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Iranwire - 23 Nov 2023
<<Young Iranian Man Executed Over Alleged Killing of IRGC Member
The authorities in Iran's central province of Hamedan have executed a man who had been sentenced to death for allegedly murdering a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) during nationwide protests last year. Citing informed sources, the human rights website Hengaw reported on November 23 that the IRGC prevented the delivery of Milad Zohrehvand's body to his family, saying that no funeral should be held.
The prosecutor of Hamadan earlier announced that the death sentence handed to Zohrehvand for allegedly killing an IRGC member identified as Ali Nazari had been upheld. Details regarding Nazari's death are sketchy, with the government officials and judicial authorities in Hamadan province providing different versions of the incident. News agencies such as Mizan, IRNA, ISNA did not report about Nazari's death and the arrest of several suspects until September 27 this year. Zohrehvand, born in 2002, was employed as an asphalt worker. His name captured media attention after he was sentenced to death for being the <main suspect> in the death of an IRGC member. His first child was born while his father was in detention. The young man faced pressure to <confess> to being a <rioter> and was denied access to legal representation. More than 500 people were killed by security forces and over 20,000 were unlawfully detained during the unrest that rocked Iran for months. Following biased trials, the judiciary has handed down stiff sentences, including the death penalty, to protesters.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/122814-young-iranian-man-executed-over-alleged-killing-of-irgc-member/

Iranwire - 23 Nov 2023
<<EU Lawmakers Denounce Attacks Against Women, Rights Defenders in Iran
The European Parliament has condemned the <ongoing deterioration> of the human rights situation in Iran and called for the immediate release of all victims of arbitrary detention. In a non-binding resolution adopted on November 23 by 516 votes to four, with 27 abstentions, the lawmakers slammed the <the brutal murders of women by the Iranian authorities.> It cited Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old girl who died last month after being assaulted at a Tehran metro station for not wearing a mandatory headscarf, and Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in police custody in September last year after being detained on allegations of improperly wearing the hijab. Amini's death sparked nationwide protests against the Iranian establishment which were brutally put down by security forces. More than 500 people were killed in the repression and over 20,000 were arrested, including many journalists, human rights advocates and civil activists. In October, the European Parliament awarded the EU's top rights award, the Sakharov Prize, to Amini and to the <Woman, Life, Freedom> movement that sprang up after Amini's death. MEPs also called for the immediate release from detention of human rights defenders, including Narges Mohammadi who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last month for keeping up her fight against the <oppression of women> in her country despite numerous arrests and spending years behind bars. The European Parliament urged the Iranian authorities to <immediately end all discrimination against women and girls, including mandatory veiling,> and to <repeal all discriminatory gender laws.> The lawmakers reiterated their call on the EU to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization and to sanction <those responsible for human rights violations in Iran, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, President Ebrahim Raisi and Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri.> They also condemned the Islamic Republic's <hostage diplomacy> under which many foreigners have been incarcerated in Iran for what activists and Western governments say is a tactic to extract concessions from the West, or the release of Iranians imprisoned abroad.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122822-eu-lawmakers-denounce-attacks-against-women-rights-defenders-in-iran/

