This is the first in a series notes on political prisoners arrested in Iran after the elections on June 12.
The documentation about them is often patchy, so pick it up and check it is not easy. I therefore ask the cooperation of everyone in this note and others like to come, both in terms of additions and / or corrections, both in terms of the spread (share them). Who had time or desire might even try to translate them into English. Obviously those who do not want to be tagged and receive these notes may simply not bother to report them and in the future.
I believe it is important to maintain the pressure on these cases and the fierce repression with which the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran in recent weeks is getting rid of intellectuals, journalists, dissidents, human rights activists, lawyers, students and even artists.
course, the situation of each detainee change by the hour, so each update will be welcome.
1) and Jila Baniyaghoub Bahaman Ahamad Amoe arrested June 20, 2009.
Jila Baniyaghoub was released August 19, 2009
husband and wife, both journalists.
Jila Baniyaghoub is a freelance reporter and editor in chief of the site Kanoon Zanan Irani (Focus on Women of Iran), frequently criticized by the authorities because of the continuous complaints of the social and political burden on Iranian women. The Baniyaghoub send license has been mentioned several times in the past, paying his desire not to submit to censorship. The regime has often managed to hinder the exercise of the profession and access to the media. She was imprisoned and tortured on several occasions.
On June 12, 2006 she was arrested along with 70 other people (42 women), in front of Tehran University, he followed the reformist newspaper Sarmayeh a demonstration against gender discrimination, violent demonstrations repressed by the police.
In March 2007 she was arrested as he followed the case of a process of the Court Revolutionary Islamic activists for women's rights in that circumstance was locked in a special arm of the Evin prison in Tehran, held in solitary confinement, interrogated in the dark, forced to drink dirty water, which causes a serious poisoning.
On June 12, 2008 was again arrested with nine other women who were commemorating the event two years ago.
is a founding member of the One Million Signatures Campaign Campaign for Equality, founded with the aim to change Iranian laws that discriminate against women. He has also published a book, Journalists in Iran, and is preparing another Women in the Unit 209 of Evin , based on direct observation of how women live imprisoned in Evin prison. The book will be published in Iran, but abroad. On 18 May this year 's International Women Media Foundation the has awarded the "Courage in Journalism" (won in 2002 by Anna Politkovskaya). Her husband, Bahaman Amoe Ahamad, writes on several reformist newspapers and publications.
They were arrested in their house at midnight on June 20, 2009, by intelligence agents in plain clothes. According to the latest news
Jila Baniyaghoub would be held in Evin prison in a cell he shares with the human rights activist Shiva Nazar A'hari and two other women.
Update August 19, 2009
Jila Baniyaghoub was released a few hours ago. He spent 60 days in captivity in Evin prison without any formal accusation has potutto be moved against him.
Update August 20, 2009
Reporters Sans Frontières some precise details on the release of Jila Baniyaghoub. The release took place on payment of deposit: 100 million toman (€ 90 thousand). The same source also adds news on the husband of Baniyaghoub, Bahaman Ahmadi Amoe, about which little or nothing has been heard since his arrest, and which is, unfortunately, still be in isolation in the arm 209 of Evin prison.
Update August 23, 2009
Two days after his release, wrote a touching Jila Baniyaghoub open letter to remind the fellow prisoners who are still detained in Evin prison, citing among other Saeed Laylaz , Abdolfattah Soltani, Shiva Nazar Ahari , Masoud Bastani and of course her husband Bahman.
"I can not sleep - Baniyaghoub writes -" How could I do it in the cool of my bed at home, when they are in the heat of the prison cell? ". Jila also said that friends led the hundreds of flowers and dozens of boxes of sweets and chocolates, as well as lots of fruit (especially watermelon). But she can not touch anything, because he thinks its cellmates which can not be allowed to buy or sweets or fruit. "I will not eat sweets and chocolate without you. We will wait and eat them together to celebrate the newfound freedom."
Update August 24
A Bahaman Ahamad Amoe was forbidden to receive visitors (source: the blog Revolutionary Road). His family learned the hard way, that after having gone to Evin prison and have waited long hours to meet him. The Safar brother Ahmadi said: "After hours of waiting for an agent led us in the visiting room of the arm 209, where we spent another hour and only then we were told that Bahaman can not receive visitors. If this is not a torture for the family of an inmate, you tell me what it is.
Safar Ahmadi also said that his brother is one of the few prisoners to have had the opportunity to meet family members only once in 65 days of detention. "She had come also my sister with me Jila Baniyaghoub, which was released a few days ago. Hoped to meet her husband after so long. "
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12 political prisoners in Iran: Ahmad Zeydabadi
11 political prisoners in Iran: Saeed Laylaz
Political prisoners in Iran 10: Isa Saharkhiz
Political prisoners in Iran 9 : Kian Tajbakhsh
Political prisoners in Iran 8: Mahsa Amrabadi and Masoud Bastani
Political prisoners in Iran 7: Mohammad Ali Dadkhah
Political prisoners in Iran 6: Shiva Nazar Ahari
Political prisoners in Iran 5: Saeed Hajjarian
Political prisoners in Iran 4: Mitra Farahani
Political prisoners in Iran 3: Bijan Khajehpour
Political prisoners in Iran 2: Abdolfattah Soltani
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