Evidence about the widespread, planned and systematic
Violation of Human Rights in
April 2008
Student: Arrested
1)
Ardeshir Karimi,
Mehdi Kiani and Idin Gharebaghi,
2)
Reza Asadzadeh,
fired student of
Students:
publications
3)
Publishing permit
of the student magazine, ‘Bolod’, with editor in charge of Hamid Ghorbanzadeh,
was cancelled in
Students: Summoned and interrogated
4)
Pedram Rafati,member of
Amir Kabir’s Islamic
association, was summoned to
5)
30 students of
6)
Masoud Vali Khani,Amir
Zandi, Mohammad Zahmatkesh, Reza Mashadi,Majid Dijojin, Mohammad Reza Talai
nejad,Mehdi Aghajani,Mahmood Hosseini, Mehdi Darb Emamiyeh, Hasanali Mirmosavi
and Fariborz Babanejad ,Shahr Rey Azad University students were summoned to
disciplinary committee ,for disregarding Islamic codes. (Amir Kabir.2008.Apr.10)
7)
Salman Yazdanpanah,
8)
Peiman Aref,
9)
Rohallah Damavandi, Hadi
Sadeghi, Yaser Rigi, Kiyomars Fathi, Ahmad Karami and Arman Zahedi, Islamic
association members of
Students: Bail sentences
10) Saeed Feizallah Zadeh,
11) Reza Daghestani ,Naghadeh university student and journalist , arrested in
Mother tongue day in Uromiyeh , was released
on 40.000$ bail. (
12) Behrooz
Karimizadeh, student activist, arrested in December, was released on 300,000$
bail. Peiman Piran and Alii Kantori, other arrested students are still in
detention. (Amir Kabir.2008.Apr.16)
Students: Tried
13) Arash Khandel,
former member of
Students: Issued
sentences
14) Hossein Yousefi and Ghafor Habibpoor, Tabriz university students were
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in province’s revolutionary court. They were
charged with acting against security of state. (Savalan Sesi.2008.March.28)
15) Arman Sedaghati,
16) Shima Farzadmanesh, Negin Farazmand, Mehdiyeh Golro, Amir raisian, Mehraban
Keshavarz, Amir Yaghobali and Farhang Islami, Tabatabai University’s students
were sentenced to one semester school deprivation in disciplinary committee.
The students are banned of entering the University. (Etemad.2008.Apr.12)
17) Editor in charges, Sahar Yazdanipoor , ‘Ghasedak’, Nahid Afrasiabi,
‘Rhgozar’ , Esmail Jalilvand,’Osyan’ and Hamdallah Namjo,’ Matn’ were sentenced
to 2 semesters school deprivation in Shiraz university’s disciplinary
committee. (Kargozaran.2008.Apr.15)
18) Abed Tavancheh, Amir Kabir university student was sentenced to 8 months
imprisonment in
19) Majid Tavakoli, Ahmad Ghasaban and Ehsan Mansoori, Amir Kabir university
students, were sentence dto 30, 26 and 22 months imprisonment in Tehran
Revision court. They were charged with propaganda against state, blasphemy and
publishing lies. (Isna.2008.Apr.15)
20) Reza Negahdari and Salman Yazdanpanah,
21) Hamid Reza Amirkhani, Mashahd university student was sentenced to one
semester school deprivation. He is banned of entering the university. (Amir
Kabir.2008.Apr.19)
Filtering news
sites and dissolving social organisations
22)
During Ahmadi
Nejad’s presidency, 67 magazine’s permission was banned. During last year 27
magazines were banned and news sites ILNA, Nosazi, Edalatkhaneh, Shie News and
Alborz News were filtered. Editors in charge of the Isna and
23) Distribution of the ‘File va Fenjan’ written by Noraldin Zarin Kelk, published in 16,000 issues was banned. (Etemad.2008.Apr.6)
24) Memorial ceremony for Dr.Sahabi’s death was cancel in Ershad Hosseiniye. (Advar News.2008.Apr.8)
25)
Arman formation
in
The Press:
Banned
26) The publish
permission of the magazines ‘Sobhe’
Varzesh’, ‘Iman Gostar’, ‘ Gozide’ Pajhohesh Jahan’ and ‘ Laleh’ were cancel.
