Week 06 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Political prisoner Ahmadreza Ahmadpour suffering from multitude of illnesses hospitalized due to medicine administrated at prison.
• Adel Naeemi transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Two weeks after release on furlough Mahsa Amrabadi returned to Evin prison.
• Senior Reformist Feyzollah Arabsorkhi was returned to Evin from hospital before completing treatment.
• Dr. Latif Hasani, Azari activist, arrested.
• Graduate student Khaled Mohammadi was arrested last week, whereabouts unknown.
• Shahram Radmehr, Azari activist, arrested.

C-Liberations

• Ali Dehghan, journalist, released on bail.
• Political prisoner Zahra Mansouri released on medical furlough, she suffers from breast cancer.
• Mohammad Tavakoli the detained member of Teachers' Union in Kermanshah released on 50 million tomans bail.

D-Other News

• Dervishes on hunger strike Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri forced to sign a letter stating health OK.
• 3 political prisoners in Rajai Shahr denied family visit because they refused to wear a prison uniform.

News of injustice in Iran

• Sentence reduced to 1 year + 600 Toman fine for 85 years old prisoner Mohammad Hossein Nakhaei.
• After 7 years in prison an Afghan citizen was executed in Varamin prison.
• 3 hangings in Isfahan’s prison on Tuesday 

University – Culture

• Iran lifted the block on Tabnak news website, close to Mohsen Rezaee.
• Baztab site reports it has been under heavy cyber-attack.

Iran Economics

• Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad's Road Department workers have not received their salaries for 6 months.

Politics in Iran

• Ahmadinejad appointed General Mohammad Hassan Nami as acting Minister of Communications and Information Technology.
• Reformists will participate in presidential election says former minister.
• The Parliament impeached Ahmadenejad's Labor Minister with, 56 against, 24 abstained and 192 yes votes
• Mortazavi arrested on Monday for corruption and released on Tuesday.
• On supreme leader’s order, Justice Minister, Sadegh Larijani, gives up suing Ahmadinejad for diffamation.

Iran  abroad

• Bank melli ex manager Mahmoud Reza Khavari wanted by Interpol for fraud.
• Salehi, in separate meetings, held talks with UN Special Envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Syrian opposition leader, Mouaz Al-Khatib.
• Egypt's Morsi greets Iranian president upon his arrival in Cairo for historic visit.
• European Union court ruled that EU should lift sanctions it imposed on one of Iran's largest banks, Bank Saderat.
• In a unilateral decision, Foreign Minister Salehi announced Egyptian citizens visiting Iran will no longer require a visa.

Miscellaneous

• $40m oil rig disappears into the deep.