Week 45 - 2011

Prisoners’ News

A-Transfers

• Mohammad Seif Zadeh, law professor in Evin 350, transferred to hospital.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Foad Ahmadnezhad arrested in Saqqez for links with Kurdish Group Pezhak.
• Ali Akhravan, union member, begins serving his 1 ½ years prison in Evin.
• Khaled and Salah Aminpoor arrested in Saqqez for links with Kurdish Group Pezhak.
• Arya Aramnejad, popular singer, arrested during a raid against his home.
• Saman Aryaman, member of Pan-Iranist party, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Ali, Mehdi  and Yahyah Dehghan, father, son, grand-son, Gonabadi dervishes, arrested at home in Kavar.
• Yashin Jamshidi, zoroastrian, arrested in Karaj.
• Student Nader Ehsani begins serving his 2 years prison sentence.
• Ali, father, Payam and Peyman Ghaderi, his sons, arrested in Marivan.
• Mohammad Gharib Feizi Marivani, Kurd, arrested on his work place.
• Ata Ghassemi arrested in Saqqez for links with Kurdish Group Pezhak.
• Mohammad Habiba, Secretary of Islamic Union of Students of Mechanical Engeneering College of Tehran University, arrested on Tuesday.
• Zhila Karamzadeh begins serving her 2 years prison sentence.
• Hamid Reza Khadem begins serving his 4 years prison sentence in Evine 350.
• Sirvan Rahmani arrested in Saqqez for links with Kurdish Group Pezhak.
• Union activist Ali Razaghi was arrested in Mashhad on 31st October.
• Naser Rezaei arrested in Saqqez for links with Kurdish Group Pezhak.
• Shirkoo Saeefi arrested in Saqqez for links with Kurdish Group Pezhak.
• Leila Seifollahi begins serving her 2 years prison sentence.

C- Liberations

• Ahmad Reza Ahmadpoor, member of Participation Front released on furlough.
• Khaled Asadi, Kurdish union activist, freed after serving his 2 years and 8 months sentence. 
• Nadia Asadian, Baha'i arrested on 17th October, freed in Rasht.
• Sousan Badavam, Baha'i arrested on 17th October, freed in Rasht.
• Shiva Kashani Nezhad, Baha'i arrested on 17th October, freed in Rasht.
• Katayoon Sahabi, documentary film maker, freed on bail.
• Mehran Zinat Bakhsh, documentary film maker, freed on bail.

D-Other News 

• Javid Akrami, Sunni high-school student in Lorestan, has given no news since his arrest on 27th August.
• Hamzeh Karami summoned to Evin Court because he revealed the tortures he was subject to.
• Fatemeh Karroubi under house arrest anew; she declares that her husband has no spokesman abroad.
• Mehdi Karroubi reported to suffer from respiratory condition; the location of his house arrest changed.
• Abdollah Momeni summoned to Evin Court because he revealed the tortures he was subject to.
• Lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei receives award in Norway.
• Previous Mir-Hossein Mousavi office raided by security forces.
• Dr Shahin Sepenta, member of National Front National, summoned to Intelligence Ministry in Isfahan.
• Mostafa Tajzadeh banned from visits in prison.
• 13,000 prisoners in Mashhad prisons designed to house 3,000.

News of Injustice in Iran

• Abolfazl Abedini Nasr sentenced by Appeals to one extra year in prison, i.e. a total of 12 years.
• Akbar Akbarpoor, Kurdish prisoner, in prison since one year, sentenced to 13 years in jail for Moharebeh.
• Behrooz Alkhani, Kurdish prisoner, in prison since one year, sentenced to death for Moharebeh.
• Hajar Alipoor, Azeri prisoner, sentenced to 6 years in prison.
• One week after his disappearance, Ebrahim Babaei Zaeedi calls his family from Evin. He was arrested to serve his 6 year sentence.
• Ali Akbar Javanfekr, editor of Iran and Khatoun, sentenced for views contrary to Islam.
• Journalist Mehran Faraji sentenced to 6 months in prison + 6 months suspended.
• Kurdish journalist Saeed Saedi sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• 2 hangings in Qom on Friday.

University - Culture

• Mohammaf Yoossoof Alikhani, student of Azad University of Tehran, banned from education.
• Bahman Farman Aara, producer and director, banned from leaving the country.
• Roozbeh Tehrani, previous political prisoner, banned from education.
• A painting exhibition banned in Tehran because of its subject:  fertility.
• A public school in Mashhad teaching foreign laguages attacked; teachers arrested for bad hijab. 
• Security forces prevent Sunni to celebrate Eid.
• Sites Absar et Jahad Majazi, close to Ahamadinezhad, off line.
• Cinema Haghighat decides to show films of directors who boycotted official festival.
• 17 schools and high-schools affiliated to Qom seminaries will open in Tehran.
• A Parthian hill completely shovelled in Ramhormoz, Khoozestan.

Economy in Iran

• China wants to invest in Iranian copper mines.
• Central bank states 19.1% inflation in one year.
• Oil exports to Pakistan halted.
• ranian arirways protest Qatari lines performing domestic flights in Iran.
• 90 billions deficit in Oil ministry budget.
• Iran 3rd behind Byelorussia and Venezuela for inflation.

Protests

• Railway workers protest privatisation and their unpaid salaries in front of their company headquarter.
• Workers of Amir Kabir Petrochemical Corporation protested last week cuts in their extra hours wages.
• Retired workers of a textile factory in Iranshahr protest.

Iran abroad

• 7 political activists inside and others abroad warn Arab Spring against the traps they fell inside some years ago.
• Strikes on Iran: Israel investigating leaks after carefully organising them.
• A British company linked to William Hague sold a device to track opponents in Iran.
• Ahmadinezhad meets with Speaker of Indian Parliament to discuss cooperation.
• France and Russia oppose strikes on Iran.
• Iran looks for deeper cooperation with Armenia.
• Dutch government supports French proposal of harsher sanctions against Iran.
• Ardeshir Amir Arjomand, Moussavi spokesman, writes to Ahmad Shahid, UN Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran.
• Implicated Russian scientist denies helping Iran.
• World Bank paid $50 millions on a total loan of $135 millions in October for a sewage project in Tehran which is once more delayed.

Politics in Iran

• In a speech, Ahmadinezhad claims that embezzlement was perpetrated on leader’s office order.
• 36 political prisoners claim totally transparent legislative elections.
• More than 120 Iranian intellectuals  warn against a strike on their country.
• Leader orders a team to work on revising Constitution.

Miscellaneous 

• Asbestos in Tehran air 100 times higher than standard.
• 70,000 acres of forests drying up in Lorestan because of dust storms.
• Rezaei and Nosrati, footballers of Persepolis, sentenced for being too effusive after a goal.
• Women no more allowed to go sking without a male guardian.