Systemic Violations – Right to Life

Executions, Arbitrary Killings, Human Rights Updates, Deaths in Custody, and Death Sentences

Execution

A Baluch inmate executed in Mashhad Vakilabad Prison

At dawn, on Sunday, October 2, 2022, a Baluch inmate, Avaz Bilarani, married with children and from Zahedan, was executed at Mashhad Vakilabad Prison on narcotic related charges.

The execution has not been announced by Iran’s domestic media or official sources, thus far. (Haalvsh- October 2, 2022)

Five executions in Mashhad

In the morning on Sunday, October 2, 2022, five men, four of them Baluch citizens, were executed in Mashhad Central Prison (Vakilabad Prison) on narcotic related charges. (Iran Human Rights Organization- October 4, 2022)

Two inmates executed in Qazvin

In the morning of Wednesday, September 28, 2022, two men sharing a case of rape, Kiomars Parvaneh and Hasan Hojjati, and sentenced to death, were executed.

According to an informed source: “The two inmates were detained two years ago and were sentenced to death. The Supreme Court immediately affirmed the sentence.”

The executions have not been announced by Iran’s domestic media or official sources, thus far. (Iran Human Rights Organization- October 6, 2022)

Six inmates executed in Shiraz

During Sunday and Monday, six inmates were executed in Shiraz Central Prison (Adelabad Prison).

In the morning of Sunday, October 2, 2022, four men were executed at Shiraz Central Prison. They are Hashem Mahmoodzadeh, Yousef Ali Chalani, Abbas Fathalian and Heydar Ramezani. They were charged with narcotic related charges.

According to an informed source: “Hashem Mahmoodzadeh was detained since four years ago on narcotic related charges and was sentenced to death. Yousef Ali Chalani was from Kazeroon and was sentenced to death on the same charge. Abbas Fathalian was from Shiraz. He was detained three years ago on narcotic related charges and was sentenced to death.”

In another event, in the morning of Monday, October 3, two other inmates were executed on narcotic related charges. There are not yet identified.

The execution of the four are not yet announced by Iran’s domestic media or official sources. (Iran Human Rights Organization- October 6, 2022)

Number of executions rises to 12 in Mashhad; mostly Baluch inmates

According to an informed source, on Sunday, October 2, 2022, 12 prisoners were taken for execution and none of them have returned to the ward. According to this report most of them, at least 9, were Baluch citizens.

Formerly, the report about the execution of 5 of the 12 inmates, on narcotic related charges was published. The five were Asef Sheybak from Zahedan, residing in Mashhad; Saeed Shaibak, 20, from Zahedan, residing in Mashhad; Ramezan Mazarzehi from Zahedan, Residing in Mashhad and Avaz Bilarani, from Zahedan. The other inmate was not identified. (Iran Human Rights Society- October 7, 2022)

Nationwide Uprising- Arbitrary killing
Protester, Mokhtar Ahmadi lost his life in Marivan

On Saturday evening, October 1, 2022, Mokhtar Ahmadi, a protester, lost his life in Marivan by security forces’ gunfire. His corpse was taken to a hospital and is not handed over to his family yet. Also 9 other protesters were wounded during Marivan’s protests.

Reports received say that security forces are widely spread throughout the city. (Kurdpa- October 1, 2022)

15-year-old youth, killed in Kermanshah’s protests
On Wednesday, September 21, 2022, Amir Hossein Bastami, 15, was shot dead by anti-riot forces during Kermanshah’s protests against the murder of Zhina Amini by government forces. He was shot in his chest in Modarres St. of Kermanshah.

According to received reports, the body of Amir Hossein Bastami was delivered to his family under tight security measures on Thursday, September 30, after seven days and was buried on the same day at the cemetery of Darkhor Village in Hasanabad.

According to a person close to Bastami family: “Bastami family had no news of their son for 8 days. Eventually an acquaintance of the family informed them that the body of their son was kept at the morgue in Taleqani Hospital.”

It must be said that during that nights protest two other persons, Ms. Minoo Majidi and Reza Shahparnia were shot dead by anti-riot forces. (Hengaw- October 1, 2022)

Nationwide protests victims Names and details of 141 victims of Regime’s brutal suppression

On Saturday, October 1, 2022, Iran Human Rights Society, published the names and details of 141 victims of 2022 nationwide protests. The number of those fallen for freedom during the protests are far more. An investigation is going on in that regard.

On Saturday, October 1, the name and details of 67 more victims have been verified by Iran Human Rights Society. This brings the number of martyrs whose identity has been verified to at least 141.

Among these victims, 52 names belong to our Baluch compatriots who were massacred in a blood bath on Friday, September 30, after the Friday Prayer by SSF forces. The number of wounded is also very high.

The 67 new identified names are as follow:

(Iran Human Rights Society- October 4, 2022)

Suppression of 2022 protests in Kurdistan Statistics

In this report, we have attempted to take a statistical-informational look at the strikes and protests from September 17, 2022, to October 3, 2022, and the government crackdown against them.

According to this report;

• 21 people, four of whom are under 18 have been killed: (Urmia 3, Oshnavieh 4, Islamabad-e Gharb (Shabad) 3, Divandareh 2, Kermanshah 3, Ilam 1, Piranshahr 2, Saqqez 1, Dehgolan 1, Marivan 1).
• Only 14 people who have been transferred to the hospital in major cities due to the severity of their injuries have been obtained, but the number of injured is much higher, for example in Saqqez, more than 50 people, in Baneh 25 and Islamabad-e Gharb more than 80 people and …
• The detainees, the names of more than 335 arrested are obtained, 50 of whom are women. The number of arrests also have risen to more than 100 in some cities. (Kurdpa- October 4, 2022)

Protests in Kurdistan, 23 dead,1,138 wounded

During the protests of the past few days in Kurdistan, a protesting citizen has been killed and three other victims have been identified. The number of detainees has increased to more than 2,000.

According to a report, at least one citizen in Marivan, Mokhtar Ahmadi, died being shot at directly by security forces over the past week, and by authenticating three other victims of the recent protests in Kurdistan, including Amir Hossein Batati, a 15-year-old teenager from Kermanshah, the number of recent victims of the recent Kurdish protests has risen to 23.

Separation of civilians killed and injured in Kurdistan in different cities:

Kurdistan Province, 9 cities;

• Divandarre, 2 dead and 40 wounded,
• Saqqez, 1 dead and 100 wounded,
• Baneh, 47 wounded,
• Sanandaj; 170 wounded,
• Marivan; 1 dead and 43 wounded,
• Dehgolan: 1 dead and 37 wounded,
• Bijar; 17 wounded,
• Qorveh: 40 wounded,
• Kamyaran: 11 wounded

Total: 5 dead and 505 wounded

West Azerbaijan provinces (Urmia); 9 Cities:

• Oshnavieh; 4 dead and 67 wounded,
• Urmia, 3 dead and 80 wounded,
• Piranshahr; 2 dead and 96 wounded,
• Mahabad; 45 wounded,
• Bukan, 70 wounded,
• Takab : 7 wounded,
• Mako: 6 wounded,
• Naqadeh: 27 wounded,
• Sardasht, 36 wounded

Total: 9 dead, 434 wounded

Kermanshah Province, 3 cities:

• Kermanshah: 3 dead and 55 wounded,
• Islamabad-e-Qharb, 3 dead and 40 wounded,
• aveh; 20 wounded

Total: 6 dead and 115 wounded

Ilam province; 3 Cities:

• Ilam; 1 dead and 40 wounded,
• Ivan-e-Qharb; 11 wounded,
• Abdanan; 6 wounded

Total: 1 dead, 57 wounded

Other (Kurdish) Iranian cities

2 Killed

Total: 23 dead, 1,138 wounded

More than 2,000 Kurd protesting citizens have been arrested in the past two weeks (Hengaw- October 3, 2022)

Fouad Qadimi, father of two, was killed by two bullets

Fouad was 40 years old and from Divandareh.

Fouad Ghadimi is one of the first victims of the protests against the murder of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini. He was shot in his wrist and abdomen during a protest in Divandareh on September 19, 2022 and died at Kosar Hospital in Sanandaj on September 21.

According to a source familiar with the case, he was targeted with AK-47 bullets near the IRGC base. A few people tried to help Fouad Qadimi and took him to the hospital from the alleyways leading to the coastal road:

“Then he was taken to a women’s beauty salon and was there for a few minutes… “Then they tried again to take him to the hospital, but they left him in front of the hospital in a gutter because they didn’t dare taking him inside.”

It is not clear how long Fouad Ghadimi had been left in the gutter until two people noticed and took him inside Imam Khomeini Hospital in Divandareh. According to the source, The Fouad Qadimi had undergone surgery in the operating room for 6 hours:

“They removed one of his kidneys because he had heavy bleeding and said he would die before he reachs Sanandaj, but his family insisted that he be transferred to Sanandaj with their consent and responsibility and he was transferred with a helicopter.”

After Fouad Qadimi’s death, one of his brothers had lost power of speech from 6:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. due to the nervous breakdown caused by the news and could not speak.

Fouad Qadimi died on Wednesday, September 21, 2022, but According to the informed source, the cause of death is mentioned as “unknown” in his death certificate.

Fouad Ghadimi’s body was transferred to Divandareh’s old cemetery under the supervision of security forces around 1 a.m. on September 22, and many security forces were present at the funeral. The body of this citizen protesting the murder of Mahsa Amini was buried around 2:30 a.m.

“Although they said that no one but the family should attend the burial, about 300 people had come. Security forces themselves chose the grave to bury him. One of his brothers complained why they wanted to bury him there, but a few relatives stopped him from protesting… They were afraid that he would get arrested too.”
Fouad Qadimi was born on February 20, 1983, was married and had two sons, 16 and 9 years old.  (Radio Zamaneh- October 3, 2022)

After racketing 1.50 billion rials from Mehrab Dolatpanah’s family, the body was released.

Mehrab Dolatpanah was shot in his head during a protest in Talesh on September 24, 2022, by regime’s forces. He was in a coma for seven days and lost his life in the morning of October 1.

The MOIS agents prevented that his body be delivered to his family and asked for eight billion rials. Eventually two days after Mehrab died, they gave his body back to his family after racketing 1.50 billion rials. (Iran Human Rights Society- October 4, 2022)

A victim of Varamin protests identified

A Kurd youth from Sonqor and Kolyaie County in Kermanshah, Mohammad Zare’ie was killed by the gunfire of regime’s forces during the protests against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by government forces, in Baqerabad (Qarchak) in Varamin.

He was shot dead in the evening of Wednesday, September 21, 2022.

His body was delivered to his family after several days and under intense security measures. He was buried in his village of birth, Dahbaneh, in Saqqez, without any funeral.

According to an informed source: “The security agencies harshly threatened Zare’ie family that they should not inform of his death and speak with any media about it.”

