Showing posts with label Prison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Prison. Show all posts

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Amnesty demands release of activists jailed in Iran for more than a decade

Amnesty International

According  an statement is published  on 2 June 2015 by 
Amnesty International two Iranian women both jailed for more than ten years  in Iran for anti-government views must be released immediately

Cartoonist Atena Farghadani has been condemned to more than 12 years in prison, and Atena Daemi to more than ten years  in prison, both guilty of 'peaceful activism' that are in violation  of their rights to free expression and association, the human rights body said.

Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, added: "Atena Farghadani has effectively been punished for her cartoons with a sentence that is itself a  rugged caricature of justice. No one should be in prison for their art or  irenic activism.

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Friday, May 29, 2015

IRAN: Arrestees of Mahabad uprising transferred to Orumiyeh Prison

Mahabad uprising
After three weeks of torture, persecution and harassment, the anti human dictatorship regime has transferred a group of those arrested person  in the Mahabad uprising to Orumiyeh Prison in preparedness for putting them on trial in its  totalitarian courts. Some of the prisoners are just 15 years old and some have family bonds with each other such as father and son.
Two weeks ago, the intelligence ministry sent out a group of its head henchmen from Tehran to prisons in Kurdistan and Western Azerbaijan to persecution, and investigate those arrested in the Mahabad insurgence.
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Thursday, May 14, 2015

Iran: Beating, battering, retrial of political prisoner and PMOI supporter Ali Moezzi

  

Ali  Moezi is re-trieding 
The Iranian resistance calls on UNHCR and all human rights defenders to take urgent action to save the life of political prisoner Ali Moezzi.  He was transferred  from Ghezel Hessar Prison to an unknown location. . Last week, he was moved from the Gohardasht Prison in Karaj to the solitary cells of ward 209 of the infamous Evin Prison, where regime insiders say he will "be tormented to death."
 His 5-year prison term is finished but mullahs regime don’t free him. He is  the father of two PMOI members in Camp Liberty so mullahs regime is taking  pressure on him as could as possible.
Mullahs’ regime judiciary condemned Mr. Ali Moezzi, 65, political prisoner and supporter of People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), to one more year in prison through fabricated allegations. Ali Moezzi, a political prisoner of the 80's, suffers from various diseases including acute kidney disease and intestinal obstruction due to years of imprisonment and torture