The death of a seven-year-old girl killed in a fire at Tehran’s Evin prison in the last 10 days of September
The death toll reported by Amnesty does not include any children killed during protests in October, including a 7-year-old boy who died in his mother’s arms on Sunday after security forces fired into a crowd of protesters, according to a report by Oslo-based Kurdish rights group Hengaw.
The 19-page report released by Amnesty International on Thursday said at least 23 children – some as young as 11 – were killed by security forces in the last 10 days of September alone.
Her death in the Islamic Republic caused many public figures to come out in support of the movement. The protests have since coalesced around a range of grievances with the authoritarian regime.
Between the start of the protests and October 3,Amnesty recorded the names and details of a total of 140 men, women and children who were killed by Iran’s security forces.
CNN cannot verify the number of executions in Iran, the latest arrest figures or death tolls related to the protests, because they are impossible for anyone outside the Iranian government to confirm.
The leader of the Islamic Republic called the protesters “agents of the West”, according to state news agency IRNA.
The death toll from the blaze at Tehran’s Evin prison has risen to eight, state-aligned news agency Tasnim posted on Twitter Monday. The Iranian state-run news agency Irna reported earlier that dozens of people were injured when prisoners set fire to a warehouse.
mass protests against the Islamic regime in the country have been taking place, which has seen political prisoners housed in the notoriously brutal facility.
According to Tahereh’s husband, director Jafar Panahi, guards fired tear gas at prisoners at Evin.
In an interview with Radio Farda – the Iranian branch of the US government-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty – Saeedi said her husband called her from the prison and told her that he and fellow jailed filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof are in good health.
On the Safety of Prisoners in Tehran and the Case of Namazi, a Former Prisoner in the Evin Correction Facility, as noted by Saeedi
Saeedi added that from the time the fire broke out Saturday night to when she got a call from her husband the next day were the worst hours of her life.
Activist group 1500tasvir reported earlier that, in videos posted on social media, gunshots were heard and Iranian special forces were seen heading to the area where the prison is believed to be located.
Inmates on Ward 8 have no water, gas, or bread and 45 of them were transferred “to an unknown place,” Daemi said. “Now everyone is fine, but they are worried about being transferred to other prisons, solitary confinement and interrogation.”
Mostafa Nili, a lawyer who represents a number of prisoners, said that many inmates had been transferred to Rajaei Shahr prison. Video shows prisoner being taken away from Evin.
“She told me she didn’t know what had happened at Evin last night but said that she heard the terrifying sounds and thought something terrible happened,” Hosein said his wife told him, adding she was doing well.
According to Hosein, the man is being held in Evin’s Section 207 which is notorious for housing prisoners of conscience, and didn’t have any information about other areas of the prison.
Iranian-American Siamak Namazi, who has been detained in Iran for seven years and was forced to return to prison on Wednesday after briefly being released on furlough, is also safe, according to the Namazi family lawyer Jared Genser.
Speaking earlier to state broadcaster IRIB, Tehran’s prosecutor Ali Salehi said the “conflict” at the prison was not linked to the protests that have swept the country following the death of a young woman in police custody.
“No prisoner is safe in Iran, where people are maimed and killed for criticizing the state,” the head of New York-based Independent Center for Human Rights in Iran, Hadi Ghaemi tweeted Sunday. “Political prisoners in Evin & Iran should be freed. All prisoners should have access to their families and medical treatment.
Ghaemi also urged the United Nations to hold Iran’s leaders accountable in a call echoed by Amnesty International secretary general and former UN Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard.
Marching in support of the Iranian Revolution: The Nov. 4 Decay of the U.S. Embassy and the Fate of a Woman in Police Detention
Iran marked the anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran on Friday, as theocracy is facing protests over the death of a woman in police custody.
Iran’s state television broadcasted live feeds of commemorations throughout the country and some in Tehran waved placards that said, “Russia using Iranian drones in its war on Ukraine.” But while crowds in Tehran looked large with chador-wearing women waving the Islamic Republic’s flag, other commemorations in the country appeared smaller, with only a few dozen people taking part.
Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi, speaking to people gathered in front of the former U.S. Embassy building, criticized those protesting the theocracy.
“Anyone taking the smallest step in the direction of breaching security and riots, must know that they are stepping in the direction of enemies of the Islamic Revolution,” he said. “Americans think they can execute the plan they carried out in some countries like Syria and Libya here. What a false dream!”
Those at the commemoration also waved effigies of French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Signs and chants from the crowd called out: “Death to America! Death to Israel!”
