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Iranian Women in Evin Prison Jan 9, 2006 Bahman Aghai Diba PhD International Law - Persian Journal The notorious Evin Prison has been an important center for crimes against the women's rights in Iran. This prison is mainly designed for men, but it has a special section for women too. This section was previously devoted to the political prisoners and most of its inhabitants were the arrested members of the MKOs and leftist organizations opposing the regime. A large number of these arrested women were executed in the Mass Murders of 1978 in the Iran along with their male counterparts. This is was one of the rare occasions that the Islamic-Arabic regime of Iran did not commit discrimination against women. There are two units for the women in the Evin Prison: the unit of solitary confinement which is under the men's section and situated right next to the foothills in the furthest north of prison and the public unit which is closer to the entrance gate of the prison. When I was in the Evin prison, I could see that the women were transported to and from their solitary confinement to the other places (like the office of the prison) by men who pushed them around with a piece of stick. I witnessed a few times that the Pasdars (the revolutionary prison Guards who were mostly selected from the people who attended the Friday Prayers in Tehran and other cities) were beating the women in the process of transportation. During my years of imprisonment, I came to know at least tens of cases that the male prison officials (including the representatives of the Revolutionary Courts in the Evin Prison, and the heads of various sections of the prison especially those involved in the security and operational activities) had sexual relations with the inmates or had raped the inmates in order to give them their ordinary rights as prisoners. This trend if fact was much expanded when the ordinary prisoners were added to the political prisoners in Evin (this was in line with a plan that Assadollah Lajevardi, the Bucher of Evin, had devised to claim that there was no political prisoner in Iran). Whenever the news of the rapes and corruptions inside the women's section leaked out, the revolutionary authorities put the criminals aside silently and assigned new hyenas for the jobs. The Women were under more pressures than men in prison. They suffered all kinds of mistreatments, degrading and inhuman punishments and treatments. The extent of the violation of human rights in the Iranians prisons entered a completely new stage when the women's prisons were concerned. Forceful implementation of the religious rituals, imposing the outdated laws of the barbaric Arabs against women, sentencing women in the courts headed by criminal Mullahs that lacked the least expertise or care for the women's issues, imposing the rulings of the religious authorities (which were altogether in favor of men. In fact the dominant interpretation of Islam in Iran considers women as domestic animals and belongings of men. In many cases they do not have even the rights and privileges of the slaves). The By-law of Iranian Prisons is an illegal text custom made by the Butcher of Evin (Lajevardi was the Head of Iran Prisons Organization for several years and he had stationed the Prisons Organization inside his beloved place: Evin Prison) and it has nothing in particular about the regulations and rights of the female prisoners. Lajevardi had ordered this text personally and he had instructed Ayatollah Yazdi (the Butcher of Evin was so aware of the dark secrets of these Mullahs that he treated Ayatollah Yazdi, the Head of Iranian Judiciary, as his pet snake) to sign it, while both of them did not have the legal capacity to do so. It was an important piece of law that should have passed in the Majles at least. The Women's section of the Evin Prison at the moment, like many other prisons of Iran, is a center for promotion corruption, addiction, and prostitution. The corruption mafia recruits new "flesh" for the market constantly through the agents stationed in prisons. They offer calculated protection for the vulnerable women in the prison and lure them to the rings of prostitution waiting for them outside the prison. The prostitution rings of the prisons are even active in sending the victims to other countries for the same services. The staff of the Evin prison for the women's section is almost entirely men. The reason is that few women are ready to accept such jobs and apart from the female family members of the prison staff there are few other people who work there. These persons do not have any training in the issues of criminal justice, management and administration of the judicial institutions, administration of the prisons, classification of the prisoners and other forms of sciences and arts related to the incarcerations. Most of them are illiterate. The female staff of the prisons does not have any social workers. In rare cases that they have such persons they are male social workers are usually part of the gang of raping, and violating the rights of the inmates. After all, in a society that does not observe the rights of the people who are outside prison (and at least temporary are assumed to be innocent), who cares about the rights of the ill-starred men and women who happen to witness the system of Islamic justice so much propagated by the corrupt and demagogue figures in the Judicial system of Iran. (They claim that other countries should learn from them hoe to run the prisons!). I look forward for the day that the Islamic-Arabic regime of Iran collapses and the Evin Prison is turned into the museum of the violation of human rights and crimes against humanity. © Iranian.ws __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! 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