[LAAMN] Recent Reports on Jailed Students in Iran + Email Addresses for ‘Spreading the Word’

[Cort Greene]

HEADLINES
 <http://persian2english.com/?p=21585> Another Prisoner Dies in Iran Due to
Lack of Medical Care <http://persian2english.com/?p=21585>

April 19, 2011

Hassan Nahid, a political prisoner who was held in ward 350 of Evin prison
died two weeks ago in the hospital due to lack of medical attention and
treatment for his cancer, according to the Committee in Defense of Political
Prisoners

 Persian2English <http://persian2english.com/>
Breaking the Language Barrier on Human Rights
 Recent Reports on Jailed Students in Iran + Email Addresses for ‘Spreading
the Word’April 22, 2011

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*Help spread the word about the injustices inflicted on Iranian students in
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to the email addresses belonging to world powers and the media (scroll
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* <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/20641.jpg>*

Bahareh Hedayat (left) and Mahdieh Golroo (right)

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*Two Student Activists, Mahdieh Goloroo and Bahareh Hedayat Temporarily
Transferred to Solitary Confinement
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*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*Mahdieh Golroo
<http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2011/04/golroo-new-case/>and Bahareh
Hedayat, two jailed student activists, were transferred from the
quarantined methadone ward in Evin prison to solitary confinement on April
9th. The Jaras news site reported
<http://www.rahesabz.net/story/35441/>that the family members learned
of the transfer and were told that their
visitation rights were banned when they arrived at Evin prison for the
standard weekly prisoner visit on April 12th. However, last minute, cabin
visits were approved, but the two student activists were never brought in
from solitary confinement to the visitation room.

In the first week of April, after a four-month ban on visits, the family
members of the two activists were granted the standard prisoner visitation
rights.

According to Bahareh Hedayat’s husband, Amin Ahmadian, the two student
prisoners were transferred back to their ward in the same week. He also said
that on April 19th, the families were able to have cabin visits with them.

*انتقال بهاره هدایت و مهدیه گلرو به سلول انفرادی
<http://www.rahesabz.net/story/35441/>*

*پرونده امضای بیانیه بزرگداشت روز دانشجو همچنان در انتظارحکم قطعی- مصاحبه با
وکیل مهدیه 
گلرو<http://persian.iranhumanrights.org/1390/01/mahdieh_golrou_raesian/>
*


* <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2068.jpg>* *Iranian
Student Leader, Siamak Sohrabi Released from Prison on Bail*

*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*On April 13th, the Committee of Human Rights
Reporters<http://chrr.biz/spip.php?article13850>announced that Siamak
Sohrabi, a civil engineering graduate student at
Sharif University was released from prison on bail. He is also the Chairman
of the Board of Directors for the Sharif University Islamic Students
Association General Council and the spokesperson for the Islamic Association
University Council. He was a previous member of the university’s Guild
Council and the civil engineering department. Prior to his arrest on
February 28, 2011 by security agents as he was leaving the university,
Siamak Sohrabi had written a letter addressed to Dr. Reza Roosta Azad, the
university’s Chancellor. He criticized the Chancellor’s behaviour toward the
students and the amount of pressure he places on them. Siamak Sohrabi called
upon the Chancellor to make efforts for the release of Sharif University
students.

*سیامک سهرابی، فعال دانشجویی دانشگاه صنعتی شریف ظهر امروز با قرار کفالت آزاد
شد <http://chrr.biz/spip.php?article13850>*






* <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2070.jpg>**Biomedical
Engineering PhD Student, Fouad Sojoudi Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison*

*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*Amirkabir University biomedical engineering PhD student, Fouad Sojoudi
Farimani was sentenced to eight years in prison by branch 26 of the Tehran
Revolutionary Court, according to the Committee of Human Rights
Reporters<http://chrr.biz/spip.php?article13864>on April 13th.

The verdict was issued while Fouad Sojoudi Farimani was being held in the
Tehran psychiatric hospital (Mehregan Hospital), due to the pressures he
endured while detained in the the IRGC run ward 2A of Evin prison.

Fouad Sojoudi Farimani was arrested on September 14, 2010, following the
start of the new school year. He was transferred to ward 2A, but was
eventually released on a $480,000 USD bail.

He earned his undergraduate degree from Sharif University of Technology and
received his Master’s at Polytechnic University. Fouad was expelled from
completing his PhD due to his arrest.

