Sunday, September 27, 2020


 Based on a daily report by the PMOI/MEK People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, over 110,700 people have died of the coronavirus as of Sunday Sept 27, in 444 cities across Iran’s 31 provinces. The official death count declared by the Iranian regime stands at +25,015.

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Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian has been relocated from the Central Prison of Kerman to the notorious Dieselabad Prison of Kermanshah, western Iran. Zeinab Jalalian had been detained for three months in solitary confinement in the quarantine ward of the Central Prison of Kerman in southern Iran. She was eventually relocated to Kermanshah Prison on September 24, 2020. She was abruptly taken out of the Prison of Khoy on April 28, 2020 and transferred to Qarchak Prison in Varamin. Her family said prison agents had cuffed her hands and feet, taking her from one prison to the other for two days without giving her enough food or water. She was taken to Urmia and Kermanshah, and subsequently to the Evin Courthouse. Then, she was taken to Qarchak Prison. Ms. Jalalian contracted the Covid-19 disease in Qarchak Prison where she did not receive medical care. She was on hunger strike when she was transferred to Kerman. According to Mr. Ali Jalalian, Zeinab’s father, she was taken to the prison’s dispensary on the night of June 3, 2020, because of serious difficulty in respiration. There, she tested positive for Covid-19 but prison authorities prevented her from being transferred to hospital. Zeinab Jalalian is serving her 13th year in prison. https://tinyurl.com/y3bq8xvp

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An Iranian regime court issued an inhuman ruling to separate a 2-year-old toddler from her Christian parents Maryam Fallahi and Sam Khosravi despite her “strong emotional bonds.” The little girl was subsequently separated from her parents and handed over to the Welfare Organization. The 2-year-old toddler called Lydia was born Muslim but adopted by a Christian couple when she was only ten weeks old. The Revision Court of Bushehr ruled on September 23, 2020, that since the little girl was born Muslim she could not be adopted by a Christian couple. The court ruling came despite the “strong emotional bonds” between the 2-year-old toddler and her Christian parents, Maryam Fallahi and Sam Khosravi. Lydia suffers from heart and GI problems. She would face an uncertain future if sent to the orphanage of the Welfare Organization. It is unlikely that any other family would adopt her due to her illness. Maryam Fallahi worked for years as a nurse in the Heart Hospital of Bushehr. The Welfare Organization’s observer and the Forensics Office confirmed that she had taken best care of Lydia over the past two years. The ruling contradicts the laws of the clerical regime. According to Article 3 of the Law to Protect Children and Adolescents, children who do not have guardians or have unfit guardians, could be adopted by all Iranian nationals residing in Iran. The Article does not mention any consideration regarding the faith of the parents adopting the child. Maryam Fallahi and her husband, Sam Khosravi, were among a group of seven Christian converts arrested by Intelligence agents on July 1, 2019. https://tinyurl.com/yxamfpvy

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The Iranian regime's Judiciary hanged Mahtab Shafii, 32, at dawn in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, also known as Rajaiishahr prison on Sept. 23. She was the 108th woman that was executed during Hassan Rouhani's presidency since 2013. Mahtab had been detained for seven years in Qarchak Prison on the charge of murder. The NCRI Women’s Committee National Council of Resistance of Iran, published a list of eleven women detained on death row in Qarchak Prison, on October 24, 2018, which included Mahtab Shafii's name. The regime's Supreme Court upheld the death sentence for another woman in Tehran on September 21, 2020.

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Political prisoner Hadiseh Sabouri, 44, married and mother of 3 children is denied medical care in the women’s ward of Evin Prison and is deprived of being visited in a civic medical center. She suffers from various illnesses. Specifically, she underwent a GI surgery in 2015 when part of her intestine was removed. Mrs. Sabouri was arrested during the protests in Tehran’s Aryashahr district in August 2018. She was initially taken to the notorious women’s detention center in Vozara Avenue. She was subsequently sent to Qarchak Prison. Then she was temporarily released on bail in mid-September 2018 until her legal proceedings were completed. Hadiseh was arrested for a second time in December 2019 because of her online activities on the Instagram. Intelligence service agents raided her home in Aryashahr and transferred her to the IRGC Ward 2A in Evin Prison. After undergoing interrogations for one week and being arraigned with her charges, she was temporarily released on a bail of 250 million Tomans. In early July 2020, Hadiseh who was awaiting her review court hearings, was called on the phone and summoned to the Intelligence Court of Evin Prison, where she was readily arrested and taken to prison to serve her jail term. 

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Political prisoner Saba Kord Afshari, was returned from a civic hospital to Evin Prison without receiving her needed medical treatment. The excuse used to return Saba back to prison, was that she did not have the money to pay for the expenses. Her family were directed to Shohaday-e Tajrish hospital to pay for the expenses while Saba was taken to Taleghani Hospital. However based on the bylaws of the Organization of Prisons, the expenses for medical treatment of prisoners must be paid by this organization. Political prisoner Saba Kord Afshari has been serving her sentence in the women’s ward of Evin Prison since August 13, 2019. She is presently sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges of "propaganda against the state" and "assembly and collusion intended to commit crime against national security" and She faces another 15 years on the charge of “spreading corruption and prostitution by removing the veil and walking without the veil.” Saba's mother, Mrs Raheleh Ahmadi, is also imprisoned along with her for following up on Saba's case and defending her daughter's rights.

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Reza Khandan, wrote on his tweeter account on Sat. Sept, 26, that his wife Nasrin Sotoodeh and Rezvaneh Ahmad Khanbeigi has ended their hunger strike on Friday but due to unavailability of telephone, they let him know on Sat. On Thursday Sept. 24 he wrote: This evening, after 5 days of confinement in Taleghani hospital, Nasrin was returned to prison in the worst of physical conditions without any medical intervention. This act has no meaning other than, putting her life in danger.