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Monthly Bulletin on Iran

August 2010

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families of political prisoners protesting against inhuman conditions of detention
NCRI, August 2


Relatives of Prisoners policy in Iran staged a sit-in and a demonstration outside the prosecutor's office in Tehran. They gathered on the square of 15 Khordad, taking pictures of their jailed relatives.
Families protest against the inhumane treatment of prisoners, some were transferred to isolation, while others are on hunger strike. Their families do not know what state they are, telephone contacts and visits have been stopped ...



The mothers of three Americans say their children are a "bargaining chip" for Iran
AFP, August 3


The mothers of three Americans held in Iran last year were found today that the Iranian authorities were using their children as "bargaining chips", after Tehran said they are the investigated for possible actions against its security.
In a statement, the mother of Shane Bauer, 27, Sarah Shourd, 31, and Josh Fattal, 27, ensures that the Iranian authorities have no evidence to substantiate their claims ...
In their communique, the mothers the three young men urging Iran to stop "dragging their feet and to act in accordance with its own laws or to tell the truth and admit that he considers our children as bargaining chips. "


A protester sentenced to 30 months in prison
TEHRAN, August 4


Hengameh Solouki, a civil rights activist and protester arrested during the demonstrations of Ashura (Dec. 27) was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. She had been imprisoned in Section 209 Evin prison and released on bail shortly before March 2010.
She was sentenced to 2 ½ years in prison for conspiracy and assembled for acting against national security "and six months imprison for propaganda against the regime.
The court said it had sent messages to organize rallies .
Many demonstrators arrested on the day of Ashura were charged Moharebeh (war against God) and punishable by severe penalties.



Legal experts call for UN intervention to stop the crime of Ayatollahs
EFE (Spain), Paris, August 4

The International Committee of Jurists (ICJ) asked Today the UN to intervene "urgently" in Iran against the regime of the ayatollahs in charge of the execution of 33,000 political opponents during a crackdown in 1988, to "stop the execution of other innocents ...
The Committee's objective is to implement the "International Justice in the case of massacre of thousands of political prisoners in prisons in Iran who have been killed deliberately and systematically.
According to organizers, in addition to the chairman of the ICJ, there was at the press conference, some of the victims of repression in 1988 who spoke "For the first time," calling the Security Council of the United Nations to investigate and to "enforce justice" in this case.
The sister of one of those who died in prison said the body of his brother, executed in 1988 after five years behind bars, "has still not been found."
In tears, she said that "the perpetrators of this genocide have not yet been tried and are still what they want." There are many others like her who suffer from the disappearance of their loved ones ...


Amnesty International : An Iranian Jafar Kazemi, faces imminent execution
AI, August 5


Iran's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Jafar Kazemi against his death sentence. This sentence was pronounced against him because of his alleged involvement in antigovernment demonstrations and its alleged links with a banned organization. It could be applied from one moment to another. Six others accused of links with the same organization would also be under sentence of death.



Iran, the main sponsor of terrorism for U.S.
Reuters, August 6


Iran remains the main supporter of terrorism, says the U.S. State Department in a report released Thursday that keeps the pressure on Tehran for its nuclear program .



Demonstration in Paris against the massacre of political prisoners in Iran
CSDHI, August 7


Saturday, August 7 The Iranians and many French citizens have expressed Place Jena instead of Trocadero ( the court of Human Rights) in Paris to commemorate victims of 1988 massacre Iran and demand the appointment of a special tribunal under international auspices of the UN to try those responsible. The event began Jena Place near the Iranian embassy in recalling that the main responsible for this massacre are currently in positions of responsibility within the scheme.



17 hunger strikers in Iranian prisons
RFI, August 8


Seventeen Iranian political prisoners began a hunger strike for ten days to protest against the harsh interrogation, the Standing insults and isolation they suffer in prison Evin, north of Tehran ...



11 executions in 8 days
agency Fars / Iran Focus, August 8


A group of five prisoners were executed in Karoon Prison in the city of Ahwaz (southwest) . These men identified by their initials "MM," "Mr. DJ. "," SI "," SA "," AR ", were charged with drug trafficking ...
A prisoner named Reza Mohadjer was hanged after 11 years in prison on August 2 in Evin.
Two other prisoners, Behnam Dj., Aged 32, and Shahram A., were hanged on August 1 in the prison of Isfahan.
Two inmates, with the initials "AB" and "SD" were executed in Dezful in the south and another prisoner Behbahan July 31.
The number of executions in a week amounts to 11, performed mostly in the south.



counsel Sakineh fled to Norway
AFP, August 8


Counsel for an Iranian sentenced to death by stoning, against whom the Iranian authorities had issued a warrant for Judgement, found refuge in Norway said Sunday the Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoer ...




responsible September Baha'is sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
AI / Le Monde, August 10


members of the minority religious are accused of "spying for Israel." Seven members of the Baha'i religious community, five men and two women, were sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in Iran, have indicated their lawyers ...
Fariba Kamalabadi, Jamaloddin Khanjani, Afif Naeim, Saeid Rezaie, Mahvash Sabet, Behrouz Tavakkoli and Vahid Tizfahm all denied the charges against them and their lawyers have indicated they would appeal.



