Summary of the
monthly reports:
21st
Febuary-19th March 2004
Unfortunately, once
again in the last month Iranian regime has widely violated and breached Human
Rights in
During the last
month we continue to hear and read about the violation of human rights. The
activities of human right in
A) Tribunal Media:
1) Eisah Sehar-Khiz, Director of ‘Aftab’ (Monthly
magazine)
2) Hoshang Mohammed
Rehimi-Far, Director of ‘Payam Shady’ (Monthly Magazine)
3) Mohammed-Sadegh
Doord-Gar, Director of ‘Besoyeh Pirozzi’ (Monthly magazine)
4) Mohammed
Jondeghi-Zadeh, Director of ‘Sinama’ and ‘Varzesh’ (Weekly Magazine)
5) Iraj Jamshidi,
Chief Editor of ‘Asiya’ Newspaper (prisoner)
6) Mohammed Hassan
Ali-Pour, Director of ‘Aban’, a banned magazine.
7) Ali Yousef-Pour,
Director of ‘Siasat Rooz’ newspaper and ‘Zard Kooh’ (Weekly magazine)
8) Habeeb Rahmani,
news correspondent of ‘Etemad’ newspaper.
B) Journalist
Summoned to Court:
1) Moosavi
Langaroodi, Director of ‘Golbaf’ magazine.
2) Feredoon
Gol-Afra, Director of ‘Keshavarz’ (Monthly magazine).
3) Directors of two
banned newspapers ‘Ham Meehan’ and ‘Bunyan’.
4) Majid Ghasemi
Feizabadi, Director of ‘Naseem Saba’ newspaper.
5) Ali-Reza
Alavi-Tebar, Chief Editor of two banned newspapers ‘Sobhe Emrooz’ and ‘Bunyan’.
6) Faramarz Seidd
Aghaei, News correspondent of ‘Iran’ newspaper.
C) Journalists
Investigated:
1) Mehdi Rahmanian,
Director of ‘Shargh’ newspaper.
2) Ahmad Naboei,
Director of ‘Nedayeh Eslahat’ (Weekly magazine)
3) Director of a
publication ‘Koocheh Ma’.
4) Director of
Lootus (Monthly magazine)
5) Feredoon
Amoo-Zadeh Khaleeli, Director of ‘Chelcheragh’.
6) Mustofi
Kavakabayan, Director of ‘Mardom Salari’.
7) Abdol-Rasoul
Vesal, Director of ‘Iran’ newspaper.
8) Mohammed
Naemi-Pour, Director of a banned newspaper ‘Yase Nou’.
9) Kevan-Samimi
Behbahani, Director of ‘Nameh’ (Monthly magazine)
10) Ali-Saleh
Abadi, Director of ‘Hambastegi’ newspaper.
11) Emad-Aldin
Baghi
D) Detained
Journalists
1) Farshad
Gharban-Pour, Journalist for ‘Geelan Emrooz’ newspaper.
2) Payam
Fezely-Nejad, Chief Editor of ‘Sinama’ (Weekly magazine)
3) Ensafali
Hedayat, Independent journalist.
E) Banned Media:
1) ‘Tabaristan’ (Weekly magazine)
2) ‘Ghalam Moalem’ (Weekly magazine)
3) ‘Vaghayea
Etefaghiyeh’ (Student’s magazine)
F) Sentenced
Journalists:
1) Shahram
Mohammed-Neeya, Director of a publication ‘Vaght’, fined 2 million toman
2) Majid
Gahsemi-Feizabadi, Director of ‘Naseem Sabah’ newspaper fined 300 thousand
toman.
G) Students
Summoned to Court:
1) Mohammed-Ali
Ebadi, (Tarbiyat Moallem University)
2) Mohammed
Farghdani, (Khajeh-Nasir University)
3) Arash Hashemi,
(Sanati Sharif University)
4) Jamshid Khatemi,
(Mashad Azad University)
5) Mehdi Habibi,
(Amirkabir University)
6) Akbar Nori,
(Tehran University)
7) Hadi Amiri
Tehran’s, (Khajeh Nasir University)
8) Mohammed-Reza
Naseb-Abdulahi
H) Students Called
for Hearing:
1) Payman Aref,
(Tehran University)
2) Roozbah Shafiei,
(Khajeh Nasir University)
I) Detained
Students:
1) Esmail Cheraghy,
(Yazd University)
2) Masdeeq
Keshavarz, (Yazd University)
3) Mohtaby Sanae,
(Yazd University)
4) Ali-Reza Sultani, (Yazd University)
5) Sobhani, (Yazd
University)
6) Bahram Feyazi,
(Shiraz University)
7) Reza Al-Ahmad, (Yazd University)
8) Saeid Rahimi,
(Shiraz University)
9) Mojtaba
Bakhshandeh, (Tarbiyat Moallem University)
10) Reza
Rostami-Khazaei, (Tarbiyat Moallem University)
11) Reza
Hassani-Pedram, (Tarbiyat Moallem University)
J) Students on
Trial:
1) Hassan-Ali Varzandeh, (Tehran
University)
2) Farab Samimi, (Islami Kar
University)
3) Abdullah Moamani
K) Students
Charged:
1) Reza
Ameri-Nasab, seven months imprisonment and ten lashes (Shiraz University)
2) Khybar Dadbeen,
one year suspended sentence (Tehran University)
3) Yashar Karimi,
one year suspended sentence (Hamadan’s Bouali Sina University)
L) Students on
Bail:
1) Ghasam
Azimi-Ataei, six months imprisonment (Sabzevar’sTarbiyat Moallem University)
M) Interrogation of
MPs:
1) Mohammed-Reza
Ali-Hussieni, MP Nahavand
2) Ali-Mohammed
Namazi, MP Lenjan
3) Mohsen Armin, MP Tehran
4) Alyas Hazrati, MP Tehran
5) Mohammad Bagher
Bagheri-Nejadiyan –Fard, MP Kazeroon
6) Gholom-Haydar
Ebrahim-Bay Eslami, MP Khaf
7) Mohammed Ghomi,
MP Pakdasht
8) Hasel Daseh, MP
Sardasht and Piranshahre
9) Ahmad Shirzad,
MP Esfahan
10) Ali Tajer-Niya,
MP Mashhad
11) Behroz Afghami,
MP Tehran
12) Mohsen
Mirdamadi, MP Tehran
13) Mohammed-Reza
Khatemi, MP Tehran
14) Rajab-Ali
Mazroei, MP Esfahan
15) Mansour
Soleymani- Meymandi, MP Shahr-Babak
16) Mohammed
Naeimi-Pour, MP Tehran
N) Suppression of
Public Demonstration:
1) Those who
demonstrated in Bam were arrested (It is worthwhile reminding that these people
recently experience a devastating earthquake).