**
*فواد سجودی، دانشجوی دانشگاه امیرکبیر به هشت سال حبس تعزیری محکوم
شد<http://chrr.biz/spip.php?article13854>
*
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* <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2071.jpg>Student
Activist Leader on Prison Furlough, Milad Asadi Transferred to Solitary
Confinement*

*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*Imprisoned student activist leader, Milad Asadi has been transferred to
Evin’s ward 209 solitary confinement following a prison furlough for the
Persian New Year, according to Daneshjoo News on April
14th.<http://www.daneshjoonews.com/news/student/6816-1390-01-24-13-38-48.html>

Milad Asadi is a member of the Central Council of Tahkim Vahdat (Iranian
student alumni organization). He was a former student leader at Khaje Nasir
University of Technology (KNTU). He was arrested on November 30, 2009 and
later sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for allegedly “Insulting
the leader”, “Acting against national security”, and “Propaganda against the
Islamic Republic”.

*میلاد اسدی پس از پایان مرخصی به سلول انفرادی انتقال داده
شد<http://www.daneshjoonews.com/news/student/6816-1390-01-24-13-38-48.html>
*


* <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2072.jpg>University
of Zanjan Philosophy Student, Homayoun Panahi Arrested Following Home Raid*

*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*Homayoun Panahi, a University of Zanjan philosophy student was arrested at
his home following a raid by regime authorities, according to the RAHANA
group <http://www.rahana.org/en/?p=10826>. He was transferred to Arak
prison.

Homayoun Panahi was first detained after the Ashura protests and sentenced
to six months and one day in prison for “Disrupting the public” and “Acting
against national security”.

The verdict has been carried out.

*همایون پناهی، فعال دانشجویی بازداشت شد<http://www.rahana.org/archives/38397>
*


* <http://persian2english.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/2087.jpg>Sara
Mahboubi, a Baha’i Student Deprived of Education Arrested*

*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*On Saturday April 9, 2011, Sara Mahboubi, a 21 year old Baha’i student
deprived of higher education, was arrested in her home by the Sari security
forces and transferred to the detention center located at the Sari Ministry
of Intelligence. According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency
(HRANA)<http://www.en-hrana.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=271%3A1&catid=14%3Aethnic-minorities&Itemid=9>,
the security forces also searched the home and seized [religious] books,
handwritten notes, CD’s, and a computer. The Intelligence officials then
went to the Sobhani residence in an attempt to arrest Sara Mahboubi’s friend
Dorsa 
Sobhani.<http://sensday.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/attempt-to-detain-dorsa-sobhani/>
*(هجوم نیروهای امنیتی برای بازداشت مجدد درسا سبحانی، دانشجوی محروم از تحصیل
بهایی <http://edu-right.net/%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87/803-dorsa.html>)*

On April 7th, a ten year discretionary prison sentence issued by the lower
court for Sara Mahboubi was delivered to her lawyer. According to HRANA, one
of the charges against Sara Mahboubi as outlined in court documents is
“Membership in the anti-revolutionary Facebook website.”

“Before her arrest, Sara Mahboubi had been summoned to court by phone
several times in order to receive the verdict, but she had refused to comply
since the summon was done by phone,” HRANA reported.

Sara Mahboubi’s first arrested occurred on June 24, 2010 by the Sari
Ministry of Intelligence, according to her uncle. He also said that she
spent 24 days in a solitary confinement cell at the Sari Ministry of
Intelligence office before being released on bail on July 18, 2010.

Sara Mahboubi’s real crime is her belief in the Baha’i
faith<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmkC8zbNGq8&feature=channel_video_title>.
According to the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran, believers of the
Baha’i faith do not citizen rights. They are deprived of higher education,
their leaders are imprisoned, their businesses are set on fire, and their
houses, farmlands, and tombstones are destructed.

*سارا محبوبی، شهروند بهایی ساکن ساری بازداشت
شد<http://hra-news.org/1389-01-27-05-24-07/7666-1.html>
*


*Leftist Student Activist, Nader Ahsani Issued Illegal Sentence of Two Years
in Prison*

<http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_6123.html><http://www.flickr.com/photos/sabzphoto/page487/><http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_6123.html>

*SCROLL DOWN TO TAKE ACTION!
*According to Human Rights and Democracy Activists in
Iran<http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_6123.html>and other
Iranian human rights groups, on April 9th, student activist Nader
Ahsani was summoned to branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court to receive an
inhumane and illegal sentence of two years in prison, issued by Judge
Moghiseh, a member of the commission responsible for the 1988 political
massacres in Iran.

