The Iranian Regime’s guards at Raja’i Shahr Prison (also known as Ghordasht Prison) in Karaj attacked and severely beat Iranian Sunni prisoners of conscience after they held a peaceful protest over prison conditions and denial of medical treatment.
Reports began to emerge on Wednesday concerning some of the latest foreign nationals to be detained on spurious grounds in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Those reports concerned three Australian nationals who were arrested in two separate incidents.
It was reported on Monday that the Iranian judiciary had handed down new sentences against a number of activists and journalists, in connection with a longstanding labor rights dispute involving the Haft Tapeh sugarcane plant. The plant was the site of several protests, chiefly last November, in which workers demanded unpaid wages that in many cases had accrued for months.
Amnesty International has condemned the Iranian Regime for the harsh sentencing of four journalists and three labor rights activists on bogus national security charges.
An Iranian human rights watchdog has issued a report into human rights abuses in Iran for the month of August, which makes for horrific reading. Iran is besieged by economic, social, and political crises and Iran Human Rights Monitor reports that, in an attempt to silence dissent, the Regime has increased its crackdown on Iranians.
The mother of a US Navy veteran who is being held in Iran spoke to the media in recent days to express serious concerns over her son’s condition. The remarks came shortly after Swiss consular officials were permitted to visit the prisoner, for the first time in three months, after which they relayed information about his case to the US State Department
