Iran hangs 18 prisoners, including at least one woman, in just two days

 Iran hanged 18 prisoners, this past weekend; with 16 executions on Sunday alone.

Eleven prisoners were hanged in Qezelhesar Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran, on Sunday, but only two have been identified; Saeed Saberi and Moslem Bahrami. The charges have not been specified but at least one member of this group was a woman.

Two men were hanged on Sunday, in a public square in the city’s Mehshahr District, according to the state-run Tasnim news agency. They have only been identified by their initials Q. J. and M. R.

Still on Sunday, another three men were hanged in prison in Birjand, eastern Iran. Mansour Zafarani, Yousef Barahoui, and Qassem Delshad were accused of drugs-related charges.

On Saturday, two unidentified prisoners aged 40 and 49, were hanged in Lakan Prison in Rasht, northern Iran, according to the state broadcaster, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

Iran hangs 18 prisoners

Iran ; Call by Iranian Resistance to save lives of 16 prisoners on verge of execution

Call by Iranian Resistance to save lives of 16 prisoners on verge of execution

Sunday morning, January 3, the Iranian regime transferred 16 prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in the city of Karaj to solitary confinement in preparation for their execution. The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights bodies to save the lives of these prisoners who are about to be executed. While these prisoners are placed for imminent execution, from December 23 to January 4, thirty-one executions have been registered as follows:

On January 4, one prisoner was hanged in public in Goharbaran Boulevard of Sourak city in Miandoroud in Mazandaran Province while another prisoner was hanged in a prison in Noshahr.

On January 2, Mehdi Ranjkesh, a mentally-handicapped and physically-disabled prisoner was hanged in Khorramabad Prison and two prisoners were hanged in Mashhad’s Central Prison.

On December 26, three prisoners were hanged in Khorramabad in Barsilon Prison. Behrouz Amiri, a married man and father of three who had spent five years in prison, was among them.

Sixteen prisoners were hanged in two mass executions on December 22 and 24 in Qazvin Central Prison. Five prisoners hanged in prison in Kerman on December 24 and two prisoners, 28 and 30 years old, executed in Karaj in Ghezel-Hessar Prison were among other victims of ongoing crimes committed by the Iranian regime.

As the sham elections of its Assembly of Experts and parliament approaches, the religious fascism ruling Iran is unable to confront the loath and escalating popular protests in various cities and is exceedingly resorting to suppressive measures, in particular the cruel death punishment.

Iran - Inhuman treatment of Christian prisoner in Iran’s notorious gulag

Ebrahim Firouzi, an Iranian Christian prisoner

EbrahimFirouzi, an Iranian Christian prisoner in the notorious Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj, north-west of the Iranian capital Tehran, is being deprived of medical treatment by the mullahs’ regime although he suffers from acute diseases, according to local reports.

It is over a year now that he is suffering of acute pain in the left side of his chest and his condition has deteriorated in the past three months.

Mr. Firouzi was arrested on August 25, 2013 and condemned by a court in Robat Karim, south-west of Tehran, to one year in prison and two years exile in Sarbaz County. Although his prison term ended on January 13, 2015, he is still being kept in prison. New bogus charges were raised against him on March 8, 2015 for ‘acting against national security’ through community means, and he was subsequently condemned to five years in prison by the henchman-judge Moqiseh in Branch 28 of the regime’s courts.

He is currently in detention in Ward 10 of Gohardasht.

The daughter of an Iranian political prisoner warns of a looming Threat to her father

Hejrat Moezi and her father, political prisoner, Ali Moezi

'My father is a political prisoner facing an imminent threat to his life in prison in Iran'

 Describing a person’s life is never easy, especially when that person is someone you cherish. Ali Moezi is my father, he is a political prisoner in Iran, and I fear losing him with each passing second, Hijrat Moezi wrote as it published in World Post

Before I was even born, my father experienced the mullah’s prisons. In 1980, when the theocratic dictatorship took control of Iran, my father was arrested and tortured. He had been among those who stood in opposition to their tyrannical rule, and paid the price with several years of torture in the regime’s prisons.

My father was educated at the University of Karaj in agricultural engineering, and could have worked towards building up his homeland; Instead, he has spent years, off and on, behind bars. The theocracy has made it such that everyone finds himself leading a life unsuitable to their vocation: our scholars rest imprisoned while thieves and criminals are in government.