Clinton calls on Iran to suspend the execution 'imminent' dissidents
AFP, August 10


Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that the United States were concerned about the defenders of human rights in Iran facing execution "imminent" and urged Tehran to suspend the executions ...
Among those whose fate concerns the United States, Clinton cited the case of three dissidents arrested after the events of 2009, Jafar Kazemi, Mohammad Javad Haj Aghaei and Lari.
She also cited the case of Ebrahim Hamidi, a young man of 18 who risk execution after being accused of homosexuality, and the case-Ashtiani SakinehMohammadi sentenced to death by stoning for adultery ...
Clinton said, none of these cases have been treated with "transparency and the right to a fair trial etched within the Iranian constitution."



The book of hope and resistance
Africa Asia, August 2010


The saga of a young Iranian born into a fundamentalist family, which becomes a strong breeze and the obstacles in his life to become a heroine in the event of Prisons of the mullahs. Chased by the Revolutionary Guards, Azam spent five and a half years in prison, eight months squatting, blindfolded, in a cage. Tortured physically and psychologically, Azam did not work. In 1988, 30,000 political prisoners will be executed in a few months in jail in Iran.



"Confessions" forced the Iranian sentenced to stoning
Counsel of Sakineh says: "she was violently beaten and tortured until she agrees to appear on camera."
Nouvelobs.com / AFP, 12 August


Counsel for the Iranian sentenced to death by stoning for adultery said Thursday a British newspaper that his client had been "severely beaten and tortured" for it accept his guilt on Iranian television.
In an interview broadcast Wednesday night in a political issue in Iran denounced the "propaganda of Western media", a woman presented as Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, 43, acknowledged that a man with whom she was acquainted had offered to kill her husband, and she had left the man committed the murder during which she was present.
This woman, who spoke Azeri (Turkish) and whose remarks were translated into Persian, was wrapped in a black chador that left her nose and shows that an eye.
"She was violently beaten and tortured until she agreed to appear on camera," said Kian Houtan, the Iranian lawyer.
"His son Sajad, 22, and daughter Saeedeh, 17, are totally traumatized after watching this show, "he said in the interview published on the website of British newspaper The Guardian.



Three men publicly hanged
Agency Fars / AFP, August 12 Three persons were
executed in public on Wednesday 11 August in the city of Azna in Lorestan province (west).
Amid high security and in the presence of a number of local officials, including the city attorney, the three inmates were hanged in the square of the city Namaz.
accused of kidnapping, these men were identified by only their initials, SR, AM, and M. Kh.



Iran urged the UN to end the isolation of a detained U.S.
AFP, August 14


A UN expert on torture has called on Tehran to to end solitary confinement of Sarah Shourd who with two other Americans, has been held without trial for over a year in Iran, found his mother Friday ...



Sentenced to death for having participated in peaceful demonstrations against the regime
NCRI, August 18


A political prisoner arrested during the demonstrations of Ashura December 27, 2009 in Iran. She was sentenced to death. Farah (Elmira) Vazehan was also sentenced to two years imprisonment and fines. The family of Mrs.
Vazehan and his lawyer would have protested against the decision. Ms. Vazehan is being held in the notorious Evin prison. She was sentenced to hang, after almost eight months of detention.
She is accused of having photos and videos of events and having contacts with the main opposition party the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI).
His uncle was executed in 1980 by the clerical regime. Some members of his family, including his sister, were subjected to imprisonment and to physical and psychological torture during the 1980s.



Stoning: a letter a day Sakineh, published in France and the USA
AFP, August 19


A letter of support to Sakineh Ashtiani-Mohammadi, an Iranian sentenced to death by stoning, will published daily from Monday's newspapers in French and American said Thursday the AFP French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy.



Three men hanged in Isfahan
Kayhan Daily / AFP, Aug. 23


Two Iranians, Akbar Z. and Hamid-Reza H., aged 33 years and 28 years, and S. Shah, an Afghan national, 38, were hanged on Sunday in the precincts of a prison in Isfahan (central).
They were charged with trafficking crack and opium.



letter to Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Sakineh, "my husband plead your case"
AFP, August 23


President Sarkozy plead "tirelessly" the cause of Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning, his wife said in a letter sent to AFP on Monday evening by the site the journal of the philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy "The rule of the game."
"From the bottom of your cell, remember that my husband plead your case relentlessly, and that France will not abandon you," writes Carla Bruni-Sarkozy in this message to be released Tuesday morning alongside those of former President French Valery Giscard d'Estaing and the Socialist Segolene Royal on the sites of the Rule of the Game the daily Liberation, women's magazine Elle and the U.S. site Huffington Post ...
"How to be silent after learning of the sentence was pronounced against you?" Writes Ms. Bruni-Sarkozy. "Spread your blood, depriving your child of a mother, but why? Because you have lived, because you loved because you are a woman, an Iranian? Everything in me refuses to accept" , she adds.


Mr. Giscard d'Estaing denounced the stoning sentence, calling it "practice violates the dignity of human beings", while Ms Royal called the Iranian to keep "hope and courage," noting that "more and more voices around the world."
Many celebrities have signed a petition supporting Sakineh, which receives 1,800 to 2,000 signatures a day.



