Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was violently crushed by jail guards final week after main a protest in opposition to the demise penalty, and her requests for hospital care and a gathering along with her lawyer have been denied, her lawyer stated Thursday.
The lawyer, Mostafa Nili, advised Iranian information media concerning the violence in opposition to Mohammadi, elevating considerations concerning the state of her well being and well-being.He stated that her cellmates had communicated her scenario.
“My shopper says that she was crushed and has bruises on her physique,” Nili was quoted as saying within the reformist-leaning Emtedad information outlet. “Regardless of the jail physician’s orders, and contemplating my shopper’s coronary heart situation,” he stated, “she has not been despatched to the hospital.”
Nili stated that for the previous 9 months, jail authorities had denied Mohammadi the proper to make cellphone calls and to have visits along with her household and lawyer.
Mohammadi, 52, Iran’s most outstanding human rights and ladies’s rights activist, is serving a 10-year sentence within the infamous Evin jail on expenses of threatening nationwide safety due to her human rights advocacy. She was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
From the ladies’s ward of the jail, she has organized workshops, talks, protests and sit-ins in opposition to the federal government’s human rights violations.
On August 6, Mohammadi and different feminine prisoners staged a protest and chanted slogans in opposition to the deliberate execution of a Kurdish man, Reza Rasaei, 34, who was arrested throughout protests in 2022 and accused of getting a task within the killing of a member of Iran’s safety forces. He denied the allegations, and rights group stated he had been convicted in “a sham trial.”
Mohammadi’s Instagram web page additionally posted audio from an earlier protest that she and different prisoners had staged in opposition to the demise penalty. The ladies could be heard chanting, “Neither threats, nor repression, nor executions have any impact any extra,” and “Loss of life to the dictator.”
Their gathering on August 6 turned violent, Mohammadi’s husband, Taghi Rahmani, and Nili stated, when brokers from the Intelligence Ministry who have been stationed on the jail tried to quell their chanting after which antiriot jail guards raided their protest within the jail yard. The ladies have been violently crushed, pushed and shoved into their cells and locked inside, her husband stated.
Ten of the ladies collapsed, with 5 of them, together with Mohammadi, struggling accidents, in keeping with Rahmani. The guards beat Mohammadi, dealing blows to her chest and inflicting respiratory issues so extreme that her cellmates thought she had gone into cardiac arrest, her husband stated. The ladies have been handled on the jail’s clinic, the place the physician ordered that she be taken to a hospital, Rahmani and Nili stated.
Rahmani stated in an interview from Paris, the place he lives in exile with the couple’s 17-year-old twin son and daughter, that his spouse had despatched a message about what occurred by way of her cellmates, who have been allowed to name and go to with their households.
“I’m very scared for her, watching all of this from the skin, and realizing the sort of bodily and emotional stress Narges is beneath is terrifying for us,” Rahmani stated. “Narges now has a excessive profile internationally, and they’re intentionally punishing her.”
Just a few days after the episode, Iran’s jail group issued a report denying that guards had bodily crushed feminine prisoners. The assertion, revealed by the judiciary’s information outlet, Mizan, blamed Mohammadi for “instigating ladies prisoners” to assault a jail guard and making an attempt to interrupt the lock on the door resulting in the yard.
The assertion claimed that the ladies had been guided peacefully again to their cells with none violence.
Final week, over the course of two days, Iran executed 29 prisoners who had primarily been convicted on drug-trafficking and homicide expenses, in keeping with the United Nations and rights teams. Rasaei was amongst them.
The United Nations’ excessive commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, stated in a press release final week that “this represents an alarmingly excessive variety of executions in such a brief time frame.” He stated his company had verified that 38 individuals have been executed in July, bringing the entire variety of executions to at the least 345 this yr, amongst them 15 ladies.
Hadi Ghaemi, the director of the Middle for Human Rights in Iran, an impartial group primarily based in New York, stated that Iran’s authorities had lengthy used executions and the demise penalty as instruments of intimidation, together with throughout the 2022 women-led rebellion — which was set off by the demise of Mahsa Amini whereas within the custody of the morality police, after she was arrested for supposedly violating the nation’s hijab legal guidelines.
Ghaemi stated that the latest wave of executions might be a message from the federal government that any inner unrest at such a delicate time can be met with an iron fist. And that, he stated, extends to Mohammadi.
Iran is going through inner turmoil after the election of a brand new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist who however introduced that his Cupboard would come with a number of conservatives and just one girl. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the nation’s vice chairman for technique, resigned quickly after.
There are additionally heightened tensions within the area as the potential for struggle with Israel looms: Iran’s leaders have pledged to retaliate in opposition to Israel for the assassination of Hamas’ political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, the capital of Iran.
