Iran:Disabled Mother of Iranian Prisoner of Faith Begs for the Release of Her Son

Disabled Mother of Iranian Prisoner of Faith Begs for the Release of Her Son

In an article by Stoyan Zaimov, in the August 24 Christian Post, he writes about the plight of a disabled mother of a Christian prisoner in Iran.  Her son is held in Rajaei-Shahr prison, and she has been unable to visit him because she is visually impaired.

As reported by Mohabat News on Tuesday, Ebrahim Firouzi, is one of several people imprisoned because of their Christian faith. Because he was not allowed access to his defense documents, he refused to attend his appeals court hearing. His appointed judge was not present, so the hearing has been postponed for four months.

According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Firouzi was arrested in August 2013, and sentenced to five years in prison in 2015. he was charged with "acting against national security," a charge often given to prisoners of faith in Iran.

Firouzi's mother pled with officials to handle her son's case fairly and to release him.  "Crying as she delivered the message to the authorities, Mr. Firouzi's elderly mother said that she is visually impaired and there is nothing she can do and has no one to help her. She said she doesn't have the ability to go from court to court and follow up on her son's case," Mohabat News reports.  "She added that she misses her son and because of her disability she has not been able to visit her son in prison. She pleaded with the authorities to release her son so he can come home.”

IRAN: Nearly a month into hunger strike the health of Iranian political prisoner is deteriorating

24 May 2016

 

Jafar Azimzadeh, imprisoned at the notorious Evin Prison

The health of an Iranian political prisoner on indefinite hunger strike is in grave danger.

Jafar Azimzadeh, imprisoned at the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, is on Day 26 of his hunger strike protesting Tehran’s crackdown on union activity.

On Saturday, he was taken to hospital complaining of kidney pain but refused to have liquid serum administered and was transferred back to the prison, still in pain.

His wife reports that in addition to his kidney problems, Mr. Azimzadeh has lost a considerable of weight, his blood pressure has dropped and he is having vision problems.

The Tehran bus drivers’ union, the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company (Sherkat-e Vahed) called for Mr. Azimzadeh’s release from prison and warned the public that his health had been greatly affected by his strike.

Mr. Azimzadeh, a workers’ rights activist, is being heavily pressured by the regime to end his strike. As previously reported on Stop Fundamentalism, Tehran’s prosecutor's office demanded that he stop the hunger strike after he was unable to walk from his cell on Ward 8 to the visitor’s hall to see his wife, on May 17.

They even offered him the chance to take long-term leave from prison, not out of concern for his health but because they are scared of him becoming a ‘martyr’.

Iran: Revision court held for Atena Faraghdani

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The appeals court of civil activist Atena Farghadani, currently detained in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, was held on Sunday, December 29.

Her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi, has said he met with his client on December 15 in Evin Prison in order to prepare her defense. Farghadani, imprisoned since January 10, was sentenced to 12 years and 9 months behind bars in a court chaired by judge Salavati.

Her charges include “insulting members of parliament through drawings,” “assembly and collusion with anti-revolution figures” and “insulting the leader of the Islamic republic”.

Farghadani said earlier this year after being held in a Revolutionary Guards prison for two months that her critical drawings were the main subject of the interrogations. She is currently being held in the women’s ward of Evin Prison.

Iran: Children deprived of visiting imprisoned mothers

Children deprived of visiting imprisoned mothers

A number of children under the age of 18 had gone to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison to visit their imprisoned mothers on 18 November. While they were waiting and their mothers were getting ready to enter the visiting hall, the children were forced out of the hall at the last minute, while in tears. Their mothers were told they cannot see their children on that day, according to the website of the NCRI Women's Committee.

In other news, prison authorities have told political prisoners that Babak Zanjani, an Iranian regime-affiliated businessman charged for plundering millions of dollars, was scheduled to meet his wives on the same day but decided to cancel the visit.

Maryam Rajavi's message on the International Day for elimination of Violence against Women

Maryam Rajavi: The prime source of violence against women is Islamic fundamentalism

Paying homage to Iranian women on the International Day to End Violence against Women

On the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women", an exhibition on violence against Iranian women was on display at Auvers-sur-Oise, France, headquarters of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

The exhibition was opened November 25th by the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi's visit.

Members of the Iranian Resistance, themselves victims of the Iranian regime's violence against women were also in attendance. They included Elham Zanjani, who was seriously wounded in the April 8, 2011 attack on Camp Ashraf; Niloofar and Shaghayegh Azimi whose imprisoned mother has been arrested and tortured multiple times by the regime; Zohreh Shafaii,

Mother of political prisoner Behnam Ibrahimzadeh: I am proud of my son

Ayesheh Modaresi, the mother of labor activist Behnam Ibrahimzadeh said in defense of her son that he only acted based on his humanitarian duties and was imprisoned for this very reason. She says she is proud of her son.