Iranwire - 23 Nov 2023 - by MARYAM DEHKORDI
<<Autumn Brings Devastating Floods to Iran's Khuzestan
With the onset of autumn rains in most of Iran, red level warnings were issued for at least seven provinces. The southern province of Khuzestan was particularly affected by floods following heavy rainfall on November 18-19, with the streets of Ahvaz and other cities being inundated with rainwater and overflowing sewage. Despite years of calls on the authorities to address sewage issues, the residents' plea has fallen into deaf ears. <After days of dust-filled skies and school closures, we awoke to the sound of rain. We stood by the window, and the children were overjoyed,> says Rezvan, a mother of two who lives in a two-story house in Ahvaz's Amaniyeh neighborhood. <I told my husband, 'Thank God! The rain will wash away the air pollution.' But a few hours later, it dawned on me that our relief would be short-lived,> she adds. The floods and overflowing sewage forced residents, including many elderly people heading to the General Administration of Social Security, to wade through contaminated water. On November 19, Khuzestan Governor Hossein Mehrab said that 61 locations had been flooded. He urged the Ahvaz Municipality and the Water Authority to take immediate action to address the problems facing these areas and to <deal with the culprits.> Earlier, the deputy for urban services at Ahvaz Municipality claimed that <the municipality is ready to face floods.> The municipality has received substantial funding from the government over the past years to complete surface water drainage projects in Ahvaz. A picture of the Ahvaz cemetery showing the graves submerged in rainwater has been circulating on social media. The cemetery is located in an area in the heart of the city that has long been plagued by flooding problems. <I feel terrible since I saw the photo. I know it may seem strange to some, but my father hated cold and wet places,> says Iman, whose father is buried in the cemetery. <Now he is cold and underwater....the dead of this city are not at peace, let alone the living ones,> he continues. Other images circulating on social media show flooded roads and water entering people's homes in Ahvaz. Reza is the owner of a repair shop on Zand Street, a densely populated area close to Naderi Bazaar in the city center and Fatemeh Al-Zahra Hospital. <Zand Intersection and Zand Street are not in good condition in terms of building safety,> he says. <The electrical wiring of some buildings is non-standard, and there have been several fires in the past due to these electrical connections. On Sunday, when it was raining heavily, a bare electric cable was hanging from a pole just above my shop. I called the water and electricity organization 10 times and we called the police several times, but no one answered. In the end, one of the passers-by was electrocuted. The man wanted to cross the street and, to keep his balance, he held his hand to the electric pole, which electrocuted him and threw him to the middle of the street. He was floating in the water and no one dared to approach him. Everyone was calling the emergency services, and an ambulance finally arrived after 15 minutes and took him away. I hope he survived.> Investigations by IranWire revealed that at least two people were electrocuted in the flooding of Ahvaz roads. One of them remains in critical condition.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/122809-autumn-brings-devastating-floods-to-irans-khuzestan/

Iranwire - 23 Nov 2023
<<A Husband Executed and Two Sons Jailed: The Life and Death of a Baha'i Woman
Afagh Rahimian, the wife of Rahim Rahimian, a Baha'i executed in 1983, and mother to Keyvan and Kamran, passed away this week in Iran. Rahimian's life was marked by the repeated persecution of members of her family, from her husband Rahim to her two sons, Keyvan and Kamran, and who as a result faced profound challenges and sacrifices over the course of her life. Afagh Rahimian played a crucial role in these tragedies - including caring for grandchildren as her sons spent years in Iranian prisons. After Rahim Rahimian's execution in 1983, the family's home and personal property was confiscation and Afagh Rahimian, along with her two children, was sent to live with friends with just one suitcase of belongings. In 2014, Keyvan Rahimian, along with his brother Kamran and Kamran's wife Faran Hesami, was arrested for teaching at the Baha'i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE), resulting in five-year prison sentences. Keyvan, an educational psychologist, as well as a scholar of the Baha'i faith and translator, and now aged 58, was arrested again in July 2023 and remains in Evin Prison today. Keyvan made a recent request for prison leave to visit his mother, which was denied. Afagh Rahimian's last days - spent without one of her sons, and under intensive care in a hospital - was marked by this final injustice by the Iranian authorities. The story of the Rahimian family was a central feature in IranWire founder and editor-in-chief Maziar Bahari's 2014 film To Light a Candle about the persecution of Baha'is in Iran and the community's efforts to pursue higher education despite being banned from Iranian universities.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/122806-a-husband-executed-and-two-sons-jailed-the-life-and-death-of-a-bahai-woman/

Iranwire - 23 Nov 2023
<<Baha'i Asylum Seeker Faces Imminent Deportation from Türkiye to Iran
Fareed Houshmand, an Iranian Baha'i who has been a refugee in Türkiye for the past seven years, faces a precarious situation as his asylum application has been rejected by a Turkish court. He is at risk of imminent deportation back to Iran. In recent months, Houshmand was detained by Turkish authorities and faces deportation due to Turkish immigration authorities' lack of familiarity with the Baha'i faith and the persecution this religious minority faces in Iran. Returning Houshmand to Iran could result in his arrest by the Iranian government, and subject him to torture, given the government's long-standing and systematic persecution of Baha'is in the country. After asylum is denied by Turkish authorities, individuals in Türkiye have the option to appeal the Immigration Department's decision and have their case reviewed by a city court. Despite Houshmand's objections, the court appointed a lawyer on his behalf, due to his financial constraints, and his appeal was then rejected. Houshmand left Iran on March 4, 2017, to seek refuge in Turkiye. He presented his case to the United Nations Refugee Agency in the hopes of receiving international support and protection. The UN relocated him to the city of Ordu. He worked by teaching English at language schools - though he later switched to working in a carpentry workshop. The language school had exploited Houshmand's labor, paying meager wages or even withholding payment, taking advantage of his refugee status. The recent surge in the arrest and deportation of Iranian refugees in Turkiye has heightened concerns about the overall plight of refugees in the country. Shahryar Baratinya, a political activist and former political prisoner who was deported from Turkiye to Iran on August 3, was detained once he returned to Iran and is currently being held in Evin Prison.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/bahais-of-iran/122797-bahai-asylum-seeker-faces-imminent-deportation-from-t%C3%BCrkiye-to-iran/