It must be mentioned that also Alireza Fathi, 22, from Sonqor was shot dead by regime forces during popular protests in Qazvin, on the same day. (Hengaw- October 4, 2022)

Two-year-old kid killed by regime’s forces during Zahedan Protests

Following the popular protests and the Bloody Friday in Zahedan, a 2-year-old kid was shot dead by regime’s forces on Sunday, October 3, 2022, in front of his house in Jam Blvd. of Zahedan. He is identified with his family name, Mir-Shekar.

It is to be noted that thus far, including the 2-year-old victim, at least 9 kids have been killed in Zahedan by regime’s forces gun fire. (Haalvsh- October 4, 2022)

A kid lost his life in Urmia

On Wednesday, October 5, 2022, Nima Shafaqdoost, 16, who was severely wounded in a protest gathering, lost his life in a detention center in Urmia.

According to an informed source, in fear of being detained Nima does not refer to a hospital. The security forces dragged him out of his home’s basement where he was being treated and transferred him to a security detention center in Urmia.

“On Wednesday, October 5, after several days of his arrest, the security forces delivered his dead body to his family. They have threatened his family to refrain from having an interview with any media in that regard,” stated the source. (Kurdpa, October 6, 2022)

Civil activist lost his life under torture

According to published reports, Emad Haidari, 31, son of Hayyal, from Mullah-Sheih region who was detained nine days ago by IRGC Intelligence during protests and widespread detentions, was murdered under torture on Thursday, October 6, 2022, at the Intelligence Agency.

Emad Haidari, was a civil activist and was active in popular committees that helped the flood-stricken. He was formerly detained four times for his activities and was recently released on bail.

Emad just married a few months ago. (Payke Iran- October 7, 2022)

Iran 2022 uprising: At least 185 killed including 19 kids

The number of victims of the recent protests has reached 185, 19 of them are minors. In regard with some of the victims, especially the girls, security forces have tried to put all kind of pressures to prevent the flow of information or show the killing as a suicide. The pressures include detaining family members and obtaining compulsory TV confessions.

The slain protesters are from 17 provinces, most of them from Sistan and Baluchistan, Mazandara, Gilan and West Azerbaijan provinces. Some were first wounded but died later at hospitals.

The highest killed toll belongs to September 21, 22 and 30, 2022.

The distribution of the victims in relation with provinces are:

1. Sistan and Baluchistan: 90 killed
2. Mazandaran: 27 killed
3. Gilan: 12 killed
4. West Azerbaijan: 12 killed
5. Kurdistan: 8 killed
6. Tehran: 8 killed
7. Kermanshah: 7 killed
8. Alborz: 5 killed
9. Khorasan Razavi: 3 killed
10. Isfahan: 2 killed
11. Qazvin: 2 killed
12. Kohgiloyen and Boyerahman: 2 killed
13. Zanjan: 2 killed
14. East Azerbaijan: 2 killed
15. Ilam: 1 killed
16. Bushehr: 1 killed
17. Semnan: 1 killed

It is to be mentioned that due to anomalies in information flow, threats by security officials and the current problems that exist for the investigators to affirm some cases, still a great number of the reports regarding those murdered during the protests are under investigation. The true number of the victims is much higher than the above mentioned figure. (Iran Human Rights Organization- October 8, 2022)

Fourth week of protests: A driver sounding his car’s horn in support was shot in the head

At noon, on Saturday, October 8, 2022, and in the fourth week of Iran’s nationwide protests citizens took to the streets in many cities.

This presence was based on a public call for holding nationwide gatherings at 12 noon on the day.

On the early hours of the protests a video clip was posted showing that a driver in Sanandaj has been shot dead by security forces. Allegedly he was sounding his car’s horn in support of the protesters. He is identified as Darush Alizadeh.

The report was from the protest gathering in Sanandaj, in ‘6 of Bahman’ St., one of the main streets of the city.

During the widespread protests in various cities of Kurdistan, along with other cities of Iran, at least two Kurd citizens lost their in regime’s forces shooting at the protesters and 70 others were wounded. Today’s protests started first in Sanandaj and then Saqqez, Kermanshah, Javanrood, Kamyaran, Bukan and Mahabad cities joined the protests.

Iran Wire, Hengaw – October 8, 2022

Two teachersshot wounded by security forces in Saqqez

When security forces shot at Shahed Hooshmand High School and all-girls Esmat Academy, on Saturday, October 8, 2022, two of the principals of these schools, Halaleh Farajpoor and Negar Afra were wounded.

After the students of these two adjacent schools chanted slogans such as “women, life, freedom” and “death to dictator” and joined the nationwide protests, the security forces were immediately deployed there and shot into the yard.

According to one of the students: “As the result of this shooting, Negar Afra Deputy of Education of Shahed Hooshmand High School and Holaleh Farajpoor, the principal of Esmat Academy were severely wounded and were taken to medical centers.” (Hengaw – October 8, 2022)

Inhumane treatment and cruel punishments Amputation, flogging, torture and humiliation

Supporting the Iranian protestors, the actor, Elham Kurda’s passport confiscated

In the morning of Sunday, October 2, 2022, the passport of Elham Kurda, a cinema and theater actor was confiscated by security agents at Khoemini Airport in Tehran upon her entrance to the airport. She is also told that she must refer to Evin prosecutor’s office for questions.

She is a signer of women of cinema industry’s statement against gender violence in this industry.

During the last two weeks, following the murder of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini under the detention of Ershad Patrols and the consecutive protests of women and other Iranian citizens against the government, she had expressed support for the protesters in her Instagram page. (Iran Wire- October 2, 2022)

Flogging and opening another case for political prisoner Sina Zahiri

On Monday, October 3, 2022, the Kachui court issued a flogging sentence for political prisoner Sina Zahiri and filed a lawsuit against him. He was sentenced to 74 lashes for delaying his return to prison after his leave.

According to the source, political prisoner Sina Zahiri was scheduled to have a physician’s visit outside the prison. However, prison officials had given him a leave two days after the appointment. The source added: “Since the date of the interview had passed, Sina Zahiri had a seven-day delay for taking care of the issue, and eventually had to return to the hospital without being visited.

“Prison authorities took advantage of the opportunity and sentenced him to 74 lashes for what they themselves were responsible for, which is an inhumane sentence.”

Sina Zahiri, born in 1982, was arrested on November 14, 2020, to serve five years of imprisonment and was transferred to Evin Prison.

In mid-winter of 2019, the political prisoner was sentenced to five years in prison on charge of having connections with the MEK/PMOI.  (Iran Human Rights Society- October 3, 2022)

Prison
Prison conditions

A report on the situation at Sanandaj Central Prison after the extensive arrests of recent protests. After nationwide protests erupted over the murder of Mahsa Zhina Amini, hundreds of citizens were arrested in the cities of Kurdistan Province and transferred to Sanandaj’s security detention center and central prison. The transfer of this large number of detainees to prison has resulted in a high number of prisoners, causing many problems for prisoners and detainees.

The General Directorate of Prisons organization of Kurdistan province, in cooperation with security agencies, has set up a committee to manage the situation, and the head of this committee is Mehrdad Abbasi, the Information Protection officer of the Provincial Prisons Organization. Other members include Kolivand, head of the Prison Protection Unit, Amini, the prison guard, Abbasi Falegari, the head of the Prison Inspection, and Mehdi Ghavami, a prison personnel

Mehrdad Abbasi, who was previously in charge of the Prison Information Protection, has played a role in the suspicious deaths of two prisoners for common crimes, Khosrow Jamalifar and Aram Zamani, in the past few years.

The transfer of hundreds of detained protesters to prisons has resulted in high prison density and consequently severe shortages of accommodation space, severe reduction in rations, lack of necessary sanitary facilities, and even a lack of items available at the prison’s shop. These issues sparked protests on October 1, 2022, and a fierce clash between prisoners and the prison protection unit, which has been accompanied by severe repression and beatings of prisoners.

Prison guards raided various wards of the prison after protests and severely beat the protesting prisoners with batons.

The prison’s population was about 650 before the protests began, but following the transfer of hundreds of detainees to the prison, the prison’s population has risen to over 1,000, while its capacity is about 400.

In addition, on several occasions, the detainees of the recent protests have been beaten by the Protection Unit, which Mehdi Ghavami has played a leading role in this matter.

The condition of the prison has been reported to be extremely inappropriate in the past two weeks. About 200 protesters are being held in the prison’s sports facility, while others have been transferred to other wards inside the prison.

Following the transfer of detainees to the prison’s public wards, the daily commute of these wards has been banned, and each ward has been converted into a public cell to hold 40 to 120 people.

Also reportedly, the detained protesters are handed over to security agencies on a periodic basis every day and later returned to prison while severely tortured.  (Kurdistan Human Rights Organization- October 3, 2022)

Lawyers’ barriers to act on detainees’ cases

For days, many are concerned about the unreached cases of detainees, the cases of the detainees of the recent protests, for which a lawyer is still to be appointed or if they have a lawyer, they are still not permitted to act on them. According to some statements, many of the lawyers have not been able to enter the prosecutor’s office to initiate the process. After a few weeks they still have no news of what is going on. Though a group of detainees are deprived of having a lawyer and are not indicted, but they face another important issue, not having enough space and gears at the prison or the detention center. Now considering the wave of recent arrests these problems have become more evident.

Amir Raisian, lawyer, too, talked about the issue: “The news coming from the detention centers is not good. This means that most of them do not have proper sleeping place, health facilities, food storage or possibility to buy food and proper health facilities, etc. There are shortages. The conditions are inappropriate, and we have no hope that the prison’s environment will be an environment for rehabilitation at the moment. If the slightest thing happens to a prisoner, in terms of physical health or anything else, the responsibility lies with the judiciary officials and prison authorities.

We could not even get inside the prosecutor’s office

Seyed Ali Mojtahedzadeh, lawyer, said in an interview with “Sharq” about the process of handling the case of Hoda Tawhidi, Zahra Tawhidi and Alireza Khoshbat, who were arrested in recent days: these three are members of the Ittihad Party; A party with a certificate that operates within the framework of the law. We could not do a specific follow-up.

The rights of detainees should be respected

This lawyer continues: Currently, based on the information that the family of these people whom I accepted to represent, (have provided) their 10-day detention order has been extended again. Based on previous experiences, I think they have been charged with collusion and propaganda against the system. According to the calls that people made to me during this period, a number of detainees have not been charged yet.

Most of the lawyers failed to meet their client

Mojtahedzadeh points to the obstacles to follow up on their clients’ conditions and adds: Most of the lawyers these days could not meet with their clients, which is not legal. Unfortunately, the Security Prosecutor’s Office blocked the way from the very first steps and will not allow a lawyer in… Why did they take all the cases to a prosecutor’s office that has only four investigators… About 90% of the detainees, their crime is disturbing public order, which is a non-security charge.