Ayesheh Modaresi wrote in a letter:

“My name is Ayesheh Modaresi, the mother of Behnam Ibrahimzadeh, a labor activist and member of the Association in Defense of Child Laborers and Homeless Children. Behnam is held in Gohardasht Prison. He was arrested on June 12, 2010 by security agents and first sentenced to 5 years in prison. However, he was prosecuted under new charges and sentenced to 9 years and 6 months in jail on charges of collusion, having relations with the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran from inside of prison, and propaganda against the state.

“Last month the Austrian NGO Sudwind dedicated my son, Behnam the “Raha” human rights award. As you are informed the Sudwind prize is dedicated to individuals who played a role in safeguarding and improving human rights. I am proud of my son and thank God for giving me

this child that has risen to his humanitarian duties. I am asking you and all those praising humanity, to focus your efforts to have Behnam returned to me and his family, and especially his 16-year old son who is suffering from blood cancer. Thank you very much – Ayesheh Modaresi”

Iran: Kurdish woman may lose eyesight in prison

Zeinab Jalalian

ZeinabJalalian, a Kurdish woman imprisoned in Khuy Prison, suffers from serious eye problems and her conditions are reported as critical. The damages inflicted on her eyes has been a result of the torture and blows she has endured from interrogators.

This prisoner had suffered internal bleeding and intestine infection prior to this and after being transferred to Kermanshah’s Diesel Abad Prison (western Iran) in 2012. However, at that time prison officials and the public prosecutor refused to provide adequate medical care and send her to a hospital. Her internal bleeding began after suffering severe beatings in the Kermanshah intelligence department detention center. She has been deprived of medical leave for the past 8 years.

Teachers rally across Iran

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Teachers across Iran rallied on Thursday against the fundamentalist policies of the mullahs' regime targeting Iranian educators.

Large numbers of teachers in Tehran and other cities took part in protests against the regime despite a heightened crackdown by the authorities.

Teachers,denouncing the detention of their colleagues, held signs reading "Imprisoned teachers must be freed" and "Teachers, rise up against discrimination."

Iran: Kurdish political prisoner banned from visits despite severe illness

Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, imprisoned for eight years now, is suffering from severe vision problems and may lose her eyesight.

Zeinab has been under intense pressure during the past few years by agents of the notorious Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and is still deprived of her weekly visits. She has launched hunger strikes protesting her conditions, and according to prison physicians she must undergo eye surgery and may go blind if she doesn't receive treatment.

Jalalian was born in 1982 in the city of Maku, northwestern Iran, and was arrested in 2007 by agents in Kermanshah's Intelligence Department. She was first sentenced to death and then to life in prison.

Iran: As schools get ready to open, many teachers still linger in prison

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The arbitrary resentencing of imprisoned teacher Rasoul Bodaqi in mullahs’ shamcourt to 3 more years in prison

As the schools are about to open, a large number of teachers in the country continue to linger in prison, including Messrs Mahmoud Beheshti Langeroudi, Mehdi Bohlouli and Reza Neiknejad who are recently arrested, as well as Messrs Rasoul Bodaqi, Esmail Abdi, Ali-Akbar Baghbani, Alireza Hashemi and Abdolreza Qanbari who were already in prison. This is while Ali-Asghar Fani, Rouhani’s Education Minister, deceptively expressed hope on September 15 that the imprisoned teachers would be released before September 23, the day that schools open.

The prison term for political prisoner Mr. Rasoul Bodaqi, the noble teacher that has been in prison for six years for defending teachers' rights, ended on August 4, 2015, but the Iranian regime refuses to free him and in an arbitrary and sham trial condemned him to another three years in prison .

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.

The 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran and the nuclear deal

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Aformer Iranian political prisoner has described his torment during the seven years he spent in the mullahs' jails in Iran. Karim Moradi, an Iranian human rights activist and member of the Society of Iranian Political Prisoners, gave his account of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran in an article on Friday in TheHill.com:I am often asked by my American friends what I think about the Iran deal. As someone who spent seven years of his life imprisoned in Iran, it is difficult for me to give a simple answer. I have spent the past few weeks reflecting not on the nuclear deal with Iran, but on the summer of 1988, when Iran systematically massacred 30,000 political prisoners in a matter of weeks.

Iran - “Like the mother of Moses, I trusted my children to the Nile”, Iran activist says

A mother whose two young children have been left unattended

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Ali and Kiana, the 8-year old twin children of activist Narges Mohammadi, left Iran on July 17th while their mother remains behind bars. They have gone to live with their father in France.

Narges Mohammadi has written a letter describing the harassment she has endured in prison. She has resembled the hard difficulties of being separated from her children to the mother of Moses entrusting her son to the Nile.
 Iran: activist must be sent to hospital for treatment

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A group of women’s rights activist met with the family of Narges Mohammadi, emphasizing the rights of imprisoned women must be respected. Prison authorities are stressing on preventing the transfer of Mohammadi to a hospital for special medical treatment.