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Tension Escalates Over the Shameful Iran-Belgium Prisoner Swap Deal
A bill proposed by the Belgian government for a prisoner exchange deal with Iran’s regime and four other countries will be put up to vote on Wednesday, July 20, being the last day prior to the MPs’ summer vacation. If a vote does not take place the entire motion will be postponed to September and placed under further review.
During the past few weeks, pro-appeasement circles in the West have sought to push through a secret deal between Belgium and the Iranian regime, the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, to see the release of Tehran’s convicted diplomat-terrorist Assadollah Assadi and his three accomplices and have them sent back to Iran.
Albanian Authorities Arrest Dozens of Iranian Regime Agents Spying Against MEK
On July 12, 2022, Albanian media reported that dozens of Iranians have been arrested and are under investigation due to their alleged links with Iran’s regime and its Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Forces.
According to Voxnews in Albania, “At the request of the Special Prosecutor’s Office, examinations are being carried out in their homes. Most of them have been under investigation for three years!”
Leila Chegini on a Dry Hunger Strike for 6 Days in Nowshahr Prison
An informed source reported that political prisoner Leila Chegini’s health deteriorated six days after she started her dry hunger strike. Leila Chegini began her dry hunger strike on Wednesday, July 13, 2022, in protest of being detained without standing trial and investigating her case. Detaining prisoners on remand is a common practice in Iranian jails to torture prisoners. Since prisoners cannot access anyone during pre-trial detention, prison authorities and interrogators can do whatever they want.
Hamid Noury and the Untold Story of a Crime
After nine tense months, and plenty of ups and downs, 60-year-old Hamid Noury was finally convicted for deliberately participating in the murder and execution of many political prisoners in Iran during the massacre in the infamous bloody summer of 1988. Ninety-two hearings were held with 60 plaintiffs and witnesses, along with 12 experts in the field of international law, history, Islamic jurisprudence, and psychology, who all helped finalize this verdict.
Prisoner’s Hand Infected Following Finger Amputation for Theft
A prisoner’s hand got infected after his fingers were amputated in Tehran’s Evin Prison. Four fingers of Seyyed Barat Hosseini, an Iranian prisoner who was sentenced to amputation for robbery were cut off in Tehran’s Evin Prison on May 31.
According to the former political prisoner and civil rights activist, Arash Sadeghi, the man’s fingers were amputated with a guillotine-like device that the prison had earlier acquired.
Homeless Families on the Rise in Iran
The multifold increase in prices, unemployment, and the exponential growth of rent, along with social problems such as addiction, has aggravated the risk of families becoming homeless. Ali Heidari, the Director of Iran’s Ending Homelessness Institute, warned that the phenomenon of homelessness has a direct relationship with the economic situation of families.
“We are moving from the phenomenon of homeless people to a more dangerous phenomenon called homeless families.”
British Committee for Iran Freedom: Swedish Court Ruling on the 1988 Massacre, a Positive Step to End Impunity in Iran
The British Committee for Iran Freedom welcomes the verdict of the Swedish District Court on 14 July, which led to the sentencing of a former official of the Iranian regime, Hamid Noury, to life imprisonment for involvement in the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988 in Iran.
Read more: Iran News in Brief – July 19, 2022