Week 05 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Student activist Amir Chamani moved to workshop section from the quarantine ward in Central prison, Tabriz.
• Pan-Iranist member Milad Deghan [43 days of interrogation in solitary ] moved to Ward 8 in Karoon Prison
• Political prisoner Reza Sharifi Boukani was moved from RajaeiShahr, Karaj to ward 209 in Evin in Tehran.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Sasan Aghaie, journalist, arrested.
• Pouria Alemi, journalist, arrested.
• Emily Amraee, journalist, arrested.
• Saba Azarpeik, journalist, arrested
• Javad Daliri, journalist, arrested.
• Soran Daneshvar, Kurdish student, arrested in Marivan.
• Ali Dehghan, journalist in Bahar newspaper, arrested.
• Milad Fadaei Asl, head of the political section of ILNA news agency, arrested.
• Taher Faghih, student of Ayatollah Dastgheib, arrested in Shiraz.
• Davar Ghasemi, Kurdish student, arrested in Marivan.
• Narges Joodeki, journalist, arrested.
• Saman Mahmoudi, Kurdish student, arrested in Marivan.
• Keyvan Mehregan, journalist arrested.
• Journalist Soleiman Mohammadi arrested.
• Zana Moeini, Kurdish student, arrested in Marivan.
• Ali-Akbar Montajebi, journalist, arrested.
• Pezhman Mousavi, journalist, arrested.
• Fatemeh Sagharchi, journalist, arrested.
• Motahereh Shafiei, journalist, arrested and released the day after.
• Arash Shaltooki, dervish Gonabadi, arrested in Isfahan and sent to Evin.
• Reyhaneh Tabatabaie, journalist, arrested.
• Nasrin Takhiri, journalist, arrested.
• Hossein Yaghchi, journalist, arrested.

C-Liberations

• Popular singer Arya Aramnejad released from Babol prison after serving out his sentence.
• Imprisoned Freedom Movement of Iran member Jafar Ganji granted a prison furlough to attend mother's funeral.
• Editor-in-Chief of Maghreb, Mohammad Mehdi Emami-Naseri, released after 120 days.
• Participation Front member, journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian  released on furlough.
• Didar Raufi freed from Rajaei Shahr at the end of his sentence

D-Other News

• Gonabadi Dervish, Hamid Moradi was beaten severely in ward 209 of Evin.
• Imprisoned Zoroastrian citizen Abolfazl (Pouria) Shahpari denied furlough to visit mother undergoing chemotherapy.

News of injustice in Iran

• Pastor Saeed Abedini was sentenced to 8 years in prison.
• Hamed Malek Abadi, Azari activist, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• Gonabadi Dervish, Ali Moazami, sentenced to 2 years in prison by the judge Salavati in Tehran.
• Amputation carried out in Sari prison - Four fingers were amputated.
• 6 executions in Esfahan prison on Sunday of which 2 women.
• One man hanged in Myaneh prison on Monday.
• One man hanged in Tabriz prison on Tuesday.
• 5 executions in Kerman prison on Wednesday.

University – Culture

• Sama and Sirus Sabeti expelled from Babol University because they are Baha’i.
• Tabnak news website, close to conservative Mohsen Rezaei, blocked by Iranian Authorities.
• Iran authorities have blocked Baztab Emrooz and Iranian History websites.
• Offices of Reformist newspapers Etemad, Bahar, Aseman  and Shargh raided by security forces.
• Iranian cyberattacks target Radio Farda journalists.

Protests

• A group of sugar cane cutters of the Karun Agro-industrial Complex in Shushtar held a protest rally outside the President’s office in Tehran for 7 consecutive day.

Iran Economics

• $1 = from 3800 to 3900 Toman – Euro 1 = from 5200 to 5300 toman on Wednesday.
• $1 = above Toman – Euro 1 = 5500 toman on Thursday.

Politics in Iran

• Iranian Guardian Council approves watered-down election law.
• Accused former prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi removed from position.

Iran  abroad

• Omar Hakim, President of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq, arrived in Iran.
• Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, traveled to Jordan.
• Large arms shipment intercepted off Yemen, Iran eyed as source.
• India to open cultural center in Iran
• Academic delegation from China visits Iran.
• Europe’s highest court annuls EU sanctions against Bank Mellat.

Miscellaneous

• Explosion at Fordow nuclear facility -trapped 240 workers in underground ; Iran authorities deny same.
• Iran sends a monkey into space.
• Iran’s one and only Geopark dropped from UNESCO list.