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The Evin prison authorities have prevented the transfer of Forough Taghipour to the hospital as she has refused to have her hands and feet tied up. They have left her suffering in this critical condition. Evin Prison authorities had once before held back the transfer of Forough Taghipour to a hospital on August 30th of this year. Ms. Taghipour had poor physical and GI conditions but disagreed with being handcuffed and shackled. The authorities wasted several hours during which they harassed her and finally prevented her hospital visit by returning her to the ward. https://tinyurl.com/mvssvd2k******
The Revolutionary Court of Sanandaj sentenced a Kurdish cultural activist, Kajal Nasri, to 5 years in prison. Kajal is charged with cooperation and membership in Kurdish Parties. Kajal Nasri, 27, lives in Tangsir village near Sanandaj, the capital of Iranian Kurdistan province, western Iran. She was violently arrested on December 12, 2021. No information was available on her, and she was denied family visits, legal advice, and access to a lawyer. Kajal Nasri was released on bail of 100 million Tomans almost a month after her arrest. Kajal Nasri was temporarily released on January 10, 2022, with an electronic bracelet, only after her mother held a two-day strike outside the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj. She had been repeatedly summoned to the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj in the past years and undergone hours of interrogation. Zohreh Sarv was returned from the hospital to Evin Prison without completing her treatment. Zohreh was sent to Taleghani Hospital in Tehran on September 10, 2022, in dire health conditions. Political prisoner Zohreh Sarv had a nasal endoscopy done in the hospital. The hospital also took a sample test of her internal infection last week, but the result is not yet provided. The antibiotics have not cured her condition. https://tinyurl.com/3vc7pxw4******
The families of death row prisoners in Iran continued their protests against the death penalty and the execution of their loved ones for the seventh consecutive day on Thursday, September 15. With chants of “Don’t Execute,” the death row prisoners’ wives, elderly mothers, children, and relatives have been holding protest rallies in Karaj and Tehran. They demand the Iranian Judicial authorities stop executions. Twelve prisoners were executed on September 6. Another ten were executed the following day in Gohardasht (Karaj), Bandar Abbas, and Minab prisons. At least 16 death row prisoners were moved to solitary confinement on the same day to prepare for execution. Many death row prisoners, including 1,000 in the Central Prison of Karaj, face imminent execution. The Judiciary’s order to expedite the implementation of death sentences has made the families of death-row prisoners increasingly concerned. https://tinyurl.com/yc257x5m******
Amnesty International (AI) announced on September 13, that in recent months the Iranian authorities have erected 2-meter-high concrete walls around the Khavaran cemetery. The Khavaran cemetery is where, according to eyewitnesses, lay mass graves of several hundred political dissidents, mostly from the Mujahedin-e-khalgh organization, (PMOI/MEK) who were executed in secret in 1988. AI has told states engaged at the UN Human Rights Council to call on the Iranian authorities to stop concealing the mass graves of victims of the 1988 “prison massacres” and immediately open an international investigation into the extrajudicial execution and enforced disappearance of thousands of dissidents amounting to ongoing crimes against humanity. “The Iranian authorities cannot simply build a wall around a crime scene and think that all their crimes will be erased and forgotten. For 34 years, the authorities have systematically and deliberately concealed and destroyed key evidence that could be used to establish the truth about the scale of the extrajudicial executions carried out in 1988 and obtain justice and reparations for the victims and their families,” said Diana Eltahawy, Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International. https://tinyurl.com/267s6fjv