The lawyer, Mostafa Nili, advised Iranian information media concerning the violence in opposition to Mohammadi, elevating considerations concerning the state of her well being and well-being.He stated that her cellmates had communicated her scenario.
“My shopper says that she was crushed and has bruises on her physique,” Nili was quoted as saying within the reformist-leaning Emtedad information outlet. “Regardless of the jail physician’s orders, and contemplating my shopper’s coronary heart situation,” he stated, “she has not been despatched to the hospital.”
Nili stated that for the previous 9 months, jail authorities had denied Mohammadi the proper to make cellphone calls and to have visits along with her household and lawyer.
Mohammadi, 52, Iran’s most outstanding human rights and ladies’s rights activist, is serving a 10-year sentence within the infamous Evin jail on expenses of threatening nationwide safety due to her human rights advocacy. She was awarded the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize.
From the ladies’s ward of the jail, she has organized workshops, talks, protests and sit-ins in opposition to the federal government’s human rights violations.
On August 6, Mohammadi and different feminine prisoners staged a protest and chanted slogans in opposition to the deliberate execution of a Kurdish man, Reza Rasaei, 34, who was arrested throughout protests in 2022 and accused of getting a task within the killing of a member of Iran’s safety forces. He denied the allegations, and rights group stated he had been convicted in “a sham trial.”
Mohammadi’s Instagram web page additionally posted audio from an earlier protest that she and different prisoners had staged in opposition to the demise penalty. The ladies could be heard chanting, “Neither threats, nor repression, nor executions have any impact any extra,” and “Loss of life to the dictator.”
Their gathering on August 6 turned violent, Mohammadi’s husband, Taghi Rahmani, and Nili stated, when brokers from the Intelligence Ministry who have been stationed on the jail tried to quell their chanting after which antiriot jail guards raided their protest within the jail yard. The ladies have been violently crushed, pushed and shoved into their cells and locked inside, her husband stated.
Ten of the ladies collapsed, with 5 of them, together with Mohammadi, struggling accidents, in keeping with Rahmani. The guards beat Mohammadi, dealing blows to her chest and inflicting respiratory issues so extreme that her cellmates thought she had gone into cardiac arrest, her husband stated. The ladies have been handled on the jail’s clinic, the place the physician ordered that she be taken to a hospital, Rahmani and Nili stated.
Rahmani stated in an interview from Paris, the place he lives in exile with the couple’s 17-year-old twin son and daughter, that his spouse had despatched a message about what occurred by way of her cellmates, who have been allowed to name and go to with their households.
“I’m very scared for her, watching all of this from the skin, and realizing the sort of bodily and emotional stress Narges is beneath is terrifying for us,” Rahmani stated. “Narges now has a excessive profile internationally, and they’re intentionally punishing her.”
Just a few days after the episode, Iran’s jail group issued a report denying that guards had bodily crushed feminine prisoners. The assertion, revealed by the judiciary’s information outlet, Mizan, blamed Mohammadi for “instigating ladies prisoners” to assault a jail guard and making an attempt to interrupt the lock on the door resulting in the yard.
The assertion claimed that the ladies had been guided peacefully again to their cells with none violence.
Final week, over the course of two days, Iran executed 29 prisoners who had primarily been convicted on drug-trafficking and homicide expenses, in keeping with the United Nations and rights teams. Rasaei was amongst them.
The United Nations’ excessive commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk, stated in a press release final week that “this represents an alarmingly excessive variety of executions in such a brief time frame.” He stated his company had verified that 38 individuals have been executed in July, bringing the entire variety of executions to at the least 345 this yr, amongst them 15 ladies.
Hadi Ghaemi, the director of the Middle for Human Rights in Iran, an impartial group primarily based in New York, stated that Iran’s authorities had lengthy used executions and the demise penalty as instruments of intimidation, together with throughout the 2022 women-led rebellion — which was set off by the demise of Mahsa Amini whereas within the custody of the morality police, after she was arrested for supposedly violating the nation’s hijab legal guidelines.
Ghaemi stated that the latest wave of executions might be a message from the federal government that any inner unrest at such a delicate time can be met with an iron fist. And that, he stated, extends to Mohammadi.
Iran is going through inner turmoil after the election of a brand new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist who however introduced that his Cupboard would come with a number of conservatives and just one girl. Mohammad Javad Zarif, the nation’s vice chairman for technique, resigned quickly after.
There are additionally heightened tensions within the area as the potential for struggle with Israel looms: Iran’s leaders have pledged to retaliate in opposition to Israel for the assassination of Hamas’ political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran, the capital of Iran.
