Tehran’s government is expected to discuss a letter Sunday from a woman belonging to a group of Iranian environmentalists convicted of crimes connected with state security, in which she says she was tortured in prison.
"I have not seen this letter and I am not aware of its contents but Sunday at the cabinet meeting, I will discuss the subject," said Iranian first vice president Eshaq Jahanguiri on Wednesday. quoted by the semi-official agency Isna and other local media. "If necessary, we will designate people in the government to discuss [this matter] with the head of the judiciary," he added.
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According to Isna and the Khabaronline news site, Mr. Jahanguiri made these comments in response to "a question about a letter published by one of the accused in the file of environmental activists and claiming to have been subjected to mistreatment ranging against human standards ” . The first vice-president thus reacted to press revelations taken up abroad on a letter that this activist, Niloufar Bayani, allegedly addressed to the Iranian supreme guide, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to complain of having been tortured and threatened. multiple rapes by his captors to extract confessions.
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The same media reported another letter from Mrs. Bayani to the head of her section at Evin prison in northern Tehran, asking her to intervene to stop the incessant sexual abuse, threats and the pressures she claims to be a victim of. Bayani is part of a group of eight people linked to an Iranian wildlife protection association arrested in early 2018 and whose terms of four to ten years in prison in November were confirmed by the judicial authority on Tuesday after the procedure. call. The environmental activist, who was sentenced to ten years in prison, worked from 2012 to 2017 for the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), which described her in November as "a highly valued colleague".
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Mostafa Tajzadeh, a figure in the reform movement, questions Iranian President Hassan Rohani and the heads of the other two branches of government on Twitter, saying "shameful and unacceptable" about the "vile facts that have been revealed about what happened to him" [Mrs. Bayani] because of his interrogators " He urges them to " react immediately ... so that the truth is known and the perpetrators punished "under pain of being held" responsible " for this " disaster ".
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