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The regime’s repressive security forces during Iran protests, November 2019 – file photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201c<\/span>While the Coronavirus has been ravaging in various provinces across Iran, the regime\u2019s security and judicial apparatus have heightened their persecution of minorities and political and civil rights activists<\/span>,\u201d says leading rights group<\/span>\u00a0Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) in its\u00a0<\/span>monthly report<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for the<\/span>\u00a0month of May<\/span>\u00a02020<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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While the #Coronavirus<\/a> has been ravaging in various provinces across #Iran<\/a>, the regime\u2019s security and judicial apparatus have heightened their persecution of minorities and political and civil rights activists.https:\/\/t.co\/T0kop3BbRC<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 IRAN HRM (@IranHrm) June 1, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since the\u00a0<\/span>coronavirus outbreak<\/span><\/a>, the Iranian regime<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>in tandem\u00a0<\/span>with it<\/span>s\u00a0<\/span>deceit<\/span>\u00a0and downplaying<\/span>\u00a0of<\/span>\u00a0the extent of this crisis, has been\u00a0<\/span>increasing security measure<\/span>s<\/span>, since\u00a0<\/span>the\u00a0<\/span>mullahs<\/span>\u00a0consider\u00a0<\/span>this crisis\u00a0<\/span>to be\u00a0<\/span>a security threat to their regime\u2019s existence and a possible chance for the Iranian restive society to\u00a0<\/span>explode.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to the regime\u2019s inhumane approach in dealing with this crisis, so far nearly 49,000 people have lost their lives, according to the\u00a0<\/span>People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK)<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The regime has refused to release political prisoners, who are the most vulnerable to\u00a0<\/span>the coronavirus. Those few prisoners\u00a0<\/span>who were\u00a0<\/span>released\u00a0<\/span>have\u00a0<\/span>now\u00a0<\/span>been returned to prisons, which according to Iran HRM will be \u201c<\/span>aggravating the already horrid conditions in Iran\u2019s notorious prisons.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201c<\/span>This is while there have been several cases of COVID-19 contagions, and even deaths from the virus in various Iranian prisons including\u00a0<\/span>Qarchak<\/span>\u00a0Prison, Urmia Central Prison,\u00a0<\/span>Sheiban<\/span>\u00a0Prison, Tehran\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Evin<\/span>\u00a0Prison, the Greater Tehran Penitentiary, and Mashhad\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Vakilabad<\/span>\u00a0Prison in northeastern Iran<\/span>,\u201d read the report.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a part of its\u00a0<\/span>monthly report, Iran HRM pointed to the new wave of arbitrary arrest<\/span>s<\/span>\u00a0of dissidents<\/span>\u00a0amid the coronavirus outbreak.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>In a new wave of crackdown in Iran, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the IRGC Intelligence Organization have begun arresting and summoning large numbers of young activists, especially the families and supporters of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI\/MEK)<\/a>. Many have been sent to prisons, and some have been temporarily released on bail while signing a form pledging not to participate in any anti-regime activities<\/span>,\u201d read the report.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Referring to the arrest of two elite students,\u00a0<\/span>Ali\u00a0<\/span>Younesi<\/span>\u00a0and Amir Hossain Moradi<\/span><\/a>, and threats they are facing<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Iran HRM wrote<\/span>:\u00a0<\/span>Among those arrested were\u202f<\/span>Ali\u00a0<\/span>Younesi<\/span>\u00a0and Amir-Hossein Moradi<\/span><\/a>, award-winning students at Sharif University of Technology, who have been arrested and detained on trumped up charges of having ties with the\u00a0<\/span>PMOI\/MEK<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In another part of its monthly report, Iran HRM referred to the ongoing\u00a0<\/span>crackdown on\u00a0<\/span>religious and ethnic minorities by the mullahs\u2019 regime and wrote: \u201c<\/span>The Iranian regime has increased its persecution of Iranian religious minorities. Human rights groups have reported that despite the raging coronavirus crisis, several members of Iran\u2019s religious minorities have been summoned, interrogated, and arrested.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While referring to the regime\u2019s ongoing use of torture, particularly flogging,\u00a0<\/span>in dealing with those protesters detained during the Iran protests in January against the regime\u2019s shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner,\u00a0<\/span>Iran HRM wrote:\u00a0<\/span>\u201c<\/span>The Iranian regime has sentenced several people to prison and lashes for protesting Iran\u2019s downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane.<\/span>\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>So far more than 16 protesters have been handed prison and flogging sentences in Amol alone. They had been arrested by the IRGC\u2019s Intelligence Organization on January 12, 2020, in the city\u2019s main square where they had gathered to commemorate the victim<\/span>,\u201d read the report.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The ongoing human rights violations by the Iranian regime even amid the coronavirus outbreak once again underlines the ne<\/span>ed for\u00a0<\/span>the international community<\/span>\u00a0to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>interven<\/span>e<\/span>\u00a0to prevent a humanitarian<\/span>\u00a0catastrophe<\/span>, particularly regarding the political prisoner<\/span>s<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span>The United Nations should visit all Iranian prisons and secure the release of all prisoners.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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