2) 120
demonstrators in Piranshahr were arrested.
3) 300
demonstrators in Marivan were arrested.
4) 20 demonstrators
in Baneh were arrested.
5) 200
demonstrators in Pars-Abad were arrested.
6) Police forces
fired on peaceful demonstrators in Feredoon-Kenar, killing one person and
injuring a further 68 people.
7) Police forces
fired on peaceful demonstrators in Ardalan and injuring some demonstrators.
8) 100
demonstrators in Khaf were arrested.
9) Police forces
fired on peaceful demonstrators in Firooz-Abad, killing 3 demonstrators.
10) Police forces
fired on peaceful demonstrators in Ezeh, killing 4 and injuring many other
demonstrators.
11) Police forces
fired on peaceful demonstrators in Mahabad, killing one person, and injuring one.
In addition 15 demonstrators were arrested.
12) Police forces
fired on peaceful demonstrators in Bokan, killing one person and injuring 80
others.
O) Enforced Death
Sentences:
1) Mohamad-Ali
Firooz-Abadi, from Marvdasht
2) Kamal
Jaber-Pour, from Marand
3) Mohammed-Reza
Abbadini, 65 years old from Tehran
4) Saidullah 19
years old from Baneh
5) Delbar.M, 24
years old from Baneh
P) Death Caused by
Police Arms:
1) Ali Faragi from
Baneh
2) Shahin from
Tehran
3) Abdullah
Nokoordari from Sardasht
4) Amir.V 35 years
old from Tehran
Q) Suspicious
Deaths
1) Asmaeil Yousefi
(he was an asylum seeker who was deported to Iran by the Norwegian authority)
2) Afshin-Rad
(prisoner)
3) Mohsen Mofidi 35
years old (died as a result of 80 lashes)
R) Public, Cultural
and Social Activities that have been, Summoned, Investigated or Imprisoned:
1) Mohammad-Sadegh
Javadi Hesar, from Mashad.
2) Davad Bagheri,
from Arak.
3) Mohsen Sazgara,
one-year imprisonment in Tehran.
4) Farhad Dolati,
six months imprisonment in Tehran.
5) Jamshid Zarai,
Tabreez.
6) Ali-Mohammad
Jahangiri, Andimeshk
7) Five people from
the writers association were investigated by the Information ministry.
8) Abdullah
Nasseri, Managing Director of ‘Irna’
9) Abdullah
Ramzanzadeh, Government spokesman.
10) A film called
‘Marmulak’ was banned.
11) Playing snooker
in Mahalat was banned.
12) Ershad Alijani,
Houman Kazmiyan, Kaveh Mozferi and Massoumeh Akbarbegy were arrested.
S) Individuals
likely to be executed:
1) Saeid Masouri,
political prisoner (Avin prison in Tehran)
2) Hejat Zamani, an
Iranian asylum seeker who was deported from Turkey, Tehran.
3) Kebryeh
Rahman-Pour, Tehran.
4) Afsaneh Noroozi,
Tehran.
Human rights defense association of Iran, Montréal,
Canada (www.addhi.com) - Human Rights defense comity of Iran, Sweden (www.defakomite.com ) – The
action committee for the release of Prisoners of conscience in Iran, Paris, France (irancalppo.free.fr
) – Center for tought, dialogue and Human Rights in Iran, Toronto, Canada (ctdhumanright@yahoo.com) - Vereinigung zur Verteidigung der
Menschenrechte im Iran,Bremen, Deutschland (www.bashariyat.de) - Stichting voor
de Verdediging
van Democratie in Iran, Nederland ) kdaddih@hotmail.com) – Iranian – Canadian community Association of western Canada, Vancouver (yebarak@yahoo.ca) - Committee to Defend Human Rights in Iran, California, U.S.A. - ( defendhriran_ca@yahoo.com) - noran
(supporting committee for human rights in iran ), Norway – (noranali2003@yahoo.no ) – Activist of Human Rigts (www.irantestimony.com), Committee for defense of Liberty and Democracy in Iran – Austria (demokrasi9@yahoo.com) , Union for Human Rights defense in Iran –
Washangton, U.S.A