RAHANA- On Saturday afternoon June 12, 2010, a number of students of University of Tehran held a gathering on the anniversary of the disputed presidential elections and in protest to the current government despite threats made by the university officials and the terror atmosphere outside the campus.

According to RAHANA’s reporter, minutes after this gathering was formed and while students were moving towards the main university entrance in Enghelab St, the campus guard organized several university guard staff to oppress students’ protest, following which the student basij militia and campus guards started to beaten up students and even arrested some of them , although some other students were able to leave the scene.

Tehran, May 28 – Inmates of a prison cellblock in Karaj known as the “Doghouse” are harassed and tortured; their hands, feet or jaws sometimes broken in brutal treatment by the head of the unit, where they are sent for protesting, Iran Focus has learnt.

Saman Mohammadian and Mohsen Bigvand, two of the Gohardasht Prison inmates in question, are currently hospitalised in the infirmary, and more than a dozen are in solitary confinement, according to human rights and democracy activists in Iran.

Another of the many Doghouse prisoners tortured is Bahram Tasviri, a 30-year-old who has been jailed for six years. Tasviri was thrown in solitary for five days about six weeks ago after protesting insults by Yusefi, a prison official, against his family.

Tasviri requested to call his family but prison officials refused. According to the reports, the Doghouse head, Hassan Akharian, called Tasviri’s mother and told her that her son had passed away and his body was in the hospital for them to collect for burial. Tasviri’s mother had a heart attack and was hospitalised after hearing this news.

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Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, was rearrested on 25 February to begin serving a six-year prison sentence. An appeal court upheld her conviction for charges related to her political and journalistic activities. She is held in Evin Prison, Tehran, and Amnesty International considers her to be a prisoner of conscience.

A female member of Iranian human rights organization the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) has been released without charge. Three detained CHRR members have told relatives that they are facing pressure during interrogation to accept allegations against them. All those detained remain at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.

reports on dreadful 209 torture house

Finally after months of not having any information on Master Eliya and other imprisoned members of El-Yasin in spite of the continual pursuits done by the members of Union of Human Rights and International Affairs of El-Yasin (UHRIAE), shocking details of severe mental and physical tortures on Master Eliya, the leader of El-yasin, were revealed. The following report is an assortment gathered from pieces of news brought out of prison by the newly released people and the family members of the prisoners.