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The bereaved mother, Mahboubeh Ramezani, has been sentenced to 100 lashes. The mullahs’ Judiciary issued the sentence in absentia several months ago. Mrs. Ramezani’s son, Pejman Qolipour, was killed during the November 2019 protests by security forces in Tehran. The news was published by Peyman Qolipour, Pejman’s brother, on his Instagram account. He said the Intelligence Ministry agents were waiting for an opportune moment to arrest his mother. “The fact is that my mother’s only crime was seeking justice. They are so afraid of her because she cries out the truth. They fear her because she has not even put down Pejman’s photo for a moment.” The bereaved mother, Mahboubeh Ramezani, and several other mothers and relatives of victims of the crackdown on the November 2019 protests were arrested on July 11, 2022.
https://tinyurl.com/35fcuffuSixty security forces arrested the mothers of the victims of the Iran's November 2019 protests, Mahboubeh Ramezani, Sakineh Ahmadi, and Rahimeh Yousefzadeh, at the latter’s residence in Tehran. Hours after the arrest of the mothers of victims of the November 2019 protests and several other relatives of the victims, the state-run Fars News Agency affiliated with the IRGC, July 11, described the brave mothers as “rioters.” Fars wrote: “The detainees had contacts with an element with ties with foreign espionage services under the guise of seeking justice. They received money from a foreign financial liaison to create riot and insecurity in the country.” https://tinyurl.com/5aer7zy5
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On Thursday, July 14, a court in Stockholm, Sweden, declared its final verdict on the case of Hamid Nouri, an ex-prison official in Iran’s Gohardasht prison who was involved in the torture and execution of political prisoners. Nouri was tried for his role in the massacre in the summer of 1988 of 30,000 political prisoners, 90 percent of whom were members and sympathizers of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The court sentenced Nouri to life in prison for committing serious crimes against international law and murder. During the trial of Hamid Nouri, which lasted over nine months and 92 sessions, many survivors, witnesses, and relatives of the victims of the 1988 massacre gave harrowing accounts of the atrocities committed in Iran’s prisons. Just recently, Hossein-Ali Nayeri, one of the members of the notorious “death commission,” a group of so-called judges that sent thousands of prisoners to the gallows after kangaroo trials, brazenly defended the 1988 massacre and said that had it not been for those executions, the regime would not be standing today. Many senior regime officials, including regime president Ebrahim Raisi, were directly involved in the 1988 massacre.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed the conviction of Hamid Noury and called it “a first step in the path of full justice.” She added that comprehensive justice, of course, will be achieved when the main perpetrators of the crime, especially Ali Khamenei and Ebrahim Raisi, and other perpetrators, are put on trial in the courts of a free Iran or international tribunals.
Nouri was arrested during a trip to Sweden and was put on trial based on the Universal Jurisdiction principle. He had dozens of plaintiffs who gave testimonies in the Swedish court. A part of the trial was held in Durres, Albania, where members of the MEK in Ashraf 3 testified about the crimes of Noury and other regime authorities. Nouri initially claimed that he had been mistaken for another person. He denied his involvement in the 1988 massacre and even denied that such killings took place.
On Wednesday, Ali Nikzad, the deputy speaker of the Iranian regime's Majlis (parliament), demanded that Sweden immediately releases Nouri. It has been said that the Thursday’s verdict could be the beginning of many other trials to be held in the future.
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Some 1,700 women have been called to the province’s police stations for improper veiling since March 2022. The police chief of Kermanshah Province, western Iran, announced during a news conference. Ali Akbar Javidan said more than 22,000 public notices had been given concerning moral security, failing to observe the mandatory Hijab, improper veiling, or falling back on the regime’s dress code in three months and 20 days. Furthermore, 230 vehicles were seized and sent to the parking lot in the province during the same period. Javidan said, “The police will not allow for a few people to promote improper veiling with any sort of excuse or pretext.”
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Political prisoners in Qarchak Prison held a sit-in protest after Zahra Safaei was denied a prison-to-prison visit with her son, Massoud Moini, in Evin Prison in Iran. News from Qarchak Prison on July 12 indicates that two political prisoners, Zahra Safaei and her daughter, Parastoo Moini, held a sit-in protest in Qarchak Prison. The sit-in followed the rejection of their request to visit their son and brother, Massoud Moini, in Evin Prison. Other political prisoners in Qarchak Prison started chanting to support this mother and daughter as Zahra Safaei's health deteriorated during the sitin. In this way, the political prisoners in Qarchak Prison forced the prison’s notorious warden, Soghra Khodadadi, to accept the righteous request of Zahra Safaei and Parastoo Moini.
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