Showing posts with label mother. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mother. Show all posts

Wednesday, 11 May 2016

British-Iranian mother of one-year-old girl detained without charge in Iran

A British-Iranian mother and charity worker has been detained by the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), separated from her one-year-old baby daughter and held without charge in solitary confinement.
The family of charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, is issuing an urgent appeal for British Prime Minister David Cameron to overturn her “outrageous and arbitrary” detention, The Independent reported on Monday.
Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s British passport was confiscated, along with that of her baby, Gabriella, when she tried to return to London after a two-week holiday visiting family in Tehran.
After being stopped at the check-in desk on April 3, she was transported to an unknown detention facility some 1,000 km away in Kerman Province, the report said.
Speaking to The Independent, her British husband Richard Ratcliffe said his wife was being interrogated daily and had been given no access to a lawyer or to see her daughter, who is being cared for by her grandparents. The family understands she has been made to sign a confession under duress, but does not know its contents.

Wednesday, 30 March 2016

Iran - Women: Sholeh Pakravan denounce juvenile execution

“Don’t, don’t, don’t execute Heiman Oraminejad
“Don’t, don’t, don’t execute Heiman Oraminejad
Sholeh Pakravan, mother of Reyhaneh Jabbari, young indoor decorator who was executed for self-defending against an intelligence agent,
addressed the mullahs’ head of judiciary in a letter after a death sentence was approved against a young man called Heiman Oraminejad. The letters reads in part:
“Don’t, don’t, don’t execute Heiman Oraminejad. Execution of under-age people supposed to be stopped.

Monday, 22 February 2016

Women's News Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery

 Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery
Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery
A young woman was given the wrong gas instead of Oxygen after giving birth to her twins in a Tehran hospital.
The news has just recently leaked out that on the morning of January 17, 2016, a young woman refered to Tehran's Chamran Hospital because of having pain. Doctors in the emergency room diagnosed that she needed to undergo C-section, so they had her taken to the operation room.

After giving birth to healthy twins, the mother was in need of receiving Oxygen, but she suffered severe burns as soon as the Oxygen mask was put on her face because she had been given N2O and CO2 instead of Oxygen.

Women's News Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner and human rights activists

Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner and human rights activists
Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner and human rights activists
18 human rights activists including families of political prisoners and martyrs were sentenced each to 91 days imprisonment and 74 lashes.
They had participated in a peaceful gathering outside Tehran's Evin Prison on November 21, 2015, demanding abolition of death sentence for prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, and freedom of all political prisoners.

The 18 convicted activists included Mrs. Simin Aiyvazzadeh (mother of political prisoner Omid Ali-Shenas), Azam Najafi, Parvin Soleimani, Sara Sa'ee, Farideh Toosi and Zahra Modarres Zadeh. They were charged with "illegal gathering disrupting public order."

Thursday, 7 January 2016

Iran: Negar Haeri, former political prisoner is deliberately ran over

Iran: Negar Haeri, former political prisoner is deliberately ran over
Iran: Negar Haeri, former political prisoner is deliberately ran over
The news has just got out that Negar Haeri, a lawyer and former political prisoner, was deliberately ran over by unidentified persons on December 17, 2015.
She had previously been threatened time and again and finally on December 17, she was chased by a black Peugeot 405 with dark windows and hit after she got out of her car in Shahrara district. The Peugeot then sped away and disappeared.
Ms. Haeri was subsequently transferred to hospital. She suffered a broken right arm and a broken left leg and bruises all over her body.
Ms. Haeri had been summoned on phone to Evin’s Prosecutor’s Office on May 18, 2015, where she was insulted and arrested in front of her mother. She was held in the Evin’s women’s ward for one day and transferred to solitary confinement for another nine days where she was interrogated under torture. She was ultimately released on May 27, 2015.
Before this, she spent eight months in Varamin’s Qarchak prison and was released only after much efforts and on a 2billion-touman bail.
Ms. Haeri’s license for law practice was annulled and she was not banned from giving legal advice to her clients. Security and intelligence officers have instructed her not to leave Tehran in any circumstances.