Amir Raisian adds: “Even now, the issue that the country is dealing with is whether Ms. Mehsa Amini’s legal rights were respected or not during her detention. Regardless of the answer, imagine that we are faced with the legal rights of hundreds of people who are now detained.” (Sharq state-run daily- October 4, 2022)

Khosro Rahnama, forced to were prison outfit, refrained from going to Evin prosecutor office

On Sunday, October 2, 2022, former political prisoner, Khsoro Rahnama, refrained from going to the prosecutor’s office as they wanted him to wear prison uniform and be handcuffed and shackled.

Not being able to provide a 500 million Tomans bail, this former political prisoner was taken to Evin Prison on Sunday August 28, 2022, after his interrogation at Evin Prosecutor Office. (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA- October 8, 2022)

Nationwide Uprising- Arbitrary arrests

Political arrests

Teachers arrestedin Sanandaj and Talesh

Teachers Guild Associations’ Coordinating Council announced that a retired teacher was detained in Sanandaj.

In another event, the lawyer of Shahram Azmoodeh a teacher and journalist, posted a tweet that his client was detained.

According to a report by Teachers Guild Associations’ Coordinating Council, on Saturday, October 1, 2022, Security forces detained Mohammad Aref-Jahangiri a retired teacher in Saqqez and take him to an unknown location.

Also, Mohammad Karam Zamani, a member of Kurdistan and Bijar Teachers Guild Society, who was detained on September 27, is transferred to Sanandaj prison.

Another news says that Ramin Safarnia, a lawyer, has posted a tweet, informing that Shahram Azmoodeh a teacher and the editor of Talesh Publication has been detained by security forces in the evening of October 1, 2022. (Radio Zamaneh- October 2, 2022)

Hossein Mahini confined at MOIS’s solitary cell

While the former Persepolis soccer team player, Hossein Mahini, is incarcerated at solitary confinement of MOIS known as ward 209 (Evin Prison), a group of our country’s athletes, members of national teams, posted a story in their Instagram in his support.

Alireza Jahanbakhsh, Mehdi Taremi, Alireza Biranvand, Shoja Khalilzadeh, Mohammad Hossein Kananizadegun, Omid Ebrahimi, Milad Sarlack and…were members of national teams who shared this text in support of Hossein Mahini: “According to principle 27 of the constitution, (people have the right to protest), release Hossein Mahini.” (Modara state-run website- October 2, 2022)

Gelaleh Vatandoost lawyer and women rights activist, detained

On Monday, October 3, 2022, Gelaleh Vatandoost a lawyer and a women and children rights activist, was detained by security forces in Sanandaj. She has written some article in regard the rights during recent years. There is no news of her faith or whereabouts.

She has been summoned and interrogated time and again during recent years by security agencies. (Hengaw- October 3, 2022)

Five Baluch women arrested in Chabahar by Intelligence Agency agents

protests in Chabahar, five Baluch women were arrested by Intelligence Agency forces in the city on charges of participating in protests.

According to an informed source, the identities of three of the five women arrested were are Fatemeh Baluch Kari, Mehrnaz Omarzehi, 17, who suffers from seizures, and Sarah Baluch, 20. They are mother, daughter, and niece, respectively all from the city of Sarbuz. The identities of the two other women arrested are not known until thus far.

“The Chabahar Information Administration has told the families of the detainees not to talk about the issue of detention with the media, and we will release them on Saturday, October 1, 2022,” the source added. But two days ago, on October 1, they were transferred to Zahedan.

The source stated: “Mehrnaz has a convulsion disease background and during these few days of detention, not having access to her necessary medication, she has had several seizures, including on yesterday, October 3.  (Haalvsh- October 3, 2022)

106 riot leaders of Gilansrecent insurgency detained

Golestan Province IRGC commander explaining about the details and goals of the riots in the province said: “The main leaders of the riot in this province are arrested.”

Mohammad Abdolahpoor stated: “Some of the detainees confessed that they were under the influence of the media and some confessed that they had become excited because of the scene.”

He added: “One of the characteristics of these insurgencies was that the rioters tried to swiftly leave the scene and they were focused on the areas with many side-streets and alleys. Of course some of the detainees were from other provinces such as Tehran, Mashhad, Ardebil and Tabriz. They had come to Gilans to create havoc.”

Abdollahpoor mentioned that “some of the detainees have confessed that the issue of hijab is no concern for them and they have not even heard the name of Mahsa Amini.” He also announced that the Resistance Units were among the elements of the mayhem and that during the recent events some teams and Resistance Units have been arrested in Gilan. He also mentioned that assailants against NAJA forces have been arrested.

Mentioning that 68 percent of the detainees were between 15 to 25 years old, he added that “94% of them were men and 6% were women. During the interrogations (it became clear that) about 39% of them have been influenced by foreign media, and 60% were provoked by the event; also 106 leaders of the insurgencies have been identified.”

Gilan’s Qods force commander also announced that “during the recent riots in Gilan Province, 15 persons have died, there reason of the death for six of them is not determined. (Tasnim state-run news agency, Akharin Khabar state-run website- October 4, 2022)

The 18 day of Iran’s nationwide uprising

On Tuesday, October 4, 2022, the 18^th day of the nationwide uprising in Iran, the protests began with the presence of high school and university students in addition to the shopkeepers and farmers of Isfahan.

Mechanical Engineering department of Khaje-Nasir University, in Vanak, was under siege by Special Unit forces and the students could not leave the university.

In another event the name of 17 detainees, arrested in Yasooj during Iran’s nationwide uprising was published. They are:

1. Ali Jahanbin, General Physician, Yasooj
2. Iman GP assistant of Dehdasht Hospital
3. Soroosh Khalilipoor, born in 2003, (student) of Aerospace of Sabzevar University
4. Yaser Farokhzad, born in 1991, expelled student of Beheshti University
5. Aminollah Balin-Parast, writer and welder
6. Massoud Qalandari, born in 1985
7. Mohsen Qalandari
8. Korosh Jalil, born in 1981
9. Amin Heydarian
10. Iran Hasanzadeh, born in 1972, freelancer
11. Javad Taqvaie, born in 1983, freelancer
12. Ali Taqbaie, born in1999, freelancer
13. Mahyar Zahedian-Nasab, born in 2004, high school student
14. Behzad Heydari, born in 1992, freelancer
15. Yaqoub Javanbakht, born in 1990, freelancer
16. Ehsan Rakhsan, born in 1999
17. Amir Abbas Pouyan-Sefat, born in 1994

The names of 15 detainees of Iran’s nationwide protests confined at the greater Tehran Prison, are:

1. 1. 1. Sajjad Ramezan-zadeh, 23, student, arrested on September 24, on his way home.
      2. Saeed Kamfar, 23 years old,
      3. Ali Naji, 19 years old,
      4. Mohammad Darabi, 21 years old,
      5. Arash Ehsani,
      6. Samyar Baleghi, 24 years old,
      7. Ashkan Kalafi,
      8. Hashem Hasani,
      9. Ehsan Raghebi, 19 years old,
      10. Soheil Bahadori,
      11. Ahmad Arjmand, 23 years old,
      12. Saeed Mahmoodi,
      13. Kamyar Jafari.

    

   On the Bloody Friday in Zahedan, 4 kids were killed. Their names are:

   1. 1. 1. Samer Hashem Zehi, 16 years old,
         2. Sedis Kashani, 14 years old,
         3. Javad Poosheh, 12 years old,
         4. Eqbal Shahnavazi, 16 years old.

   (Iran Human Rights Society- October 4, 2022)

   Security agents arrested Arin Iqbal, the defender of Internet freedom

   Arin Iqbal, a digital rights activist and defender of Internet freedom and an expert in the field of information technology and computer networks, was arrested by the security forces on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. Arian Iqbal was a serious opponent of the “Protection Plan”

   In recent days, Hossein Darwari and Mohsen Tahmasabi, Internet freedom activists, have also been arrested. (Radio Zamaneh – October 4, 2022)

   Mustafa Al-Ahmad was sentenced to six years and four months in prison

   Mostafa Al-Ahmad, the writer and director who was arrested for the statement “Put down your gun” and supporting the people, was sentenced to six years and four months in prison, fined, banned from leaving the country, and banned from political, social and virtual activities.

   Al-Ahmad has been sentenced to three years and eight months of imprisonment for the charge of “gathering and collusion”, eight months of imprisonment for “propaganda activity against the regime”, and two years of imprisonment and a fine of 150 million Rials for “spreading lies”. His additional punishment is a two-year ban on leaving the country, a ban on membership in social and political groups, and a ban on cyberspace activities. (Persian Independent – October 4, 2022)

    

2. Sepideh Salarvand, an anthropologist and child rights activist, was arrestedSepideh Salarvand, a social researcher and child rights activist, was arrested by security agents on Monday night, October 3, 2022. They stormed her house and arrested her. Sepideh Salavarand was born in 1991. She is a researcher and a master’s degree student in cultural studies from the University of Science and Culture. (Radio Zamaneh- October 4, 2022)The main elements of riots will remain in jailTehran’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor, Ali Salehi, speaking about the rioters who have committed heavier crimes such as torching public properties, provoking riot in the society, acting against national security and having connections with foreigners, affirmed that “The rioters who had acted against national security and disrupted public order and security, will be dealt with without any compromise and with the legal decisiveness. Their cases will have priority for Tehran’s Prosecutor Office. They will be presented to the court.”

   “The main elements will remain in detention until the court decides about them,” he stressed. (Hamshahri Online state-run website- October 4, 2022)

   Families of detainees under persecution; no news of Mozaffar Salehnia a labor activist

   According to Workers Free Union, there is still no news of the reason of arrest and the conditions of Mozaffar Salehnia a member of the board of directors of this union who was detained on September 21, 2022, at his workplace by security forces in Sanandaj.

   About the labor activist’s current situation, the union wrote: “On daily basis, during the last 15 days, the family of Mozaffar Salehnia, had referred to Sanandaj’s Intelligence Agency and Judiciary to find about him and to release him, but the security and judiciary authorities do not answer them. They have just announced that he is under detention by the Intelligence Agency. It is more than a week that he was not permitted to call his family.” (Radio Zamaneh- October 5, 2022)

   Nationwide protests; three citizens detained in Tehran

   Security forces detained three citizens in Tehran and transferred them to unknown locations. They are Javad Azad, Adel Mansouri and Ali Salem. According to an informed source: “On Tuesday, October 4, 2022, Ali Salem a leftist political activists and a former journalist of Sharq daily, was detained at his home in Tehran and was taken to an unknown location. There is no news of him.”

