Week 03 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Senior Reformist Abolfazl Ghadiani was transferred to Ghezel Hesar.
• Asadollah Hadi, political prisoner transferred to hospital for heart surgery.
• Samkoo Khelghati Kurdish political prisoner, transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr.
• 7 Dervish Gonabadi held in ward 350 of Evin prison transferred to solitary in ward 209.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Lawyer Manizheh Bohlouli arrested in Miyaneh without an arrest warrant.
• Student activist Amir Chamani arrested to serve his 7 months sentence – 40 lashes sentence enforced in Tabriz prison.
• Medical furlough extension was denied for cleric blogger Mohammad Hossein Honarvar, he returned to prison 
• Activist Mohammad Khatibi arrested in a raid of his home and taken to Intel detention in Tabriz.
• Dr. Foad Moghadam, a Baha'i on-line university official reported to Evin to start serving his 5 years sentence.
• BIHE (Bahai Virtual University) professor Shahin Negari arrested.
• Azad Rasoolnezhad, teacher and student in international law, arrested in Oshnavieh.
• Member of Teachers Union, civil activist Mohammad Tavakoli summoned and arrested by Intel in Kermanshah.
• Baha'i Shakiba Vahdat arrested in Tabriz. She was in Intel detention in Babolsar for 2 days earlier this week.

C-Liberations

• Former Deputy Foreign Minister Mohsen Aminzadeh released on furlough after 10 months hospitalization.
• Nazanin Dehimi was released from Evin after serving out her 4 months sentence.
• After 3 years imprisonment political prisoner Hossein Faraji released on a 3 day furlough.
• Student activist and Advar member Bahareh Hedayat  released on 700 million toman bail on furlough.
• Journalist Mohammad Kimiaei released on bail.
• Student activist Arash Mohammadi released on probation from Tabriz prison.
• Human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh  released on a 3 day furlough on 300 million toman bail.

D-Other News

• Political prisoner Esmail Barzegari started a hunger strike.
• Imprisoned senior Reformist Abolfazl Ghadiani  banned from visits.
• Detained Green leader Mehdi Karoubi's 10 years old granddaughter banned from traveling abroad, passport confiscated.
• onabadi Dervishes Kasra Nouri and Saleh Moradi launched a hunger strike in Adelabad prison in Shiraz.
• Political prisoner Shir-Ahmad Shirani [who is already very ill with kidney disease] started a hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Volunteers of Sarand Camp helping earthquake victims, were sentenced
• Behrooz Alavi, 2 years and 3 months imprisonment
• Mohammad Arjomandirad, 6 months imprisonment
• Morteza Esmailpour, 6 months imprisonment
• Danial Hasani, 6 months imprisonment
• Vahed Kholosi, 2 years imprisonment
• Ali Mohammadi, 6 months imprisonment
• Hamid Reza Mosibian, 2 years and 6 months imprisonment
• Milad Panahipour, 6 months imprisonment
• Farid Rohani, 6 months imprisonment
• Seyed Hassan Ronaghi Maleki, 6 months imprisonment
• Seyed Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, 2 years imprisonment
• Amir Ronasi, 6 months imprisonment
• Sepehrdad Saheban, 6 months imprisonment
• Mohammad Amin Salehi, 6 months imprisonment
• Mohsen Samei, 6 months imprisonment
• Bahram Shojaei, 2 years imprisonment
• Mohammad Esmail Soleimanpour, 6 months imprisonment
• Hooman Taheri, 6 months imprisonment
• Masoud Vafabakhsh, 6 months imprisonment
• Shayan Vahdati, 6 months imprisonment.
• Sentence to execution for young Kurdish activist Reza Mollazadeh confirmed by Supreme Court.
• One man hanged in Shahrekord on Sunday.
• One man hanged in Mashhad on Wednesday.
• One man hanged in public in Sabzevar on Wednesday.
• Two persons were publicly flogged in Eivanaki on Wednesday.
• 2 executions in Semnan on Wednesday.
• 3 public executions in Pakdasht on Thursday.

University – Culture

• Shokoofeh Derakhshanian, Baha’i, expelled from Tabari University in Babol.
• Maryam Mirzakhani awarded 2013 Satter Prize in mathematics by American Mathematical Society.
• Czech Republic rejects Masters students from Iran because of UN nuclear sanctions.

Protests

• Workers from the Khamana textile plant demonstrated in front of the Majlis .

Iran Economics

• Iran imports 897,000 tons of rice in 9 months.
• Maserati and Lamborghini pull out of Iran.

Politics in Iran

• Members of Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee will visit Evin and Rejaei Shahr prisons.
• Grand ayatollah Sobhani proposes election of president through parliamentary system.
• Women enter Iran Riot Police.
• Special units guards and police have surrounded the venue where Gonabadi Dervishes were holding services in Shahrekord.

Iran  abroad

• KLM to cease flights to Iran in April.
• Arrests in Spain linked to Iran’s nuclear program.
• Iranian escalating role in Yemen concerns USA.
• Canada will resettle up to 5,000 displaced Iraqi and Iranian refugees currently in Turkey by 2018.
• Syria PM meets Ahmadinejad and other Iranian officials in Tehran.