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More than 196,500 people have died of the Covid-19 in 478 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran- PMOI as of Thursday Jan. 3, 2021. 

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More than 20 days since her forcible transfer to Ward 2A of Evin Prison, her family have no news on Golrokh Iraee and her conditions. Golrokh Iraee’s family are extremely worried about her health and the possibility of fabrication of a new case against her. As a result, her mother suffered a nervous attack and is presently hospitalized. Golrokh Iraee has not had any contacts or visits with her family since she was taken to the IRGC Intelligence detention center at Ward 2A in Evin Prison. After repeated referrals by the Iraee family to the Evin Courthouse, Amin Vaziri, supervising the conditions of political prisoners, told them: “The riot in Qarchak had been organized by Golrokh Iraee and whatever happens to her, she deserves it.” He added, “For the time being, you should not be waiting for your daughter.” Intelligence services, however, are known for their fabrication of charges and filing new cases against prisoners who are about to complete their sentences. The IRGC Intelligence summoned political prisoner Golrokh Iraee to Ward 2A of Evin Prison on December 7, 2020, without mentioning any reason. Political prisoner Golrokh Iraee who was detained in Qarchak Prison, called the measure illegal and refused to go to the IRGC detention center. On Sunday, December 13, the new warden of Qarchak Prison oversaw 20 male and female anti-riot guards who raided political prisoners in Ward 8. They brutalized the inmates in Ward 8, and beat them with stun guns and batons. The guards took political prisoner Golrokh Iraee by hair and dragged her out of the ward to send her to the IRGC Intelligence Ward 2A in Evin Prison. Golrolkh Ebrahimi Iraee was imprisoned in Evin on October 16, 2015, for writing an unpublished book against stoning. During her time in prison, a new file was trumped up against her, according to which she was sentenced to more imprisonment. After an 81-day hunger strike, Golrokh Iraee was finally released from prison on April 8, 2019, after completing her first sentence, but had to deposit bail for her new prison sentence. Shortly afterwards, Ms. Iraee was rearrested and taken to Qarchak Prison to serve her 3 years and 7 months’ prison term.  

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The Iranian regime's Judiciary hanged the 111th woman during Hassan Rouhani's tenure on Sunday, December 27, 2020. her name was Zeinab Khodamoradi, 43 years old and from the city of Qorveh. She had been imprisoned for five years. She suffered from mental imbalance and nervous disorder. Her family could not afford to pay the 700 million Tomans set as blood money for the victims, so she was sent to the gallows. https://tinyurl.com/y9f92yam

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The Iranian regime hanged 3 prisoners on Sun. Jan. 3rd, 4 others on Thur. Dec. 31, 2020. Their names are: Hassan Dehvari, Ilias Ghlanderzehi, Omid Mahmoudzehi, Hamid RastBala, Kabir Saadat Jahani, MohmmadAli Arayesh, Abdolhmaid Mirbalooch and Mohammad Hassan Rezaei. Mohammad hassan was 16 when arrested for alleged murder. 6 of the victims were Muslim Sunnis. 

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Cultural activist Sahba Hemadi also known as Lamya was taken to the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz on December 31, 2020, one day after the Revolutionary Court of Ahvaz sentenced her to 7 years in prison. She is accused of “armed insurgency and acting against national security.” Sahba was under the most cruel physical and psychological tortures while in detention for two years. She was detained for six months in Evin Prison. She was given electric shocks under interrogation and her arms bare scars of burn because of it. Hemadi was arrested in October 2018. She was sentenced to death in May 2019, but in November, it was commuted to 15 years . https://tinyurl.com/ya4bh6rp

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Maryam Akbari Monfared started her 12th year in prison on Wednesday, December 30, 2020. She is a political prisoner jailed in Evin since 2009 without one day of furlough. Maryam was arrested on December 30, 2009, after the major upheavals on December 27 that year which nearly toppled the Iranian regime. In June 2010, the 15th Branch of Tehran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced her to 15 years in prison on the charge of “Moharebeh (waging war on God) through membership in the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran,” a charge which she never accepted. Maryam Akbari Monfared has three daughters and suffers from thyroid malfunction and rheumatism. She lost two of her brothers during the executions of members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran in 1981 and 1984. Her sister and younger brother were executed during the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in summer of 1988. https://tinyurl.com/y9lz6xth

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Civil activists Nazanin Mohammad Nejad, a student of Russian language in Tehran's Allameh Tabatabaii university, Bahareh Soleimani a nurese and Somayyeh Kargar a graduate student of Philasophy from University of Tabriz, continue to be detained in Ward 209 of Evin Prison. They have been arbitrarily arrested and are presently detained in limbo. In another news the Evin Prison authorities continue to oppose the release on bail of Shohreh Hosseini, an interpreter and civil activist, who has been detained in Evin Prison since November 28. Also children’s rights activist Afsaneh Azimzadeh has been detained in solitary confinement since December 14, in one of the intelligence wards of Evin. Mehrnoush Songhori, an artist, also was summoned to the Evin Prison Courthouse on December 23, but was readily arrested there.  https://tinyurl.com/y9aw4v4a