In
an open letter to the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Mrs. Asma
Jahangir, political prisoner Khaled Hardani explained increasing repression in
Iran, against prisoners as well as the Iranian people. He also wrote about a
young woman who was shot by the regime.
Khaled
Hardani was born in Ahvaz. He was was first sentenced to death, but this was
then reduced to life in prison. He has been serving his sentence in Evin and
Rajai Shahr prisons since 2000.
He
underwent eight surgeries while in prison, but his treatment was ineffective
because of the polluted environment in the prison. Prison doctors repeatedly
requested that he be sent to specialized hospitals, which is confirmed by
forensic experts. However, prison authorities refused. He is currently staging
a hunger strike to protest the conditions endured by political prisoners.
In his
letter, Khalid Hardani, wrote about the shooting of Asghar Nahvi.
"Inhumane and cruel treatment on the streets in the name of promotion of
virtue and prevention of vice, and evil and negative treatment of agents of
‘fire at will’ toward young girls and boys with the pretext of mal-veiling or
mischief, is an insult to the Iranians’ intelligence, an insult to the will of
the younger generation for freedom.”
He continued,
"Ever growing poverty and social discontent and theoretical obstacles of
the regime for exporting the revolution at the head and the collapse of the
hegemony of the supreme leader (velayat-e-faqih) among the masses,
mismanagement in the so-called government organs and banks, largely affiliated
with the security forces and the IRGC and looting people’s deposits, the
protest movement of workers, teachers and the rest of deprived community
throughout the country show the real causes of the criminal death of Asghar
Nahvi in the capital of the Islamic Republic, and that the burning anger of the
people from injustice and tyranny is imposed on them.”
Hardani
added, "Straight shooting to the heart of Asghar Nahvi by mercenaries of
‘fire at will’ is undoubtedly a shooting into the heart of society protesting
against the clerical regime, which has shown a full-length of the ugly and
inhumane display of over 38 years of executions, torture and imprisonment in
the world.”
In his
letter to UN Special Rapporteur, Hardani stated that the Iranian regime
"is floundering in systematic corruption", and he stressed the
"mismanagement in state organs and government, such as ransom, looting and
stealing billions of dollars of national assets, inhumane interference in the
region and stewardship in the killing of the people, along with the evil regime
in the region (Bashar al-Assad) and participating in the mass killing of Syrian
children and women, displacing more than 5 million people and supporting
terrorist groups in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Bahrain.”
He also
addressed the "implementation of unconventional and destructive programs,
such as missile and nuclear weapons, and the imposition of billions of dollars
in damage to the people, as well as the deepening of racial, religious, and
political discrimination.”
Hardani
concluded his letter by saying, "Evident injustice in the behavior of the
judiciary under the Supreme Leader and continuation of executions, torture,
imprisonment and kidnapping opponents and their families, journalists, human
rights activists and religious and ethnic minorities, currently in prison two
Christians named Ibrahim Firouzi and Amin Afshar Nadery are on hunger strike
and prior to them Rassoul Hardani and Ismail Abdi and Athena Daemi were on
hunger strike, as well as the widening gap between the layers of poor and rich
(read mercenaries of the government) and the collapse of the main foundation of
society, i.e. the family through drug injecting and forced poverty among young
people, and various classes of the society, organized unemployment and …
thousands of various sufferings inflicted on the people in the past 38 years.”
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