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Family of Kurdish Political Prisoner Endure Immense Pressure From Security Forces

The family of Anvar Hossein Panahi, a thirty-seven year old Kurdish political prisoner, has been under increasing pressure from security forces in Kurdistan. Amjad Hossein Panahi, Panahi’s brother, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that his family is under pressure from security forces in Kurdistan and that several of his family members have been arrested and imprisoned following his brother’s arrest. “My family is under immense pressure from the Kurdistan Province Intelligence Office. They intended to fabricate a case and exile the entire family members to a remote location. Right now, almost no one is allowed to visit with the family and since my brother’s arrest, 30 members of our family and relatives have been arrested and imprisoned,” he told the Campaign.

14th March 2011

Amidst Ambiguity, Lights Turned On Inside Karroubi Residence

Ambiguity continues to surround the detention and location of Iran’s opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hossein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard, and Fatemeh Karroubi. On 10 March however, Saham News quoted one of Mehdi Karroubi’s family members who said the lights inside the Karroubi’s home, located in the Farmanieh neighborhood of Tehran, were on. This is the first time in 18 days that lights in the home have been on.

14th March 2011

Mousavi’s Premiership Era Documents Confiscated During Raid

Mir Hossein Mousavi, and his wife Zahra Rahnavard, were visited for the first time by two of their daughters on Tuesday, 8 March. Mousavi and Rahnavard have been incommunicado for almost a month. During the meeting, Mousavi told his daughters that during a raid by security forces on 14 February, the day their contact was cut off completely, numerous papers and documents from his time as Prime Minister that he described to as “documents which should not be in anybody’s possession but his,” were taken. Security forces also confiscated numerous papers, books, and CD’s pertaining to Zahra Rahnavard’s work as an artist, faculty member at arts universities, and Chancellor of Alzahra University. Mousavi also told his daughters that security forces inspected personal items such as family photograph albums as well.

14th March 2011

Mousavi Tells Daughters He Is Concerned About Confiscated Premiership Era Documents

After almost a whole month of no information about the condition of dissident leader Mir Hossein Mousavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, two of their daughters were able to visit with them last Tuesday, 8 March. Mir Hossein Mousavi told his daughters during this meeting that on 14 February, the day their contact was cut off with the outside world, during a raid by security forces on the couple’s home, numerous papers and documents from his time as Prime Minister which he described to his daughter as “documents which should not be in anybody’s possession but his,” were taken. Along with these, a considerable number of papers, books, and CD’s belonging to Zahra Rahnavard’s professional life as an artist and faculty member at arts universities and Chancellor of Alzahra University, were taken by security forces. Mir Hossein Mousavi told his daughters that during the raid, their most personal items such as family photograph albums were inspected.

12th March 2011

Zia Nabavi Being Held in Ahvaz Intelligence Office Says Father

After a month without news from Zia Nabavi after being transferred from Ahvaz’s Karoon Prison to an unknown location, his father, Seyed Ali Akbar Nabavi, spoke with the International Campaign with Human Rights in Iran saying, “We learned last week that he is at the Ahvaz Intelligence Office, where he has been transferred. I went to see him there last week. He wasn’t bad.”

11th March 2011

“Supreme Leader Directly Responsible for Ebrahim Yazdi’s Arrest and Detention,” Says Son-In-Law

Ebrahim Yazdi

Judicial officials announced recently that the trial for Ebrahim Yazdi, head of the Freedom Movement of Iran, will be held on 13 March. His son-in-law, Mehdi Nourbakhsh, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, directly interfered in his arrest and detention and should be held responsible if Yazdi is hurt in any way.

11th March 2011

Imprisoned Kurdish Youth’s Father Appeals for End to Government Crimes

Zanyar Moradi

Zanyar Moradi’s father, Eqbal Moradi, recently spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran about his 19-year old son’s death sentence. “According to the news that I have heard from Zanyar and Loghman’s prison mates, the two of them have been put under pressure and torture again to make false confessions that they killed the son of Mariwan’s Friday Prayer Imam,” Eqbal Moradi said.

11th March 2011 - 1 Comment »

Labor Leader’s Sister Asks for His Release to Treat Three Blocked Arteries

In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, labor activist Mansour Osanloo’s sister, Fereshteh Osanloo, reported her brother’s dangerous health condition in prison and said he needs immediate surgery. “There is very little left of his prison term. He should be freed in two or three months. But his heart condition is dangerous now. Last month, when the prison infirmary was unable to treat him, he was transferred to a hospital outside for an angiography. Doctors there determined that three of his arteries are blocked and that he needs immediate surgery. We requested that they help him to be sent outside the prison for treatment, but so far we have not heard anything,” said Osanloo’s sister.

10th March 2011

Increased Pressure on Activists in Babol: Forced Confessions, Mistreatment, and Torture

A local source in Babol told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that several activists arrested in the northern city during recent protests on 14 and 20 February have been released from prison, though the status of many detainees is still unknown. Those detainees include: Mohsen Barzegar (former Cultural Secretary, Islamic Association of Noshirvani Industrial University in Babol), Iman Sedighi (former Political Secretary, Islamic Association of Noshirvani Industrial University in Babol), and Fariba Asadian, mother of Moeen Eslami Jam (former Organization Secretary, Islamic Association of Noshirvani Industrial University in Babol). According to the source, Hossein Zamen Zarrabi, Sara Bagheri, Ali Yazdanpanah, Ramtin Meghdadi, Danial Zargarian, Milad Taheri, Ali Gholampour, Siavosh Chitgar, Amir Hossein Rostami, Mahmoud Shagerd Dabbagh, and Ehsan Parvin were arrested by security forces during the 14 and 20 February protests but were released from prison on bail.

10th March 2011

“Sotoudeh Illegally Detained in Ward 209; She Should Be Released On Bail,” Says Husband

Most of Iran’s women’s movement activists remain in prison on International Women’s Day, some with long sentences, others awaiting their sentence. In an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Reza Khandan, husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer and human rights activist who was sentenced to 11 years in prison and 20 years’ ban on legal profession and travel abroad, said, “I don’t know whether she remembers Women’s Day or not. As in past weeks, she will call home in 12 hours. Right now she is waiting for the results of her appeals court, about which there is no news yet.”

8th March 2011
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