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.

Women's News-Iran:Between 200 and 250 dhildren live with their mother in prisoons

250 children live with their mothers in prisons

Between 200 and 250 children live with their mothers in prisons across the country.

This news was announced by Asghar Jahangir, head of the Iranian Prisons Organization. He also admitted that no budge has been ratified for establishment of kindergartens in prisons.

Iran - Tehran - The shining stars and heroines of the Iranian Resistance

The shining stars and heroines of the Iranian Resistance

February8th marks the anniversary of  a fate –making event  in the history of the  Iranian people 's quest for freedom.

On February 8, 1982, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards surrounded and destroyed the headquarters and killed some of the most prominent leading figures of the PMOI. Khomeini –still alive in those days-- thought that by dealing such a heavy blow to the opposition, he could put up a show of force, demoralize the staunch supporters of the movement and break their resistance in prisons and outside.

It was an unequal battle between thousands of heavily armed guards vs. 20 freedom fighters. He thought victory is certain. However, the champions of freedom did not surrender and fought to the last breath, creating an epical scene that strengthened the movement even further.

The women involved in this battle left a brilliant legacy in the history of the Iranian people's struggle for freedom and democracy. Brave women who did not surrender and resisted and fought courageously to the last breath to herald a new world for their fellow compatriots. Today, their resolve and courage has been multiplied in the ranks of the pioneering women in the PMOI who lead the Resistance movement.

Iran: Female prisoner writes about prison

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.”

Maryam Rajavi: Freedom in Iran is solution to crisis and instability in Middle East

MaryamRajavi: Freedom in Iran is solution to crisis and instability in Middle East

Maryam Rajavi: Freedom in Iran, key to crisis and solution for instability in the Middle East

In the present circumstances, mullahs wage a barbaric war of oppression against the people of Iran. This can be particularly seen in the mass and arbitrary executions described by Amnesty International as "a sinister picture of the machinery of the state carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a mass scale."

The average number of executions under Rouhani has reached to about 1000 per year. This is the highest record in the past quarter of a century. In addition, there are several thousands more on the death row in various prisons across Iran. These executions indicate the regime’s instability. When a regime feels threatened even by concerts and theatres, it is shaky. A regime that imprisons young web bloggers, poets, cartoonists, journalists and film-makers, is unstable.

The proponents of cooperation with this regime do not take into consideration the Syrian experience or the experiences in Iraq and Yemen. If it were not for the Iranian regime's direct support for Bashar al-Assad, there would not have been a refugee crisis or the 300,000 Syrians who have been victimized. If it were not for the mullahs' support for Iraq's former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his criminal policies, there would have been no opportunity for the ISIS to develop.

The Middle East needs peace, stability and democracy. This would be possible through regime change in Iran

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.

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 - THE HEARING ON ITS BBC misleading IRAN

BBC-world-news

The BBC is "misleading icts hearing" with false propaganda emanating from the "totalitarian regime" in Iran, Said renowned British columnist Christopher Booker year writing opinion pieces in the Sunday Telegraph.

Mr. Booker Who Criticized for BBC depicting false pictures on the Iranian diet wrote: "Suddenly last week, all over the BBC, We had Iran, the explanation being white That It has-been allowed to send a delay into the country, a young Lebanese woman Kim Ghattas, for the first time since mass demonstrations There Were Against the diet in 2009. "

"The BBC never That Seems To learn totalitarian regimes only allow reporters into icts Their countries are provided That They mislead Their audience with exactly the false propaganda picture Their Purposes require," Mr. Booker wrote.

"The all-too familiar line we got Was That Iran's [President] since 2013, Hassan Rouhani, is a 'moderate', fighting to 'reform histo country icts surrounding Reactionaries Against the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei. Rouhani's only wish is to spread "peace and security" across the Middle East. Naturally Ms. Ghattas About did not press too far the larger question marks over the recent much-vaunted 'nuclear deal' with the West, Iran by qui got what it wanted: a promise of the lifting of the sanctions-have-been crippling That icts in economy very dubious return for concessions over ict continued nuclear program, riddled with holes. "

"Wholly off the agenda, of course, Was Any mention of the fact That, since the arrival of the 'moderate' Rouhani, the diet HAS lancé what Amnesty Recently called Expired 'a staggering execution spree', hanging and shooting Some 2,000 victims, more than at Any Time in 25 years, giving it The Highest per capita execution rate in the world (not to mention chopping off the hands and feet of scores more Inmates Reviews some of the World's Most inhuman prisons). 

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