Monday, May 16, 2011

Sodomy or routine in Iranian prisons

The cruelty they are subjected prisoners Iranian prisons was again the subject of complaint. Mehdi Mahmoudi, a journalist close to the opposition leader Mehdi Karrubi doing time in prison Rajai Shahr (Karaj, near Tehran), has written a letter to Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, reporting cases of rape occur every day in this prison.

"In Rajai Shahr whatever good looks, lack of physical strength or do not have enough money to pay protection is forced to spend every night in a cell to be violated," he writes Mahmudi. "Each 'object' has an owner who makes money with it and sometimes sell it to others," continues in a shocking story.

In many sections of the prison, said the journalist, sodomy is a "routine practice accepted." In his letter quoted the case of a young prisoner who was raped seven times in one night and, when he complained to prison authorities sent him to solitary confinement instead of taking action against their tormentors.

Mahmudi wrote his letter to Khamenei in September, but its content was made public only a few days ago and has been mentioned by farsi edition of the BBC and the news page AzerNews (www. azernews. Az.) "Here in Rajai Shahr prison, which is under their control, the citizens of a country under its authority are rented for 250,000 toman [just over 175 euros] in a system that victims are not saved," said Mahmoudi appealing directly to Khamenei.

A journalist close to reformist circles opposed to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June 2009, has been in jail since September of that year. He has been imprisoned on other occasions and had made such allegations repeatedly. For example, in 2007, drew attention to the brutality practiced Kahrizak prison in another letter to Khamenei.

Iran's supreme leader ordered the closure of the prison two years later, when several prisoners imprisoned for participating in the 'Green Revolution' died due to torture. Mahmoudi's letter is the third letter addressed to the Iranian authorities highlighting the poor conditions in detention centers.

A student incarcerated in Karun (Ahvaz in southwestern Iran) complained to the head of Human Rights overcrowding and unsanitary condition of the center. In early May, a pro-reform websites, Kaleme (www. Kalem. Com) published a text aimed at the head of the Iranian Islamic Commission of Human Rights, Mohamad Hasan Ziaefar, to protest prison conditions Gharchak at south of Tehran.

Relatives of the 200 prisoners there are crowded in this paper indicated that they had no adequate sanitation or adequate food. Iranian opposition sources have told elmundo. is that rats and cockroaches that inhabit the center and many women are forced to relieve themselves in their own cells.

There are imprisoned the two female members of the group of seven leaders of the Baha'i community (www. bahai. Com / iran) imprisoned. On 14 May, 'Yaran', as known to the administrative structure of the Baha'i marked three years of captivity. Were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in an unfair trial.

The Baha'i community has denounced elmundo. is that the seven 'Yaran' are 'in very critical condition "and feared" for his physical integrity. "

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