   Also the United Students Telegram channel announced: “On Monday, September 26, 2022, Javad Azad and Adel Mansouri, two students of MBA at Alameh Tabatabaie University in Tehran, were detained around the Tarasht metro station by security forces and were taken to the Greater Tehran Prison on Wednesday, September 28, 2022. The efforts to release the two students have been in vain. (Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners- October 5, 2022)

   Nationwide protests; Arrest of three citizens in the cities, of Zanjan Urmia and Tehran by security forces

   In recent days, Safia Qarabaghi, Mohammad Moghadam-Sis and Hossein Masoumi were arrested by the security forces in Zanjan, Urmia and Tehran respectively and were transferred to security detention centers in the said cities.

   An informed source said: “On Saturday, October 1, 2022, Safia Qarabaghi, a citizen living in Zanjan, was arrested by the security forces and transferred to the detention center of the Intelligence Department of this city for questioning.” She is accused of (propaganda activity against the regime) and is taken to prison at night and to the detention center of the Intelligence Department during the day for questioning.

   This informed source also added: “About seven days ago, Safia Qarabaghi was summoned to Zanjan Intelligence Department by phone, but in response to this call, she demanded them to comply with the law and issue a notification for the summons, but the officers of the intelligence department went to Safia Qarabaghi’s house. After searching her house and confiscating some of her personal belongings, they arrested her.

   It should be noted that Safia Qarabaghi had previously been summoned, arrested and filed by the security agencies in Zanjan due to her peaceful civil activities in defense of women’s rights and civil society.

   But in another news; On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Mohammad Moghaddam-Sis, son of Zakaria, was arrested by the security forces and taken to an unknown place.

   There is no information about his whereabouts, charges or legal evidence of the charges which have led to his arrest.

   On Sunday, October 2, 2022, Hossein Masoumi, a former student activist, after being arrested by the security forces in his home, was transferred to the solitary cell of Ward 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence located in Evin Prison for interrogation.

   Bahar Masoumi, the sister of this arrested person, published information on her personal page about Hossein Masoumi’s brief contact with his family and announced that her brother is being interrogated in Ward 209 of the Ministry of Intelligence located in Evin Prison.

   As of the moment of writing this report, there is no information about the legal basis of the accusations and the reason for Hossein Masoumi’s arrest. (Campaign in Defense of Political and Civil Prisoner- October 5, 2022)

   Poet, Atefeh Charmahalian, detained

   Left (Atefeh Charmahalian), Right (Mona Barzoie)

   In the course of wave of arrests in Iran, poet, Atefeh Charmahalian, a former member of the board of directors of Iran Writers Club was detained by security forces. There is yet no news of the agency that detained her or her whereabouts.

   There is also still no news of Ms. Mona Barzoie, another poet who was also detained during the recent nationwide protests.

   At the end of a statement issued by the Iran Writers Club it reads: “The responsibility of any harm to Ms. Atefeh Charmahalian and other detainees is on the government. They must all be released without any condition.” (Radio Farda- October 5, 2022)

   17-year-old Aida Darvishi, rearrested in Paveh.

   In the evening of October 3, 2022, security forces raided the house of Aida Darvishi, 17, detained her and took her to an unknown location. Aida was formerly detained along with her mother Farangis Rostamzadeh on September 18, 2022, during the popular protest in Paveh against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by regime’s forces. She was released after a day pledging in writing. (Hengaw- October 5, 2022)

   Saeed and Ali Shirzad detained

   Former political prisoner, Saeed Shirzad was detained along with his brother, Ali, on Sunday, October 2, 2022, at his home in Tehran. Thus far the agency who detained the two, their whereabouts and the charges against them are not known.

   Saeed Shirzad was formerly detained and sentenced. (Human Rights Activists News Network (Hengaw)- October 5, 2022)

   The security agents of the Islamic Republic arrested journalist Ali Salem

   Following the widespread repression and arrest of trade unionists, and civil and political activists, the security forces arrested Ali Salem, a leftist journalist and translator, in his home on the evening of Monday, October 3, 2022. Salem is the secretary of Andisheh service of Shargh newspaper. Three years ago, in March 2018, security agents arrested Ali Salem along with 18 other people at the same time as a group of women’s rights activists gathered on the occasion of International Women’s Day. (Radio Zamaneh – October 5, 2022)

   Fadavi: The average age of many detainees is 15

   https://www.rouydad24.ir/fa/news/319786

   Deputy General Command of IRGC, Ali Fadavi, mentioned that the average age of many detainees is 15, and said: “When we are negligent about education and propaganda, these people will be like a delicious bait for the enemy through the virtual space.” (Roydad 24 state-run website- October 5, 2022)

   Gholamreza Bastami, father of slain youth from Kermanshah detained

   Gholamreza Bastami, father of Amir-Hossein Bastami, a 15-year-old youth who lost his life during recent popular protest in Kermanshah, held against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by security forces, was detained. In the evening of Monday, October 3, 2022, IRGC Intelligence forces raided the house of Gholamreza Bastami, himself a retired IRGC member, and detained him.

   After two days of his arrest and his family’s follow ups, there is no news of his faith or his whereabouts. Amir-Hossein Bastami, was shot in the chest by regime’s forces in Modarres St. of Kermanshah during the protests in the evening of Wednesday, September 21, and lost his life. His body was given to his family 9 days later and he was buried under intense security measures. (Hengaw- October 5, 2022)

   700 people detained during Hamedan’s Protests

   https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/710187

   Mazaher Majidi, Hamedan Province’s IRGC commander, announced that 700 people were detained during the recent unrest in the province and added: “On the second day, Basij forces were present beside SSF (NAJA) forces. Thanks to God, under one command, we were able to end the riots.”

   Majidi explaining that some were guided from abroad and some had come from other provinces to Hamedan, stressed: “This shows that there has been a plan…During the insurgencies across the province, 700 people were arrested.” (Aftab News state-run website- October 6, 2022)

   Gathering in 1058 points in Tehran; children of Monafeqin were detained during the riots

   https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/710401

   Morteza Kashkooli, the commander of Lorestan IRGC, explains about the riots in this province: “Some of the children of Monafeqin (the name regime calls PMOI/MEK) were detained during the insurgencies.”

   According to Kashkooli, about 9500 people gathered in the third night. In Saqqez when they buried Ms. Mahsa Amini, three thousand people were present. Morteza Kashkooli pointed out that a 250-strong crowd attacked the Saqqez governorate and stated: “About four days ago in Tehran, the universities’ students were in the streets at nine in the morning. There were gatherings in 1058 points of Tehran. The crowd was 4500 strong on the whole.”

   He mentioned that Lorestan IRGC has 107 battalions and added: “During the events in this province, we only used Basij forces. We did not deployed equipped marine battalions. Kashkooli added: “Despite the lies spread by anti-revolutionary media, we did not use any weapons in gatherings and riots. We only used Basij forces to keep peace and manage the gatherings.”

   Speaking about the arrests, Kashkooli stated: “Some of the children of Monafeqin who were former prisoners or were dismissed, were among the detainees.” (Hamshahri Online state-run website – October 6, 2022)

   Renowned internet activist detained
   https://tabnakbato.ir/fa/news/258724

   A member of Jadi Mirmirani family posted on Instagram that he was detained today. Jadi Mirmirani is a program writer and a data scientist with more than 20 years of history in professional programming. He is highly experienced in teaching in IT branches.

   His arrest, and his tweeter and Instagram accounts becoming inactive, shocked Iran’s technology ecosystem. Jadi had 133k followers on tweeter. He was a promoter of intelligence science and technics in Iran through his teaching activities and his podcast called Radio Gik. Before him, some other faces in technology such as Adel Talebi, Maysam Rajabi, Mohsen Tahmasebi, Hossein Darvari and Aryan Eqbal were detained too. (Tabnakbato state-run website- October 6, 2022)

   MP: Most of the detainees in Khorasan Razavi Province were between 14 to 18 years old
   https://www.asriran.com/fa/news/860825

   The MP from Khorasan Razavi Province: “Most of the detainees of the recent events in the country in this province were between 14 to 18 years old. According to Ms. Hajar Chenarani: “Many should be blamed for this, but it is the SSF that is under attack for that. May be the SSF is only one percent to be blamed.” (Asr-e-Iran state-run website- October 6, 2022)

   Kurdistan protests: 10 more women activists detained, 23 detainees identified.

   During recent days at least 10 other women activists have been detained by Islamic Republic security forces. They are:

   1. 1. 1. Soheila Mataie
         2. Sarina Hosseini
         3. Delnia Khani
         4. Zahra Babamohammadi
         5. Ziba Qelijkhani
         6. Zhila Hozhabri
         7. Sara Samavati
         8. Paria Ebadi
         9. Masoumeh Rashidi
         10. Mahshid Khani

   No.	Name	G.	Date of detention	from	Other info.
   1	Delnia Khani	F	October 1, 2022	Dehgalan	Detained by security forces taken to unknown location
   2	Sohela Bataie	F	October 1, 2022	Dehgalan	Detained by security forces taken to unknown location
   3	Sarina Hosseini	F	October 1, 2022	Dehgalan	Detained by security forces taken to unknown location
   4	Zahra Babamohammadi	F	September 20, 2022	Qarveh	Detained during popular protest against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, confined at Sanandaj Penitentiary
   5	Ziba Qelijkhani	F	September 20, 2022	Bijar	Detained during popular protest against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, confined at Sanandaj Penitentiary
   6	Sara Samavati	F		Sanandaj	Teacheer, Detained during popular protest against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, confined at Sanandaj Penitentiary
   7	Paria Ebadi	F		Sanandaj	Teacher, Detained during popular protest against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, confined at Sanandaj Penitentiary
   8	Masoumeh Rashidi	F		Sanandaj	Teacher, Detained during popular protest against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini, confined at Sanandaj Penitentiary
   9	Mahshid Khani	F		Ilam	Confined at Women Ward of Ilam Central Prison
   10	Zhila Hozhabri	F

   According to registered statistics during recent protest in Kurdistan cities, about 100 Kurd women activists have been detained by security forces, the identity of 75 of them have been determined.

   Following the wave of arrest of Kurd citizens, 23 other detainees from Sonqor and Koliaie, Sanandaj, Mahabad, Saqqez, Prianshahr, Oshnavieh and Urmia have been identified.

   Detainees of Saqqez:

   1. 1. 1. Adel Karimian
         2. Madeh Fadaie
         3. Khaled Jarrahi
         4. Havari Mohammadiani
         5. Farouq Mohammadi
         6. Hossein Nasrollahi
         7. Ezatollah Sheikhi
         8. Arvin Moradi
         9. Reza Inanlou (from Kermanshah)
         10. Sadoon Zare’ie
         11. Arman Seyyed Sadeqi
         12. Farzad Rahim-Panah
         13. Mehdi Maroufi

   Detainees of Mahabad:

   1. 1. 1. Shilan Poor-Amini (release after two days)
         2. Kamran Mahmoodi, 34 years old
         3. Matin Mullabekri

   Detainees of Sonqor and Koliaie on late September:

   1. 1. 1. Milad Fadaie
         2. Seyyed Ali Soltanian

   Also Himan Khastan a civil activist and an environmental activist was detained on Sunday, October 2, 2022, in Sanandaj, and Shovaneh Bazargan from Piranshahr was detained on September 30, by security forces. Their faith is unknown.

