani
was arrested. She was transferred to the notorious Qarchak Prison on the next
day. When referring to Vozara detention center in Tehran on Thursday April 11,
to get news from her arrested daughter, Yasamin Ariani, Mrs. Monireh Arab-Shahi
was arrested on location. It is said that regime’s SSF (state security forces),
referring to their residents on Wednesday, April 10 had warrant to arrest them
both mother and the daughter, but as Mrs. Arab-Shahi was not in, they only
arrested Yasamin. The warrant was issued by Karaj’s prosecutor’s office. Yasamin
Ariani was arrested along with 50 other protesters on July 2, 2019, in Tehran
when protesting the dire economic situation and the corruption. The arrest was
carried out by security forces and they were transferred to Great Tehran and
Qarchak’s prisons.
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Former political prisoner, Fatemeh
(Hoorieh) Ziaee Azad, 56, was transferred to Women’s Ward of Evin Prison on
Tuesday, April 9 to serve her one and a half year sentence. Fatemeh, who
formerly served five years of imprisonment between 1981 and 1986, was charged
with supporting the PMOI/MEK, People’s Mojahedin of Iran. She was also jailed
on January 21, 2009 and released early winter of 2010 for “going to MEK base in
Iraq” to visit her two daughters.
She was once again
arrested on June 8, 2013 but was released from Evin Prison on October 17, 2013
due to her age, her suffering from MS and dire physical condition.
Fatemeh Ziaee Azad was arrested
again in early autumn of 2014 along with her husband Mahmood Azimi. Mr. Azimi
was freed in late autumn 2014, and Fatemeh in mid-winter of 2015 on 100 million
toman bail, each.
Following the event,
Fatemeh was sentenced to 1.5-year imprisonment. The verdict was endorsed by the
revision court and she is now serving her time.
In another event, Ms. Rahemipour is
to pay 80 million rials to buy her prison term. She was sentenced by Tehran’s
Revolutionary Court on charges of “propagating against the establishment” for
corresponding to UN about the fate of her brother and her niece. She is
sentenced to one year in prison. The decree was issued by the revision court on
April 9.
As the UN Working Group
on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances started to look into her complaint
and inquired the Iranian regime about her brother and niece, the regime began
pressuring her.
Ms. Rahemipour’s brother, Hossein
Rahemipour, a dentist, was arrested along with his pregnant wife in 1983. In
spring of 1984 the Rahemipour family was informed that the child, Golroo, was
born in Evin Prison but had later died. In late summer of the same year, Hossein
was executed. His death was announced to his family by phone.
