Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:41:55 AM
Shapoor
Reshnow, an Iranian civil rights activist, was arrested by security
officials after an attack at his house on September 16, whereupon his
wife had a miscarriage as a result of fear and anxiety in the attack.
Officials
had allegedly attacked at civil rights and labor activists’ houses in
the city of Andimeshk, Khuzestan Province in Iran, and detained several
activists included Ali-Mohammad Jahangiri, Amir Rahimkhani along with
his mother and one of the leaders of the Syndicate of Labors of Haft
Tapeh SugarCane Ali Nejati on Wednesday morning on September 16, 2015,
HRANA has learned. In addition, Amir Rahimkhani and his mother were
released after few days.
Lately, another civil rights activist Ezatollah Jafari was arrested in Andimeshk City, rights groups said.
Another
activist Neda Mostaghimi, an Iranian Green Movement activist and a
member of the group known as Mothers' Laleh Park (Madaran
Park
Laleh) was arrested by security officials when she went to the passport
office on September 20, 2015. Officials transferred her to Evin Court;
she finally released after few hours interrogation by the Court chaired
by Judge Nasirpoor, BCR Group has learned. Recently, she was deprived of
the rights accessing her basic civil rights for two years. The sentence
has been noticed by the Islamic Revolutionary Court’s Associate
Prosecutor Ali-Akbar Ansari.
Miss.
Mostaghimi was arrested by security officials at her workplace to serve
her prison term on 3 May 2015. On 2 Jan 2011, she has been reportedly
released on the bail of 100 million Tomans (33,000 $) till the sentence
to be met. She was finally pardoned by the Supreme Leader direct order.
Officials, who were equipped with tear gas, had insulted and beaten her in the attack.
Miss.
Mostaghimi was previously detained by officials in commemoration of
deceased Amir Arshad Tajimehr on Dec 2010. She was taken to the infamous
Ward Women (Ward Nesvan) at the Evin prison. Amir Arshad Tajimeh, son
of the former TV and Radio presenter Miss. Mahin Shahin Far, was killed
during 2009 uprising, agencies reported.
Iran’s
authorities have allegedly sentenced her to three years in prison on
the charge of “assembly and collusion against national security” at
Branch 28 in the Islamic Revolutionary Court of Tehran chaired by Judge
Mohammad Mogheyeseh.
She had an eye surgery operation as a result of an infection caused by prison pollution and medical treatment shortage.
Mr.
Ansari (the Court’s Associate Prosecutor) told her “none of our
business, do what you can do and find money to live”, when she had said
that she got divorced with a nine-year-old girl.
Iran's
security forces allegedly arrested at least six student activists on
September 16, 2015, HRANA has learned. Officials arrested activists in
the cities of Tehran and Karaj on Wednesday, included Hussein
Jandaghian, Siyamak Molla-Mohammadi (Zhooan), Kiana (Didar) Karimpoor,
Sepehrdad Saheban, Ghazal Moghadam and Mehrban Keshavarzi. They were
arrested during the separate attacks at their houses and taken to Evin
prison, according to the news. Security forces confiscated their
personal belongings such as personal computers and books in the attack.
Most of them were allegedly graduated or studied at Khajeh Nasir Toosi
University. Kiana (Didar) Karimpoor, Sepehrdad Saheban, Ghazal Moghadam
and Mehrban Keshavarzi were allegedly released after a while, reports
have mentioned.
Accordingly,
Hamed Ghasemi, an Iranian-American, was arrested when he went to Iran
for his mother's funeral, HRANA stated. Officials had allegedly detained
him for murder referring to Tahereh Ghasemi assassination. As a
consequence of the reports, another citizen has been added on the list
of four Iranian-American detained in Iran. Iran’s authorities have
previously arrested dual citizenships included Jason Rezaian, an
American-Iranian journalist employed as The Washington Post Bureau Chief
in Tehran, Amir Hekmati, the former United States Marine, and Omid
Kokabee, an Iranian experimental laser physicist at the University of
Texas at Austin, who has been imprisoned after returning to Iran for a
visit.
Iran’s
foreign minister Mr. Mohammad Javad Zarif who has led the nuclear
negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran for the past 20 months
had stated: “We do not jail people for their opinions.”
President
Hassan Rouhani had also promised the release of political prisoners
during his presidential campaign in 2013. And, Rouhani promised a more
moderate government with much reform to allow freedom. But, in fact,
arrests and executions have escalated under Rouhani by all accounts.
More than 1900 execution in the Rouhani presidential period; in the
first of six months of this year, more than three execution by gallows
per day it means every two hours per day, a defendant was executed in
Iran.
Furthermore,
President Rouhani gave assurance for many Iranians who had left Iran
during the 2009 unrest to return without consequences which was
certainly not true; many were arrested, jailed and given stiff sentences
upon return. Esmaeil Gerami Moghadam, Saeed Pourheydar, Majid
Moghadam, Hamid Babai, Mostafa Azizi, Sarajedin Mirdamadi, Hussain
Nooraninejad, Ghoncheh Ghavami and Roya Nobakht were indeed arrested for
their opinions and some upon their return to Iran.
However,
President Rouhani has declared Iran is the territory of security,
stability and peace. Hassan Rouhani responds to CBS’s “
60minutes”
question on the status of freedom of speech in Iran: “I’ve been
successful, not 100 percent of course, but successful.” We have been
successful moderating freedom at the universities and in the press.
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