Iranwire - 22 Nov 2023 - by SHOHREH MEHRNAMI
<<Iranian Azeri Activists in Limbo Weeks After Arrest
A wave of arrests targeting 15 Azeri civil activists began in the summer and continued until November 7.
These activists from various cities across northwestern provinces are being held at the Tabriz Intelligence Department in East Azerbaijan province.
The judiciary has yet to disclose the charges they are facing. Several of these arrests coincided with a surge in government pressure on civil society ahead of the September 16 anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in police custody. The detained activists include Ebrahim Avazzadeh, Naser Razmjo, Davood Shiri, Araz Ebrahimnejad, Babak Rahmati, Hamed Yeganehpour, Mehrdad Qaderi, Ali Babaei, Morteza Nurmohammadi, Hossein Azadi, Ayat Mehr Ali Beiglou, Mohammadreza Movahed, Amir Hossein Aghaei, Javad Sodbar and Saber Hosseinzadeh. All 15 activists remain unaware of the specific reasons behind their arrest. A relative of Ayat Mehr Ali Beiglou told IranWire that this 45-year-old civil activist was apprehended at a car repair shop on November 7. Eyewitnesses informed his relatives that agents surrounded him before forcing him into a car at gunpoint. This married father of two managed to make a brief phone call to his family from the detention center of the Tabriz Intelligence Department. The relative told IranWire that neither the detainees or their families are aware of the charges against them or the reasons for their detention. They have also been denied access to lawyers. Mehr Ali Beiglou, a master's degree holder in industrial management from Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran, had been arrested in the past for his activism. Dawood Shiri, 52, was arrested in front of his house on September 13 in the presence of his wife and two daughters. His family has since spoken to him in three short phone calls. He said was being held in the Tabriz Intelligence Department and had not been granted access to a lawyer.>>
Read more here:
https://iranwire.com/en/prisoners/122779-iranian-azeri-activists-in-limbo-weeks-after-arrest/

Iranwire - 22 Nov 2023
<<Iranian University Students Boycott Class to Protest Security Measures
Students at the Faculty of Psychology of Tehran's Shahid Beheshti University have decided to boycott classes to protest the security measures recently put in place by the university's administration. According to Iran's Union of Student Councils, the students refused to enter the classrooms on November 21, vowing to defend their <most fundamental rights.> On November 20, independent student sources, including the Amir Kabir Newsletter Telegram channel, reported that security personnel entered the classrooms of the Faculty of Psychology to check the identification cards of female students who were not wearing mandatory headscarves. Similar incidents were reported at the Faculty of Literature and Humanities, where security personnel removed female students who did not wear a hijab from the classrooms and subjected them to questioning. Reports also indicated that female students were unable to access the Golestan system, which is used to select courses. Access was reportedly reinstated after they appeared before the university’s disciplinary committee and agreed to comply with the mandatory hijab rule. The Union of Student Councils stated that the individuals who disrupted classes were <security forces and anonymous people who covered their faces and did not display any identification documents.> Earlier, students at Tarbiat Modares University in Tehran went on strike on November 12-13 to protest the <suffocating security pressure> inside the university. The Telegram channel United Students reported that during the two-day strike, students refused to attend classes, visit the library or use certain laboratories. In a statement released at the end of the strike, the students called for the fifting of security measures at the university and in the dormitory and for an end to the harassment of students by security personnel. They also said that the practice of filing cases against female students over their hijab should cease. <When we speak and protest, the response is violence, insults and the disciplinary committee,> the statement said.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122772-iranian-university-students-boycott-class-to-protest-security-measures/
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Iranwire - 22 Nov 2023
<<Iranian Poet Chaharmahalian to Serve Suspended Sentence
An Iranian court has ordered the execution of a suspended prison sentence handed to poet and civil activist Atefeh Chaharmahalian. Chaharmahalian, a former board member of the Iranian Writers' Association, was arrested in Tehran on October 3 last year amid nationwide protests against the country's clerical establishment. She was initially incarcerated in Tehran's Evin prison and subsequently given a suspended prison sentence of two years and eight months. On November 21, Chaharmahalian announced on Instagram that her lawyer received an order requiring her to serve the sentence. She explained that the suspended sentence will be carried out because she <neither accepted amnesty (I never considered writing and defending people's rights as a crime that requires amnesty) nor put down the pen.> >>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122776-iranian-poet-chaharmahalian-to-serve-suspended-sentence/


