Week 51 - 2011

News of the Prisoners

A-Transfers

• Omid Behrouzi transferred to Evin 350.
• Mostafa Daneshjou transferred to Evin 350.
• Reza Entesari transferred to Evin 350.
• Amir Eslami transferred to Evin 350.
• Afshin Karampour transferred to Evin 350.
• Hamid Moradi transferred to Evin 350.
• Kamran Rahimian transferred to Rejaei Shahr prison as his trial begins.
• Farshid Yadollahi transferred to Evin 350.
• Student activist Mazyar Yazdani has been moved to solitary confinement in Babol prison.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Former Shiraz University student activist Rouhollah Ghasemi arrested Sunday  12/18 after being summoned by Intelligence.
• Participation Front member/journalist Amir Hossein Hajebian has been arrested.
• Gonabadi Dervishes member Nasrollah Laleh has been arrested, his home and work place raided, items confiscated.
• Tehran Azad Uni student activist Mohammad Hossein Mahboubian was arrested 12/17 as he was leaving the University.
• Esmaeel Rahimi, Kurdish civic activist, arrested at home in Sarv Dasht.
• Bastam Sarabi Kurdish civic activist, arrested at home in Sarv Dasht.
• Man who threw shoes at Ahmadinejad arrested.

C- Liberations

• Mohammad Alimoradi, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Ahmad Alizadeh, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Civil activist Rahim Bajvar has been released on bail from Marivan's Intelligence detention center.
• Ali Imani Gharamaleki, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Farzad Mahdavi, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Mohammad Mahmoudi, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Jalil Milani, arrested in August during Ramadan dinner, freed from Tabriz prison.
• Mehdi Mohajer, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Ghader Noroozi, arrested in August during Ramadan dinner, freed from Tabriz prison.
• War veteran Mohammad Reza Rajabi has been released after completing his sentence. He was arrested June 2009.
• Yaghoob Ramezani, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Student activist Arash Sadeghi has been released.
• Yousef Salahshour, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Yaser Salmani Rezaei, arrested in Tabriz on 24 August, freed after serving his sentence.
• Fakhreddin Samimi, bahai living in Ghaemshahr freed.
• Ali Sirnak, arrested in August during Ramadan dinner, freed from Tabriz prison.

D-Other News 

• Journalists call for the release of Hassan Fathi, arrested after giving interview to BBC Persian. 
• Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has ended his hunger strike.
• Labor activist Reza Shahabi ended his hunger strike after 30 days on December 22nd  in hospital's CCU .
• Students meet with the Family of Majid Tavakoli.
• Political prisoners in Ahvaz Karoon prison have threatened to start a hunger strike protesting their move to ward with dangerous criminals.

News of injustice in Iran

• Farzad Eslami sentenced to 1 additional year.
• Mazyar Goudarzvand has been sentenced to 3 years suspended+fines.
• Parvin Mokhareh, mother of Kouhyar Goudarzi, sentenced to 23 months in prison.
• Esmail Salmanpour sentenced to 1 year suspended.
• 3 prisoners executed in Arak prison for drug smuggling.
• 1 execution in Ilam on Sunday.
• Public flogging of people carried out in Shiraz city.
• 1 execution in Saveh on Tuesday.

University  - Culture

• Setareh Elyasi, Womens Rights and student activist expelled for “Disobedience”. 
• Society for Iranian Archaeology warns of "destruction and looting" of ancient monuments and sites in Sistan and Baluchestan.
• Tiles of the dome of historical Charbagh school in Isfahan  collapsed.
• Tehran's Beethoven Music Center, celebrates 58th years of existence. 
• A crack seen in bottom of the mountain called Hossein, Naghsh-e-Rostam site, necropolis of 4 Achaemenian kings.
• International Conference on Persian Poet Rumi kicks off in Tehran.
• In two days; 5 old and historical houses demolished in Ahvaz city.
• Asghar Farhadi’s A Separation nominated for 5 London Critics Circle Film Awards.
• Iran blocks British Embassy website.
• Security agents raid Yalda celebrations in Gorgan.

Economy in Iran

• Iranian currency is falling down day by day.
• CEO of Ahvaz Steel factory arrested in connection of big embezzlement.
• Russia oil company Tatneft said he hasn't signed agreement or contract related to work in Iran oil and gas sector.
• Iran company Sunir awarded $72 million contract to expand plant in north Iraq.
• US dollar trading up to 1630 tomans on the open market.
• $9 million; Energy Ministry's debt to the Tehran subway.
• $50 million; deficits of public hospitals after implementation of targeted subsidy plan.
• Iran has outlawed use of letters of credit for goods imported from UAE as well as transactions carried out in dirhams.

Iran  abroad

• Iran and Russia set to ink $700m oil deal.
• Bochum City gives Human Rights award to Mrs. Khadijeh Hajidini Moghaddam.
• Iran has released two Kuwaitis held for a month, clearing them of spying.
• Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini traveled Saturday to Algeria to attend the 7th Islamic Conference of Culture Ministers of Organization of Islamic Cooperation member states.
• Tatarstan President visits Iran.
• Iran wants to open a consulate in Vancouver to serve city's Iranian-Canadian population; Canada refuses.
• UN General Assembly has approved a resolution denouncing serious Human Rights violations in Iran.
• Iran prohibits all business relationship between Iran and UAE until further notice.
• Iraq’s prime minister grants six-month extension on deadline to close MEK's camp Ashraf.
• 5 Iranian technicians had been kidnapped in the Syrian city of Homs.
• Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Supreme Leader met with Indian Vice-President.
• Iran and Mauritania sign Memorandum of Understanding on expansion of mutual cooperation in the fields of health, oil, oil exploitation, agriculture, fisheries, industries, electricity, commerce and trade.
• Switzerland freezes assets of 180 Iranian people and enterprises.

Politics in Iran

• Iran says it has arrested a suspected American spy trying to infiltrate Iranian intelligence.
• Green Movement Council says participation in next parliamentary elections, 'contrary to the national interest'.
• Regime Sells Out Parts of Iran to China! 
• In a statement; 39 Political prisoners warn over the "security" atmosphere ahead of Parliamentary elections .

Miscellaneous 

• Yazd Steel Factory blast death toll reaches 18.
• Yemen releases 5 sailors from Iran who were illegally detained 2 years ago.
• Schools closed in Isfahan after critical air pollution.
• Factories around Tehran closed until Saturday after critical air pollution.
• Explosion in Isfahan refinery.
• Tabriz closed because of pollution.
• Pollution alert in Arak.