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Mehdi Mahmoudian: Prisoner of the day

Journalist who documented Kahrizak abuse

CPJ: Arrested on September 16, 2009, Mehdi Mahmoudian, a political journalist and blogger, is serving a five-year prison term on charges of “mutiny against the regime” for his role in documenting complaints of rape and abuse of detainees at the Kahrizak Detention Center, reformist news websites reported.

The detention center was closed in July 2009 after Mahmoudian and others documented the pervasive abuse. Mahmoudian also worked with journalist Emadeddin Baghi at the Center for the Defense of Prisoners’ Rights.

Held at Rajaee Shahr Prison, Mahmoudian was in poor health and suffering from kidney ailments, according to the German public news organization Deutsche Welle. Mahmoudian’s mother, Fatemeh Alvandi, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran in April 2011 that her son developed epilepsy while in prison and was in dire physical and psychological condition. She said authorities refused requests that Mahmoudian be granted medical furlough or transfer to a hospital for treatment.

Update, rahesabz: According to JARAS website, Mehdi Mahmoudian was severely beaten by prison guards and interrogators inside IRGC's Ward 2-A, where he had been transferred the prior week for unknown reasons. Mahmoudian passed out as a result of the beatings and was transferred to Evin Prison infirmary, where he was put under an oxygen tent.

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23-Jan-2012
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حمله مزدوران

vildemose
Mon Jan 23, 2012 05:20 PM PST

حمله مزدوران وحشی رژیم به مردم بی دفاع در بابلسر

ندای سبز آزادی: شامگاه دوشنبه، ماموران امنیتی بابلسر با یورش به منزل پدری یاسر یوسف زاده، از فعالان مدنی این شهر، وی را بازداشت و به محل نامعلومی منتقل کردند.

به گزارش «چمران نیوز»، ، پس از یورش ماموران امنیتی به منزل آقای یوسف زاده، پدر او از ماموران درخواست کرده حکم مراجع قضایی و کارت شناسایی خود را ارئه دهند، اما در پاسخ به این درخواست، ماموران امنیتی بر صورت پدر و خواهر او اسپری فلفل پاشیده و باعث صدمه دیدن آنها شده اند.

طبق قوانین ایران ارئه کارت شناسایی ماموران و حکم جلب متهم الزامی است. اما نهادهای امنیتی ایران در تمامی موارد، این قانون را زیرپا می گذارند

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 A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.


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Anahid Hojjati

Thanks Ghormeh sabzi for posting about this brave journalist

by Anahid Hojjati on Mon Jan 23, 2012 03:13 PM PST

As Bavafa noted in his comment, "Journalism for those with conscience has proven to be a very dangerous job under IRI"

Mehdi Mahmoudian's work for prisoners' rights is invaluable and as result of such work, we have not seen abuse even worse than we currently see.


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Bavafa

Doorood bar tamame Iranian e mobarez...

by Bavafa on Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:46 AM PST

Journalism for those with conscience has proven to be a very dangerous job under IRI and many of them have been paying a high price for bring countless injustice and atrocities committed by the member of this regime to the masses.  They have been an danger to tyranny and as a result they are paying for it.

  A sustain campaign by freedom loving/seeking patriots is a must for their immediate and unconditional freedom.

 

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


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Maryam Hojjat

May Ahoura Mazda Protects him from IRR Thugs as

by Maryam Hojjat on Mon Jan 23, 2012 07:18 AM PST

The End Of thugs is Near.


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