Nasim Simiari
Jinha - Womens News Agency - 22 Nov 2023
<<Political prisoner Nasim Simiari starts hunger strike in Evin prison
News Center- Nasim Simiari, who has been held in Evin prison for seven months, started a hunger strike to protest her unlawful detention and violation of her right to an attorney. On May 14, 2023, Nasim Simiari was taken into custody by intelligence agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and transferred to a detention center in Evin prison. The intelligence agents confiscated her personal belongings, including identification documents, mobile phones and computer after searching her house. After two months of interrogation and detention in a solitary cell, she was transferred to another solitary cell. According to a source close to her family, Nasim Simiari was coerced into a forced confession to the camera before being transferred to the solitary cell. Nasim Simiari has been held in pre-trial detention in the women's ward of Evin prison on charges of <gathering and collusion against the security of the country>, <propaganda against the regime> and <disrupting public order>. Born in 1988 in Tehran, Nasim Simiari holds a degree in architecture and operated a women's beauty salon in Tehran before her detention.>>
Source:
https://jinhaagency.com/en/actual/political-prisoner-nasim-simiari-starts-hunger-strike-in-evin-prison-34182

Iranwire - 22 Nov 2023
<<Iranian Activist Ronaghi Faces New Charges
Former political prisoner and civil activist Hossein Ronaghi says he has been summoned by the Iranian judiciary to face new accusations. On November 21, Ronaghi posted an image of the summons on the social media platform X, accompanied by a caption stating: <I have been summoned to Branch 1 of the Evin Prosecutor's Office regarding new charges and a new case.> <We are unaware of the specifics of the accusation or the new case, but I will go to the prosecutor's office in the coming days. It is likely that the new case is related to my statements regarding the killing of Armita Geravand,> he added. Armita is a 16-year-old girl who was assaulted at a Tehran metro station on October 1 for not wearing a headscarf. She died after being in a coma for 28 days. Following Armita's death, Ronaghi denounced the <killing> of the teenager. Ronaghi has been arrested and convicted multiple times in the past. His most recent arrest occurred in the early days of the nationwide protests that erupted in September 2022.
Ronaghi was released from prison on bail on November 26 of last year.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122769-iranian-activist-ronaghi-faces-new-charges/
Read more here about the aftermath of the killing of our sister Armita Geravand:
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Nasim Sultan Beigi smiles going to prison
NCRI - Womens committee - 21 Nov 2023 - in Women's News
<<Nasim Sultan Beigi is detained to serve her 3.5 years in prison
Labor activist Hajar Saeedi and Raheleh Rahemipour, 72, are also detained to serve their one-and five-year prison sentences. Nasim Sultan Beigi, a journalist, was taken to the women's ward of Evin Prison to begin serving her sentence of three years and six months. She was arrested today, Tuesday, November 21, 2023, upon reporting in to the First Branch of the Implementation of Verdicts Office at Evin Courthouse. Nasim Sultan Beigi, a former student activist and journalist, was arrested by IRGC intelligence officers at the airport on January 11, 2023, and was transferred to Evin prison. She was temporarily released on bail on February 6, 2023, until the end of her trial. In August 2023, Branch 26 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Nasim Sultan Beigi to 7 months and 16 days in prison on the charge of <propaganda against the state> and three years and six months in prison on the charge of <assembly and collusion against national security.> Nasim Sultan Beigi is detained to serve her 3.5 years in prison
Nasim Sultan Beigi has a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, a former student activist and social journalist. Her colleague, Saeedeh Shafiei, was imprisoned on Sunday, November 19, on the same charges. On a similar development on Saturday, November 18, 2023, a Kurdish labor and women's rights activist, Hajar Saeedi, was detained to serve her one-year sentence in the women's ward of the Central Prison of Sanandaj. Hajar Saeedi is accused of <assembly and collusion> against the state and <acting against national security.> Ms. Saeedi and seven other labor and civil activists were arrested on May 17, 2023, by agents of the Intelligence Department of Sanandaj, when they were visiting the family of slain protester Houman Abdollahi. The 21-year-old protester was shot and killed by security forces on December 7, 2022, during protests in Sanandaj. Hajar Saeedi was temporarily released on June 18, on a bail of 500 million Tomans until the end of her legal proceedings. Ms. Raheleh Rahimipour was also detained on Saturday, November 18, 2023, to begin serving her five-year prison sentence. Ms. Rahimpour, 72, is seeking justice for her brother killed during the mass slaughter of political opponents in the 1980s. She resides in Tehran and is presently detained in Evin Prison. Raheleh Rahemipour is accused of <propaganda against the state,> and <assembly and collusion> against national security.>>
Source:
https://women.ncr-iran.org/2023/11/21/nasim-sultan-beigi/