They were charged with publishing irregularly. (Amir Kabir.2008.Apr.7)
27) The publish
permission of the ‘Rah Ayandeh’ magazine, was cancelled. (Gooya.2008.Apr.17)
28) The publish
permission of the banned magazine ‘ Rojhelat’ with the editor in charge of
Abdallah Sohrabi was cancelled. They were charged with insulting authorities,
blasphemy and publishing pictures against the public chastity. The editorial
staff were arrested and released on 50,000$ bail after one month. (Isna.2009.Apr.19)
Journalists;
Summoned to courts
29) Editors
in charge of the magazines: ‘Sedaye Edalat’ ,’Kar va Kargar’ ,’Tosee’ ,’Cinema
Emrooz’ and ‘Khobandish’ were summoned to Tehran Penal court, branch no.76. (Isna.2008.Apr.14)
Journalists:
Arrested
30)
After the
objecting gathering of the fired workers of Iran Sadra industry, in
31)
Rahim Gholami,
journalist and cultural activist was arrested by security guards in
Journalists:
Trial
32) Nooshin Mohamadi,
editor in charge of ‘Nedaye Jamee’ weekly magazine was tried in
Journalists:
Sentences issued by courts
33) Zohor Nabavi Chashmi, 48, writer in banned magazine
‘Sarzamin Ariyayi’ was arrested by security guards and transferred to Evin
prison. He was sentenced to 4 years imprisonment with the charge of propaganda
against the state. He was released on bail after 2 weeks of detention. (Human right and Democracy activists in
Iran.2008.Mar.31)
34) Davod Javanmard, journalist, was sentenced to one year imprisonment in Sanandaj revolutionary court. (Isna.2008.Apr.10)
35) Borhan Lahvani and Bahram Valadbeigi, editor and secretary of the banned magazine ‘Ashti’ were sentenced to monetary punishment in Sanandaj penal court. (Isna.2008.Apr.10)
Political,
Cultural, Social Activists:
36)
37) Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize winner and human right activist was treated to death again. She asked the police and security guards to legally pursue the case and fine the senders of the threatening letters. (Iranian women’s organisation.2008.Apr.15)
Political,
Cultural, Social Activists: Tried
38) Roghayeh Alizadeh,
Abbas lesani’s wife was arrested and released after several hours of
interrogation by
39) Bahram Abtin ,in
charge for the “Lor Bakhtiari cultural organisation’, arrested and released by security guards ,in an
objection in front of Emirate embassy ,was again interrogated in Ahvaz security
office. (
Political,
Cultural, Social Activists: summoned
40) Akbar Alami,
41) Kasra Alasvand, political-civil activist was summoned to
42) Ali Akbar Aghasi , political
activist was summoned to
43) 86 inhabitants of
Bandar Torkaman were summoned to revolutionary court. Their accusation is
objecting the murder of Hesamaldin Khadiv by navy’s security guards. They are
all between 18 to 25 years old and were released on bail after several days of
detention. (Rooz.2007 Apr.16)
Political,
Cultural, Social Activists: Arrested
44) Delshad Khezar
Dashti, Kamal Khak Nejad and Chiya Abdallah Khani were arrested by Sardasht
security guards and were transferred to Mahabad prison. They were charged with cooperating
with an opposed party. (Mokerian News.2008.Mar.23)
45) Behrooz Sohrabi ,
participant in an objection in Sanandaj was arrested and beaten by security
guards. (Radio Farda.2008.Mar.23)
46) A 75,000$ bail is
issued for making release of Rashid Rahmani , who is in detention for more than
one month under the accusation of cooperating with an opposed party. (Mokerian
News.2008.Mar.28)
47) Rastin Rasoli ,
Shirzad Abasi Azad and Behrooz Rahmati ,
48) Hadi Ghabel, member
of ‘Jebhe’ Meli
49) Vadod Sadati, 31
and Behrooz Alizadeh, 20,
50) Mamosta Ayob Ganji,
Imam in Sanandaj Mosque and his brother Mamosta Ayob Zarei were arrested by
security guards. Participant in the objecting gathering of their arrestment
were also arrested. (
Political,
Cultural, Social Activists: Sentences issued by Courts
51)
Jalal Ghaderi, Mahabad
inhabitant was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in revolutionary court. He
was charged with cooperating with an opposed group. (Mokerian News.2008.Mar.27)
52)
Abbas Lesani was sentenced
to50 $ monetary punishment. He was charged with disturbing public order. (Savalan
Sesi.2008.Mar.8)
53)
Elham Yaghobi , family
member of the political prisoners’ massacred in 1987 was sentenced to 6 months
imprisonment and was transferred to Evin prison. She was arrested during a
commemoration gathering of the people executed during this year. She was kept
in an isolated cell and was interrogated. Her two cousins were executed in
1987. (Human
right and Democracy activists in Iran.2008.Apr.9)
54) Abbas Khorsandi,
Iranian Democratic Party’s in charge was sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. He
was charged with acting against the security of state. He was arrested last
September and is kept in Evin prison now. (Student committee of human right’s
reporters.2008.Apr.10)
55) Omid Abbasgoli
Nejad was sentenced to 6 months imprisonment. He was charged with acting
against security of state. He was arrested in July 2001 and was in prison for 3
years. (Student committee of human right’s reporters.2008.Apr.14)
56) Vahid Bahadori, 23
Political
Prisoners
57) Farhang Poormansoori, condemned to 15 years imprisonment in Rajai Prison,
was beaten by a jailer, Hossein Daftari. His leg was broken but he was sent to
isolated cell instead of hospital. (Amir Kabir.2008.Mar.24)
58) Ahmad Daneshpazir, political activist, arrested in Feb.11th,
is kept in Evin prison and is banned of being visited. (Student committee of human right’s
reporters.2008.Mar.26)
59) Ali Kantori,
prisoner student in Ghezelhesar prison, is kept in an inappropriate condition
.he is in a small, dirty cell with 6 other prisoners. He suffers from lung
disease and asthma. (Azadi, Barabari weblog.2008.Mar.31)
60) Jafar Moazen, Jafar
Taghavi, Rahim Golabi and Tohid...
