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The Dervish political prisoners are in critical conditions

According to INTV (Iranian National Television) March 31st, the health conditions of political prisoners Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nuri, both members of Iran’s Dervish Gonabadi community held in Shiraz Adel Abad Prison, are reported as very critical.
According to Saleh Moradi’s wife, this political prisoner cannot even speak.
Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nuri are in their 73rd day of hunger strike, protesting the transfer of Dervish Gonabadi lawyers to solitary confinement. Mrs Maryam Rajavi on March 29, called UN secretary General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to take urgent action to save the lives of political prisoners on hunger strike in prisons in Shiraz and Ahwaz. Referring to 73 days of hunger strike by political prisoners Kasra Nouri and Saleh Moradi of Gonabadi Dervishes imprisoned in Adel-Abad in Shiraz and 28 days of hunger strike by six Arab political prisoners in Ahwaz prison, she said:
These strikes and ruling mullahs’ wicked indifference towards them, reveals the tyranny, torture and suppression in regime’s prisons while at the same time it is a matter of disgrace for the pertinent international bodies that in face of call for justice by the oppressed political prisoners in Iran have had no reaction but silence and inaction. President-elect of the Iranian Resistance hailed the prisoners on strike and the courageous sit-in by their families in front of Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz and urged all compatriots to express solidarity with the prisoners and to protest against the ruling regime. In a separate statement on March 29th the Iranian Resistance called on all international and human rights bodies to resort to urgent actions to save the life of political prisoner Alireza Karami Khair-Abadi who is in a coma.
Mr. Khair-Abadi, a political prisoner in Gohardasht prison, is in critical conditions for a week now due to acute heart ailment. But Tehran’s prosecutor head Jafari Dolat-Abadi has opposed his taking to the hospital because Mr. Khair-Abadi refused to wear prisoners’ uniform. On March 5, when Mr. Khair-Abadi’s condition deteriorated, he was transferred to the hospital and subsequently went into a coma. It is believed that he is suffering from meningitis.  Alireza Karami Khair-Abadi, was condemned to life in prison on charge of acting against national security. He's been in prison for 14 years. According to a letter by Alireza Khair-Abadi, which was made public from Gohardasht prison in 2007, he disclosed that his brother Abdolreza was assassinated in Norway by regime’s elements in December of 2003 and his son Omid was apprehended by MOIS and while on the verge of death due to tortures, was hanged on October 2005. The Iranian regime extorted fifty million Rials from his family before handing over his body, while Abdolreza’s heart, liver and kidneys had been removed.

 

Political prisoner families reunite with slain blogger family

Families of some of the political prisoners visited mother of slain Sattar Beheshti on the occasion of Iranian New Year and expressed their solidarity, a risky action. Satar Satar Beheshti a brave Blogger, died under torture in October 2012.

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On March 29th, the Iraqi people continued their uprising on Friday in six various provinces, including Baghdad. Protest squares in the provinces of al-Anbar, Salahaddin, Neinawa, Diyala and Kirkuk were full of demonstrators. Baghdad witnessed gatherings and protests in 8 various districts. Despite waves of arrests and repressive measures by Maliki’s forces, Iraqi protesters chanted: “People demand regime overthrow.”
Under the slogan of “No Conciliation” they rejected any kind of appeasement with Maliki’s government. In Samarra, protesters held a banner which read: “No talks while protesters are massacred.”
People in Baghdad and many others cities stipulated they will continue their struggle until their rights are fulfilled. Al Tagheer TV reported a massive demonstration took place in Mosul with protesters emphasizing they will continue their uprising until Maliki’s overthrow. Al Jazeera also provided vast coverage of these demonstrations, stressing Iraqis have demonstrated against Maliki non-stop for the past three months.
Al Tagheer TV also reported an attack on a prominent mosque in Baghdad’s Addora district which was carried out under Maliki’s orders.