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Over 290،100 people have died of the novel Coronavirus in 541 cities across Iran, according to reports tallied daily by the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of May 16.
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The families and mothers of the victims of the 1988 massacre gathered in Khavaran Cemetery on Thursday, May 13, 2021, to express their condemnation of the regime’s destruction of the site of the mass graves of their loved ones. They chanted slogans including against Ebrahim Raisi, the head of the regime’s Judiciary, who is the regime’s presidential hopeful in the upcoming election charade, and was a member of the Death Committee during the 1988 massacre in Tehran. The families and mothers of the victims of the 1988 massacre carried pictures of their loved ones and laid flowers on the unmarked graves in Khavaran. They also held up signs which read: “Khavaran, the enduring document of crime against humanity in Iran, the 1988 massacre” and “until the prosecution of, and accountability for the criminals, we will neither forgive, nor forget.”
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Reports from the Central Prison of Yazd described Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian in dire health conditions after infection with Covid-19. Zeinab Jalalian now serving her 14th year in prison for life, is suffering from short breath and heavy coughs after contracting the Covid-19 in Qarchak Prison. Her asthma condition has further deteriorated her condition. The Ministry of Intelligence did not allow her treatment in a civic hospital and yet she was deprived of even basic medical services in Yazd Prison. A source close to this prisoner said Intelligence Ministry interrogators have been pressuring her since she was illegally transferred to Yazd Prison on November 9, 2020. She does not enjoy the basic rights of any prisoner. Her occasional phone calls home are very short and she can only speak in Farsi. She is also deprived of visitations. The doctors working at the dispensary of the Central Prison of Yazd have openly told Zeinab Jalalian that they do not have sufficient resources to attend to her and that she must be taken to a civic hospital as soon as possible. But the Intelligence Ministry has banned her transfer to the hospital. Zeinab Jalalian is sentenced to life in prison. She was abruptly taken out of the Central Prison of Khoy on April 28, 2020, and relocated to the notorious Qarchak Prison in Varamin, southeast of Tehran.
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Branch 26 of the Revolutionary Court of Tehran sentenced a Baha’i woman to 8 years imprisonment on the charge of forming a group to empower women. The court examining the charges of Atesa Ahmadaii Rafsanjani convened in March 2021 and issued its verdict for her efforts to register a non-governmental organization for the empowerment of women. Security forces had arrested Ms. Ahmadaii on January 20, 2019, and imprisoned her in ward 241 of Evin Prison belonging to the Judiciary’s counterintelligence. She was temporarily released from prison on a 200-million Toman bail after 45 days. This Baha’i woman has been sentenced to 4 years in prison on the charge of “formation of a group to act against national security” through requesting an NGO license from the Interior Ministry, to 3 years in prison for “assembly and collusion to act against national security”, and to one year in prison on the charge of “propaganda against the state.” It is noteworthy that the Interior Ministry turned down Ms. Ahamdaii’s request to register her group.
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Reports from the Central Prison of Urmia in Iran, on May 9, indicates that political prisoner Sommayeh Qoraishi had a bad heart condition on Sunday night and despite her cellmates effort to get her medical attention, the prison guard prevented it. Prison authorities have rejected Ms. Qoraishi’s repeated appeals for medical leave since January 2021 to receive treatment for her heart condition. Political prisoner Sommayeh Qoraishi has been jailed since January 2021 after Branch 10 of the Appeals Court of Western Azerbaijan upheld her sentence. She was arrested in December 2019, interrogated for 17 days in the detention center of Urmia’s Department of Intelligence, and subsequently transferred to the Central Prison of Urmia and in February 2020, she was sentenced to a total of 5 years in prison on charges of “acting against national security” and “propaganda against the state” through cooperation with the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The women’s ward is located in Ward 15 of the Central Prison of Urmia. Some 500 women are presently detained in this ward and more than half of the detainees have no beds and have to sleep on the floor.
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