RAHANA-Ali Abassi. Maziar Yazdania, and Rahman Yaghoubi are 3 student activists who were arrested during the student protests at Mazandaran University in June 2009 following the disputed presidential elections. They had spent a period of time behind bars in Sari Intelligence Office holding cells and at Babol’s’s Mati Kola Prison.

Human Rights House of Iran reports that in 2009 the Babolsar judiciary sentenced each of these students to 14 lashes and a suspended 6-month prison term. However about 2 months ago after a gathering of students at Mazandaran University, Branch 101 of the Babolsar Revolutionary Court reversed the suspended sentences for unknown reasons, requiring the 3 students to serve their time behind bars.

The first day they were locked up again, these 3 prisoners submitted a written request for a transfer to the public ward to officials at Babol’s Mati Kola prison but to date they have not received any response or acknowledgement of their request.

RAHANA-On October 15, 2011 plainclothes agents who were not in possession of an arrest warrant, while using insults and profanities, violently detained Hooman Fakhar.

According to Human Rights House of Iran this children and women’s rights activist was sentenced to prison and exile to the city of Khaf. He was been released on bail while awaiting the decision of the appellate court.

Hooman Fakhar had previously been arrested on February 12, 2011 and was on temporary release when he was detained again. This 23-year-old electrical engineer and human rights activist from Tehran and resident of the Netherlands.

Article in Persian: http://www.rahana.org/archives/47544

According to reports, at least one prisoner from Gohardasht [Rajayi Shahr] Prison in Karaj was secretly hanged in Evin Prison.

On Tuesday January 24, Ismail Kermanjani, a Kurd man who was about 30 years old and had been detained for close to six years was transferred from Gohardasht Prison to a solitary cell in Evin Prison. On January 25, he was hanged in Evin Prison. According to reports, a number of other prisoners were also hanged with him on Wednesday.

According to reports, a number of political prisoners are in critical condition in Gohardasht [Rajayishahr] Prison in Karaj and have been denied medical treatment.Political prisoner Abbas Esfandiari, 57, who was a political prisoner during the 80’s has been in critical condition for some months now and is reportedly suffering from leukemia. He has problems breathing and in some cases, the color of his face turns dark as a result of his respiratory problem. Mr. Esfandiari also has trouble speaking and he is mostly confined to his bed. Despite his critical condition, interrogators of the intelligence agency and Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolat Abadi prevent his transfer to the hospital. His medical records for his transfer to hospital were sent to the Tehran Prosecutor some time ago, but no measures have been taken for his transfer. This political prisoner is losing his physical strength on a daily basis and he is nearing a point of no return.Other political prisoners such as Zaniar Moradi, Meisaq Yazdan Nejad, and Reza Sharifi Bukan among others are suffering from various ailments but have been denied treatment. (Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran

With the implementation of a sentence issued by the Semnan Revolutionary Court, two traffickers were hanged in the Central Semnan Prison.

According to the Public Relations Office of the Semnan Judiciary, the execution of two criminals identified as M.J, 49 from Tehran… and H.A, 47 from Kashmer, who were sentenced to death by the Semnan Revolutionary Court, was carried out yesterday morning in Semnan Prison after legal procedures were carried out.