Friday, 1 January 2016

Iran regime refusing to hold my daughter’s court hearings, mother says

Atena Daemi
Atena Daemi
The mother of civil activist Atena Daemi, sentenced to 14 years behind bars, said nearly 8 months have passed since this ruling was issued for her daughter yet the appeals court hearings have not been held.
In response to their follow-ups, regime officials have been postponing the court hearing date one week at a time.
Atena has suffered severe headaches and serious vision loss since she was detained in solitary confinement. Despite the fact that she was sent to a brain-nerve-eye specialist the reason behind her illness was not revealed. However, physicians have said stressful conditions in prison are very dangerous for Atena. Her lawyer and us have time and again requested her release on bail but every time they turn down our request,” said Masoume Ne’mati.
Atena Daemi is a civil and children’s rights activist arrested on October 21, 2014 by the Revolutionary Guards intelligence organization and transferred to Evin Prisonon

Thursday, 31 December 2015

Iran: Courageous mother stands for her son’s cause

Ms. Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti
Ms. Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti
Ms.Gohar Eshghi is the mother of dissident blogger, Sattar Beheshti, who was arrested by the Iranian regime’s internet police and killed after a few days under torture on November 3, 2012.
Her daughter, Sahar Beheshti, was stopped on the way from her son’s kindergarten on December 28th and threatened at gun point to go with the police for posting her brother’s photo on her car’s window shield. She refused to go with the police but was stopped on the street for a few hours.
Her mother subsequently declared, “As long as I am alive, I will be the voice of Sattar. After me, it is Sahar who is his voice. If anything happens to Sahar, I will hold the government responsible. Sattar was a worker. They killed him and did not give me any answers why but I will not allow them to kill Sahar. We are not afraid of anything. We are not afraid of their guns.”
She added, “This is not the first time they are threatening Sahar. They have done so several times but even if they take Sahar from me, I will not stop and will not remain silent. Sattar told me: ‘What we are doing is not living. This is humiliation. Dying is better than the life we have.’ Now I say the same thing. This life is nothing but humiliation and death.”

Monday, 21 December 2015

Iran: Female prisoner writes about prison

Manizhe Sadeghi
Manizhe Sadeghi
Manizhe Sadeghi, a prisoner who spent some time in the Iranian regime’s prisons, recently wrote to explain the conditions of women in the Iranian regime’s prisons.
I am a hardworking woman and mother, and I was in prison for a few months with my newborn child. I taught my child to walk in prison. I am
a hardworking mother and seeing my child grow up in prison was like death for me,but I didn’t give in.
They used the cry of my newborn child to harass me and torture my ill father, who was in the adjacent cell to force us to succumb. However, state agents were never able to make us succumb to their demands.
They didn’t even show any mercy to my children. They would beat my children before my own eyes. They beat my pregnant daughter before me!
I am a worker without much income and now a political prisoner, and I have experienced being beaten, tortured and insulted in the dungeons of the Islamic republic while blindfolded.
“They kicked and torture my entire body, but to reach freedom and a better world I became stronger, and I will never rest until we realize our humanitarian values.”

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Iran: Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother

Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother
Sattar Beheshti’s sister writes about her slain brother
Sahar Beheshti, sister of slain blogger Sattar Beheshti wrote on her Facebook page after visiting Sattar’s grave on the third anniversary of his murder, “It is unimaginable to live without you
My dear Sattar! Today, it has been three years, but like three centuries of pains without you.
During these years without you, Mother always whispers to herself before reaching your grave: ‘Dear Sattar, you should have been the one coming to my grave, not me to yours!’ She always speaks about her moments with you.
However, whenever she remembers that horrific Tuesday, October 30, 2012, she sighs from deep down in her heart. The day that they took you away forever. I nearly cry after hearing her deep sighs. I am waiting, waiting for the day your death is avenged.”
Sattar Beheshti was a young blogger who was arrested for his blogs and was murdered under torture in the hands of the Iranian regime’s FATA police within 4 days of his arrest. His elderly mother, has not stopped to protest since his death.