   In the evening of Wednesday, October 5, Shahram Gorgani from Oshnavieh was detained and Arman Chahar-Divar, 25, from Salmas, residing in Urmia, was detained on September 23. There is no news of them. (Hengaw- October 7, 2022)

   Two athletes, brothers, detained in Bukan, no news of them

   Two athletes, brothers, from Bukan, Saman Jalili, 34, and Behnam Jalili, 30, were brutally detained three weeks ago by security agencies. Thus far, there is no news of them. Tens of Bukan Intelligence Agency’s forces raided the gym that belonged to these two brothers on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, and detained them.

   According to an informed source: “The forces used batons and knuckledusters and violently beat the two brothers, athletes in parkour field and detained them.” The source continued: “The forces destroyed many of the equipment at the gym.”

   After almost three weeks of the detention of these two renowned brothers, and despite their family’s follow ups, there is no exact information of their faith or whereabouts. A person close to the family said that the two brothers were detained because they supported recent protests against the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by the government. (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – October 7, 2022)

   Six Kurd teachers detained during recent protest in Sarvabad, Dehgolan, Bukan, Oshnavieh and Sanadaj cities

   In the course of recent protests at least six teachers were detained by Islamic Republic security agencies:

   1. 1. 1. Hossein Taheri a teacher from Sarvabad was detained after being summoned to Sarvabad Intelligence Agency, on Tuesday, October 4, 2022,
         2. Saeed Nasseri, a teacher from Sanandaj was detained at his home by security forces on Tuesday, October 4, 2022. His faith is unknown,
         3. Mohammad Peyghami, a retired teacher from Oshnavieh was detained in late September 2022, and is currently confined at Urmia Central prison.
         4. Siamak Banehie, from Bukan County was abducted by security forces on Sunday, October 2022, and there is no news of him thus far.
         5. Amjad Bakhtiari, 48, from Dehgalan County, was detained at two in the morning on Monday, October 3, 2022, and was taken to a security detention center in Sanandaj.
         6. Masoumeh Rashidi, a teacher from Sanandaj was detained and is currently confined at the penitentiary center of this city.

   (Hengaw- October 7, 2022)

   Marivan: Massoud Nick-khah’s detention.

   On Saturday, October 8, 2022, Massoud Nick-khah a member of Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers Guild Association’s Board of Directors was detained after being summoned to Marivan Intelligence Agency. The teachers’ guild activist was released from Evin Prison on a 20 billion Rials bail, on Saturday, August 20, 2022, after being 100 days in detention. Eskandar Lofti, spokesman for Iran Cultural Guild Associations’ Coordination Council and a member of Kurdistan-Marivan Teachers Guild Association’s Board of Directors was also detained on Saturday morning, October 8, 2022. (Kurdpa- October 8, 2022)

   Social arrests

   116 cyber offenders were detained

   Ali Ebrahimi, Qazvin Province’s chief of SSF announced that 93% of cybercrimes were discovered by FATA police (Cyber Police) in this province: “During the first six months of the current year, 3800 pages and Internet websites having criminal instances were identified and files were opened for them by the judiciary. In that regard 116 cyber offenders have been detained. (Tasnim state-run news agency- October 8, 2022)

   Basic freedom and rights abused

   Communication Ministry: WhatsApp and Instagram are still limited.

   The Islamic Republic’s Ministry of Communication and Communication Technics announced that limitations imposed on WhatsApp messenger and Instagram social network in the country, continue. According to Digito, the access to social networks and messengers in Iran was even more limited on Sunday and sending messages without using a filter breaker was even harder. (Radio Farda, Sharq state-run daily- October 2, 2022)

   A draft law on holding gatherings was written/ Assigning the management of gatherings to the SSF.

   The Political Director of the Article 10 Commission of the Parties of the Interior Ministry said: “One of the actions of the Article 10 Commission of Parties in the past six months was to draft the law for gatherings, which was finally written.

   Abdullah Moradi, director general of the Political Bureau of the Interior Ministry, said: “One of the important headlines of this draft is about the responsibility of holding gatherings, which is placed on the SSF, so that they can manage these gatherings, so that the protests do not grow into riots.  (Pishkhan state-run website, Roydad 24 state-run website- October 4, 2022)

   The General Prosecutor demands “confrontation with cultural assault through internet”

   Montazeri: The presence of 16-year-old youths in recent events is because of the virtual space

   https://aftabnews.ir/fa/news/798850

   The General Prosecutor, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, called the recent protests in Iran “Cultural raid”. Attacking the former authorities he said that years ago, Ali Khamenei has asked for “confronting the cultural assault through internet’ and the “National Information Network” should have been established.

   The General Prosecutor stated: “At that time, when people didn’t carry out their businesses thorough the internet, we should have thought about the future so that instead of using foreign application, we would establish a domestic network getting help from our youths’ initiatives. Neglecting what the great leader had stressed on, had led us today to the point where we see that there are classes in WhatsApp and Instagram as of how to commit crimes.”

   “The fact that we are witnessing the presence of 16-year-old youths in the current events is because of the virtual space.” (Aftab News state-run website- October 5, 2022)

   Internet businesses in a state of limbo
   http://khorasannews.com/newspaper/page/21049/1/766784/0

   Limited internet access, lower speed, and filtering platforms in cyber space during the last three weeks has put the internet businesses in a state of limbo.

   A great number of media quoted the Minister of Communication yesterday that Instagram and WhatsApp filtering will not end.

   Unbelievable figures of damages caused by Internet limitations

   It was in late September that internet was limited in our country, a few days later the limitations increased. Net Blocks announced that Internet cut in Iran has brought a 1.5 million dollars (45 billion Tomans) of damage on the country’s economy. This means that 1000 billion Tomans of economic damage is inflicted on internet businesses. According to figures announced by the Net Blocks in 17 last days, the damage has been 17,000 billion.

   A report published by Tehran Computer Guild System Organization, cites the effect of internet cut and limitations on businesses as: More than 41% of the enterprises have lost 25 to 50 percent of their income during these days and 47% of them have more than a 50% drop in their sales. Even domestic service providers are having problems to provide their services. The National Post Company’s CEO said in an interview: “Our income has reached one third after internet disruptions”

   Half of the businesses lose 50 million each day!

   Tehran Computer Guild System Organization releasing the result of a pole yesterday, asking the member enterprises, announced that 53% of them have announced that they lose 50 million Tomans per day. 21% of them lose 50 to 100 million Tomans and about 18% lose 100 to 500 million Tomans per day. Close to 8% lose more than 500 million Tomans per day.

   Unemployment of millions of Iranians; a great concern

   Internet Businesses Union’s general secretary announced an unbelievable figure and said: “The livelihood of 10 million people is dependent on the internet. A report by Digital Economy National Organization also says that the number of internet businesses has reached its peak during recent years.

   Social networks and first of all Instagram have 80% influence at this market. It was also announced that 3.5 million jobs, dependent on Instagram, have been jeopardized in recent filtering of the social network. This market affects the life of 10 million people. (Khorasan state-run daily- October 9, 2022)

   Violence against women

   Women detained during the nationwide uprising harassed and maltreated by security agents

   https://www.iranintl.com/202210052163

   According to the reports received, security agents persecute detained women of the popular uprising in various manners including making them completely naked for body search in front of CCTV cameras.

   According to the report, more than 100 women have been kept at the gym of Varamin’s Qarchak Prison in a very poor and insanitary condition for more than 12 days while having only three bathrooms and showers, in all of which CCTV cameras were installed.

   In addition, the guards constantly warned the women about their hijab, which faced the women’s resistance.

   According to the report, the detainees were constantly under interrogation and the interrogators threatened them that they will be deprived of their right to call (and that for two minutes in a day).

   The place had only two phone boots which worked only two hours a day. For that not all of the women could make a call.

   If the detainees protested the dire condition of the prison, they were threatened that they will be kept there even longer. The tap water is salty and they have to buy the water they need to drink.

   According to the report, at first, for more than 10 days the women were confined there without been allowed to go outside even for a minute. Then, women under 30 were taken to ward 8 and those above 30 years old were taken to the Quarantine Ward of the prison where only two toilet and two showers were provided for 80 detainees.

   After 10 days, the women caught infections: “As there was not enough sanitary gears for women to wash their underwear and there was no proper place for them to dry the underwear, the women have become ill and are having problems. Even louses has been seen in the head of some of them.”

   There is only one basin for washing the dishes of more than 80 people. There are harsh laws for boiling water to have tea and etc…and even for using the refrigerator. The women are forced to move heavy trash bags.

   The lights are on round the clock both at the gym and in Quarantine Ward. Needed medication for sick women including medication for heart problems or special women problems is another tool of harassment. But they give these women tranquilizers and sleep pills without a doctor’s prescription, considering their medical files or weigh which has inflicted both mental and physical harm on these women.

   Offending and humiliating women at Vozara detention center

   The security forces have asked the detained women who have been taken to Vozara detention center to take of all their clothing and had conducted a total body search on them. This act was committed at the inspection room and in front of the cameras. The women have been asked to do squats (while naked) to humiliate them.

   Some of the women were dragged on the ground from their hair at the time of detention as such that a big spot of their head is ripped of any hair. (Iran International- October 5, 2022)

   Appendix
   Children used by the regime as a tool of suppression in nationwide uprising
   Association for the Protection of Children’s Rights: Stop killing, detaining and using children in repression operations
   https://www.iranintl.com/202210043836

3. The Association for the Protection of Children’s Rights issued a statement condemning the use of children to suppress street protests, as well as the murder and detention of children and young people during Iran’s nationwide uprising. In its statement, the association called for an end to “violence against children” and wrote to Islamic Republic officials, “Remove your hands from the trigger.”As the Iranian people rose to a state of force, and fatigue and shortages of repression forces was seen, images of children and young people dressed as anti-insurgency Basij and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were posted on social media, sparking outrage among many users.Also, in the last two weeks, children and adolescents across Iran have been murdered, arrested, and targeted by the suppressive forces. Referring to these incidents, the Statement of the Association for the Protection of Children’s Rights in its statement indicated the use of children in military operations of street repression on the one hand, and the killing and arrest of children in recent protests on the other, indicating that “the leaders and officials of the country pay the least attention to the right to survival and the comprehensive growth of children.”Instead of protecting children’s right to survival, the association stressed that these measures have paved the way for “intensifying violence to take children’s right to life.”

