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Iran news in brief, February 21, 2019



Iran news in brief, February 21, 2019

Depositors of Corrupt Iranian Credit Institutions Hold Demonstrations in Tehran and Kermanshah
On Tuesday Feb. 20, depositors of state-backed Caspian Credit institution gathered in front of the Iranian regime’s public court in Tehran and marched in the Tehran Bazaar toward the Iranian regime’s attorney general’s office.
The protesters were chanting “Where are our possessions, the attorney general is asleep” and “why isn’t the country’s law being upheld?”
 At the same time in Kermanshah, another group of investors were holding similar protest in front of Caspian’s local branch.

Iran Arrests 6 Christian Converts in Northern City
A human rights group said that six Christian converts were arrested in one month in the northern city of Rasht.
According to the report, two Christian coverts identified as Hossein Kadivar and Khalil Pourdehghan were detained on January 29 in a house church.
Another man identified as Abdolreza Ali Hagh Nejad was detained in his home on February 10.
Three other men were arrested on Friday February 15 in a church congregation held in a home. They were identified as Mohammad Vafadar, Mohammad Islamdoust and Kamal Na’manian.
They were all taken to unknown locations.

Prominent Labor Rights Activist Held Incommunicado
The vice president of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Parvin Mohammadi, has been held incommunicado in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
During the past two weeks, Mohammadi has not been allowed to speak with her attorney or relatives on the phone.
Mohammadi’s close relatives are very concerned about the health of this labor activist because she suffers from illnesses such as severe migraine.
Earlier, on January 29, security forces arrested the secretary of the board of directors of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Jafar Azimzadeh, and Parvin Mohammadi, within hours of each other on January 29.

Iran Has up to 400,000 Undocumented People
There are 300,000-400,000 people in Iran who have no documents proving their identity, Abdollah Hatamian, Iranian MP, told Fars News Agency, Trend reports.
According to Hatamian, at present these people are 20-25 years old.
Hatamian added that they are unable to marry or receive any documents, nor can they get employed.
he said: "If the fathers of these people are Afghans, then they have no place in Afghanistan or in Iran,".
According to Iranian law, if one’s father is a citizen of a foreign country and their mother is an Iranian citizen, then they are not eligible for gaining Iranian citizenship.

Bahrain: 6 Jailed for Receiving Military Training in Iran, Iraq
The Bahrain Supreme Criminal Court On Tuesday sentenced six people to varying prison terms and stripped five of them of their nationality after finding them guilty of receiving military training in Iran and Iraq in order to commit crimes in the country.
The official Bahrain News Agency said the court has sentenced three defendants to life imprisonment, two to five years in jail and one defendant to a seven-year jail term, without further details.
According to the agency, the Department of Criminal Investigation in Bahrain has received information indicating that “a group of terrorists have travelled to Iran and Iraq between 2017 and 2018 to receive military training to commit terrorist crimes in Bahrain”.
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