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests
Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari’s mother calls for protests
Reyhaneh Jabbari was a 26-year-old woman who was executed for defending herself to rape by an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence. Her mother Mrs. Shole Pakravan,
has issued a post on social media calling the Iranian people to take a stand against the following:
The daily increase of executions and bloodshed;
Torture of political prisoners;
Trafficking of Iranian girls;
The increasing corruption;
The Plundering of our nation’s wealth
Mrs. Pakravan has asked the Iranian people to rise, take action, and break the silence! To   stand firm in defense of justice, and to consider justice and freedom far more important issues than even our daily meals

Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy with detainees

Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy
Iran: mother of slain blogger expresses sympathy
Mrs.Gohar Eshghi, the mother of Sattar Beheshti, a blogger who was killed in detention by the Iranian regime’s FATA police, wrote a letter expressing her sympathy with protesters arrested outside Evin Prison.
Her letter reads in part, “I consider silence, treason to you all because you have always supported me. I have to pay you back for your kindness.
Dear Akram Neghabi, I heard that your husband was mistreated so that he can feel how they treated your child, or maybe they were trying to tell you that we will make you disappear like your loved ones.
Simin Avazzadeh, mother of Omid Ali Shenas, my good friend of hard times, it is as if a meaningful silence has engulfed the entire country.

Friday, 27 November 2015

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,



Wednesday, 18 November 2015

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”

Monday, 26 October 2015

Maryam Rajavi
Maryam Rajavi
مريم رجوي:  چه كسي ممكن است چهرة مظلوم اما مصمم ريحانه را ببيند، يا فرياد تظلم‌خواهي مادر او را بشنود و منقلب نشود؟
با اين همه، در پس اين وقايع، نيرو و پيامي وجود دارد كه به جاي حزن و اندوه و ترس و نااميدي، همبستگي اجتماعي را افزايش مي‌دهد و اعتراض و مخالفت عليه آخوندها را دامن مي‌زند؛ و آن مقاومت مردم ايران و به خصوص مقاومت زنان ايران است.
به وصيتنامة ريحانه گوش كنيد كه چگونه سراپاي رژيم ولايت فقيه و قوانين ظالمانة آن‌ را به محاكمه مي‌كشد؛
او مي‌گويد: «با آغوش باز از مرگ استقبال مي‌كنم؛ چرا كه در دادگاهٍ خداوند، متهم مي‌كنم مأمورين آگاهي را، متهم مي‌كنم بازپرس را، متهم مي‌كنم قاضي ديوانعالي كشور را، كساني كه بي‌دريغ كتكم زدند... و من در دادگاه خالق هستي، متهم مي‌كنم همة آنها را ... ». 
خامنه‌اي، سردژخيم رژيم، اين دختر شجاع را بالاي دار فرستاد؛ اما ايستادگي و بي‌باكي و شورشگري زن ايراني عليه ارتجاع و ستم آخوندي، از بين رفتني نيست، بلكه بيشتر و خروشانتر مي‌شود تا روزي كه بساط اين رژيم را جمع، و اين رژيم را سرنگون كند.
فرياد مادر ريحانه در تاريخ ايران خواهد ماند كه: دختر من شرف داشت. ما با او همصدا مي‌شويم و به شكيبايي و استقامت اين مادر و همة مادران، درود مي‌فرستيم.
Maryam Rajavi: Who might the poor face R. determined to see, or hear his mother screaming and moving Tzlmkhvahy not?
However, in the wake of these events, the power and the message is that rather than sadness and fear and hopelessness, social cohesion increases and fueled opposition against the mullahs, and the Iranian people's resistance and the resistance to women Iran.
Vsytnamh R. Listen to how thoroughly the clerical regime and op- rules will take it to trial;
He said: "I welcome death with open arms because in the court of God, I am accused agents of knowledge, I accused the prosecutor accused the judge of the Supreme Court and I, who were beaten ... and my generous Creator court , I suspect all of them. "
Khamenei, the regime Srdzhkhym, this brave girl sent to the gallows, but Iranian women stand and fearlessness and insurgency against the reactionary and clerical oppression, the loss, but more and Khrvshantr until the day he stand up to the regime, and the regime overthrow.
R. mother will cry in Iran that was my daughter's honor. We join with him and the patience and endurance of mother and all mothers we, salute

