Week 08 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Rasoul Badaghi transferred to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.
• Mostafa Daneshjou transferred ot Tajrish hospital.
• Kurdish journalist Adnan Hasanpour transferred from Marivan to Zabol prison.
• Hamid-Reza Moradi-Sarvestani transferred ot Tajrish hospital.
• Amanollah Mostaghim transferred to hospital;  granted new furlough.
• Shahrokh Zamani transferred to solitary in Rejaei Shahr 

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Nima Abbaspour arrested on Native Language day.
• Akbar Abolzadeh arrested on Native Language day.
• Asghar Akbarzadeh arrested on Native Language day.
• Mohammad Akhoundi-Cheikharali arrested on Native Language day.
• Babak Alizadeh arrested on Native Language day.
• Saeed Anvarizadeh arrested on Native Language day.
• Akbar Azad, Azeri activist arrested in Tehran.
• Meysam Azadi arrested on Native Language day.
• Abbas and Hossein Balakhani arrested on Native Language day.
• Ozgour Banaei arrested on Native Language day.
• Kazem Barjesteh, member of Mousavi campaign, arrested to serve his 5 years sentence.
• Beitollah Barzegar arrested on Native Language day.
• Alireza Bidar arrested on Native Language day.
• Mousa Chologhli arrested on Native Language day.
• Jalal Dorougari arrested on Native Language day.
• Alireza Farshi Azeri activist arrested in Tehran.
• Hossein Farzin begins serving his 11 months sentence in Vakilabad.
• Behnam Fatehi Azeri activist arrested in Tehran.
• Esrafil Fatollahzadeh arrested on Native Language day.
• Ali Feizpour arrested on Native Language day.
• Morteza Ghodrati arrested on Native Language day.
• Rahim Gholami arrested on Native Language day.
• Mir-Yasin Hosseini arrested on Native Language day.
• Ahad Hosseinzadeh arrested on Native Language day.
• Arash Jafari arrested on Native Language day.
• Meisam and Sajad Jolani arrested on Native Language day.
• Sajad Khalilnejad arrested on Native Language day.
• Saeed Khazar arrested on Native Language day.
• Moharam Khorsha arrested on Native Language day.
• Sajad Khoshghadam arrested on Native Language day.
• Rahman Kolibari arrested on Native Language day.
• Abbas Lisani arrested on Native Language day.
• Adel Marandi arrested on Native Language day.
• Siamak Mardani arrested on Native Language day.
• Saeed Masoum-Nia arrested on Native Language day.
• Afshin Mohammadi arrested on Native Language day.
• Fardin Moradpour arrested on Native Language day.
• Mojtaba Mousavi, Azeri activist, arrested in Tehran.
• Asghar Naderi arrested on Native Language day.
• Vahid Nariman arrested on Native Language day.
• Aydin Neshati arrested on Native Language day.
• Shapour Nosratpour arrested on Native Language day.
• Ebrahim Nouri arrested on Native Language day.
• Mohammad Rahmani-Far arrested on Native Language day.
• Tohid Rezaei arrested on Native Language day.
• Jafar Rostami arrested on Native Language day.
• Rouzbeh Saadati arrested on Native Language day.
• Hamed Sadeghi arrested on Native Language day.
• Vahid-Kiak Sar-Faezpour arrested on Native Language day.
• Ebrahim Savalan arrested on Native Language day.
• Behnam Seifi, Azeri activist, arrested in Tehran. 
• Ahmad Shahrabi, Sunni Muslim, arrested in Iranshahr.
• Abbas Sobh-Molaei arrested on Native Language day.
• Esrafil Soltanian, Azeri activist, arrested in Tehran.
• Vahid Yousefian arrested on Native Language day.
• Mehdi Zanjir-Balaghi arrested on Native Language day.
• Vahid Zarei arrested on Native Language day.
• 50 arrests in Azerbaijan on Native Language day.

C-Liberations

• Workers’ rights activist Vafa Ghaderi freed at the end of his sentence.
• Alireza Rejaei released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Rasoul Badaghi begins a hunger strike.
• Mohammad Banazadeh-Amirkhizi begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Hamid-Reza Borhani begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Khaled Herdani begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Samkoo Khalghati banned from visits.
• Saleh Kohandel begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Mohammad-Ali (Pirouz) Mansouri begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Saeed Masouri begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Misagh Yazdanejad begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Naseh (Ayhan) Yousefi begins a hunger strike in support of Badaghi and Zamani transfer to solitary.
• Shahrokh Zamani begins a hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Mehdi Jafarzadeh, Kurdish cultural activist living in Khorasan, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Sentence confirmed by Appeals for Saeed Madani: 6 years in prison of which 4 to be served in Bandar Abbas + 10 years in exile in the same town.
• Arash Moghadam-Aslani sentenced to 8 years in prison.
• Bashir Nazari sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• 2 public hangings in Karaj on Saturday.
• 2 hangings in Noshahr on Monday.
• 2 hangings in Zanjan on Monday.
• 8 hangings in Ghezel Hesar on Tuesday.
• 4 hangings in Ghazvine on Tuesday, one of them public.
• 4 hangings in Kerman on Tuesday.
• One public hanging in Khoy on Wednesday.
• 6 hangings in Rejaei Shahr on Wednesday.
• One public hanging in Shiraz on Wednesday.

University – Culture

• Amir Pourmand Third Prize Winner of 2013 World Press Photo "Moments Before Hanging”.
• First issue of Aseman, a new daily newspaper; banned after 6 days.
• IRGC launches first semi-private TV network in Iran.
• TV halts series after protesters claim it insults tribe.
• Prominent playwright, poet, and author Mansour Koushan died of cancer in Norway exile.

Protests

• Bakhtiari tribes hold protests in several towns.
• Sunni death row prisoners' families gathered in front of Rouhani's office.

Iran abroad

• Rouhani receives Turkmenistan FM in Tehran.
• Ashton meets Zarif in Vienna on Monday.
• Deputy FM Ghashghavi met his Egyptian counterpart in Tehran.
• Zarif meets Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz in Vienna.
• Al-Qaeda linked Abdullah Azzam Brigades claimed responsibility for the twin attacks in Beirut targeting Iran cultural center and killing four people.
• One Iranian asylum seeker killed and scores injured in Papua New Guinea retention camp.
• Iranian Embassy in London reopens after 2 years.

Iran Economics

• 110 Workers of "Pishro Masaleh" laid off with 2.5 months of unpaid wages.

Iran Politics

• Iran lifts ban on Reuters News agency.
• More than 40 ambassadors and consuls to be replaced says Zarif.
• Mohammad Hossein Omid is the new president of Tehran University.

Miscellaneous

• 2 workers die in a fire in Kyan Tyre factory in Eslamshahr.

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