Nationwide uprising in Iran – Statement 74
NCRI – According to reports from Iran, the mullahs’ regime suppressive forces are continuing to make widespread arbitrary arrests, in particular of young people and students. In Tehran, the detainees are firstly transferred to police detention facilities, Agahi criminal department detention center in Shahpour Street, Intelligence Ministry safe-houses, Bassij centers and military bases belonging to the Revolutionary Guards.
The detainees are subjected to brutal and intolerable tortures. A number of young people have so far died under torture. Police station 148, Kahrizak Prison, and the detective center known as Agahi in Shahpour have been among the most notorious of sites in this regard. The regime’s suppressive organs, including the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Revolution Court, refuse to wrap up the files of the detainees. The regime is deliberately refusing to name the detainees so as to be able to eliminate them and cover up the real number of those killed.
Most of arrests are taking place at universities. In order to spread fear, MOIS agents, plainclothes agents and members of the paramilitary Bassij continuously appear on university campuses and dormitories in various cities. Suppressive agents in the universities of Tehran, Esfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad, Babol, Hamadan, Tabriz, and Kermanshah threaten and arrest students under any pretext. Three weeks after mass arrests of students, there is still no word on their fate.
In another development, MOIS agents at 10:00am local time on Monday attacked a gathering by a group of artists in “Artists Park” at the Taleqani-Iranshahr intersection, arresting six of the protestors.
MOIS agents at 1:00 pm on Saturday carried out a swoop of the park and arrested a number of young people. The previous night, a group of youths clashed with armed plainclothes agents at the part, forcing the agents to leave.
The regime’s security forces and armed forces, including the personnel of the “Mohammad Rasoulollah Garrison”, have been put on alert since June 13 to crack down on the uprising.
The regime’s officials have cut off mobile phones of the staff and soldiers of the garrison, situated near Tehran-Pars, east of Capital, in order to prevent the spread of information.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 7, 2009
