Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran – Jan. 23, 2010 – According to reports, after the confirmation of the death sentence of two prisoners, they were taken to the Registry Office and their birth certificates were revoked.
On January 18, two prisoner from ward 4 in Gohardasht Prison were taken to court and their death sentences were announced to them. In a strange and inhumane measure, they were then taken to the Registration Office and their birth certifications were revoked. They were subsequently told that they would be hanged in the next 10 days.
According to reports, one of the prisoners identified as Miri who is from juvenile hall number 11 in ward 4 and is a minor offender became sick when his sentence was being announced and when he was taken to the Registry Office and was in a very poor mental state.
The other prisoner, Aydin Shariatmaday, 28, has been in prison for close to a year.
This is a new measure that judges use in which they revoke the birth certificate death row prisoners. This is a form of torture which puts severe pressure on the prisoner and on the other hand denies all rights to him as a human being who is still alive and causes various legal problems for the prisoner and his family.