Thursday, 10 September 2015

Sen. John McCain Displays Photo of Dead Syrian Boy on Senate Floor

McCain Displays Photo of Dead Syrian Boy on Senate Floo
McCain Displays Photo of Dead Syrian Boy on Senate Floo

Senator John McCain, a leading Republican from the state ofArizona, displayed the image of the body of a three year-old Syrian boy on Wednesday on the Senate floor as he urged stronger leadership from US President Barack Obama on Syria.

McCain, a Republican, stood next to an enlarged, close-up photo of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned along with his 5-year-old brother and mother when their small rubber boat capsized as it headed for Greece. McCain said the photo has 'opened the world’s eye to this devastating crisis.'

McCain said it should haunt Americans that 'the United States will continue to do nothing meaningful' about conflicts like that in Syria that have led to a surge in refugees
Aylan Kurdi
Aylan Kurdi         

Tuesday, 25 August 2015

Iran - Mother of Mohammad Ali Taheri: my child on hunger strike for eight days

Mohammad Ali Taheri and his mother Ezzatolmoluk
Mohammad Ali Taheri and his mother Ezzatolmoluk
Mohammad-Ali Taheri. After spending four years in prison and as his sentence was almost finished, He Has been once again tried on the mullah-fabricated charge of "corruption on earth by deflective people" and condemned to death. Previously, he had been Sentenced to five years in prison, a 9 billion Rial fine, and 74 lashes for absurd charges zoals "insulting the Sancti royalties, illegal use or scientific titles (doctor and engineer), and writing misleading books and articles
Mother of Mohammad Ali Taheri: my child on hunger strike for eight days
Ezzatolmoluk Taheri, the mother of Mohammad Ali Taheri, said her son has been on hunger strike since August 13. The mother of this prisoner issued a statement on Thursday, August 20 on her Facebook page saying Mohammad Ali Taheri has been on hunger strike since August 13 protesting matters such as not being informed or provided with any court orders for his death sentences “based on false allegations raised by the Revolutionary Guards, nor based on justice nor a legal argument”.

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Iran - executes woman in prison west of Tehran

 A prisoner by the name of Fateme Haddadi, 39, a mother of a girl and imprisoned for the last 8 years, was hanged on Monday, August 10th in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran. Under the pretext of being taken to the clinic, she had been transferred Sunday evening from hall 6 of Gharchak Prison in Varamin, southeast of Tehran, to solitary confinement in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj. The body of this executed woman is currently held in a morgue in Karaj.

Mass executions, taking place nearly on a daily basis in Iran’s prisons, are crimes against humanity.
Woman executed in iran
Woman executed in iran 

IRAN - DIRE CONDITIONS OF WOMEN IN IRAN

IRAN: WOMAN, 55, MOTHER OF THREE CHILDREN, ON DEATH ROW

The Iranian regime has transferred a woman in her fifties to solitary confinement in women’s Qarchak prisons near Varamin for implementation of her execution. Batool Karimi, 55, mother of two boys and a girl, has been in prison for four years on drug related charges before transfer to solitary cell. She is at the risk of imminent execution.

The mullahs ruling Iran hang prisoners
in public and in hidings for minor offences and bogus drug related charges while the regime officials themselves are involved in high scale and multi-million dollars trafficking and distribution of drugs inside the country and abroad.
Women victims of repression
Women victims of repression