   The Association for the Protection of Children’s Rights also called for an immediate halt to “any violence against children”, saying it would provide free services, including child “advocacy” and psychological counseling, to children who have been “oppressed by the Islamic Republic.”  (Iran International- October 4, 2022)

   Imam Ali Society: They gave some bags of food to poor children and then summoned them to crush the protesters.
   https://www.radiofarda.com/a/abuse-of-poor-children-to-suppress-protesters-in-iran/32066711.html

   Hundreds of members and supporters of Imam Ali Society said in a statement that the Islamic Republic had given some “bags of food” to some poor children and then used them to “crush” the protesters in the streets of Iran. The statement point to the kids who were formerly taken care of by this society: “We hear from some of the kids that their friends and classmates were summoned to the streets not to defend their rights but to defend the injustice.”

   The statement adds: “Instead of teaching children peace and friendship, the regime of Islamic Republic has put helmet on their heads and given batons into their hands in the most violent scenes that even seeing them would harm children.”

   The statement was released after images of minors wearing helmets and carrying batons in some of the Tehran’s streets to suppress the protesters against Mahsa Amini’s death, was published. Mahsa Amini died while detained by the security police. In some of the images, these kids wear slippers and the observers say that is a sign of the poverty that their families were suffering from. (Radio Farda- October 5, 2022)

   Appendix
   Widespread suppression of university students
   Nationwide protests 2022
   Government news agency narrates gatherings in Tehran/ University of Science and Technology students, protest widespread arrest of students.
   https://www.rouydad24.ir/fa/news/319501

   State News Agency (IRNA) wrote: About 50 to 70 people marched on Entelab Street around Tehran University. In Punak, a group of protesters, estimate between 100 and 150 people, marched from Azad University to Ashrafi Esfahani Boulevard and Tirajeh, while others gathered around the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Azad University on Yakhchal Street in Qolhak and intended to provoke students.

   Around Sharif Industrial University, a crowd of approximately 400 people gathered on Azadi Street and around the university, chanting slogans against the government and setting fire to trash cans, which ended after sporadic clashes with police forces. .. Field surveys from several Universities in Tehran showed that at the University of Science and Technology, a number of students gathered in front of the university’s central building to protest against police behavior towards the protesters and the arrest of a number of students.

   In some other universities in Tehran, including Sharif University, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Shahid Abbaspour Campus, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran Central Azad University, and Tarbiat Modares University, there were also gatherings and rallies attended by a group of students in response to the country’s recent events.

   Holding some images and chanting slogans such as “political prisoner should be freed,” the protesters demanded the release of detained students at protest gatherings after the death of a 22-year-old girl in a police facility, as well as reforming some approaches and behaviors in the face of criticism and paying attention to popular and student demands. (Roydad 24 state-run website- October 2, 2022)

   Plainclothes attack on Sharif University; student under siege
   https://www.radiozamaneh.com/733947

   An army of plainclothes attacked Sharif University. The protesting students were surrounded. They blocked the roads leading to the university. Many students have been arrested. Some were injured. Plainclothes forces surrounded Sharif University, blocking all roads leading to the university. They opened fire on students and handcuffed and detained an unknown number of them.

   The first videos of the attack on Sharif University were posted to the media just before sunset, when protesting students held a rally. They reported being surrounded by plainclothes forces: they brought vans, arrested students and pushed them into the van.

   On the networks, a message from inside Sharif University reads: “Students are surrounded from all sides and have no possibility of leaving. They’re shot with shotguns and paintballs.”  (Radio Zamaneh- October 3, 2022)

   New details of Sharif University detainees
   https://www.eghtesadnews.com/fa/tiny/news-525249

   An informed source at Sharif University said: “The number of students arrested at the university was about 37. “Most of the students who were arrested were not among the protesters, and after completing their classrooms, they intended to go home and were arrested in the parking lot adjacent to Sharif university Management Faculty,” the source said Monday.(Eghtesad News state-run website- October 3, 2022)

   Students continue to rally at some universities/ students protest
   https://aftabnews.ir/fa/news/798406

   Today, there were gatherings at various universities in Iran.
   At the gatherings, students protested the bitter incidents at Sharif University last night.
   The gatherings took places in Tehran, Urmia, Tabriz, Birjand, Bandar Abbas, Mashhad, Isfahan, Qom, etc.
   In addition to students, there have also been gatherings by high school students in some cities around the country.
   The demonstrators demanded the release of the imprisoned students. (Aftab News state-run website, October 3, 2022)

   Sharif University classes goes virtual
   https://www.rouydad24.ir/fa/news/319586

   Sharif University of Technology announced that due to the recent events and the necessity of protecting students and reducing concerns, all classrooms will be held virtually from Monday, October 3, 2022.
   According to the decision of the Board of Directors of Sharif University of Technology, the PhD students can go to the university, but the commute of master’s degree students is subject to the approval of an application through the education system.

   IRNA wrote: “Sharif University of Technology was the scene of a gathering of some students this evening in response to recent incidents in the country. According to eyewitnesses, police measures was taken around Sharif University and the impossibility of students and professors leaving the university, several vehicles were allocated by the Minister of Science to get students and professors out of the university.”  (Roydad 24 state-run website- October 3, 2022)

   Three students of Razi University in Kermanshah, detained

   During the recent protests in Razi University of Kermanshah, to condemn the murder of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini and to accompany the nationwide strikes, at least three students named Shakiba Hoshiar, Ali Rouzi and Matin Cheraghi have been arrested by the security institutions.

   Ali Rouzi, one of the students of Razi University of Kermanshah, was arrested by the security forces during the gatherings on Monday, October 3, 2022, on the university campus. Also, Shakiba Hoshiar from Kermanshah, a mechanical engineering student of Razi University was arrested during the protests on Sunday, October 2.

   According to previous reports Matin Cheraghi, a bachelor’s degree student in Electrical Engineering at Razi University, was also arrested by the security forces on Saturday evening, October 1, and her fate is unknown. After a few days have passed since the arrest of these three students of Razi University, no detailed information about their fate and whereabouts is available, and the efforts of their families have been unsuccessful in this regard. (Hengaw- October 4, 2022)

   Nationwide protests: Two students detained by security forces in Mashhad and Birjand
   https://www.hra-news.org/2022/hranews/a-37290/

   Country’s Student Guild Councils announced that two students are detained in Mashhad and Birjand.

   Shayan Raihani, a master’s degree student in ancient languages from Allameh University, Mashhad and Mehr Ali-Poneh-Talab, a law student from Birjand University who was detained on Monday, October 3, 2022, by security forces.

   Thus far the charges against them and their whereabouts are not known.

   Also Pedram Moini, a political activist and detained student was transferred to Evin Prison. (Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – October 7, 2022)

   Appendix
   Zahedan Bloody Friday
   September 30, 2022

   Confirming a rape, Rusk County Friday Imam was summoned to IRGC Intelligence
   On Wednesday, September 28, 2022, Abdolghafar Naqshbanid, the temporary Friday Imam of Rusk, was summoned to IRGC Intelligence of Chabahar through a call. This summoning was because he issued a statement affirming that a 15-year-old girl was raped by Chabahar’s chief of SSF.

   According to local sources, on September 1, Ebrahim Koochekzaie, Chabahar chief of SSF takes a 15-year-old girl on the excuse of interrogating him to his bedroom and rapes her.

   (Haalvash.org, Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – September 28, 2022)

   Zahedan’s bloody Friday incident, cleric Abdulhamid: Snipers attacked worshippers
   https://www.independentpersian.com/node/272941

   Clergyman Abdul Hamid Esmailzehi, the Sunni Friday prayer imam of Zahedan’s Makki Mosque, published a text on his Telegram channel detailing the bloody Friday incident in Zahedan (September 30, 2022).

   On Telegram channel, Abdolhamid said: “Friday prayers were held in great peace… Minutes after Friday prayers, where worshippers stay in Musalla as usual, gunfire was heard… According to reports that we have received, special forces, who appear to have already been stationed at the police station, fired at people, not only at the youths who had gathered in front of the police station, but also from the police building into the Musalla area and towards those who were praying. They throw tear gas in the men’s and women’s sections.”

   The Imam of The Sunni Friday Prayer in Zahedan emphasized that none of the people inside Musalla had chanted any slogans, but that a small group of youths had gathered in front of the police station and chanted slogans. “Then plainclothes gunmen stationed on the rooftops of the houses fired at people who were returning to their homes. They mostly fired in the heads and hearts of worshippers, which turns out to have been done by snipers.”

   According to Rouhani Abdulhamid, according to the latest reports, more than 40 worshippers have died and more than 100 have been injured, he said, stressing, “We do not have the number of injured who lost their lives, and the likelihood of an increase in the death toll is very high.”  (Persian Independent- October 2, 2022)

   Victims of Zahedan protests from Friday, September 30 to October 3, 2022

   This report is from the first minutes of the killing of protesters to the moment when the report was ready, which despite the internet cut and disruption of communication routes, has been collected from various informed sources along with fact-checking.

   Names of the victims are authenticated as:

   1- Abdullah Narouie from Shirabad
   2- Maheddin Shiroozehi
   3- Sedis Keshani, 14 years old
   4- Arman Hassanzehi
   5- Morteza Hassanzehi
   6- Zolfaqar Hassanzehi
   7- Mahmoud Hassanzehi
   8- Jamal Abdul Nasser Mohammad Hassani (Brahouie)
   9- Salman Maleki
   10- Abdul Ghafoor Dahmardeh
   11- Isma’il Abil, Son of Rahman
   12- Majbod Baluchzehi Shahbakhsh Son of Mehrollah
   13- Javad Posheh, son of Ahmad, 12 years old
   14- Suleiman Arab, son of Sardar Mohammad
   15- Ahmad Sarani
   16- Mahdi Anshini
   17- Mohammad Ali Esmailzehi (Shahbakhsh) son of Abdul Wahid
   18- Balal Rakhshani, son of Abdul Wahid
   19- A Man (Unknown Identity)
   20- A Man (Unknown Identity)
   21- Child (Unknown Identity/from Shirabad)

   It should be noted that due to internet outages and the injuries of a large number of protesters whose conditions have been reported to be dire and the continuation of the protests, we may see an increase in the number of deaths.

   Many of those killed in Shirabad area of Zahedan lack birth certificates so they have not yet been identified thus far.

