Monday, May 2, 2016 9:05:35 AM
Iran human rights situation is being continued; the international community still silent.
Not
long ago, Bloomberg News published an old-fashioned softball article
implying that Iranian women are now living in Paradise by leading with
the following title: "
Women in Iran are ready to make career gains in a way few of their peers can in the Gulf Arab world". Recently, The Economist broadcasted a censored report "
Human rights in Iran are still atrocious"
without considering the depth of the disasters over ethnic and
religious minorities or mentioning socio-economic crisis and politics.
Thus, the following piece assigns the truth that no one else will
because most of information about Iran comes from apologist reformists,
who will not say even a word in defense of poor marginalized citizens on
the sidelines Iran's borders or non-reformist political prisoners and
minorities.
"After 37 years of
Islamic ruling in Iran, the only achievement is the rise of execution,
imprisonment, poverty and inhumanity. Mass executions of the 1980's.
Hanging of those charged as Juvenile. Arrests and execution of civil and
human rights activists. Oppression and degradation of women.
Dictatorship which governs even laws of proper attire. Prostitution that
starts as early as 11 years of age. Extreme records of drug abuse.
Suffering and sky high poverty. Absolutely no rights for its citizens.
Racism and baseless executions of all religious and ethnic minorities.
And millions of human rights violations and systematic tyranny and
oppression reported daily by Iranian human rights activists.
The executions are at the highest level since 89s, with at least
60 executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the first quarter of 2016 while the country had at least
966
executions last year. At this shocking pace, an astonishing 694 people
have been executed between 1 January to 15 July 2015 in an
unprecedented spike in executions in the country since 80s, Amnesty
International said. In addition, tens of Sunni Kurd prisoners are on
death row
on the vague charges of Moharebeh "enmity against God", the sentences
upheld by the Islamic Revolutionary Court. Six of them, Hamed Ahmadi,
Kamal Mollaei, Hadi Husseini, Sedigh Mohamadi, Jamshid Dehghani and
Jahangir Dehghani, were executed in Rajai Shahr prison on 4 March 2015,
all the executed inmates were young between the ages of 27 to 33 years
old.
Iran: Renewed death sentences for juvenile offenders show 'contempt' for children's rights, Amnesty International said.
"We
do not have second-class citizens", the elected president Hassan
Rouhani disgracefully claimed. However, out of Iran's 77 million
population, 10 million are unemployed, so long as thousands are living
in the streets. At least 37% of
beggars
in Iran are female while 15% of the population are homeless. Around 70%
of Iranian workers are barely surviving under the poverty level;
inflation, unemployment and poverty is rising higher. Women are still
denied fundamental rights and their basic needs as second class
citizens. They are faced horrendous situation such as bans from leaving
the country without first receiving permission from their husbands.
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Ethnic
minorities have been frightfully stuck with systematic discrimination
by the regime, such as lack of support from central government. The most
obvious instance, the South Eastern province of Sistan and Baluchistan
with the lowest economic participation and management in the country has
the highest illiteracy rate, unemployment, percentage of poverty, rate
of executions, mortality rates of mothers and children, per capita death
and the largest number of Iranians without identification cards, lack
of food security, the lowest level indicator of "life expectancy", the
lack of judicial security and the highest percentage of malnutrition in
the most disadvantaged provinces. The province is known for its
tent schools for children.
The
Arabs' situation in the South West of the country does not have such a
definition as Baluchs. The region encircles 70% of Iran's oil resources
and 30% of its water, with vast agricultural and fertile lands. Yet, 99%
of the habitants of the zone, who are Arabs, are grappling with extreme
poverty and deprivation in a large scale. 'Arab identity in the eyes of
Iranians is a grievous sin and a grave threat,"an Ahwazi activist Rahim
Hamid declared. Three Ahwazi Arab political activists, who born in
Hamidiyeh in west of Ahwaz City, were sentenced to death by the Islamic
Revolutionary Court in Ahwaz around 20th March 2016, reliable
sources inside the region declared. The Ahwazi citizens, Mr. Qis Dasher
Saleh Obidawi and his brother Mr. Ahmad Dasher Saleh Obidawi, and their
cousin Mr. Sajad Hamid Saleh Obidawi, were forcibly detained by
Intelligence Service officials in April 2015 in Hamidiyeh City on the
vague charges of Moharebeh (enmity against God), corruption on the
earth, dangerous for national security and having connection with
terrorism. Furthermore, Mr. Mohammad Helfi 25 years of age and Mr. Mehdi
Abbas Alzayer Sayahi, both have sentenced to 35 years life imprisonment
in Yazd, also Mr. Mehdi Moarebi and Mr. Ali Hassan Saleh Obidawi, both
have sentenced to 25 years life imprisonment. They are kept in the
solitary confinement since the arrest.
