Showing posts with label Qazvin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Qazvin. Show all posts

Monday, June 6, 2016

Iran misogynist regime hangs a woman and a man in prison

A woman and a man hanged by the misogynist Iran regime [file photo]

A woman and a man hanged by the misogynist Iran regime


Iran’s misogynist regime has executed a woman and a man in a prison in the northwestern city of Qazvin.
The woman has not been identified, but the office of the prosecutor in Qazvin Province said that she had been imprisoned since 2014.
The regime’s local deputy prosecutor was present to witness the execution, the state-run Borna news agency reported on Thursday.
The man was identified only as Amir Q., the official state broadcaster IRIB said in its website for Qazvin Province. He was arrested on May 30, 2011.
The latest hangings bring to at least 120 the number of people executed in Iran since April 10. Three of those executed were women and two are believed to have been juvenile offenders.
Ms. Farideh Karimi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) and a human rights activist, last month called for an urgent response by the United Nations and foreign governments to the recent spate of executions and the appalling state of human rights in Iran.
Iran's fundamentalist regime last month amputated the fingers of a man in his thirties in Mashhad, the latest in a line of draconian punishments handed down and carried out in recent weeks.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said in a statement on April 13 that the increasing trend of executions “aimed at intensifying the climate of terror to rein in expanding protests by various strata of the society, especially at a time of visits by high-ranking European officials, demonstrates that the claim of moderation is nothing but an illusion for this medieval regime.”
Amnesty International in its April 6 annual Death Penalty report covering the 2015 period wrote: 'Iran put at least 977 people to death in 2015, compared to at least 743 the year before.'
'Iran alone accounted for 82% of all executions recorded' in the Middle East and North Africa, the human rights group said.
There have been more than 2,400 executions during Hassan Rouhani ’s tenure as President. The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran in March announced that the number of executions in Iran in 2015 was greater than any year in the last 25 years. Rouhani has explicitly endorsed the executions as examples of “God’s commandments” and “laws of the parliament that belong to the people.

Saturday, May 28, 2016

Wider crackdown in Iran: Students Lashed 99 Times for attending a graduation party

National Council of Resistance of Iran said, the barbaric act proves that moderation during Rouhani is nothing but a myth.

these barbaric acts prove that moderation during Rouhani is nothing but a myth.


According to Daily mail, Middle East Eye,Up to 30 students have been given 99 lashes each in Iran for attending a mixed-gender graduation party.
The young men and women were all flogged in Qazvin, about 90 miles north west of the capital Tehran, as part of a brutal new crackdown.
It came amid claims some of the women were not wearing Islamic coverings of scarves and long coats - and that the students had been 'mingling'.
The young men and women were all whipped in Qazvin, about 90 miles northwest of the capital Tehran (file picture), as part of a brutal new crackdown


Prosecutor Ismaeil Sadeqi Niaraki is reported to have held a special court session after the revellers were rounded up following the party at a villa on the outskirts of the city.
The National Council of Resistance to Iran cites the Mizan news agency as saying that the arrests, interrogation and punishment all took place within 24 hours.
Niaraki is quoted as saying: 'After we received information that a large number of men and women were mingling in a villa in the suburbs of Qazvin... all the participants at the party were arrested.
'Thanks God that the police questioning, investigation, court hearing, verdict and implementation of the punishment all took place in less than 24 hours.'
He added that the judiciary would not tolerate the actions of 'law-breakers who use excuses such as freedom and having fun in birthday parties and graduation ceremonies.'
Up to 30 students have been given 99 lashes each in Iran for attending a mixed-gender graduation party .
He also warned the victims that 'being arrested in mixed-gender parties and receiving sentences is a crime and would create problems for their future education and employment.'
Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said: 'This barbaric act once again proves that moderation during Hassan Rouhani ’s Presidency is nothing but a myth.
'Three years after Rouhani’s Presidency the human rights situation in Iran is deteriorating in every aspect.
'This also shows the regime’s fragile state and total isolation among the Iranian people, in particular among the youths.'
Iran's hardliners have orchestrated a crackdown on 'morality' violations.


Iran's morality police answer to the supreme leader, not the president.
Tehran's morality force this year launched an undercover campaign by 7,000 morality police officers to ensure women are dressed according to Iranian revolutionary custom - either fully veiled or wearing a headscarf.



Rouhani, described as a 'moderate' president, has himself been criticized by international rights organizations for presiding over a heavy handed justice system.
The president has signed hundreds of executions since coming to power three years ago. Many of those hung were convicted of drug offenses.
More than half of the 753 people hanged in 2014 were were drug offenders.
In 2015, Amnesty International said it had recorded “a staggering execution rate” in the Islamic republic, “with nearly 700 people put to death in the first half of the year alone”.