Iranwire - 21 Nov 2023
<<Iranian University President Sacked After Students Attend Graduation Without Hijab
The president of Iran's Sharif University of Technology was dismissed after female students attended a graduation ceremony on the Persian Gulf island of Kish without mandatory headscarves. Science Minister Mohammad Ali Zolfigol removed Rasool Jalili from his position and appointed Abbas Mousavi as his successor, state media reported on November 21. In the decree addressed to Mousavi, Zolfigol stated that the new university president is <expected to adhere to Islamic teachings.> The graduation ceremony for 81 students at the international campus of Sharif University of Technology on Kish Island was held last week. Videos posted online show that most of the female students stood on stage in their graduation gowns and caps, but without a hijab. After the ceremony, the Amir Kabir Telegram channel reported that Ali Salek Ghafari, the head of the Kish Sharif campus, was <forced to resign> after receiving threats from the ministries of science and intelligence.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/news/122738-iranian-university-president-sacked-after-students-attend-graduation-without-hijab/
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Iranwire - Nov 21, 2023 - By SHOHREH MEHRNAMI
<<Nurses in Iran Protest Work Conditions, Wages
Growing dissatisfaction among Iranian healthcare professionals is posing a serious threat to the country's healthcare system, which is facing an increasingly pressing shortage of nurses. For years, nurses in Iran have voiced their frustrations about overwhelming workloads, inadequate compensation and a shortage of employment opportunities, but their demands have largely remained unanswered. The misallocation of resources by the government, including the recent hiring and deployment of officers to crack down on women not wearing the mandatory headscarf, has created a system that undervalues the crucial role played by nurses, contributing to their mass migration. Nurses gathered in front of government buildings in cities across the country on November 19, which marked Nurses' Day in the country, to once again make their voices heard. <No matter how much overtime we work, our income doesn't increase significantly because our demands remain unfulfilled,> a nurse from the western city of Khorramabad tells IranWire. <We haven't received our overtime pay for a year now. We've lost the motivation to go above and beyond.> Sahar Motalebi, a physician and health expert, describes the nursing system as a <tangled mess.> With approximately 200,000 nurses working in Iran, the nurse-to-patient ratio stands at 0.7, far below the international standard of 2.5, she says. Meanwhile, approximately 20,000 trained nurses remain unemployed due to the government's financial constraints, which limit their ability to hire and retain medical staff. The Ministry of Health has acknowledged the need to recruit at least 100,000 nurses to bring the country closer to the international standard. Motalebi explains that nurses are often forced to work extra shifts to compensate for the shortage, yet they are not adequately compensated for their dedication. This, coupled with weak work contracts, leads to burnout and pushes nurses out of the profession. A vice president of the Nursing System Organization recently revealed that approximately 2,000 nurses leave the country every year. Mohammad Ali Mohseni Bandpai, a member of the parliament's Health Commission, warned that the mass migration of nurses poses a significant threat to the country's healthcare system. He urged the government to address the shortage of nurses, improve employment conditions, and consider additional financial incentives.>>
Source:
https://iranwire.com/en/features/122737-nurses-in-iran-protest-work-conditions-wages/

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