The Netherlands "concern" over the fate of a Dutch-Iranian Iran
-AFP The Hague, 24 August


The Netherlands are "worried" about the fate of a Dutch-Iranian who was imprisoned in Iran and risk the death penalty for violation of national security, officials said Tuesday from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"We are very concerned," he told AFP Christoph Prommersberger, a spokesman for the department. "We urge Iran to tell us whether she is actually in prison or not, and if so, allow us to give assistance for it to have a fair trial," he added.
Baahrami Sahra, 45, is accused of breach of national security, crime for which she incurs the death penalty in a trial that would have opened "last week," the source said ...



Sakineh - His fellow prisoner Hell tells the Iranian prisons
France Soir, August 26


Shahnaz Ghomani, Iranian journalist, shared the martyrdom of Sakineh and that of all prisoners in Iran. She tells ...
"I would say that the case of Sakineh this is terrible and extraordinary mobilization. But do not forget all those we do not speak and who suffer the same horrors. All this is the result of Islamic law. I request that the International Court of Justice to take control of the situation in Iran. "



UN condemns Iran's discriminatory practices against its minorities
AFP, August 27
The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on Friday called on Iran to end incited "hatred" and "discrimination Racial "held by some officials against ethnic minorities in the country.
In a series of recommendations issued Friday after examining the situation in Iran vis-à-vis its minorities mid-August, the 18 experts of the CERD expressed concern "about racial discrimination by daily the words of incitement to hatred and racial discrimination made by government officials. "
These discriminatory remarks are not only due to some officials, experts lament that accuse Tehran authorities to let the media take these "stereotypes and prejudices" racist particularly affecting minority Arab and Azeri communities, Kurdish and Baluchi ...
The UN experts have asked Tehran to take steps to improve the situation of minorities within three years.



Sakineh: Paris calls the 27 to consider sanctions against Iran
AFP, August 27


France requested countries of the European Union consider a threat of sanctions against Iran, to bring him to save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, sentenced to death by stoning, and whose situation is in strong emotion in Western countries.
"A joint letter from all Member States to the Iranian authorities has become necessary if we are to save this young woman," wrote the Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner in a letter sent Wednesday to the High Representative of the Union, Catherine Ashton ...



Sakineh: still no final decision
AFP, August 28
No final decision has been taken on the stoning of SakinehMohammadi-Ashtiani for adultery and murder, on Saturday reaffirmed Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, noting that the penalty had been suspended and that the verdict was "currently under examination.
"For the very serious penalties, there is a specific procedure and time consuming. The verdict is under review and when justice will reach a final conclusion, it will announce," he told AFP spokesman Department, Ramin Mehmanparast.
He also called on Western countries "not to use court cases for political purposes."
"Justice is currently reviewing this matter and will not submit to pressure," he said.



Demonstration in Paris against the death penalty in Iran
Iran Focus, August 29


Over five hundred people demonstrated yesterday at 18h on the Trocadero Square to demand the end of the sentence death in Iran. The demonstration called by the Support Committee for Human Rights in Iran (CSDHI) has struck a chord among Iranians in the Paris area and many French citizens came to express their outrage of death sentences in Iran ...



Iran insult Carla Bruni
JDD, August 30
For posting his support Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is seen violently taken to task by a daily newspaper in Tehran. The wife of the Head of State made it to treat " prostitute," as Isabelle Adjani, who also signed the petition. Diplomatic crisis in sight.
" French Prostitutes join the fight for human rights . This is the title of an article in the Iranian daily Kayhan, which is controlled by the Islamic regime. These "French prostitutes "Are none other than Carla Bruni-Sarkozy and Isabelle Adjani. Why the insults? Because both women have recently signed a petition denouncing the fate Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani in Iran, where she is condemned to death by stoning.
In this diatribe of unprecedented violence, the wife " infamous" head of state whose state television also raised " immorality," is accused of having "broken marriage Sarkozy's (for) becoming the first lady of France. "For its part, Isabelle Adjani is presented as" the French actress corrupt morals "...
For now, The Elysee has not formally responded to these insultes.Difficile to imagine, however, they remain unanswered.



Paris replica in Tehran after the insults against Carla Bruni-Sarkozy
AFP, August 31


France has sharply responded Tuesday to insults against Tehran Carla Bruni-Sarkozy ...
"We know the Iranian authorities that the insults by the newspaper Kayhan and occasions Iranian Internet sites on several French personalities, with Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, were unacceptable, "said the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Bernard Valero.
" We are putting this message in the usual diplomatic channels, "he added ...



Rome describes as "horrific" insults against Iran Carla Bruni
AFP, August 31
The Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Tuesday described as "horrible" the insults hurled by an Iranian newspaper cons and asked Carla Bruni Tehran a "gesture of clemency" to the Iranian SakinehMohammadi-Ashtiani, the French first lady took defense.
Franco Frattini said the Iranian government has already "severely dissociated" insults launched by the newspaper against the Franco-Italian wife of President Nicolas Sarkozy and hoped that "it dissociates again" ...

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