Opposition continues against removal of prisoners to hospital in prison uniforms

Evin Prison authorities are refusing to take two political prisoners, Mohammad Saami and Asdollah Hadi, to the hospital despite their poor medical condition due to their refusal to go to the hospital wearing prison uniforms. Prison authorities require political prisoners to go to the hospital in prison uniforms as an act of humiliation.

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Journalist to be fired from broadcast authority just before retirement because he exposed pressure on his family

Prominent journalist and religious national activist, Alireza Rejaei, who has been imprisoned in Wing 350 of Evin Prison, will be fired from the broadcast authority just before retirement as part of the pressures being applied to him that were increased following his revelation of the immoral pressure being applied on his family by investigators and on the investigators’ demand that his wife divorce him. According to the report, as part of these pressures, the broadcast authority was ordered to fire Rejaei, who has 26 years seniority as a journalist and to do so just before he is scheduled to retire.

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Ministry for Islamic Guidance has not approved a single work in five years for author and translator Shiva Arastuei

Shiva Arastuei said that in recent years she has written several books, but has received neither an approval nor an explanation from the Ministry as to why her works were rejected. She called the Ministry for Islamic Guidance’s behavior “inhuman.” A few years ago, a novel by Shiva wrote titled, Afion was published in Germany after being rejected by the Iranian Ministry for Islamic Guidance.

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Children of imprisoned opposition leaders call on Iranian regime to allow them to be interviewed by Iranian media

The children of Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi, two opposition leaders, published a statement to mark the second year of their parents’ house arrest, stressing the need to stop the violation of their parents’ basic human rights. “The country’s top authorities should deal immediately with our parents’ case and, after close to two years of illegal arrest, release them immediately without making unfounded excuses.” They demanded that the Iranian regime allow their parents to interview in the Iranian media, appeal to Iranian citizens and speak with them about events and veracity of events that took place. The statement further said that Moussavi and Karroubi have constantly demanded that the national media cover events as they were, without pressure on the part of the regime, something that has not happened. “After close to two years of house arrest, no official authority has taken responsibility for the judicial state of our loved ones, who are of concern to a large portion of the Iranian people.” Mehdi Karroubi, Mir Hussein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, the three Iranian opposition leaders have been under house arrest for almost two years.

Source: Iran Daily Brief