61) Sahand Alimohamadi,
Bakhsh Ali Mohammadi, Ebadallah GHasemzadeh and Mehdi Ghasemzadeh, (Ahle’ Hagh)
prisoners who were on strike since March 29th, were transferred to
isolated cell in Uromiyeh. (Human right activists in Iran.2008.Apr.7)
62) Mohammad Sadegh
Kabodvand, former editor in charge of the ‘Payam Mardom Kurdistan’s arrestment
sentence was issued in province’s revolutionary court. He is in Evin prison,
since 10 months ago, waiting to be tried. (
63) Arjang Davodi,
political prisoners of Evin prison was transferred to isolated cells of Sepah.
He is in prison since 2004and now is transferred to Evin prison for
investigations on his new accusations. (Human right activists in
Iran.2008.Apr.14)
Women movement
activists:
64) Parvin Ardalan, women movement activists was interrogated in Tehran public prosecutor‘s office.she was charged with propaganda against the state. (Taghir Baraye’ Barabari.2008.Apr.5)
65) Zeinab Peighambarzadeh, women movement activist, one million signatures’ campaign member, arrested in March 3th gathering was sentenced to 2 years suspended imprisonment in Tehran revolutionary court, branch no.13. She was charged with disturbing and acting against state’s security, disobeying Police order and propaganda against state. (Amir Kabir.2008.Apr.14)
66) ‘Feminist’s school’ web site was filtered for second time during 2,5 months of it’s activity. Most of the women movements’ websites have been filtered or banned, recently. For example: ‘Zanestan’ is banned finally after 7 times of being filtered. (Iranian women’s organisation.2008.Apr.14)
67) Khadijeh Moghadam,56, women movement activist, one million signatures’ campaign member arrested under the accusations of disturbing and acting against state’s security and propaganda against state, was released on bail after 9 days. (Taghir Baraye barabari.2008.Apr.16)
Workers’
situation
68) More than 400
workers of Sadra industry, with 7 to 20 years of experience were fired. They were
gathered for objection. (Dastranj.2008.Mar.28-Apr.5)
69) More than 100
contract Workers of ‘Siyah Rokh’ bridge in
70) Mahmood Salehi, worker
activist, arrested last year, with the charge of acting against security of
state, was released on 40,000$ bail. His new accusations are going on strike
and thanking the organisations, searching for his freedom. (
71) More than 100
workers of ‘Ashkan’ porcelain industry in Ghazvin did not receive their pays
for 6 months. They were gathered for objection in front of
72) Saeed Torabian and
Mohammad Ebrahim Noroozi, Bus Drivers’ syndicate’s members were interrogated in
revolutionary court. They were charged with publishing an inner leaflet of
their syndicate. (dastranj.2008.Apr.8)
73) Energy pomp
industry in Semnan was closed and its 30 workers were fired. Workers were
gathered for objection. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.8)
74) More than 50 workers
of flour industry in Zabol,‘ did not receive their pays for 5 months. Workers
were gathered for objection. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.8)
75) Kermanshah Steel
industry’s workers were fired under the excuse of asking for promotion. Workers
were gathered for objection. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.8)
76) 300 workers of Iran
Barak knitting industry did not receive their pays for 3 months (Dastranj.2008.Apr.9)
77) 28 workers of
‘Daroos
78) More than 30
workers of ‘Pars Washer’ industry did not receive their pays for several
months. Illegal import of sugar by government left the inner products without
buyers’ interests. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.9)
79) More than 400
workers of Neyshaboor sugar industry did not receive their pays for 2 months. Workers
were gathered for objection (Dastranj.2008.Apr.9)
80) More than 30
workers of Saghez municipality were fired. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.9)
81) Abbas Najand Kodaki
and Davod Razavi, Bus Drivers’ syndicate’s members were summoned to revolutionary
court. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.9)
82) 370 workers of Iran
Metal industry did not receive their pays for 3 months. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.12)
83) 700 contract
workers in Khorasan were fired with announcement of the 008’s payments. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.12)
84) More than 300
workers in
85) More than 160
contract workers of Saghez industrial city and 40 municipality‘s worker were
fired. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.13)
86) Rajabali
Shahsavari, contract workers’ syndicate chief said: more than 50000 workers
were fired since the beginning of the year. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.13)
87) 30 contract workers
of Zabol , Alghadir contractor company were
fired. . (Dastranj.2008.Apr.13)
88) Workers were
gathered for objection (Dastranj.2008.Apr.13)
89) More than 3000
workers of Haft Tapeh sugar industry were on strike objecting not receiving
their pays.