Poor Ahwazis loaf in the garbage, photo credit: Facebook.
The
woeful situation is also a serious risk for Kurds, but in a slightly
different way as well as broadcasted in the aforementioned
essay.
Kurdish people often work as the cross-border carriers known as Kolbar
(backpack smuggler) who smuggle shipments, forcibly carry goods on their
back or horseback across the illegal borders for a business purposes,
to survive with brummagem money. According to the governmental
statistics, tens of the carriers lose their lives annually because of
climate conditions as impassable mountain path, failing into the valleys
or rivers, landmine explosions and shootings by border security forces
officials or snipers. Poverty brings it to the innocent people who are
being stuck in the country ruling by Mullahs.
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Suicide rises up in the country caused by the economic crisis
Khamenei controls massive financial empire built on property seizures, Reuters said.
Arbitrary
arrests skyrocketed and there are many civil-political prisoners in
Iranian jails, mostly have been senselessly imposed by harsh verdicts,
including long term imprisonment. Today, Islamist authorities of
occupied Iran affirmed highest sentence against Iranian activists, among
them, Arash Sadeghi (19 years in prison) and his wife Golrokh Ebrahimi
Iraee (6 years in prison). The sentence was previously held at Branch 15
of the Islamic Revolutionary Court chaired by the infamous Judge
Salavati. The infamous judge Abolghasem Salavati sentenced Amir
Amirgholi, 33, to 21 years in prison at Branch 15 of the Islamic
Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, Yashar Darolshafa,
Jafar Azimzadeh, Mohammad Jarahi, Saeed Shirzad, and Omid Alishenas, all
of whom were jailed by the Revolutionary Guard. Omid Alishenas was
finally released on the bail of 232,000 $ after spending 17 months in
the prison, Boroujerdi Civil Rights Group reported.
Authorities
hold prisoners of conscience amongst dangerous criminal imprisoned for
serious offences such as murder, rape, drug smuggling, fraud and forgery
and have no rights to conditional release.
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Since
civil war in Afghanistan, Iran has provided refuge to over one million
Afghan citizens and are identified as refugees by Iran's officials.
Afghan citizens are deprived of education in Iranian schools and
universities due to lack of the identification even the ones whose
mother is Iranian. They are forbidden to enter pools and recreational
parks in cities. Afghans have not the ownership rights to buy property.
Intelligence Division of Iran's National Police Force catches innocent
Afghan citizens to force them to undertake charges as murder, armed
robbery, and drug trafficking when there are no clues. The Afghan
inmates are severely tortured with brutal methods to make them confess.
They could not be hospitalized in some metropolitan cities, and they are
not allowed to own cards or get driving licenses. Authorities have
reportedly urged Afghans to join the Syria's civil war with the promise
of the right of residence or some money. Afghans are insulted with
offensive words by Iranian citizens who are being instigated by
officials. This word has become a mark of contempt as some Iranian
citizens use the Afghan word as a curse to each other.
Thousands
Iranian citizens die annually in the tragic traffic accidents due to
lack of standard roads or Worn-out cars, plane crashes because of aging
planes, food poisoning due to lack of standard monitoring on food
industries, Death during surgery due to personnel negligence or lack of
modern medical equipment and dozens being killed in landmine explosion
remains in the borders since Iran-Iraq War. This exposes just a small
part of the crimes under Mullahs ruling since 1979, that apologist
regime's lobbies try capping it by their biased reports. The regime fans
begging off if it is overthrown.
Many
dedicated Iranian activists believe that International Community and
IRI lobbies has not desired real improvements in human rights situation
in Iran, based on their interests in Iran's nuke treaty.
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