Home  \\  World  \\ What are Iranian criminals doing in... 27 Feb, 2018 Shahriar Kia "Riyadh Daily"   What are Iranian criminals doing in the UN Human Rights Council? Two months have passed since Iran’s uprising. A revolt that continues to wreak havoc across the ruling regime in Iran. Senior officials, terrified of the consequences and awaiting punishments in the near future from the Iranian people, are busy pointing fingers at others for years of crimes and crackdown. Two such examples vividly explain this reality. The horrific murder of Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi has remained silent for years. She was arrested in Iran back in 2003 and murdered after horrific torture. Her body was not given to her family and buried by the authorities, while completely denying the murder. Reports indicate they splashed her body with acid to destroy any evidence of crimes. Nearly 15 years later, Ali Younesi, former intelligence minister u...

Iran: Female prisoner says prisoners kept for prolonged time in solitary confinement Political prisoner Narges Mohammadi, who is detained in Evin Prison, wrote a letter to Majlis requesting an investigation into the conditions of solitary confinement. In her letter, she stressed that 15 female prisoners who have been kept in solitary were detained with her in Evin Prison. They have been detained for about 140 months overall in solitary confinement and security sections. This letter reads in part: “You are certainly familiar with the phenomenon of “solitary confinement” and know that civil activists, political prisoners and prisoners of conscience are held in solitary confinement upon their arrest and under the pretext of ongoing preliminary investigations, for days, months, and even years, and this method has become common practice in the Islamic Republic of Iran. You know that it is unlawful to keep prisoners in solitary confinement and that security and judicial institutions, ...