Moments ago, a man sentenced to retribution in the Kaj Square murder case was hanged.
Yaqub, 32, who killed another man in front of dozens of people was hanged at 6:16 am today based on his court sentence with the presence of a group of people. (Fars state-run News Agency – Jan. 5, 2011)
Man lashed 74 times before execution
The judge of the Penal Court’s Sentence Implementation Unit said that the flogging sentence for the murderer of the Sa’adat Abad (Kaj Square) case was carried out yesterday.
“The flogging sentence for the murderer of the Sa’adat Abad case was carried out yesterday”, Esmatollah Jaberi said.
Yaqub was sentenced to 74 lashes for demonstrating the use of force with a knife (waving around a knife in public).
His death sentence will be carried out tomorrow morning in Sa’adat Abad. (Fars state-run News Agency – Jan. 4, 2011)
It has become clear that the constant stomach pains of Political prisoner Mohsen Dokmeh Chi, who has been in a critical condition from some time ago and was accused of ‘faking his illness’ by prison officials, is actually a kind of cancer.
The lack of attention and negligence of Evin Prison officials has caused hi illness to deteriorate. Dokmeh Chi who is a Tehran Bazaar merchant has been detained for more than 15 months for giving financial assistance to the families of political prisoners.
According to reports, he was suffering from constant pain for several months but prison officials refused to give him medical attention or see to his problems and transfer him to a hospital, until his condition became very critical. Because of his late transfer to the hospital, doctors have said that his cancer has advanced and that there was no hope in treating him.
According to this report, prison officials still refuse to give him a short furlough and he was once again transferred to prison. (Jaras Website – Jan. 4, 2011)
Female prisoners denied treatment for influenza
Despite the fast spread of influenza A in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj, prison officials refuse to give prisoner serious treatment.
Three weeks after the spread of Influenza A, prison officials have only vaccinated prisoners but have distributed more than 50 ill prisoners to various sections of the female cellblock in this prison and there is danger that prisoners will once again contract this influenza.
Prisoners do not allow ill female prisoners to come inside the cells and they are forced to sleep in the filthy hallways without having anyone to look after them.
The signs of this influenza was also seen in Mrs. Mahvash Sabet, a prisoner of conscience who is one of the heads of the Baha’i minority faith and is detained in the female cellblock in this prison. (Human Rights Activists in Iran - Jan. 4, 2011)
No news on Tehran University gifted student
Political prisoner Hassan Julani, who was arrested on November 2, 2010 by plainclothes agents near the western entrance of Tehran University, is still kept in an unknown condition. Julani is a gifted mathematics student and the best student in the Mathematics Department in Tehran University who has written 12 international articles thus far.
This student who has invitations from four of the best mathematics universities in the world, was arrested before this on December 7, 2009 and was released after four months of detention.
Notably, when he was studying to get his master’s degree, he was threatened several times by intelligence agents and was banned from participating in the exams to continue his education for his doctor’s degree. (Daneshju News – Jan. 4, 2011)
Arash Sadeqi who has been banned from continuing his education in Alameh University in Tehran was transferred back to cellblock 350 after four days of solitary where he was beaten.
According to reports, intelligence agents severely beat and abused him and he was returned to his cellblock in a critical condition. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Jan. 4, 2011)
Tehran Prosecutor threatens new wave of attack against Iranian evangelical Christians
Tehran Governor Morteza Tamadon, compared evangelical Christians to the Taliban and Wahhabis and called their faith ‘a deviated and corrupt movement’ in Christianity saying that their leaders would be arrested and firmly dealt with.
According to the IRNA state-run news agency, Morteza Tamadon said on Tuesday that ‘various types of false, deviated and corrupt cults have sharpened their teeth in the field of our beliefs’ and are active in some regions.
“One of these movements is a corrupt and deviated one that promotes its ideas under the cover of evangelical activities via cultural circles in Britain”.
The Tehran Governor also stressed that evangelical activities were related to the “British military and cultural attack” against Iran and said, “The heads of this movement in Tehran have been trapped and a larger number will be arrested in the near future”. (IRNA state-run news agency, Radio Farda – Jan. 4, 2011)
Iran arrests more than 60 Christians
Unofficial sources have said that more than 60 Christians have been summoned by the Intelligence Agency or arrested in their homes by plainclothes agents thus far. The detainees were mostly arrested in Tehran and a number of other Iranian cities and were mostly temporarily released after interrogations and forced pledges.
The large Christian community in Iran has been under great pressure by security forces on the days leading to Christmas and the New Year. Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran warned against the growth and spread of home churches for the first time in a speech in Qom on October 19, 2010. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Jan. 4. 2011)
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