Nader Ahsani’s first arrest by the Ministry of Intelligence agents occurred
on December 2, 2007, days before the national Student Day ceremonies
(December 7th). The leftist student activist was kidnapped from the front
door of his home and taken to ward 209 of Evin prison. He spent 53 days in
solitary confinement under interrogation and severe physical and
psychological torture. On the 68th day, he was released on a $100 thousand
USD bail. The torture marks were still visible on his body at the time of
his release *(فعال دانشجویی نادر احسنی پس از پایان محکومیتش با استقبال گرم
حاضرین از زندان آزاد شد)<http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2011/02/blog-post_07.html>
.*

On February 8, 2009, he was arrested again at his home, this time along with
his sister Elham Ahsani. The Ministry of Intelligence agents brutally
attacked him physically,  then transferred him to ward 209 of Evin prison.
During his incarceration, he endured interrogations and physical and
psychological torture. However, due to the international pressures, Nader
Ahsani was released from prison fourteen days later. Nader Ahsani was
completing his military service at the time of his arrest and detention.

On February 12, 2010, with the excuse of building a new case file against
Nader Ahsani, the Ministry of Intelligence interrogators (the torturers)
tried him in branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court, presided by Judge
Mohammad Moghiseh. Nader Ahsani was charged with, “Acting against national
security”, “Propaganda against the regime and society”, “Conspiring against
the regime”, and other charges.

He was previously charged with engaging in student activism by the same
branch presided by Judge Moghisheh and sentenced to one year in prison.

His sentence was executed on April 20, 2010 and he was released from prison
on February 7, 2011.

*محکومیت غیر قانونی و غیر انسانی یکی از فعالین
دانشجویی<http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_6123.html>
*



*The above reports in English have been prepared by
Persian2English<http://persian2english.com/>using the Farsi language
texts published by various Iranian human rights
groups. *


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*You may either email the full text of the reports, just the link to the
report <http://persian2english.com/?p=21453>s plus the title: “Recent
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***Report: Jailed Students in Iran, April 2011 *

*Body of Email |*

*The following is the latest student prisoner news from Iran, April 2011.
The full text of the reports in Persian and English may be found at this
link <http://persian2english.com/?p=21453>.*

*1) Two Student Activists, Mahdieh Goloroo and Bahareh Hedayat Temporarily
Transferred to Solitary Confinement: *Mahdieh Golroo and Bahareh Hedayat,
two jailed student activists, were transferred from the quarantined
methadone ward in Evin prison to solitary confinement on April
9th. According to Bahareh Hedayat’s husband, Amin Ahmadian, the two student
prisoners were transferred back to their ward in the same week.

*2) Iranian Student Leader,  Siamak Sohrabi Released from Prison on Bail: *On
April 13th, the Committee of Human Rights Reporters announced that Siamak
Sohrabi, a civil engineering graduate student at Sharif University was
released from prison on bail.

*3) **Biomedical Engineering PhD Student, Fouad Sojoudi Sentenced to Eight
Years in Prison: *Amirkabir University biomedical engineering PhD student,
Fouad Sojoudi Farimani was sentenced to eight years in prison by branch 26
of the Tehran Revolutionary Court, according to the Committee of Human
Rights Reporters on April 13th.

*4) Student Activist Leader on Prison Furlough, Milad Asadi Transferred to
Solitary Confinement: *Imprisoned student activist leader, Milad Asadi has
been transferred to Evin’s ward 209 solitary confinement following a prison
furlough for the Persian New Year, according to Daneshjoo News on April
14th.

*5) University of Zanjan Philosophy Student, Homayoun Panahi Arrested
Following Home Raid: *Homayoun Panahi, a University of Zanjan philosophy
student was arrested at his home following a raid by regime
authorities, according to the RAHANA group. He was transferred to Arak
prison.

*6) Sara Mahboubi, a Baha’i Student Deprived of Education Arrested: *On
Saturday April 9, 2011, Sara Mahboubi, a 21 year old Baha’i student deprived
of higher education, was arrested in her home by the Sari security forces
and transferred to the detention center located at the Sari Ministry of
Intelligence.

*7) Leftist Student Activist, Nader Ahsani Issued Illegal Sentence of Two
Years in Prison: *According to Human Rights and Democracy Activists in
Iran<http://hrdai.blogspot.com/2011/04/blog-post_6123.html>and other
Iranian human rights groups, on April 9th, student activist Nader
Ahsani was summoned to branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court to receive an
inhumane and illegal sentence of two years in prison, issued by Judge
Moghiseh, a member of the commission responsible for the 1988 political
massacres in Iran.
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