Three day report on the condition of political and human rights prisoners in Iran

• Interview with 19 Year Old Sentenced to Execution؛ I do dream

[...]Question: Saber, Do you ever have dreams of being executed?

Saber: Dream? What can I say? I do dream, but I forget them, as though I have Alzheimer’s. I am constantly in an imaginary and dream-like state. I fall asleep deep in those thoughts, and I will wake up suddenly in the same state. I don’t remember what the dreams that make me wake up suddenly are. Once they took me for execution, but the name of my father was misspelled in my file, so they returned it for correction [and thus postponed the execution].[...]

• A letter by a rape victim:Even though I turned into Autumn I am more beautiful now

[...]This letter of suffering is much longer than this. But I end it with one sentence. I am directly addressing Mr. Khamenei: ‘You consider yourself as the father of this nation. I was a daughter of Iran. Your sons raped me. Who will pay for my lost dignity?’[...]

>>Torture, execution, imprisonment, and repression continues

• Announcement of Kurdistan’s Human Rights Organziation about pressuring Kaveh Ghassemi Kermanshahi
• A number of Technical Universities Students gathering in front of the Parliament
• Uncertain fate of attorney-at-law and human rights activist
• Security forces tried to arrest Simin Roozgard, a Human Rights activist
• Execution of three individuals in Isfahan prison
• 4 Years Imprisonment for Mahiedin Azadi, Kurd Activist
• 17 Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Uroumieh’s central Prison
• 2 Prisoners Sentenced to 32 years Imprisonment
• Abolfazl Abedini has been transferred to Evin prison clinic
• Deteriorating physical condition of Mehdi Mahmoudian in prison
• Rally of textile workers of Kerman in front of the governor
• Mahdieh Golroo sentenced to 2 years and 4 months imprisonment
• Continued detention Tahmineh Momeni, a Human Rights Activist
• 3 people were hanged in Taybad
• Jafar Panahi’s resistance in interrogation and Tehran Prosecutor’s anger
• The message of Hengameh Shahidi, a journalist, From Evin prision
• Four hundred dock workers protest in a rally in Abadan
• The Fate of Saleh Shalmashi Remains Unknown
• Opposition towards conversion of temporary arrest for Milad Fadaiasl
• Social Security Employees continue with their Protest
• Attack towards Ilam jail hollywood style
• 5 People Executed in Mashhad
• The fate of Sharareh and Danial Sobhi two Human Right activists
• Pressures by Ministry of Information on the judiciary branch to deliver heavy sentences
• Prevalence of HIV and depression in prisons
• Holding the 3rd trial of the directors of Iran’s Baha’i Community
• Tomorrow, workers gather to protest the shutting down of a factory in Qom
• Reported executions in Iran
• Amir Reaza Arefi and Mr Tabarzadi have been transferred to general ward of Evin prison
• Death of Baluch political prisoners at Zahedan detention center and worrisome situation of the rest
• Labor worker’s dismissal in Nowruz has seen a 70 percent growth
• Hunger strike of Mahmood Beheshti Langarudi
• Two Bahaie Students under Pressure to give TV Confession
• Kaveh Ghasemi Kermanshahi is under sever pressure
• Holding of the third trial session of seven Baha’i leaders of Iran
• An open letter from Iranian Artists, Intellectuals and Academics to the Secretary General of United Nations
• Sentences by the Student Disciplinary Committee for 160 Students of Teacher’s training in Sabzevar
• Payman Aref suffered a heart attack due to severe pressure in ward 350 of Evin Prison
• Five political prisoner awaiting final verdict
• Deterioration of Ali Bikas, a member of student committee in Evin
• Latest news on Tajik, Mofidi, Zeid Abadi, Bastani, Momeni, and Maleki’s cases
• Ramezanzadeh sentenced to 5 years prison
• Nearly a century of imprisonment & four death sentences for Kurd political prisoners of Evin
• Worrying situation of Nassoor Naghipour
• Until the end of April Metal Factory will be closed to all workers
• The First Trail of Mohammad Yousef Rashidi
• A month of suspense for Somayeh Ojaghloo

Photos:Deadly protests in Kyrgyzstan

A Year On, Blogger's Death In Detention Remains Unexplained

Tomorrow marks one year since the death in Tehran's Evin prison of Iranian blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi.

Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says Mirsayafi's death could have been avoided if prison staff had not been negligent and had acted promptly.

"His death is all the more regrettable as his detention was totally unjustified," RSF says in a statement to mark the occasion.

Mirsayafi was serving a two-year prison term after his conviction on charges of insulting Iranian leaders in his blog when he collapsed on March 18, 2011. It reportedly took prison authorities three hours to get him to a hospital, where he later died. Officials told the family that Mirsayafi committed suicide by overdosing on sedatives. But the family cast doubt on the official version and called for a second autopsy -- a request that authorities rejected.

RSF says it supports the family's call for an investigation by an impartial commission and the release of all documents that could shed light on the circumstances of Mirsayafi's imprisonment and death.

The group calls Mirsayafi's death emblematic of the tragedy affecting dissidents and critics in Iran today:

"He is a symbol of all those who are hounded, persecuted, arrested, jailed and silenced. We pay tribute to his memory and we demand the immediate release of the 50 or so journalists and bloggers who are currently detained in Iran just for expressing their views freely."

The March 18 Movement, an online movement created in the wake of Mirsayafi's death, has declared March 18 as "a day of memorial to Omid and to all the innocents he represents."

Source: RFE/RL

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