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Iran - 2 Musicians and 1 filmmaker arrested and given 3 yrs in prison
3 Artists Sentenced to Imprisonment and Fine by the Appeal Court of Tehran
HRANA News Agency – Three artists have been sentenced each to three years in prison, three years prohibition from activities and 20 million tomans fine by Branch 54 of the Tehran Appeals Court. According to informed sources the final sentence of the musicians Mehdi Rajabian and Yusef Emadi and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian, before delivering them, has been sent to the executive branch in Evin Court (Shahid Moghadasi Court).
According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), each of the three artists had been sentenced to six years in prison in the first stage by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court presided by Judge Moghiseh, on charges of insulting religious sanctities and propaganda against the regime.
Amnesty International recently published a report calling for the abolition of judicial rulings of three artists and has stated that Hossein Rajabian, Iranian film maker and musicians Yusef Emadi and Mehdi Rajabian due to artistic activities have been sentenced to prison and if imprisoned, they will be prisoners of conscience.
Mehdi Rajabian, Hossein Rajabian and Yusef Emadi were arrested in October 2013 at their office in Sari and were kept for 18 days in an unknown location under interrogation, torture and ill-treatment including electric shocks, then they were transferred to ward 2-A of IRGC in Evin prison.
They were released on the bail of 200 million tomans after two months in solitary confinement and interrogation in ward 2-A.
According to a source, they were under pressure during interrogation for a televised confession and interrogators had threatened them that if they would not participate in televised confessions, they would be sentenced to life imprisonment.
In December 2015, Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court sentenced them to six years in prison and a fine on charges of “propaganda against the regime” and “insulting religious sanctities”.
An informed source told our reporter: “The primary court lasted just few minutes and the presence of a legal representation was also pointless.”
The first appeals court was held on December 21, 2015 at Branch 54 of the Appeals Court presided by Judge Babaei.
They were denied access to a lawyer and at the appeal court session the judge had told them that in all stages of the proceedings having a lawyer was “meaningless” and they had to provide full explanations themselves. Although they emphasized that the confessions have been obtained under pressure, the confessions were considered as evidences against them.
165 musicians, filmmakers, scholars and Iranian activists signed a petition last October to announce their protest to the heavy sentences issued for Mehdi Rajabian, composer, musician, Setar player and founder of Media Barg Music; Hossein Rajabian, filmmaker and Yusef Emadi, composer, and demanded the immediate and unconditional release of them and an end to this way of dealing with artists.
Barg Music (official reporting music foundation) has been the only alternative for Iranian music distribution media and was promoting the new music genre and in its five years of activity (from 2008 to 2013) there had been specifically hundreds of albums and thousands of singles from alternative music artists published in this website.
Iranian woman political prisoner in her 9th year of imprisonment
Miss. Zeinab Jalalian, born in 1982, was arrested on March 10, 2008 at the age of 25 by the Kermanshah Intelligence Department in western Iran. In December 2009 she was sentenced to death on the charges of “moharebe (enmity against God) through membership in the PJAK group” in a court hearing that lasted only a few minutes behind closed doors, and without having any legal representation. The ruling issued was then upheld by the Supreme Court.
According to media reports, the court order issued against her on November 20, 2011 was decreased to life in jail. However, she has yet to be informed of this new ruling. Prior to this on the day she was arrested Jalalian was attacked by security agents on the Kermanshah-Sanandaj highway. She was transferred to an intelligence detention center in Kermanshah at gunpoint.
During the course of her detention Jalalian was for a period of one month placed under the most atrocious physical and psychological torture.
This Kurdish political prisoner was transferred to the “Correction Center of Diesel Abad Prison in Kermanshah” to humiliate her. She spent 7 years in this facility.
During her arrest and the severe torture afterwards Jalalian always suffered from problems in her vision and was in constant pain.
This political prisoner had prior to this been sent by officials to a private clinic in Kermanshah for medical treatment, and her family was forced to provide the expenses.
According to media reports, the court order issued against her on November 20, 2011 was decreased to life in jail. However, she has yet to be informed of this new ruling. Prior to this on the day she was arrested Jalalian was attacked by security agents on the Kermanshah-Sanandaj highway. She was transferred to an intelligence detention center in Kermanshah at gunpoint.
During the course of her detention Jalalian was for a period of one month placed under the most atrocious physical and psychological torture.
This Kurdish political prisoner was transferred to the “Correction Center of Diesel Abad Prison in Kermanshah” to humiliate her. She spent 7 years in this facility.
During her arrest and the severe torture afterwards Jalalian always suffered from problems in her vision and was in constant pain.
This political prisoner had prior to this been sent by officials to a private clinic in Kermanshah for medical treatment, and her family was forced to provide the expenses.
Iran official claims the Islamic country does not execute juveniles
Mohammad Javad Larijani, head of the Human Rights Bureau of Iran’s judiciary said in a question raised by a CNN reporter on executions in Iran, the execution of juveniles and executions on drug offenders.
“On the execution of juveniles, I have to say that currently we have no such practice,” he said.
In response to a question on various reports based on executing all men of a village due to drug offences he said, “You have to understand that the male population of a village with only 5 or 6 families living will be only 5 or 6 men, and all may have drug offences!... In the media in Iran we witnessed some news in this regard. This is not the entire society. Although the number of executions are high, especially regrding drug related charges, but it can be a small village.”
“On the execution of juveniles, I have to say that currently we have no such practice,” he said.
In response to a question on various reports based on executing all men of a village due to drug offences he said, “You have to understand that the male population of a village with only 5 or 6 families living will be only 5 or 6 men, and all may have drug offences!... In the media in Iran we witnessed some news in this regard. This is not the entire society. Although the number of executions are high, especially regrding drug related charges, but it can be a small village.”
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