Student Activist Behrouz Javid Tehrani Lashed 74 Times
November 16, 2010
Original Report by HRDAI | November 10, 2010English Summary By Sayeh Hassan | Edited by P2E
According to news reports from Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, Wednesday morning at 10:00am Behrouz Javid Tehrani, a long time political prisoner and pro-democracy activist was sentenced to 74 lashes, and the sentence was immediately carried out by Hassan Akhariyan, a notorious prison official.
Behrouz Javid Tehrani is a pro-democracy activist who has spent most of his adult life in the notorious Islamic Republic prisons. Behrouz was first arrested in 1999 during the pro-democracy student protests. He was released in 2004 and immediately resumed his pro-democracy activities and was arrested again in 2005 and has been in the Gohardasht Prison in Karaj since his arrest.
Gohardasht Prison is known for its brutal conditions and for housing extremely dangerous convicts. Behrouz has been subjected to systematic torture and has spent extensive time in solitary confinement over the past five years.
Although the Islamic Regime agents have tried very hard to break Behrouz’s spirit, they have not been successful. Behrouz has continued his pro-democracy activities from prison in spite of great risk to his safety and well being.
LETTER BY BEHROUZ JAVID TEHRANI ABOUT SENTENCE OF LASHINGS:
Translation by Tour Irani
HRDAI – The following was written by political prisoner, Behrouz Javid Tehrani about the inhumane and medieval sentences of lashings. The Iranian government started carrying out lashing sentences again after a few years of moratorium in order to create fear among people.
Behrouz Javid Tehrani’s letter:
“On the morning of Wednesday Nov 10, 2010 they announced my name in the loudspeakers of our ward where they asked me to wear proper clothes for the carrying out of my sentence. Then while the head of “Sentence Implementation Unit”, Hossein Akharian was watching I was lashed 74 times for the crime of disturbing public peace.
This was a verdict for a sit-in protest in front of the U.N. building; a protest without any slogans and in complete silence. I do not intend to get into the details of how and why this sentence has been carried out against me after all this time! But the essence of this sentence is about torture, humiliation, barbaric and inhumane. No freedom loving person can accept this sentence in his good conscious: Not now and not ever. I wish for a day when these types of barbaric and primitive sentences become something of the past in our country. I wish for a day when high standard laws are put in place according to human rights charter where no political prisoner spends an hour in jail.
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