Iran news in brief, 28 August 2017

Masoud Dalvand:

#Iran #news in brief, 28 August 2017
Gatherings in Solidarity With Political Prisoners on Hunger Strike in Iran
The Iranian diaspora mobilized this Saturday for prisoners of conscience who are on hunger strike for nearly a month in Iran.
In the forecourt of the ‘Les Invalides in Paris’ and in several cities around the world, human rights defenders sought to alert the deteriorating state of health and the intransigence of the authorities to respond to their basic demands.
Political prisoners are protesting against the violence and intimidation of Gohardacht prison guards (Tehran) and all the measures to deprive them of a decent condition of incarceration.
Iran sentences prisoner of conscious to death
The Iranian regime’s judiciary has sentenced to death political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri, his attorney told news agencies on Sunday.
Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei told The Associated Press that the court has sentenced his client to death on charges of “founding a cult.”
The 61-year-old Taheri has been held in solitary confinement for over six years in Tehran’s Evin prison.
In an Urgent Action issued in July, Amnesty International had warned about Mr. Taheri facing death Penalty.
Iran: Shocking Ads, People Put Their Kidneys on Sale out of Poverty
The state-run media, Mashregh News Website has released an image of a leaflet on which the sale of kidney has been advertised. A couple was planning to sell their kidney and bone marrow due to indigence and financial problems.
A statement has been also posted on a road sign of a street, reading that," A couple is desperate to sell their kidney and bone marrow due to problems. The test is ready. The blood types are O+ and A+."
Additionally, the workers of the copper factory located in the southeast of Iran have unanimously announced that they are going to sell their kidneys because of financial problems.
These developments are taking place as mullahs are allocating billions of dollars of the Iranian people’s wealth for the export of terrorism and fundamentalism and warmongering across the region, especially in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen to maintain this repulsive regime in power in any way possible.
Air Pollution Kills 35,000 In Iran Each Year
Air pollution kills 35,000 people every year in Iran, an official at the Environmental Protection Organization has warned.
“Air pollution also kills 5,000 persons in Iran’s capital city, Tehran,” Mohammad Darvish, director-general of the organization’s office for education and popular cooperation, added.
Air pollution, water shortages, and dust storms and their impact on the environment have seriously threatened large and small cities in recent years in Iran.
Iran: AI expresses concern over situation of a political prisoner
In its statement on August 25, 2017, Amnesty International wrote, “Iranian Kurdish woman Zeynab Jalalian, serving a life sentence, is severely ill and requires specialized medical care outside prison. However, the authorities have persistently refused to transfer her to a hospital, apparently to punish her and extract forced ‘confessions’. In protest, she has been refusing all medications since March 2017. The denial of access to medical care in these circumstances amounts to torture.”