   The names of those killed until the third report was ready are as follows:
   1- Hamza Narouie
   2- Hamza Narouie, son of Muhammad
   3- Hamid Narouie, son of Rashid
   4- Hamid Narouie, son of Mohammad Ali
   5- Mohammad Seddiq Narouie, son of Serajeddin (Rafa Narouie), 23 years old
   6- Younes Narouie
   7- Abdollah Narouie from Shirabad
   8- Ali Aqeli (Narouie) 28 years old
   9- Imran Shahbakhsh Son of Abd al-Qayum
   10- Yasser Shahbakhsh, Son of Taj Mohammad
   11- Farzad Shahbakhsh, Son of Ebrahim
   12- Ahmad Shahbakhsh
   13- Mohammad Ali Esmailzehi (Shahbakhsh) son of Abdul Wahid
   14- Jalil Qanbarzehi (Shahbakhsh) son of Abdorrahman
   15- Abdul Malik Shahbakhsh
   16- Majbod Baluchzehi Shahbakhsh son of Mehrollah
   17- Mohammad Amin Gomshadzehi, son of Abdolhamid
   18- Mohammad Ali Gomshadzehi, son of Abdul Hamid,18 years old
   19- Salaheddin Gomshadzehi, son of Nematollah
   20- Mohsen Gomshadzehi
   21- Lal Mohammad Anshini
   22- Lal Mohammad Anshini, son of Sharif
   23- Mosa Anschini, son Aziz
   24-Mehdi Anshini
   25-Balal Anshini
   26- Abdul Ghafoor Noor Barahouei, son of Zahir
   27-Mohammad Brahouie (seminary student)
   28- Mahmoud Brahouie, son of Mosa, 18 years old, seminary student
   29- Abdul Samad Brahouie (Eiduzehi) son of Sakhidad
   30- Jamal Abdul Nasser Mohammad Hassani (Brahouie)
   31- Lal Mohammad Alizehi, son of Zarif
   32- Abu Bakr Nahtani
   33-Mohammad Qoljai
   34- Aminollah Qoljai (seminary student)
   35- Mohammad Rigi
   36- Abdolmajid Rigi
   37- Mansour Rakhshani
   38- Mohammad Farooq Rakhshani
   39- Balal Rakhshani, son of Abdul Wahid
   40- Jalil Rakhshani, son of Majid
   41- Sami Hashemzehi, son of  Nabi, 16 years old
   42-Summer Hashemzehi, 33 years old
   43- Abdol Rahman Baluchikhah, son of Shahi
   44- Mohammad Reza Adib Tutazehi, son of Seyyed Mohammad
   45-Omar Shahnavazi
   46- Abdul Khaleq (Omar) Shahnavazi, son of Mohammad Sharif
   47- Molavi Omid Shahnavazi, Son of Ahmad
   48- Amir Hamzeh Shahnavazi
   49- Eqbal Shahnavazi
   50- Mohammad Eqbal Naebzehi (Shahnavazi) son of Niaz Mohammad (no birth certificate/16 years old)
   51- Nematollah Kobdani
   52- Ebrahim Gargij
   53- Ahmad Sargolzaie
   54- Ali Akbar Halqehbgoosh
   55- Abu Bakr Alizehi, son of Abdul Shakur
   56- Hamid Isazehi
   57- Jalil Mohammadzehi, son of Abdol Rahman
   58- Amin Gale-Bacheh
   59- Emran Hassanzehi, son of Ali
   60- Arman Hassanzehi
   61- Morteza Hassanzehi
   62-Zaolfghar Hassanzehi
   63- Mahmoud Hassanzehi
   64- Wahid Hut
   65- Sedis Keshani, 14 years old
   66- Salman Maleki
   67- Abdul Ghafoor Dahmardeh
   68- Esmail Abil, son of Rahman
   69- Soleiman Arab, son of Sardar
   70- Ahmad Sarani
   71- Jawad Poshed, son of Ahmad, 12 years old
   72-Gango Zehi Rigi (unknown name)
   73- Amir Hossein Mirkazei Rigi, son of Ebrahim, 19 years old
   74- Esmail Hosseinzehi, son of Mohammad Salim
   75- Mahi’eddin Shiroozhi
   76- Abdolsamed Sabetizadeh (Shahoozahi) son of Shir Ali
   77- Woman (Unknown Identity/Mosalla of Zahedan)
   78-Child (Unknown Identity/Shirabad District)
   79-Child (Unknown Identity/Shirabad District)
   80- Child (Unknown Identity/from Shirabad)
   81- A Man (Unknown Identity)
   82- A Man (Unknown Identity)

   (Haalvsh- October 3, 2022)
   13-year-old victim of Zahedan Bloody Friday identified

   احراز هویت کودک ۱۳ بلوچ از کشته شدگان جمعه خونین زاهدان

   The identity of another victim of Zahedan’s Bloody Friday was determined. He is Omid Sarani, a 13-year-old kid from Shirabad who was shot in his chest by regime’s forces.

   So far, the number of victims of Zahedan protests has reached 91. (Haalvsh- October 7, 2022)
   Sheikh al-Islam, Sunni cleric, Abdolhamid: We strongly condemn Zahedan’s Bloody Friday crime
   https://t.me/molanaabdolhamid/5169

   During today’s Friday prayer, on October 7, 2022, Sheikh al-Islam, (Sunni) cleric, Abdolhamid strongly condemned “The crime committed in Zahedan on the Bloody Friday” and called for “just and independent investigation” into the event as well as “legal punishment and punishment according to Sharia” by the high authorities of the country, of all the perpetrators having a role in this bloody incident.

   According to a report by the Information Base of Zahedan Sunnis’ Friday Prayer Imam, cleric Abdolhamid said: “Last Friday that people came to pray, nobody even guessed what was going to happen. The Friday prayer was held in peace. A few youth went toward the police station near the mosque and threw some stones, but not only these youths were shot at, but also the people who were leaving the mosque, going to their homes.

   In this event many people were martyred and many wounded. What is of most concern is that most of the killed and wounded were shot at their head and chest. This is against the law in the world. Both in Iran and other parts of the world usually they use tear gas and other equipment during protests. Even if they have to shoot they shoot at the legs. (Official channel of Sheikh al-Islam, Sunni cleric, Abdolhami’s office- October 7, 2022)

   Appendix
   Crackdown on Journalists during the nationwide uprising
   We will confront those journalists who incited people’s feelings

   https://www.ilna.ir/fa/tiny/news-1283243

   The head of the parliament’s Judiciary and legal Commission emphasized: “There are evidences. For example those who have repeated a crime, are different from those who were present at the scene. Their punishment is different too.” About the fact that some of the detainees are under 18; how they would be dealt with, he said: “There is a law regarding the minors. They will be prosecuted in courts allocated for the minors.”

   In regard with the detention of journalists and reporters during the last few days, Qazanfarabadi stated: “Look. We need evidences for everything. If the evidences show that they are provoking, taping the events to send it abroad, and provoke people’s feelings, they will be confronted with for sure. If there are other issues, those will be dealt with too. (ILNA state-run news agency- October 3, 2022)

   The complete list of detained journalists during recent protests in Iran: 23 journalists arrested.
   https://ifj-farsi.org/?p=8439

   According to reports gathered by IFJ (International Federation of Journalists), in the course of protests after the suspicious death of Mahsa Amini in detention of the Ershad Patrol, the number of detained Journalists in Iran has reached 23. During the past days, the federation has issued a statement urging Iranian authorities to put an end to arresting journalists and provide free access to the internet.

   Antoni Blanger, the IFJ’s general secretary stated that the federation wants the Iranian authorities not to use the coverage of national protests as an excuse to oppress the media. It is the right of every citizen in Iran to know what is going on. Mr. Blanger also added that the journalists must be immediately released and have the permission to report freely. IFJ also urged the authorities to immediately put an end to disrupting internet in Iran.

   The latest least of detained journalist since the onset of the recent protests is as follows:

   List of detained journalists
   No.	Name	G.	Profession	Media	Date of Detention	Confined at	Other information
   1	Yalda Moayeri	F	News photographer	freelancer	September 21, 2022	Varamin Qarchak Prison
   2	Nilofar Hamedi	F	Journalist photographer	Sharq daily	September 22, 2022		Detained at her home
   3	Fatemeh Rajabi	F	Journalist	Heft-e-Sobh daily/ Bursan News Website	September 23, 2022		Detained at her home
   4	Elaheh Mohammadi	F	Journalist	Ham-mihan daily	September 23, 2022		Detained at her home
   5	Mojtaba Rahimi	M	Journalist		September 23, 2022		Detained at his home in Qazvin
   6	Alireza Khoshbakht	M	Journalist		September 23, 2022		Detained in Tehran streets
   7	Rohollah Nakhaie	M	Journalist		September 23, 2022		Detained in Tehran streets
   8	Massoud Kurdpoor	M	director	Mokerian News Agency	September 20, 2022		Detained in Bukan streets
   9	Alireza Jabbari Darestani	M	Social reporter	Mehr News Agency	September 25, 2022		Detained in Tehran
   10	Marzieh Talaie	F	Journalist	Mokerian News Agency	September 20, 2022		Detained in streets of Saqqez City
   11	Ali  Khatibzadeh	M	Journalist	Mokerian News Agency	September 20, 2022		Detained in streets of Saqqez City
   12	Iman Behpasand	M	Journalist		September 22, 2022		Detained at his home in Tehran
   13	Vida Rabbani	F	Journalist		September 24, 2022		Detained at her home in Tehran
   14	Ahmadi Halabisaz	M	Photo journalist		September 25, 2022		Detained in Tehran
   15	Batol Balai	F	Journalist	Local journalist in Sirjan	September 22, 2022		Detained in Sirjan
   16	Samira Alinezhad	F	Journalist	Local journalist in Sirjan	September 22, 2022		Detained in Sirjan
   17	Mehrnoosh Tafian	F	Journalist	Local journalist in Khuzestan	September 28, 2022		Detained in Ahvaz
   18	Farshid Qorbanpoor	M	Literature journalist	Responsible for the literature page in Haft-e-Sobh daily	Sunday, September 25, 2022		Detained in Tehran
   19	Arya Jafari	M	Photographer	ISNA news agency- Isfahan branch	Sunday, September 25, 2022		Detained in Tehran
   20	Safieh Qarehbaghi	F	Journalist		October 1, 2022		Detained in Zanjan
   21	Siavoosh Soleimani	M	An old journalist		October 1, 2022		Detained in Urmia
   22	Alborz Nezami	M	Journalist	Donyay-e-Eqtesad daily	October 2, 2022		Detained at the daily’s office in Tehran
   23	Shahram Azmodeh	M	Editor of Talesh publication	Talesh publication	October 1, 2022		Detained at his home in Hashtpar City, Gilan Province

   Also Khosro Kurdpoor co-director of Mokerian News agency, detained on September 20, 2022, in the streets of Bukan, was released.
   (IFJ- October 5, 2022)

   Appendix
   Nika Shakarami’s case

   Nicka’s body not permitted to be buried in Khoramabad

   https://www.peykeiran.com/Content.aspx?ID=254463

   Security forces did not permit that Nicka Shakarami be buried in Khoramabad. They want the body of this young girl to be buried in a remote village.

   Nicka Shakarami who would be 17 today, participated 12 days ago in Keshavarz Blvd. Protests in Tehran. In her last call, she told her friend that security forces were after her. Then her phone went off and she was missing. Yesterday, after 11 days, her body was delivered to her family. (Payke Iran- October 2, 2022)

   Nika Shakarami’s murder during anti-regime protests in Tehran

   Nika Shakarami, a 17-year-old girl, who was present at Tehran protests in Keshavarz Blvd., as the people close to her have said, all of a sudden, disappears. After 10 days that there was no news of her, her dead body was delivered to her family on October 1, 2022.

