{"id":215237,"date":"2020-04-01T14:16:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=215237"},"modified":"2023-01-23T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T08:22:39","slug":"iran-regimes-dubious-claims-of-prisoner-release-follow-a-long-pattern-of-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-regimes-dubious-claims-of-prisoner-release-follow-a-long-pattern-of-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran Regime\u2019s Dubious Claims of Prisoner Release Follow a Long Pattern of Deception"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Doctors in Iran trying to help a coronavirus patient<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Iran<\/span>ian regime<\/span>\u00a0now claims to have released 100,000 prisoners\u00a0<\/span>amid<\/span>\u00a0the coronavirus<\/a> pandemic. But nothing that the theocratic regime says about the current situation should be taken at face value. <\/span><\/p>\n

The mullahs have been lying about the outbreak and its consequences since the moment they acknowledged that Covid-19 cases had been recorded inside\u00a0<\/span>Iran<\/span>. And\u00a0<\/span>there is absolutely no reason to suppose that Tehran\u2019s behavior has changed for the better as the crisis has unfolded.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Releasing prisoners<\/a> on such a massive scale would not be consistent with the mentality that has allowed Iran<\/span>\u2019s regime<\/span>\u00a0to retain its status as the world\u2019s foremost abuser of the death penalty for so many years. But claiming to have release them is absolutely consistent with the regime\u2019s habit of taking whatever measures are expedient at any given moment to maintain its hold on power.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since coronavirus began spiraling out of control across Iran, the plight of political prisoners and non-violent offenders has become a source of extraordinary pressure from Iran\u2019s domestic activist community, from the families of its many tens of thousands of prisoners, and from international human rights groups like Amnesty International. Meanwhile, the regime is certainly extra-sensitive to all such pressure at this time, when a mounting coronavirus death toll threatens to rekindle unrest just months after it was brought to heel by repressive authorities.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Contrary to the regime\u2019s claim of releasing the prisoners<\/a>, on March 31, 2020, t<\/span>he Iranian Judiciary handed down a 16-year sentence and 2-year exile to Hashem\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Khastar<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<\/span>the representative of the Iranian teachers Association in\u00a0<\/span>Khorassan<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Razavi<\/span>\u00a0province<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>Other political activists received long prison terms for calling for Khamenei\u2019s resignation and expressing their political views.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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#Iran<\/a>: Teacher Condemned to 16 years in Prison for Asking Khamenei to Step Down
\nHashem Khastar, received a final verdict condemning him to 16 years in prison and a further two-year exile term for his political activities. #IranProtests<\/a> #HumanRights<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/Vi8yTqdk5x<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 NCRI-FAC (@iran_policy) March 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In recent years, the prospect of regime change in Tehran has ceased to have the appearance of distant dream. At the beginning of 2018,\u00a0<\/span>Iran<\/span>\u00a0was rocked by a nationwide uprising that gave rise to popular slogans calling for a wholesale change of government. In November 2019<\/a>, these slogans overtook the entire country once again, when a new sequence of protests was sparked by the government\u2019s decision to hike gasoline prices at a time of severe economic hardship for ordinary Iranians.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Smaller-scale protests have been recorded\u00a0<\/span>throughout this period and even in the immediate run-up to the coronavirus outbreak. Some of them, including last January\u2019s protest over the Revolutionary Guards<\/a>\u2019 downing of a Ukrainian airliner<\/a> and the subsequent cover-up, have spanned several provinces at a time. Others have emerged in the shadow of Iran\u2019s medieval prisons, with activists demanding the release of their compatriots and highlighting the vicious treatment that is typically meted out to political prisoners.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Any one of these protests could be the inspiration for the next nationwide<\/a> movement in support of regime change. But Tehran has developed sophisticated techniques for holding such movements at bay. Brutal repression operates hand-in-hand with public disinformation. And the latter might entail outright denial of the regime\u2019s wrongdoing, or a promise of change that the regime promptly reneges on.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Such false promises represent one way of pushing back against activism when it emerges inside of Iranian jails. Hunger strikes are a remarkably popular and often effective means of\u00a0<\/span>securing public support in Iran. Knowing this, the regime has been known to escalate its already vigorous repression of political prisoners when they embark on hunger strikes. And when this doesn\u2019t work, they sometimes resort to simply lying about their intention to address an inmate\u2019s concerns or re-examine his case.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This sort of deception might work to interfere with the sympathies that tend to grow out of a lengthy hunger strike. But the regime\u2019s short-term solution creates long-term problems as Iranian prisoners and civilians both become more and more skeptical of the regime\u2019s public responses to protest. The inevitable result is even more protest, both inside of jails and out, some of which takes the form of the sort of unrest that has challenged the regime in its entirety over the past two years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Questionable claims about prisoner furloughs follow much the same pattern, but on a much grander scale. And given the seriousness of the lie, there may be an even narrower window for the next outpouring of activism. There have already been signs of this over the past few weeks, and they have come not in the form of standard protests or solitary hunger strikes, but in the form large-scale riots and prison breaks among a population of inmates that has supposedly been furloughed\u00a0<\/span>en<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>masse.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Incidents have been reported in Greater Tehran Penitentiary,\u00a0<\/span>Parsilon<\/span>\u00a0Prison in Khorramabad, Adel Abad Prison in Shiraz, and\u00a0<\/span>Saqqez<\/span>\u00a0Prison in Kurdistan, among others.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>At the same time, open letters from political prisoners have alleged ongoing torture while disputing the regime\u2019s claims of mass furlough and speculating that the coronavirus epidemic has actually provided authorities with an opportunity to freely transfer prisoners and enforce disappearances without facing the same scrutiny they would under other circumstances.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In view of the regime\u2019s long pattern of lying in order to prolong its own survival, the international community should do everything in its power to examine the truth of the Iranian judiciary\u2019s latest claims. And it should do so in full awareness that if the country\u2019s jails are proven to still be full of political prisoners, it may spur the next step toward the Iranian people\u2019s overthrow<\/span>\u00a0of\u00a0<\/span>the<\/span>\u00a0theocratic dictatorship.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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