Police chief says Iran prisons are overcrowded

 

Police chief says Iran prisons are overcrowded

London, 10 May - Iran’s prisons have exceeded their capacity according to Iranian chief of police Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari, whose seemingly suggested solution is to increase the use of capital and corporal punishment.

"According to the judiciary, [Iran's] prisons are now full, and crimes can no longer be prevented with this method. So we must do something whereby the consequences of committing a crime is increased so that no one contemplates doing so”, said Brigadier General Hossein Ashtari.

Iran’s political prisoners write to EU Parliament chief

EU Parliament

As political prisoners in Iran’s prisons, we urge you not to victimize human rights of the political prisoners and those executed for trade and economic deals. Your relations with Iran without taking into account and condemning the grave human rights violations in Iran would make the sword of the regime’s executioners sharper over our head and would encourage the mullahs to increase the daily executions of the youth in this country.

As political prisoners, we wouldn’t welcome you shaking hands with the dictatorship ruling our homeland. However, if this is your decision to come to Iran, would you be kind enough to come to the prisons and torture chambers of this regime and visit us too so that we could inform you of the latest appalling situation of human rights violations in this land? We call on you to condemn the blatant human rights violations and arbitrary executions in Iran in your press conferences.

Tunne Kelam MEP: Human rights in Iran worsened under Rouhani

tunne kelam

Members of the European Parliament last week lambasted European Union foreign policy chief Frederica Mogherini for the lack of EU responsiveness to the appalling human rights situation in Iran.

Tunne Kelam, an MEP from Estonia and a longtime member of the Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI) intergroup at the European Parliament, told Ms. Mogherini during a debate on Iran that under Hassan Rouhani more than 2000 prisoners have beenexecuted in Iran.

Iran- Quds Force chief Qassem Suleimani

The commander of the terrorist Qods Force of the Iranian regime, Qassem Suleimani.

Quds Force chief Qassem Suleimani

The New York Times, Washington, 13 August 2015 - The State Department said Wednesday that a recent visit to Moscow by the head of Iran’s paramilitary Quds force had violated a United Nations travel ban that has been imposed because of concerns about Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

Iran: authorities body-search imprisoned priest

Iranian-American Priest Saeed Abedini

Priest Saeed Abedini, imprisoned in Iran

, imprisoned in Iran, was body-searched and saw his belongings inspected by prison authorities on July 21, reports indicate. Chief of ward 4 in Gohardasht Prison (in Karaj, west of Tehran) carried out these measures. Along with a number of prison guards he forced this priest to wake up, conducted a body search and inspected all his belongings.