   Those close to Nika believe that she was killed during the protests. Security forces did not permit her aunt and mother to see her full body and just showed them her face, which was smashed in her nose and the mark of trauma to her head was obvious. In her death certificated “several blows by a hard object” has been mentioned as the cause of death. This is while officials say she died because she fell of a building.

   None of the claims by Islamic Republic, published in the media or broadcasted in a TV program are not clear and just add to the twists.

   On the other hand, while Nika was to be buried in Khoramabad, Islamic Republic’s security forces “stole” her body from the morgue and buried her at “Vaysun Village’s cemetery” in Lorestan Province, without the presence of her family and relatives.

   The detention of Atash Shakarami, Nika’s aunt after she informed about her murder, pressure on her family to make TV confessions and broadcasting these confessions by IRIB, which is not unfamiliar, thoroughly shows that Nika’s murder case must be investigated by an independent international board.

   https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/5512/

   According to the supervisor of Tehran Province Criminal Prosecutor Office, Nika’s body was discovered by the residents of a building at 7 am of September 21, 2022. The builing is in Labbafi St., Amir Akram Intersection, Enqelab District. As the news agencies close to IRGC claim, the neighbors said that at 3.00 am they heard an object heating the ground but they were not suspicious.

   In her interview with BBC Persian, Atash Karami, Nika’s aunt who lived with her in a house near Keshavarz Blvd. for a year, has said that her niece left the house to join her older sister at student dormitory. She took her birth certificate, water and a towel. The birth certificate was to be permitted to enter the dormitory, an apparently she needed the water and towel in case they shot teargas canisters. These affirm that Nika had left home to participate in the protests. This is what the Islamic Republic pressures the family to deny.

   Also the Iran International TV network has announced that it has acquired the image of Nika’s aunt talking with her which shows that she has told her that she has been detained for torching her shawl. This happened the night she went missing and a few hours before her body was find.

   But Rokna News Agency, affiliated with the SSF, informing about her death has said that her body has been found on the roof top of a house while her mobile and backpack was beside her. Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, in two different reports first claimed that the body was found at the back yard of a building adjacent to the building that Nika has been seen entering it. In the second report it has stressed that according to the cameras’ tapes, based on unknown reasons, Nika has entered a half-built building with four stories pushing its door and then at three a.m. she has fallen of the roof of the building.

   https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1401/07/13/2784065

   Those who claim that they know Nika and have received messages from her on the day of the incident, emphasize that after she disappeared, her phone was on and her Instagram became inactive a few hours after she vanished. The information about the Nika’s calls have not yet been handed over to her family.

   Beside the news and various information from informed sources, including those close to her, about the horrible condition of her body including bruises, breakage due to beating in here head, nose and jaw, and also the marks of autopsy on her chest which shows that the coroner office has done investigation about the cause of death, the first ambiguity about the official information released is that why the result of the autopsy has not been handed over to her family and why was she buried during the night.

   https://www.independentpersian.com/node/273821
   (Iran Human Rights Organization- October 6, 2022)

   Nika Shakarami’s mother: They have killed her, now they want to say it was a “suicide or some other accident”
   https://ir.voanews.com/a/mother-nika-shakarami-iran-protests/6778510.html
   In her first comment, Nika Shakarami’s mother emphasized that her daughter participated in the protests and was killed: “They have spread rumors, detained my brother and sister and put pressure on them. They made my sister to confess in front of the camera. Everybody knows that they do these kind of things.”

   In her video message on Thursday, October 5, 2022, Nasrin Shakarami, Nika’s mother called the measures taken by the authority and the broadcasting of her sister’s and brother’s confession as “appalling”.

   She emphasized: “This is normal and we were expecting that they make all kind of allegations to acquit themselves.”

   “They actually condemned themselves. There is no need for me to try hard to say that they are lying,” she added.

   Mrs. Shakarami stressed: “The day my daughter went missing in the demonstration, she was killed and her body was delivered to Kahrizak morgue on the same day. The affidavit of the coroner office also says that they was killed on this date by trauma of y hard objects at her head. That’s it.”

   Mentioning the she had seen the corpse, Mrs. Shakarami said: “The body of my daughter was not harmed. Her hands and legs were Ok. It was only her face. Her cheeks were broken and her teeth and the back of her head. The back had received a very hard blow as her skull was pushed inside. This is how she was killed. She was harmed in her head.”

   The mother explained that on the night that Nika was missing, she went with her brother (Nika’s uncle) to the Intelligence Bureau once again: “They showed us several pictures of her corpse and told us that they had taken these pictures in the morning of September 20, 2022 and then delivered the body to Kahrizak morgue…The date was exact, the date mentioned at the Intelligence Bureau was exactly written that the corpse was delivered on September 20^th. Then we returned and received the body the next day and went to Khoramabad to bury her.”

   Though the family has prepared to bury her at Salehin Cemetery, according to her mother, they were threatened time and again to” bury her somewhere else”. They didn’t accept that. (Voice of America Persian- October 6, 2022)

   Appendix
   Mahsa Amini’s case

   Mahsa Amini’s father: Authorities do not sympathize with me, they just get rid of me
   https://www.radiofarda.com/a/amjad-amini-father-mahsa-amini-killed-police-in-iran/32061915.html

   https://www.rouydad24.ir/fa/news/319523

   Mahsa Amini’s father denied that Ebrahim Raisi had sympathized with his family and stated that in his call on Sunday, October 2, 2022, Raisi just said that “we will pursue the case.” Then he added that he has been just told to “wait”, while the time he was asked to wait is over.

   Mr. Amini added that: “No one gives me any answer about my daughter’s death. I have referred to coroner office and related authorities time and again, but they just get rid of me.” (Radio Farda, Roydad 24 state-run website- October 2, 2022)

   Lawyer of Mahsa Amini’s family: the agents who detained Mahsa had cameras attached to their outfit.

   https://www.rouydad24.ir/fa/news/319504

   According to Slaeh Nickbakht, lawyer of Mahsa Amini’s family: “According to clear evidences, the Ershad Patrol agents who detained Mahsa had cameras attached to their outfits. During today’s session (Saturday), there remained no time for the doctors and specialist to be introduced, so the family was not satisfied and left the session after two hours.

   “According to specialists and independent experts, Mahsa’s death had nothing to do with her previous surgery which was removing a small bulk from above her eye, in fact she had no history of heart, kidney or vascular problems. Her death in an hour after the arrest is not related to any previous illnesses. Her family want to know that the blood that was below her skull, behind her neck and came out from her ear was because of what illness or trauma.

   “We requested to see her file at the Kasra Hospital and question the doctors and nurses responsible for her.

   “The most important issue is the films from inside the van and the outfit of the person who arrested Mahsa, beside the films from the Vozara Ershad Patrol base. “I and credible doctors and informed individuals we consulted, believe that Mahsa was decisively beaten and received blows before reaching the Ershad Patrol base. “Also there is a possibility that she was beaten at the detention center too. They can clear all these easily by playing the films of the existing cameras.” (Roydad 24 state-run news agency- October 2, 2022)

   Mahsa Amini’s death explained by the head of the Judiciary.

   https://www.tasnimnews.com/fa/news/1401/07/12/2783729

   According to Mohseni Eje’i the head of the Judiciary: “Miss Amini was guided into the police car at 18:30, in bright daylight and while everybody including her brother and two relatives witnessed the scene.”

   “Beside her relatives and the agents, 4 to 5 other persons were present. From the van, she was directly taken to the saloon that is shown in the CCTV camera,” he added.

   The head of the Judiciary stressed: “Among many people present at the saloon, she moves around and speaks with people. Then it is shown in the film that she fells and in less than two minutes, the medic is there. Immediately the emergency personnel rushed to the scene and she is transferred to the hospital with ambulance. All this happened in an hour in the presence of other people.” (Tasnim state-run news agency- October 3, 2022)

   Ebrahim Raisi: Mahsa Amini was not beaten, preserving human rights is our nature

   Raisi: Iran is a country of freedom of expression

   https://aftabnews.ir/fa/news/798864

   In the course of UNGA’s 77^th session in New York, Raisi has had an interview with China’s National TV network (CCTV) and China’s Global Network TV (CGTN).

   Q: According to reports, a young lady has lost her life leading to protests in the cities. You have ordered investigations. How far have the investigations reached and what do you have to say to the protesters?

   A: The issue is being followed up. I don’t want to express any definite result, but a group of Iran’s parliament (members) investigated the issue and expressed that there has been no beating. The ladies own physical problems has caused the death. This lady has been operated on twice before and her medical record exists. Also a group from the coroner office has investigated this event. They also have the same opinion. But right now I don’t express any definite opinion and leave that to the judge and the Judiciary.

   But the point is that this kind of events happen in the West too. You see, Gaurdian daily has announced that in the course of 28 weeks, more than 80 women have lost their live for the way the police force behaved against them. Who looked into that matter? In USA, more than 1000 people have been killed by the police force during last year, who looked into that to see how they got killed!

   We believe that preserving human rights is the nature of the Islamic Republic. That means far from anybody’s will, we are tasked by God and the people to preserve the lives of humans, their possessions and their rights. But the question is why thoes who are protesting now have a double-standard? This is human rights in some place and not in another place?! They are worried about this lady’s human rights, what about the other ladies? What about those thousand people? (Aftab News state-run website- October 5, 2022)

   Mahsa Amini and Nika Shakarami events; SSF general commander explains
   https://www.hamshahrionline.ir/news/710319
   The country’s general commander of SSF, Hossein Ashtari explained how SSF reacted to Mahsa Amini’s case: “This event was based on the law. All the process and the films were investigated. There has been no beating. It was processed by law.”

   SSF general commander speaking of the recent events in the country and the measures SSF command has taken, stated: “Some people express their protest in a usual manner. But some start a riot. Police’s task is to confront them. Among these people some were killed by stone, knife or weapons that are not in possession of our forces. Our field weapon is plastic pellet gun. Our forces who fight against the riots possess non-lethal weapons.”

   About the case of Nika Shakarami, Ashtari said: “We are sorry about what happened. It was determined that during the gatherings she refers to a house and fells into the ground form the top floor. There is no sign of Knife or brain stroke. The fall was the cause of her death. (Hamshahri Online state-run website- October 6, 2022)

   Mahsa Amini’s cousin threatened

   On Thursday, October 6, 2022, Erfan Mortezaie, cousin of Mahsa Amini (who made disclosures about her murder) was threatened by an anonymous call that he will have the same faith as Rohollah Zam (lured and then killed by the regime).

   According to Erfan Mortezaie, threats and messages from unknown persons against him and Mahsa Amini’s family have continued during the last few weeks. (Iran Wire- October 7, 2022)