Week 04 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Hamed Ahmadi, Sunni prisoner on death row, transferred from Ghezel Hesar to an unknown location.
• Jahangir and Jamshid Dehghani, Sunni prisoners on death row, transferred from Ghezel Hesar to an unknown location.
• Adnan Hasanpour transferred from Sanandaj to Marivan prison.
• Mehdi Karroubi is back to safe house after 9 days in hospital.
• Karim Marouf-Aziz back to Rejaei-Shahr after surgery.
• Kamal Molaei, Sunni prisoner on death row, transferred from Ghezel Hesar to an unknown location.
• Kasra Nouri, Gonabadi Dervish, exiled from Adel-Abad to Nezam prison.
• Hani Yazerloo exiled to Vakil-Abad prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Ahmad, Khaled, Milad, Mohammad, Sadegh and Taregh Afravi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Adnan and Azim Ayashi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Ahmad, Ali-Haji, Ebrahim and Sejad Badavi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Abdol-Hossein Baladi, retired teacher, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Ahmad, Rasoul and Taemeh Barajeh arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Mohammad Bavi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Journalist Dariush Elias begins serving his 5 years in Evin 350.
• Mohammad-Amin Gherbavi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Jasem Hajikian begins serving his 7 years sentence in Maku prison.
• Hossein and Taemeh Hamoudi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Majid Hashemi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Ali-Kerker, Ghasem, Naeim and Salem Heidari arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Ghasem Herdani arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Mehrdad Jamshidpour, student, arrested.
• Mohammad, Ghasem, Nouri  and Rasoul Keroshavi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Ali, Bandar, Ghader, Majed, Majid,Mohammad, Sattar and Valid Masoudi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Mojtaba and Reza Mervani arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Hasan Saedi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Jafar Silavi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Saeed Soleimani arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Aref Sorkhi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Hasan Tarafi arrested in Ahvaz during poet Mullah Fazel Sokrany burial and sent to Karoun prison.
• Ahmad Zeidabadi is back to Rejaei-Shahr at the end of furlough.
• More than 45 Arab activists arrested in Ahvaz.

C-Liberations

• Shabnam Madadzadeh freed at the end of her sentence.
• Mohammad Mataji released on furlough.
• Leftist student activist Arash Mohammadi released on furlough from Tabriz prison.
• Zia  Nabavi released on a 5 days furlough.

D-Other News

• Hamed Ahmadi, Kurdish Sunni prisoner, stops his hunger strike.
• Jahangir and Jamshid Dehghani, Kurdish Sunni prisoners, stop their hunger strike.
• Kamal Molaei, Kurdish Sunni prisoner, stops his hunger strike.
• Library of political prisoners in Rejaei Shahr sealed.

News of injustice in Iran

• Shamim Etehadi sentenced by Appeals to 3 years in prison, 74 lashes, a two-year ban on leaving Iran, and a fine of 40 million rials.
• Ali Kheirjoo sentenced by Appeals to 6 months.

University – Culture

• Kurdish Baha'i student Gita Gouran denied access to University.
• The monthly meeting of Iranian writers’ association banned.

Protests

• IranTire workers gathered to protest the dismissal of 80 of their colleagues.
• Petrochemical workers stop work over banned representative.

Iran abroad

• An Iranian diplomat assassinated in Sanaa.
• Senegal to appoint ambassador, reopen embassy in Iran.
• European Union is suspending some sanctions following nuclear agreement with Iran.
• Canada upholds its sanctions.
• Rouhani attends Davos forum, he meets Catherine Ashton, presidents of Switzerland and Azerbaijan and Barroso.

Miscellaneous

• 2 women die in the fire of a clothes factory in Tehran.
• Influenza kills 9 people.

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