Week 05 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mashallah Haeri got a heart attack and was transferred to Day hospital in Tehran.
• Samkoo Khalghati transferred to solitary.
• Mohammad-Amin Roghani transferred to financial ward of Evin.
• Death row prisoner Kaveh Sharifi transferred from Evin to an unknown location.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Reza Alnaser, student activist, arrested in Mashhad.
• Moslem Boushehrian arrested at Tehran airport.
• Hazhir Firouzian, Baha’i, arrested in Semnan to serve his 40 days sentence.
• Sasan and Siavash Janatian, student activists, arrested in Mashhad.
• Dana Lanj-Abadi, Kurdish student, arrested.
• Amir-Ali Mehran-Nia arrested in Kermanshah.
• Student activist Arash Mohammadi is back to Tabriz prison at the end of furlough.
• 47 arrests in Khorram-Abad.
• 88 arrests for hooliganism in Tehran.
• More than 20 worker protesters arrested in Ardakan Fars Province.

C-Liberations

• Shahnaz Jayzan, wife of a pastor, released on furlough.
• Farzad Madadzadeh freed at the end of his sentence.
• Fatemeh Masni released on bail from Evin.
• Faghir-Mohammad Reisi, Sunni cleric, released on bail from Zahedan prison.

D-Other News

• Rajaei Shahr political prisoners on Strike to protest against mistreatment.

News of injustice in Iran

• Reza Aghakhani, member of National-Religious party, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Mohammad-Bagher Alavi, Member of Freedom Movement, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Hamid Babaei, student in Liege University, sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Sarang Etehadi sentenced to 5 years in prison.
• Fatemeh Hashemi, daughter of former president Rafsanjani, sentenced to 6 months suspended.
• Morteza Rahmani, Kurdish political activist, sentenced 3 times to execution.
• Hadi Rashedi, Ahvaz activist, was executed last week.
• Hashem Shabaninejad, Ahvaz activist, was executed last week.
• 7 hangings in Ghezel Hesar prison on Monday.
• One public hanging in Ghazvin on Tuesday.
• 5 hangings in Urmiah prison on Thursday.

University – Culture

• The veteran Iranian cinematographer Maziar Partow died at 81.
• The Iranian American multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmangelij and his band Vampire Weekend. Won the Grammy award for Alternative Music.
• Marivan Payam Nour University students Dana Amini,Souran Ravesh and Maysam Javanmiri banned from continuing their education.
• Asghar Farhadi’s The Past nominated in five categories for France’s Cesar Awards.

Protests

• Iran Tire workers on strike for 7 days; more than 200 workers laid off.
• Zagros Steel workers rally to protest delayed salaries for seven months.
• Security forces arrested more than 20 miners in Chodarmanlou mine (Yazd region).

Iran abroad

• Kofi Annan and Desmond Tutu in Tehran to meet Iranian leaders.
• US Treasury removes sanctions on Iran’s National Oil and Tanker companies.
• Italian Minister of Culture visits Tehran.
• Larijani receives his South Korean counterpart.
• Former French foreign minister meets with deputy FM.
• Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan arrives in Tehran

Iran Economics

• French automaker Renault resumes shipments of spare part to Iran.

Iran Politics

• Iran’s military budget decreased in Rouhani’s presented budget bill by 9 percent.
• Rouhani appoints Masoud Soltanifar as a head of Cultural Heritage.

As usual, list of political prisoners in Iran: http://hyperactivist.info/ipr.html

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