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The Iranian resistance on March 5th called for comprehensive sanctions against the Iranian regime and trial of its leaders for crime against humanity. In an unprecedented records, the Iranian regime has executed eighty-two prisoners in country’s prisons or in public in the thirteen-day time span between February 19th thru March 3rd. It's important to know that in many cases the information regarding executions never leaks out and the public relies on the Iranian resistance and its sources inside the country to reveal them. This wave of executions took place in Gohardasht, Ghezel Hessar, Adelabad, and Semnan Prisons, in Khorramabad, Kerman, Kermanshah, Arak, Ahwaz, Mashhad, Yazd, Rasht, Ghazvin, Behbahan, Oroumiyeh, Kashan, Miyaneh, Gachsaran and Nahbandan and Korassan province.

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The Political prisoners in Zahedan Central Prison, south east of Iran, issued a statement on the occasion of March 8 International Women’s Day urging United Nations and UNHCR to act to free female political prisoners.
The political prisoners congratulated and saluted the Women’s International Day to all women around the world, especially to the women of Iran, “whom always have an important and active role in the history of Iran.”
They expressed hope that the “restrictions would be removed and they could reach their legitimate rights.” “We also announce our support and solidarity with all the female political prisoners throughout the country. We urge UN and UNHCR officials to call on the Iranian regime for their freedom,” the statement added.

 

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The Iranian regime has transferred 27 female prisoners on March 5, from Evin to Qarchak Prison in Varamin, southern Tehran.
The identity of these prisoners are unknown. The transfer of prisoners to different prisons around the country has increased in the February.
Qarchak Prison is identified as an old warehouse and has no similarity to an ordinary prison. Female prisoners in this prison bear dreadful conditions.

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4 Afghan prisoners were hanged on March 4 in Vakil Abad Prison in north eastern city of Mashhad in Iran. Dozens of Afghan prisoners have been executed in the previous months in Iran and 400 other Afghan prisoners are under death penalty and awaiting their executions. Last week, Hundreds of angry residents in the western province of Herat blocked the Herat city’s highway to protest against the execution of Afghans in Iran. The protesters also called on the Iranian regime to hand over the dead bodies of the Afghans to their families and urged the Afghan government to follow the issue of execution of Afghan citizens in Iran. The government of Afghanistan has asked the Iranian regime to stop the executions of its citizens in Iran.

 

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After the passing of Venezula's president Hogu Chavez, the Iranian regime’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has sparked outrage among his rivals by hailing Chavez as a saint and saying he would ‘return on resurrection day’.
Ahmadinejad made the controversial comments in a letter of condolence to Venezuela before flying to the South American nation to attend Chavez’s state funeral.
The Iranian regime’s president also declared a day of national mourning for Chavez and said he would be ‘resurrected with Jesus Christ and Imam Mahdi –Shiite Islam’s hidden Imam - to save humanity and bring justice to the world.
His remarks have angered high-ranking Iranian clerics and political rivals in the mullahs’ dictatorship. Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of Foreign Policy and National Security Commission in the regime’s parliament, said: “Linking the death of Chavez to religious issues is surely against people’s beliefs.  “Using terms like resurrection for person like Chavez is not compatible with Islamic beliefs.”

 

Zahra Kazemi’s son wins bid to appeal Iran lawsuit case

According to Canadian medias on March 8, the Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether the son of the murdered Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi can sue the Iranian government. The Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal from Zahra Kazemi's son Stephan Hashemi, who says he has the right to sue the Iranian regime for killing his mother while in custody and failing to return her body to Canada.

In 2003, Zahra Kazemi photojournalist and a Canadian citizen was arrested for taking pictures of a protesters in Tehran. Kazemi was detained, tortured and raped in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. She later died in Baghiatol azam hospital belonging to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps. The ER physician who treated Zahra Kazemi has spoken publicly, in graphic details, of the head-to-toe injuries when she was brought to his hospital ward. The 54 year old Zahra Kazemi was berried hastily in Shiraz.