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Great Tehran Penitentiary
The Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary ( fa, زندان مرکزی تهران بزرگ) is a prison approximately 32 km (20 mi) south of Tehran. Sometimes called Tehran Central Prison, it is a large prison, also known as ''"فشافویه "'', ''"Fashafuyeh"'' or ''"Hasanabad-e Qom Prison"''. It was built in 2012 in the Hasanabad region south of Tehran, in the deserts of the Tehran to Qom highway.Several thousand prisoners have been or are being transferred to the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary from Evin, Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) and Ghezel Hessar prisons. With an ''official'' capacity of 15,000 inmates, the prison is the largest detention facility in the country. Prison conditions In June 2019, a detainee reported that hundreds of juvenile prisoners under the age of 18 were being housed in the prison, many undocumented. Sexual exploitation of juvenile detainees is allegedly rampant in the prison. The firsthand account also states these minors were regularly abus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judicial System Of Iran
A nationwide judicial system in Iran was first implemented and established by Abdolhossein Teymourtash under Reza Shah, with further changes during the second Pahlavi era. After the 1979 overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty by the Islamic Revolution, the system was greatly altered. The legal code is now based on Islamic law or sharia, although many aspects of civil law have been retained, and it is integrated into a civil law legal system. According to the constitution of the Islamic Republic, the judiciary in Iran "is an independent power" with a Ministry of Justice, head of the Supreme Court, and also a separate appointed Head of the Judiciary.Abrahamian, Ervand, ''History of Modern Iran'', Cambridge U.P., 2008, p.177 History Islam According to one scholar, the administration of justice in Islamic Iran has been until recent times a loosely sewn and frequently resewn patchwork of conflicting authority in which the different and sometimes conflicting sources for Islamic law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prisons In Iran
A prison, also known as a jail, gaol (dated, standard English, Australian, and historically in Canada), penitentiary (American English and Canadian English), detention center (or detention centre outside the US), correction center, correctional facility, lock-up, hoosegow or remand center, is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are confined against their will and usually denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state as punishment for various crimes. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, a prison can also be described as a building in which people are legally held as a punishment for a crime they have committed. Prisons can also be used as a tool of political repression by authoritarian regimes. Their perceived opponents may be impris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Dervish Protests
The 2018 Dervish protests, which occurred in February and March 2018 in Tehran, led to clashes between security forces, and Dervishes, an Iranian Sufi group ( Gonabadi Dervishes), protesting against the government, resulting in the bloody repression of protestors. Tensions between Police, the IRGC, and the Basij with a number of Gonabadi Dervishes eventually led to the deaths of six people, the execution of Dervishes, and the arrest of hundreds of wounded Dervishes on March. The United States called the repression of the Dervishes the largest repression of religious minorities in the Islamic Republic, while the Ministry of Interior of Iran called the protests a plot to expand its scope to the national level by creating regional unrest. Background The Gonabadi Dervishes are Sufi Muslims; the Iranian government considers them a threat. Conversion to Sufism is frowned upon by the Shi'a religious establishment. In January 2012, at least 10 of the group's members were imprisoned in F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali
Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali ( fa, علیرضا شیرمحمدعلی) was an Iranian political prisoner at the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary (Fashafoyeh Prison). Ali was killed while in prison by the prisoners that were housed in general population on 10 June 2019. Arrest Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali was arrested after massive anti-government protests in 2018. He was subsequently sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of “blasphemy, insulting the former and current leader, and propaganda against the regime”. In March 2018, he went on a month-long hunger strike with another prisoner, Barzan Mohammadi, protesting terrible conditions and heavy restrictions at the Tehran Central Penitentiary. Death On 10 June 2019, Shir Mohammad Ali was “attacked by two non-political prisoners and stabbed in the neck and stomach and died before arriving at the hospital.” International reaction Human Rights Watch called for an urgent investigation by Iran's judicial authorities to de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasser Fahimi
