Week 46 - 2011

Prisoners’ News

A-Transfers

• Habib Afshari, Kurdish Human Rights activist, transferred from Urmiah prison to Mahabad one.
• Hamid Reza Moradi, Gonabadi dervish, transferred from solitary to Evin 209.
• Ali Rashidi transferred to Evin 350.
• Reza Shahabi, Workers’ Rights activist, transferred to hospital on Thursday.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Hassan Fatehi, journalist accused of collaboration with BBC, arrested.
• Mehdi Ghanbari, Gonabadi dervish, arrested at his work place in Khavar.
• Akbar Gooyali, Kurdish previous political prisoner, was arrested on 23rd of October in Sanandaj.
• Anvar Moslemi, Baha'i, arrested to serve his 1 year sentence.
• Hossein Najafi, political and student activist, arrested in Shiraz.
• Ali Nejati, Workers’ Rights activist, arrested on Saturday.
• Masoud Pedram, member of National Religious Party, arrested on Saturday morning. 
• Kamran Rahimi, Kurdish environmentalist, arrested on the 23rd of October in Sanandaj.
• Foad Sojoudi Farimani arrested and sent to Evin to serve his 8 years in prison sentence.
• Dr. Masoud Sepehr, member or Islamic Revolution Mojaheddins arrested on Thursday at home.
• Arman Zamani, member  of Democratic Alliance of Kurdish students, arrested in Sanandaj.

C- Liberations

• Asad Bagheri, Kudish student, released on bail.
• Mehdi Mahmoudian on medical leave for surgery. 
• Ayat Niafar, Workers’ Rights activist, on temporary leave.
• Ramin Parchami, film maker, on temporary leave since Saturday.

D-Other News 

• Singer Arya Aramnejad banned from visits and detained in solitary.
• Hossein Ronaghi Maleki (@Khorramdin) sent to hospital for tests and returned to Evin on the same day despite his physical condition.
• During their first visit with their families after 75 days, Gonabadi dervishes Amir Eslami and Hamid Moradi were showing evident traces of torture on their hands and arms.
• New attacks against prisoners in unit 1 de of Rejaei Shahr.
• Political prisoners in Tabriz write to Ahmad Shahid.
• Around 900 prisoners receive grace for Eid. 

News of injustice in Iran

• Maryam Amini, Kurdish activit sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Ezzedin Heidari, Kurdish activit sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Sajad Jahanfar, Kurdish activit sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Jamal Khani, Kurdish activit sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Maziar Mohammadi, Kurdish activit sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Naeem Najafi, Kurdish activit sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Abolfattah Soltani sues Larijani for erroneous accusations.
• Farhad Vakilinia, Kurdish activit sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• 3 executions in Ghazvin on Saturday morning.
• 2 people sentenced to execution and 1 public hanging in Ghazvin.
• 2 executions in Qom on Thursday.

University - Culture

• 60 traditional cafés closed by police in Tehran.
• Seljukid tombs destroyed by bulldozer in a Lorestan cemetery.
• A mosque and 10 historical houses destroyed in Khuzestan.
• The site of newspaper Mellat e Ma is blocked by authorities.
• Main gate of Golestan palace destroyed.

Economy in Iran

• Turkey imports 43% of its crude oil from Iran.
• The Foundation for Underprivileged violently reacts to Parliament decision to investigate about it..
• 2 to 3 millions banking accounts at Bank Saderat blocked.
• 48% increase in imports from China in 6 months time.
• United States exported $167 millions to Iran during 9 months time.
• 30,000 retired teachers have not been paid since 8 months.

Protests

• Musicians of Tehran Symphonic Orchestra on strike to be paid.
• A group of teachers protest in front of Parliament.
• Confrontation between Sunni dwellers of Gachin (Bandar Abbas suburb) and security forces who fire the crow; many are injured.

Iran abroad

• French Foreign Affairs Minister firmly opposes any attack against Iran..
• Ahmadinejad travels to Qatar on Tuesday for the Conference of Gas Exporting countries on Tuesday; he doesn’t attend the conference.
• Germany exported more than euro2,5 millions to Iran during first 8 months of 2011.
• Syrian opposition and Iranian officials meet.
• 5 Iranians sentenced to execution for drug smuggling in United Arab Emirates.
• Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister meets Cyprus Ambassador; Cyprus will hold the chair of European Community in 2012 and Iran is still seeking to improve relations with it.
• Switzerland agrees on new sanctions against Iran.

Politics in Iran

• 2 Kuwaitis arrested in Abadan on spying charges.
• 2 Great Ayatollahs demand freedom for Mousavi and Karroubi.
• Son of Secretary of Council, Rezaee, found dead in a hotel in Dubai after 3 days; official version is electrocution but suicide and assassination are also mentioned; he would have mentioned being followed on the streets some days before his death.

Miscellaneous 

• Blast on Saturday in a IRGC owned ammunitions depot in north-west Tehran; at least 36 dead and among them the person in charge of missiles research; Ghalibaf, Tehran mayor, implicitly admit that blast was caused by sabotage; PMOI claim to be responsible for sabotage and persistent rumours claim that Israel sent a drone to perform the blast.
• Yadollah Sadeghi, in charge of Industrial Organisation in Tehran wounded by his deputy firing at him.
• Iran struggling against a 3rd  virus attacking his nuclear installations.