Nov. 4 nationwide uprising – Statement 18
Hundreds of women are held in various Tehran prisons
NCRI – Brigadier General Rajabzadeh, mullahs’ police chief in Greater Tehran, admitted to widespread arrests during the November 4 rallies and said on Friday that his forces “arrested” a number of protesters whom he described as “rioters who wanted to create chaos and divert the [official] ceremonies [from its course],” State-run Fars news agency reported on November 6.
Nov. 4 nationwide uprising – Statement 18
Hundreds of women are held in various Tehran prisons
NCRI – Brigadier General Rajabzadeh, mullahs’ police chief in Greater Tehran, admitted to widespread arrests during the November 4 rallies and said on Friday that his forces “arrested” a number of protesters whom he described as “rioters who wanted to create chaos and divert the [official] ceremonies [from its course],” State-run Fars news agency reported on November 6.
He did not reveal the number of people arrested but brazenly claimed that the number of “participants in the November 4 rallies did not even reach 4.000.”
According to reports by the Social Headquarters of the PMOI inside Iran, hundreds of protesters, including many women, were arrested during November 4 uprising.
In Tehran’s Bahar Street alone, a busload of detained girls were taken to an undisclosed location. The state of a group of girls, who were taken to a Bassij paramilitary base in Meqdad, west of Tehran, also remains unknown. Dozens of women detainees were transferred to a women’s ward of Evin prison known as “Metadon.” A number of others were taken to a detention center located in Vozara street.
Other women were transferred to various mullahs’ detention centers in special buses and vans. A number of them are imprisoned in Ward 209 and Ward 240 of Evin prison.
Dozens of members of families of the detained protestors gathered outside detention center in Vozara street, Tehran’s Revolutionary Court and Evin prison to enquire about their loved ones. The regime’s authorities refrain from responding to them.
The Iranian Resistance calls on international organizations, particularly the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN working groups on Arbitrary Detention and torture, to condemn suppression of protesters and take urgent measures to get the detainees released immediately.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 6, 2009
