Sunday, December 20, 2020

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Over 188,700 people have died of the Covid-19 in 470 cities across Iran, according to the daily reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Sun. December 20. “Some 60,000 of the 145,000 Iranina nurses attending to the sick have been infected with the Covid-19. 6,000 are in the quarantine and around 100 have lost their lives,” said Mirzabeigi on the shortage of nurses in Iran. Mirzabeigi, the General Director of the National Nursing Organization, said: “The most important problem of the nurses’ community is severe shortage of forces. Because there are only 145,000 nurses for 170,000 hospital beds; a correlation of 0.8. While the standard is 2.5 nurses per bed. Therefore, the number of working nurses must increase 2.5 times for us to reach the standard conditions. If the number of beds continue to increase and nurses are retired without replacements, the shortage of nurses in Iran will increase and this would hurt the patients more than anyone else.” https://tinyurl.com/ybrxc29r

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The 110th woman executed during the tenure of Hassan Rouhani. A report from inside Sepidar Prison says one of the women imprisoned in this jail was executed early this week. The name of the woman has not been specified. The report indicates that the executed woman used to work as a caretaker for sick people. Her patient died for unknown reason, and she was accused of murder and sentenced to death. Her death sentence was carried out several days ago in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz. https://tinyurl.com/y8edwfpd

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According to a report from Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz, in the southwestern Khuzestan Province in Iran, a female prisoner, identified only by the last name Neissi, was transferred to the quarantine on Monday night, December 14. She was crying out from pain and pleading to be taken to a civic hospital. The prison guards and authorities, however, did not take her to hospital and abandoned her in the ward without attending to her. Consequently, she died on Tuesday morning, December 15. In another case in Kachouii Prison, in Karaj, prison authorities have refused to take action regarding an urgent test for Monireh Arabshahi who has difficulty breathing because of the swelling of her throat. Monireh Arabshahi and her daughter, Yasaman Aryani, are imprisoned for opposing the mandatory veil. They are serving their sentence of 5 years and six months. https://tinyurl.com/yavpffqu

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Political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was transferred from Prison of Quchan at 10 pm Sunday, December 13 to the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office of Mashhad, capital of Razavi Khorasan Province in northeastern Iran. Then, on Monday morning, December 14, she was taken to the quarantine ward of the Central Prison of Mashhad. Kurdish political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was deprived of having family visitations during the time she was incarcerated in the Prison of Quchan. Sakineh Parvaneh was born in 1988. In early autumn of 2019, security agents arrested her because she had visited her family in Soleimaniya, in the Kurdistan of Iraq. They took her to the Iran-Iraq border. She was detained for 10 days in the detention centers of Marivan and Sanandaj. She was subsequently transferred to the Evin Prison in Tehran. In March 2020, after she wrote graffiti on the walls of Evin, she was sent to the notorious Qarchak Prison where she was detained in solitary confinement for four days with handcuffs and foot cuffs. Then, prison guards took her to Aminabad Psychiatric Hospital in Shahr-e Rey. After 25 days in Aminabad, female political prisoner Sakineh Parvaneh was returned to the quarantine ward of Qarchak Prison. Sakineh Parvaneh went on hunger strike several times in Evin. https://tinyurl.com/ycrrlguj

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Iranian regime's Intelligence agents arrested children’s rights activist Afsaneh Azimzadeh on December 14, and took her to an undisclosed location. Ms. Azimzadeh was arrested in Tehran’s Milad Hospital when she was following up on her mother’s cardiac illness. She was arrested in front of her parents. Afsaneh is one of the founders of the Association in Defense of Child Laborers and Street Children since 2004 in Iran. She has been active for more than 15 years in educating and assisting child laborers in Iran. Shohreh Hosseini, an interpreter and a civil rights activist, was arrested on November 28, after reporting in to the Evin Courthouse. The court had increased her bail bond and she was transferred to Evin Prison, where she has been detained since. In a brief telephone call to her family last week, Shohreh Hosseini said it appears that she would have to stay in prison until her trial convenes. Agents of the IRGC Intelligence arrested Shohreh Hosseini on October 2, 2020, and detained her in their detention center at Ward 2A of Evin Prison. She was temporarily released on October 6, on a bail of 500 million Tomans until her prosecution is completed. Ms. Hosseini is accused of cooperating with an opposition group and disseminating propaganda against the state. https://tinyurl.com/y9th233p