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Appeals Court to Issue Sentence without Consideration of Behavar’s Defense

Mother of Emad Behavar, the imprisoned head of the Youth Branch of Freedom Movement of Iran, sentenced to ten years in prison in a lower court, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that while the political prisoner’s defense bill has not yet reached the judge, the appeals court will be issuing its [...]

6th January 2011

Javad Larijani’s Admission to Ineffective Death Penalties for Drug Traffickers

While the number of executions related to drug trafficking has startlingly increased in the recent months in Iran, a foreign diplomat told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Javad Larijani, Chief of the Iranian Judiciary’s Human Rights Council, has expressed in his meetings with foreign authorities that the policy of executing drug-related criminals has been unsuccessful, and that capital punishment has not reduced drug-related social maladies.

4th January 2011

Three Years in Prison, Three Years in Exile, and a Three Year Ban on Speeches for Religious Scholar

Ahmad Ghabel, a theological researcher and government critic, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran after being released on $50,000 bail by Branch 5 of Mashad’s Revolutionary Courts. “I do not have any new charges. It was claimed that there are new charges, but when I reviewed them, I realized that they were the same old charges. During my trial sessions, also, only the original seven charges raised against me were reviewed, and I was acquitted of two of them. I have not seen my ruling yet, but my wife has told me about them. The other two charges which led to the sentencing are ‘propagating against the regime,’ the punishment for which is defined by the law as one year in prison, and the other is ‘actions against national security,’ which has three years in prison [as punishment]. This means that the maximum punishment stipulated for this in the law has been determined for me. Three years in prison and three years’ exile to my city of residence, and three years’ ban on speaking to groups larger than three people; this is what the lower court has issued and it’s not clear what may happen in the appeals court, or whether there would be any changes or not,” said Ghabel.

4th January 2011

Lawyer: “Review of Habibollah Latifi’s Case Has Not Started Yet”

Nemat Ahmadi, one of the two lawyers representing Habibollah Latifi, a Kurdish student who was scheduled for execution last week on the charge of moharebeh, enmity with God, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that no new developments have happened in his client’s case, pertaining to a review of the case. Habibollah Latifi’s execution was halted last week after his family and lawyers’ efforts to convince the Iranian Judiciary to review the case again.

4th January 2011

Imprisoned Journalist Complains of Cold Cell and Lack of Access To Medicine

Azam Afsharian, mother of imprisoned journalist Nazanin Khosravani talked to the international Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about her first visit with her daughter, two months after her arrest. “Today was a very good day for me, as I was able to see my daughter’s beautiful face. Her morale was very good. But about her heart condition, she said that she has been really suffering. Nazanin said that ‘they don’t give me my medicines on time, and twice I have had to be transferred to the prison infirmary, where they have given me [nitroglycerin] tablets to put under my tongue.’ She was very upset for being treated this way. Her medication is not given to her on time, and then they have to prescribe other medicine,” Afsharian told the Campaign.

2nd January 2011

Hoda Saber’s Wife: “Nobody Is Accountable”

The wife of Hoda Saber, journalist and a Nationalist-Religious activist told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she has no knowledge about the reasons for her husband’s recent arrest. “I want my husband’s unconditional release, because his imprisonment was unjust and without any specific reason. My husband has not done any political work in the past two years, and did not take any political stance towards the [2009 Presidential] election results. I was somewhat ill, so he was taking care of me. But he was arrested on the street in July of this year and has been in prison ever since. Three weeks before his arrest, they contacted me by phone and told me that Mr. Saber must surrender himself to start serving his prison term. When Mr. Saber heard of this, he immediately called them back and said that the order must be in writing, served to him and his lawyer. But, three weeks later, three cars abducted him on the street. I had no news of him for ten days, until he called and said that he was in solitary confinement inside Ward 2-A of Evin Prison,”she told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.

1st January 2011
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