90) Sugar imports had
caused problems for inner sugar industries. (Human right activists and
Democracy.2008.Apr.14)
91) 390 workers of
Bojnord municipality were fired because of having more than 35 years of age. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.15)
92) 700 workers of Kashan
Velvet making industry did not receive their pays for 7 months. The industry
had 3200 workers before that they were all fired. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.12)
93) 1500 portage
workers in Khomeini port, don’t have any insurance, dispite their hard work and
40 to 50 years of experience. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.15)
94) More than 1000
workers of Alborz Lactic industry were gathered in Islamshahr- Tehran road,
objecting not receiving their payments for 5 months. Security guards had attacked and arrested
them. Also 6 firemen, refused hurting the workers by sprinkling the hot water
on them, were arrested with the charge of supporting the workers. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.13,
14, 15, 16)
95) 35 workers of Nik
Shayan cheese industry in Savojbalagh were fired. They did not receive their
pays for 3 months. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.16)
96) 50 workers of ‘
97) More than 1400
workers in Ghazvin industries were gathered for objecting not receiving their
pays. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.16)
98) Gholam Reza
Gholamhosseini,
99) By collapsing a
building in
100)
‘Iran Framco’ industry in Savojbalagh was closed and
its 300 workers went unemployed. (Dastranj.2008.Apr.17)
101)
By collapsing a building in
Political
prisoners: Sentenced to Death
102)
Saleh Nikbakht, attorney of two condemned to death
journalists Adnan Hassanpoor and Abdalvahed Botimar said: Botimar is again
sentenced to death with the charge of fighting with Islam (Moharebe). (
Sentenced
to Death
103)
Emadaldin Baghi ,prisoners defence committee chief
said: last year 9 were executed under 18 years of old in Iran.93 are facing
execution sentence which had less than 18 while committing the crime. There are
1500 prisoners under the execution sentence in prisons. (Shahrvand. Norooz 87)
104) Mojtaba, 23 was sentenced to death in Branch 74 of Tehran Penal court, with the charge of murdering his wife, Zahra. The verdict was confirmed in Supreme Court. (Etemad Meli.2008.Apr.6)
105) Roshan, 28 was sentenced to death in public in Tehran Penal court with the charge of murdering Mohammad. The verdict was confirmed in Supreme Court. (Iran.2008.Apr.7)
106)
107)
Two young men
were sentenced to death in
108)
Tomaj, 22 was
sentenced to death in
109)
Kamal, 19 was sentenced
to death in
110)
Hossein Haghi was
sentenced to death in
111)
The verdict was
confirmed in Supreme Court. He was 16 while committing the crime. (
112)
Saeed, 23 was sentenced
to death in
113) Hassan, 31 was sentenced to death in Kazeroon public court, with the charge murdering saeed. The verdict was confirmed in Supreme Court. (Etemad Meli.2008.Apr.18)
Death
Sentences executed by Courts
114) Molavi Abdalghodos Molazahi and Molavi Mohamad Yosef Sohrabi, Sunnite clergy were executed in Zahedan prison with the charge of disturbing social security. (Isna.2008.Apr.9)
115) Hamid-h and Reza –Sh were executed in Sari prison. (Keihan.2008.Apr.14)
116)
Gholamreza –R, 48
was executed in
117)
Rasol-M was
executed in
118)
Esmaeel-p, 27 was
executed in
119) Mahmood, 46 was executed in Ghom prison. He was charged with drug dealing. (Iran.2008.Apr.17)
Public
Suppression:
120) Security guards had attacked a party and arrested 31 girls and 36 boys under the accusation of dancing and participating in a party. (Advar news.2008.Apr.12)
Social news
121)
By a mine
explosion in Amir Abad village in
122) Regarding the official statics, from 580 villages of the Ilam province, 578 are under the Khomeini’s assistance committee’s support. 19 percent of its population are under the poverty line. (Isna.2008.Apr.15)
123) More than 70% of the Khash population in Sistan Balochestan province are living under the poverty line.The disadvantages like unemployment; illiteracy, poverty and discrimination make the poor, poorer and the rich, richer. (Isna.2008.Apr.16)
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