Protests began in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province on Friday, which has seen weeks of unrest. Online videos purported to show people marching in the streets and some throwing stones, with the crackle of gunfire in the background and clouds of tear gas rising. Some protesters appeared bloodied, while activists said some had been killed. No casualty figures were immediately known.
IRNA reported that protesters set a police stand on fire and attacked the governor’s office in the city of Khash in Safford and Baluchestan.
Hard-liners within Iran long have bussed government workers and others into such Nov. 4 demonstrations, which have a carnival-like feel for the students and others taking part on Taleqani Street in downtown Tehran.
This year, however, it remained clear Iran’s theocracy hopes to energize its hard-line base. The signs referred to the Supreme Leader, who has final say over all matters of state in the country. The weekslong demonstrations have included cries calling for Khamenei’s death and the overthrow of the government.
On November 4, 1979 student protesters climbed over the fence at the embassy in protest against the administration of President Jimmy Carter who allowed Shah Mohammad Pahlavi to receive cancer treatment in the United States.
The students soon took over the entire, leafy compound. The story of a few staffers escaping and hiding in the home of the Canada’s ambassador to Iran was dramatized in the 2012 film “Argo.”
The 444-day crisis transfixed America, as nightly images of blindfolded hostages played on television sets across the nation. Iran finally let all the captives go the day Carter left office on Ronald Reagan’s inauguration day in 1981.
Over the decades, the enmity between Iran and the US has increased. In exchange for the lifting of sanctions, the United States and world powers reached a deal with Iran on its nuclear program. The deal suffered a blow when President Trump withdrew from it.
“We’re going to free Iran, don’t fret, we will,” Biden said during the campaign rally. He said, “they’re going to free themselves pretty soon.”
Maybe he said it because of not being focused. Raisi said he said they aim to liberate Iran. “Mr. President!” Iran was liberated from captivity 43 years ago and is determined not to happen again. We will never become a milking cow.”
Biden had said he was willing to have the U.S. rejoin the nuclear deal, but talks have broken down. Since the protests began in mid-September, the American position appears to have hardened with officials saying restoring the deal isn’t a priority amid the demonstrations.
Source: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/04/1134356107/iran-1979-embassy-takeover-islamic-revolution-mahsa-amini
The Iran Human Rights Campaign: A sentence for a man convicted of murdering a paramilitary officer and violating public order and order in Iran
On Friday, some protesters waved giant placards of atoms as a reminder that Iran now enriches uranium to its closer than ever to weapons-grade levels. Iran could make at least one nuclear weapon with enough enriched uranium, according to nonproliferation experts, though Tehran insists its program is peaceful.
A person has been sentenced to death in Iran for his beliefs against God and corruption on Earth, according to state media.
According to state news agency IRNA, they were found guilty on the charge of disturbing public order and peace, community and colluding to commit a crime against national security, war and corruption on Earth.
Five others who took part in the protests received sentences of five to 10 years in prison, convicted of “collusion to commit a crime against national security and disturbance of public peace and order.”
IRNA said that the decisions are preliminary and can be appealed. The news agency didn’t name the protester who was sentenced to death or give information on when or where they committed the crime.
Iranian authorities have charged at least 1,000 people for their alleged involvement in the protests.
In an update to its death toll, the group said its published number was an absolute minimum, and included 43 children and 25 women.
Despite the threat of arrests – and harsher punishments for those involved – Iranian celebrities and athletes have stepped forward to support the anti-government protests in recent weeks.
Iran Human Rights, a non-profit organization which has members in and out of Iran, is calling for a strong international response to the execution.
According to the state media, Iran has executed a man for injuring an officer of the paramilitary force in the first known execution related to protests that have swept the country.
Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s judiciary, and the semi-official Tasmin news agency both named the protester as Mohsen Shekari. According to a report, he was convicted ofwaging war against God for stabbing a member of the Basij paramilitary force at a protest in Tehran.
Shekari was executed without any due process or access to a lawyer of his choice by the Revolutionary Court.
“His execution must be met with the strongest possible terms and international reactions. Otherwise, we will be facing daily executions of protesters who are protesting for their fundamental human rights,” the group’s director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam told CNN.
The reformist former leader said in a message ahead of Students’Day that the government should listen to the demonstrators before it is too late.
The Iranian protests against women are rioters, thugs, and their support of the Sunni–Yamaev–Muslim government
The country’s judiciary needs to investigate and prosecute people who abuse women in prisons, according to the Iranian Sunni cleric.
Since the demonstrations began, authorities have unleashed a deadly crackdown, with reports of forced detentions and physical abuse being used to target the country’s Kurdish minority group.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Supreme Leader has praised the Basij – a wing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard – for its role in the crackdown, describing the protest movement as “rioters” and “thugs” backed by foreign forces.