• Number of women prisoners twice the prisons’ capacity
A state official revealed that the number of women prisoners in Iran are twice the prisons’ capacities.
Attahareh Nejadi, deputy for planning and coordinations in the Women and Family Affairs Directorate, presented a report on her visit to women’s prisons.
Nejadi said, “Visiting the country’s prisons, I didn’t find the situation of women as appropriate. Women with undeliberate crimes are keeping their small children in prison; their children know only of life in prison.
• People protest the murder of a Baluchi youth
On Thursday, May 10th opened fire at a car driven by a youth who was suspected of carrying smuggled rice. The repressive agents killed this young man just for carrying 4 bags of rice.
After this heinous crime, people and the youth of Saravan city, southeastern Iran, where this crime had taken place, protested and blocked the road by setting fires to the tires
A day before that, another person identified as “Parviz Zar-e Zehee” from the city of Khash in Baluchistan Province was shot and killed when the agents of the special unit opened fire at him.
According to sources, during the last year and half, 71 Baluchi people have been killed or injured as the result of direct fire by the repressive agents of the regime in Sistan and Baluchistan province.
• Hunger strike by several detainees in the Sheyban Prison in Ahvaz
Several of the detained residents of the Hamidieh district in the city of Ahvaz, southwestern Iran, who are in custody at the Sheyban Prison, went on hunger strike for unfairly high bail money, and poor prison conditions.
Reports indicate that all of these detainees have been taken into custody for the sole reason of being Sunni Muslims.
• An elementary girl’s hair is cut at school for mal-veiling
The superintendent of an elementary school in Abadan, southwestern Iran, cut a girl’s hair for not properly covering it.
On May 6, 2018, in an all-girl elementary school in Golestanshahr of Abadan, the superintendent used scissors and cut the hair of a girl child because it had stuck out of her veil.
The girl called Narges who suffers from astma had an attack because of this offensive treatment and was taken to hospital.
In response to objections to such offending measure, the superintendent said, “The schoolmaster is a man and her hair sticking out could have roused him.”
In a similar incident in December 2017, officials of a girls’ school in Islamabad village in Orumiyeh, capital of the West Azerbaijan Province, the school’s principal and master went to the court yard in the company of several State Security forces cut the hair of those girls whose hair stuck out of their scarves.
• Oil near multi-year highs as Iran sanctions tighten supply outlook
Oil prices steadied near 3-1/2 year highs on Friday as the prospect of new US sanctions on Iran tightened the outlook for Middle East supply at a time when global crude production is only just keeping pace with rising demand.
The United States plans to reintroduce sanctions against Iran, which pumps about 4 percent of the world’s oil, after abandoning a deal reached in late 2015 that limited Tehran’s nuclear ambitions in exchange for the removal of US and European sanctions.