I recall asking him, when I was a child,What happened to your knee?’ to which he responded, 'it was hit by a bullet.' Only when I was older did I learn that he participated in peaceful demonstrations in Tehran in June1981and during his escape, he was shot and then subjected to hours of painstaking torture.At the time, my father would have been the same age I am now, 26The whip marks left by his torturers can still be seen on the soles of his feet and his back.

Throughout my childhood, the thought of my parents’ arrest was my greatest nightmare. But one day, I myself decided to stand up against this government. I moved to Camp Ashraf and left my country for Iraq, where thousands of refugees and Iranian dissidents lived in a place that was our only hope for freedom. I remember, on my last day in Iran, looking into my father’s eyes and asking if I’d ever see him again...

IRAN: Guards raid Ward 12 of Gohardasht Prison today

Wardens of Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-shahr) Prison, inKaraj, north-west of Tehran, raided Ward 12 at 13:00 local time on Monday, according to news sources inside of Iran.

The ward houses political prisoners opposed to the mullahs’ regime.

During the raid, the wardens conducted body searches of the prisoners and used devices to search the whole ward.

Iran: agents raid college student homes

Crackdown on the rise in Iran against college students

Security agents conducted a night raid arresting a number of college students and graduates in universities in Tehran and Karaj. The first raid targeted a college students' home in Tehran. Around 10 students were arrested in thisattack.

Wave of arrests of social and labor activists in Iran

Mr. Mahmoud Salehi

Following the suspicious death of labor activist Mr. Shahrokh Zamani in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison in Karaj (north-west of the Iranian capital Tehran), there are now reports by human rights organizations of a wave of arrests of union andsocial activists.

Iran: Two girls among student activists arrested

In nightly raids launched on Wednesday, September 16, 2015, on residential units in Tehran and Karaj, security forces arrested a number of student activists, most of them from Tehran's Khajeh Nassir Tousi University, school of . In some cases, they broke the door to enter the house and took away personal belongings and computers after thorough search of the house.

The names of a few of those arrested and imprisoned in Evin Prison, have been obtained, among them two female student activists, Kiana Karimpour and Mehraban Keshavarzi.

Iran-Statement by steadfast Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezzi

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Iranian political prisoner Ali Moezzi has issued a statement following the suspicious death of labor activist Shahrokh Zamani on Sunday in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, north-west of Iran's capital Tehran. Mr. Moezzi, a supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK), has constantly been under the most severe pressures and physical and psychological tortures in the Iranian regime's prisons. The following is the text of his statement:

Iran: 9 executions in Gohardasht and Sanandaj prisons in one day

On Wednesday, September 16, at least nine prisoners were hanged by the Iranianregime in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) prison, Karaj and in Sanandaj. Eight of them, including a 22 and a 24-year-old, were collectively hanged in Gohardasht Prison. And Raouf Hosseini was hanged in Sanandaj Prison after suffering 13 years of imprisonment.

IRAN: Trade unionist Shahrokh Zamani found dead in his cell under suspicious circumstances

Iraniantrade unionist Shahrokh Zamani, a prisoner of conscience, was found dead under suspicious circumstances on Sunday in Gohardasht Prison (Rajaei Shahr Prison) in the city of Karaj, north-west of Tehran.

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Shohrokh Zamani, 51, a labor activist and a painter, was last arrested in June 2011. He was tortured in prison and on numerous occasions went on hunger strike to protest his brutal treatment and the inhumane prison conditions.

Iran: Christian worshipers arrested in a house church

 You know , It has executed a number of Christian leaders and a large number of Christians for their opposition to the regime or affiliation with the opposition, like the Honorable Bishop Hosepian Mehr who was brutally murdered. It has denied Christians their fundamental right to practice their faith..

And now, several Christians, including Saeed Abedini, have been imprisoned.

Iran: Christian worshipers arrested in a house church

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A group of at least eight Iranian Christians were beaten and arrested last Friday in the city of Karaj while gathering for a worship ceremony in a house church.

The Iranian regime’s armed plainclothes agents raided the house church, insulted and beat the worshipers, and confiscated their books and pamphlets before transferring them to a van to be taken to a prison, according to the eyewitnesses.

The security agents also confiscated satellite dishes at the premises.

Six of the Christians arrested were identified as: Ms. Hayedeh Shadnia, Ms. Shahin Bashiri, Ms. Mona Chahardoli, Mr. Esmaeel Falahati, Mr. Nematollah Youssefi and Razmik

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.