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Iranian Abuse of Prisoners Continues
01/19/2021 Iran (International Christian Concern) – Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM) recently released its 2020 Annual Report documenting the abuse and condition of prisoners in Iran’s notorious prisons. Iran’s treatment of prisoners has long been of major concern for the international community. ICC worked to have Evin Prison sanctioned in 2020.
Iran violates not only international standards of right to life and health of prisoners, but also its own national code as well. According to Iran HRM’s report, one of the major abuses is the failure to separate prisoners based on categories of crimes. Political prisoners and prisoners arrested for their Christian faith are often housed with common and dangerous criminals. Often this is done as an added layer of punishment where they are intentionally placed for targeting. Iran’s own legal mandates require that wards separate such prisoners but there are many reports of this being violate
Floggings Reported in Iran Against Religious Minorities
01/09/2021 Iran (International Christian Concern) – The Iran Human Rights Monitor shared in their newly released 2020 Annual Report that amputation and flogging sentences were widely practiced in Iran. The report states,
“At least 19 flogging verdicts were carried out in 2020 against labor activists, religious and ethnic minorities, protesters and ordinary citizens. Dozens of others were sentenced to flogging.”
Last fall, the flogging sentence of 80 lashes each was carried out against two Christian men named Mohammadreza Omidi and Zaman Fadaii. Both were issued this sentence for drinking communion wine during a church service. Last spring, an Iranian Christian woman was also sentenced to flogging after her arrest for being present in an area of protest. While her trial was not specifically regarding charges of a religious freedom nature, the judge reviewing her case made it clear that her Christian faith was not wel
Zombie Angelina Jolie lookalike jailed after sharing creepy Instagram pictures
Fatemeh Khishvand, known as Sahar Tabar on Instagram, claimed she underwent 50 surgeries to look like Angelina Jolie but later admitted she had used make-up and Photoshop to achieve the eerie look
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Angelina Jolie lookalike jailed for 10 years.
An Iranian woman who made herself look like a zombie Angelina Jolie and posted creepy pictures online as a joke has been jailed for 10 years. Fatemeh Khishvand, became an Instagram star as she fooled people into thinking she had surgically altered her face to make it look eerily gaunt, but her antics angered the regime in Tehran.
The 19-year-old, who went by the name Sahar Tabar and amassed almost 500,000 followers, was detained in October 2019 amid a crackdown on social media celebrities. She was charged with corruption of young people and disrespect for the Islamic Republic, and in April she begged to be freed, saying she had contracted coronavirus while being held in a notoriously grim prison.