The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) announced on Thursday Aug 16, that 89,600 Iranians in 392 cities in Iran, have died of Covid-19. Hassan Rouhani the regime's president however brazenly claimed success in the first and second waves of Covid-19, and said about the decisions of the regime's corona headquarters that: "International authorities have also praised it!"

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Mother of Majid Assadi urges international human

rights organizations to take action to secure immediate release of her son. Fatemeh Vakili, Majid Assadi’s mother, in an interview on July 30 said the judiciary had sent them a letter informing them that he would be released on July 20 after serving 3.5 years of his sentence. “But the Ministry of Intelligence opened a fabricated new case for him” and he and two other prisoners, Mohammad Bannazadeh Amirkhizi and Payam Shakiba, were transferred from Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj, to ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran. Ms. Vakili spoke out against the Judiciary and said: “How can they fabricate a new case against a prisoner who is in their own prison? Why don’t they leave him alone? He is ill.” Political prisoner Majid Assadi suffers from various illnesses including inflammation of the spinal cord, GI complications, vision problems, a lump in the liver, symptoms of the Coronavirus infection, loss of weight and physical weakness. Sharareh Sadeghi, wife of Kurdish political prisoner Heydar Ghorbani, protested against his death sentence. Heydar Ghorbani was informed of his death sentence on January 28, 2020 while he was detained in the Prison of Sanandaj, in the capital of Iranian Kurdistan. The death verdict was upheld on August 6, 2020, by the regime’s supreme court, and passed on to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of Kamayaran to be implemented.

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Massoumeh Senobari was sentenced to a total of 8 years of imprisonment. She was sentenced to one year for “propaganda against the state,” 5 years for “membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,” and 2 years for “insulting Khamenei.” Ms. Senobari was born in 1988. She has one child and lived in Tabriz, capital of East Azerbaijan Province in northwestern Iran. She is presently detained in the women’s ward of the Prison of Tabriz.

Fatemeh Davand, one of the participants in the protests in November 2019 in Boukan-Iran, was taken to the Central Prison of Urmia on August 6, 2020 to begin serving her five-year imprisonment. Ms. Davand, 42 from Boukan, and mother of three children was arrested during the November 2019 uprising. The Revolutionary Court of Boukan sentenced her to 5 years and 5 months in jail and 30 lashes. The Revolutionary Court of Tehran handed down a year-long jail sentence to Yasamin Hanifeh Tabatabaii, deprived her of any political activity for two years, and ordered her to do forced labor for four years in a senior citizen home. She is charged for going to Pasargadae on October 29, 2019, to commemorate the birth of Cyrus the Great. She had been arrested at a checkpoint by security forces and transferred to Ward 209 of Evin Prison. Cyrus the Great was the King of Persia in 529-550 B.C. who wrote the world’s first charter of human rights. Cathrine (Saeedeh) Sajjadpour and Sakineh Behjati were each sentenced to two years in jail on charges of “acting against national security” and “participating in home churches.” The two new Christian converts from Rasht had been questioned by security forces at their homes in February 2020, and told that they would be summoned, soon. On August 6, 2020, the Revolutionary Court of Shahriar sentenced three Baha’i women to one-year imprisonment each. Jamileh Pakru, Elham Salmanzadeh, and Neda Shabani are charged with “propaganda against the state.” Mitra Bandi Amirabadi and Hiva Yazdan Mehdi, another two Baha’i women, have been in jail since June 2020 without trial. The detention of the two residents of Yazd was recently extended for another month.

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One-and-a-half year after the suspicious death of Zahra Navidpour, one of the victims of rape and sexual assault by a state official, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Court acquitted her assailant. The final ruling of the supreme court exonerated Salman Khodadadi, former member of the mullahs’ parliament, of the charge of rape. The supreme court upheld the flogging sentence of 99 lashes and two years of ban depriving Khodadadi from serving in public positions on the charge of having an “illegitimate affair.” The Supreme Court verdict thus concludes the case of rape by a member of parliament and without ordering any investigation into the sudden death of the complainant, Zahra Navidpour.

Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was executed at dawn of October 25, 2014 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran after 7 years of imprisonment. Reyhaneh, a decorator, was 19-years old when charged with murdering Morteza Sarbandi, a 47-year old married doctor who had three children and was a former employee of the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS). Jabbari defended herself against the MOIS employee’s attempt to rape her.

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