Student activist and blogger Kianoosh Sanjari was arrested on 7 October whilst reporting on clashes between security forces and supporters of Shi'a cleric Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi. Kianoosh Sanjari is being held incommunicado at an unknown location and Amnesty International fears that he may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment.
Kianoosh Sanjari, a member of a group known as the United Students Front, had allegedly gone to the home of Ayatollah Boroujerdi in the capital, Tehran, to prepare a report on the clashes that were taking place there. He was reportedly arrested along with scores of Ayatollah Boroujerdi’s supporters and transferred to an unknown location.
Kianoosh Sanjari has been arrested several times in the past. When he was only 17 years old in July 1999 he was arrested during student-led demonstrations against the closure of the newspaper Salam (Peace). He was subsequently held in solitary confinement for many months. Prior to his recent arrest, he lived in Tehran and was reportedly closely monitored by the authorities. more
سهشنبه، آبان ۰۹، ۱۳۸۵
Torture in detention 209: stripped naked and attacked by Russian-trained dogs
Student committe for defence of political prisiners in Iran: Reza Malak who was an investigative expert at the ministry of intelligence and security was arrested and charged with publishing an 80-page dossier in connection with the notorious chain murders* which divulged related documents; he has been in the semi-public section of ward 209 of Evin prison which is overseen and controlled by the agents and torturers of the ministry of intelligence and security. Reza Malak is in his 6th years of imprisonment which is half of his 12 year long sentence and he is still being held in Evin’s security ward; the ward authorities refuse to transfer him to a public section of the prison where the conditions are somewhat better.
For the last year and a half Malak has declined to step out of the ward to get fresh air in protest to his uncertain status and the regime’s refusal to allow him access to legal representation as well as the most basic amenities.
The officials in charge of ward 209 have also refused him all medical care; as such Malak has lost most of his teeth while in prison and is unable to eat normal food. He is currently only able to eat bread that has been dunked in water and fruit htat has been properly grated down to tiny shreds. Due to his inability to consume many foods, his system has seriously weakened.
During his years in prison he has had a variety of diseases and ailments such as severe and chronic migraine and the gradual loss of his sight. The level of cruelty of prison officials is to such extent that they even refuse him his eye glasses however Malak has managed to ingeniously fabricate spectacles for himself out of bits and pieces of other prisoners’ glasses.
In the meantime, it has been 3 years that the prison officials have prohibited Reza Malak from being visited by his two children.
In an open letter, Malak addressed international human rights organizations writing about the extreme mental and physical torture inflicted upon him [and other prisoners] during these years in detention and had requested assistance and attention to his case. In this letter he cited and detailed shocking cases; in one case he describes the case of a fellow prisoner, an engineer who had been arrested and also being held in ward 209. In one of the torture sessions, the man had been stripped naked and left in a room with a hungry Russian-trained dog and then terrorized into the confession of crimes that he had not in fact committed. Malak also points out that officials do not hesitate to use various forms of psychotropic drugs in order to force prisoners into confessing.
Also in his letter, Reza Malak requested that Nobel prize winnter Shirin Ebadi, undertake his defense. But so far there has been no reaction from Ebadi.
For the last year and a half Malak has declined to step out of the ward to get fresh air in protest to his uncertain status and the regime’s refusal to allow him access to legal representation as well as the most basic amenities.
The officials in charge of ward 209 have also refused him all medical care; as such Malak has lost most of his teeth while in prison and is unable to eat normal food. He is currently only able to eat bread that has been dunked in water and fruit htat has been properly grated down to tiny shreds. Due to his inability to consume many foods, his system has seriously weakened.
During his years in prison he has had a variety of diseases and ailments such as severe and chronic migraine and the gradual loss of his sight. The level of cruelty of prison officials is to such extent that they even refuse him his eye glasses however Malak has managed to ingeniously fabricate spectacles for himself out of bits and pieces of other prisoners’ glasses.
In the meantime, it has been 3 years that the prison officials have prohibited Reza Malak from being visited by his two children.
In an open letter, Malak addressed international human rights organizations writing about the extreme mental and physical torture inflicted upon him [and other prisoners] during these years in detention and had requested assistance and attention to his case. In this letter he cited and detailed shocking cases; in one case he describes the case of a fellow prisoner, an engineer who had been arrested and also being held in ward 209. In one of the torture sessions, the man had been stripped naked and left in a room with a hungry Russian-trained dog and then terrorized into the confession of crimes that he had not in fact committed. Malak also points out that officials do not hesitate to use various forms of psychotropic drugs in order to force prisoners into confessing.
Also in his letter, Reza Malak requested that Nobel prize winnter Shirin Ebadi, undertake his defense. But so far there has been no reaction from Ebadi.
یکشنبه، آبان ۰۷، ۱۳۸۵
Mousavi Khoini Released
Hasan Zarezadeh Ardeshir
29 Oct 2006
Former reformist member of Majlis (Parliament), Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, was released by the Ministry of Intelligence after spending more than 130 days at Evin Prison’s infamous Ward 209.
Khoini was released on a 1,500 million riyal ($163,000) bail, according to his wife, Zohreh Islamian.
Hours after his release, Khoini said that his arrest was prompted by his “useful and effective activities as a member of the Sixth Majlis in pursuing prisoner’s rights, tracking illegal detention centers, criticizing the performance of the authorities, membership in the Tahkim-e Vahdat organization [Office for Consolidating Unity], and in particular, criticizing the performance of the government in handling the nuclear dossier.”
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29 Oct 2006
Former reformist member of Majlis (Parliament), Ali Akbar Mousavi Khoini, was released by the Ministry of Intelligence after spending more than 130 days at Evin Prison’s infamous Ward 209.
Khoini was released on a 1,500 million riyal ($163,000) bail, according to his wife, Zohreh Islamian.
Hours after his release, Khoini said that his arrest was prompted by his “useful and effective activities as a member of the Sixth Majlis in pursuing prisoner’s rights, tracking illegal detention centers, criticizing the performance of the authorities, membership in the Tahkim-e Vahdat organization [Office for Consolidating Unity], and in particular, criticizing the performance of the government in handling the nuclear dossier.”
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