Unjustified sentences and brutal treatment of women in Iranian prisons
NCRI Women’s Committee Monthly Report – June 2019
June 2019 saw tighter clampdown on female rights activists in Iran. As the clerical regime is getting weaker every day, the activities of rights activists become more dangerous for them.
There have been reports on some 20 female rights activists who got imprisoned or brutalized in prison during the month of June. Some were handed down heavy sentences and others transferred to prison to serve their sentences.
On the other hand, the regime has stepped up executions, including of women, to tighten up the general social atmosphere.
The executions and dastardly killing of prisoners in jail, however, have proven to fuel further discontent and opposition among the populace as demonstrated in the funeral of Alireza Shir-Mohammad-Ali.
In the monthly report of the NCRI Women’s Committee Monthly Report – June 2019 we read:
The 89th execution of a woman
The month of June saw the execution of another woman, the 89th to be executed during Rouhani’s term in office. Fatemeh Nassiri who had been imprisoned in Qarchak Prison for 11 years, was hanged on June 19, 2019, in Ghohardasht Prison, a.k.a. Rajaii-shahr. She had reportedly claimed responsibility for a murder committed by her son.
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced to 38 years in jail and 148 lashes
In a statement, the Womens Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), condemned the sentence passed against human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh:
Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh who is currently in prison, was sentenced to 38 years prison and 148 lashes.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran strongly condemns the anti-human and misogynist sentence by the mullahs’ regime.
During a brief telephone conversation with her husband, Nasrin Sotoudeh asserted that her sentence is 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.
Her statement follows the judge overseeing her case reporting to the media that Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to seven years in prison.
Amnesty International called the “sentencing of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in a new case against her is an outrageous injustice.”
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Iranian political prisoners under harsh conditions
Two weeks ago, Iranian regime authorities transferred political prisoner Mehdi Farahi Shandiz to solitary confinement in the Central Prison of Karaj. Since then, Farahi Shandiz has been deprived of calls and meetings with family members, and there's no news of him, which has raised concerns about his conditions and health.
Farahi Shandiz is an activist and electrical engineering graduate from Isfahan’s Industrial University. He is now in the eighth year of his prison sentence. Farahi Shandiz was first arrested in 2010 under bogus national security charges and for insulting Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime. His prison sentence was later extended from 3 to 12 years under various vague excuses. During his incarceration, Farahi Shandiz has endured different physical and mental tortures. He has also been regularly denied medical care.
Farahi Shandiz has had no sort of communications with his family since February 10.
On February 11, the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, Farahi Shandiz had chanted slogans of “down with dictator” and “down with Khamenei” in protest to 40 years of torture and executions under the tyrannical rule of the mullahs.
After Farahi Shandiz’s demonstration, prison guards attacked him in his cell and violently transferred him to solitary confinement while beating him.
Meanwhile, Maji Assadi, another Iranian political prisoner in Gohardasht prison, is now in the third year of his prison sentence. Assadi, a university student, is suffering from different illnesses and is in need of medical care, but regime authorities are denying him the most basic needs and have prevented him from going to the hospital on several occasions.
Assadi is suffering from inflammatory pain in his spine which is the result of another extended period of incarceration. In the past two years, under torture from regime officials, Assadi has suffered from ulcers and digestive complications. But regime authorities continue to torture him by denying him medical care.
• Hassan Sadeghi, who is in danger of losing his eyesight following torture from prison authorities
• Majid Assadi, who is suffering from multiple diseases including ulcers, duodenal ulcer, liver cyst, waist disk, and spinal rheumatism
• Shahram Mansourpour, who needs urgent surgery after a spinal disk inflammation
• Arash Sadeghi, who has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer
• Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi, an elderly man suffering from a meniscus tear in his leg
• Hamzeh Savari, who has a painful tumour in his knee
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Iran Political Prisoner Moved to Solitary for Peaceful Anti-Regime Protest
The Iranian regime moved a political prisoner to solitary confinement for chanting anti-government slogans last week.
On Monday, February 11, as Iran marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 Revolution, Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, a teacher, started to chant about the torture and executions carried out by the mullahs since they stole power.
Following that, Farahi Shandiz, 57, was moved from hall 6 to solitary confinement in hall 14 in Karaj Central Prison.
Farahi Shandiz, a labor activist and private high school tutor, is serving nine years in prison for three separate charges of “insulting the supreme leader”; six years are for charges brought against him since he has been in prison.
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