Nasser Fahimi ( fa, ناصر فهیمی) is an Iranian physician, human rights defender and a political prisoner of conscience. He is also the first figure in the political history of Iran who formally requested the Islamic Republic to revoke his Iranian citizenship due to its type of government (a dictatorship). Early life Nasser Fahimi was born on May 8, 1974 in Sanandaj, Kurdistan province of Iran. Activity In an open letter addressed to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Verónica Michelle Bachelet, and the President of the United States, Joe Biden, he called for the intensification of human rights condemnations against the Islamic Republic. Arrest and imprisonment He was first arrested in 1998 during the protests aimed at condemning the supporting actions of the Turkish government for Abdullah Ocalan. Also, in 2010, after 21 days of being arrested in an unknown place, he was transferred to jail 209. He was also sentenced to 10 years in prison In 2014 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Human Rights In Iran
From the Imperial Pahlavi dynasty (1925 to 1979), through the Islamic Revolution (1979), to the era of the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979 to current), government treatment of Iranian citizens' rights has been criticized by Iranians, by international human rights activists, by writers, by NGOs and the United States. While the monarchy under the rule of the shahs was widely attacked by most Western watchdog organizations for having an abysmal human rights record, the government of the Islamic Republic which succeeded it is considered still worse by many. The Pahlavi dynasty—Reza Shah Pahlavi and his son Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi—has sometimes been described as a "royal dictatorship", or "one man rule", and employed secret police, torture, and executions to stifle political dissent. During Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi's reign, estimates of the number of political prisoners executed vary from less than 100 to 300. Under the Islamic Republic, the prison system was centralized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Prisons
This article provides a list of prisons by country. A Australian Capital Territory * Alexander Maconochie Centre * Periodic Detention Centre New South Wales * Bathurst Correctional Centre * Berrima Correctional Centre * Brewarrina (Yetta Dhinnakkal) Centre * Broken Hill Correctional Centre * Cessnock Correctional Centre * Cooma Correctional Centre * Defence Force Correctional Establishment * Dillwynia Women's Correctional Centre * Emu Plains Correctional Centre * Glen Innes Correctional Centre * Goulburn Correctional Centre * Grafton Correctional Centre * Ivanhoe (Warakirri) Correctional Centre * John Morony Correctional Complex * Junee Correctional Centre * Kirkconnell Correctional Centre * Lithgow Correctional Centre * Long Bay Correctional Centre * Mannus Correctional Centre * Metropolitan Remand and Reception Centre * Mid North Coast Correctional Centre * Mulawa Correctional Centre * Oberon Correctional Centre * Parklea Correctional Centre * Parramatta Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gohardasht Prison
Gohardasht Prison ( fa, زندان گوهردشت) is a prison in Gohardasht, a town in the northern outskirt of Karaj, approximately 20 km (12 miles) west of Tehran. Sometimes spelled Gohar Dasht Prison, it is also known as ''"Rajai Shahr"'', ''Rajaishahr'', ''Raja’i Shahr'', ''Reja’i Shahr'', ''Rajayi Shahr'', ''Rajaee Shahr'', ''Rajaei Shahr'' or ''"Rajaï Shahr Prison"'', etc. and sometimes as Karadj or Karaj prison (but Qezel Hesar prison is also near Karaj). In Google Maps it is listed as "Rajai-Shahr Prison, Karaj, Tehran, Iran". Political prisoners and prisoners of conscience tend to be sent to Ward 12 of Rajai Shahr. Rajai Shahr is regarded as one of Iran's harshest prisons because of its many reported cases of torture, rape and murder. IRGC has solitary confinement cells in Rajai Shahr Prison. In the immediate aftermath of the Islamic Revolution, there were many systematic executions and interrogation of former members of the overthrown monarchy, military. D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IRGC
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC; fa, سپاه پاسداران انقلاب اسلامی, Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enghelāb-e Eslāmi, lit=Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution also Sepāh or Pasdaran for short) is a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, founded after the Iranian Revolution on 22 April 1979 by order of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.IISS Military Balance 2006, Routledge for the IISS, London, 2006, p. 187 Whereas the Iranian Army defends Iranian borders and maintains internal order, according to the Iranian constitution, the Revolutionary Guard is intended to protect the country's Islamic republic political system, which supporters believe includes preventing foreign interference and coups by the military or "deviant movements". The IRGC is designated as a terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States. As of 2011, the Revolutionary Guards had at least 250,000 military personnel including ground, aerospace ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasanabad, Iran
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