Week 09 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Rasoul Badaghi transferred back from solitary – He ends his hunger strike.
• Shahin Dadkhah, transferred back to Evin 350 from solitary.
• Mostafa Daneshjou transferred back to Evin 350 from hospital.
• Loghman Moradi hospitalized with internal bleeding after interrogatory.
• Hamid-Reza Moradi-Sarvestani transferred back to Evin 350 from hospital.
• Shahrokh Zamani transferred back from solitary – He ends his hunger strike.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Abbas, Ahmad and Hasan Abeyat, newly converted to Sunni Islam, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Gharib Anvari, student activist, arrested in Izdeh, Khouzestan.
• Parviz Deghani, Baloch activist, arrested.
• Morteza Komsari, workers’ rights activist, arrested in Tehran.
• Seyed Hamid Mahdavi, representative of Ayatollah Bayat Zanjani, arrested.
• Seyed Abbas, Seyed Mousa, Seyed Naser and Seyed Reza Mousavi, newly converted to Sunni Islam, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Hasan Rasoulnejad, workers’ rights activist, arrested in Bokan and released on bail after 9 days.
• Hasan Saeedi, workers’ rights activist, arrested in Tehran.
• Basem, Heidar-Jalil and Jafar Savari, newly converted to Sunni Islam, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Aram Soleimani, Kurdish political activist, arrested in Ravansar.
• Jasem Tavirat, newly converted to Sunni Islam, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Mehdi Veisi, Kurdish political activist, arrested in Ravansar.
• Ali Zard-Kouhi, Baloch activist, arrested.
• 950 arrests in Azerbaijan in February.
• 38 arrests in Rasht on charge of gambling.

C-Liberations

• Abbas Bozorgmehr, editor in chief of Aseman, released on bail.
• Rahman Ghahremanpour-Bonab released on medical furlough.
• Afshin Nadimi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, freed.

D-Other News

• The Bar Association Disciplinary Committee reschedule hearing on revocation of Nasrin Sotoudeh’s license.

News of injustice in Iran

• Sirvan Hasannejad, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 5 months in prison.
• Saman Hosseini, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 5 months in prison.
• Appeals confirmed 4.5 years sentence for Baha’i Nava Khalousi.
• Appeals confirmed 6 years sentence for Baha’i Nika Khalousi.
• Appeals reduce sentence from 8 months to 3 months + 1 day for Baha’i Mahsa Mahdavi.
• Sirvan Nasrollahi, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 5 months in prison.
• Ghader Shah, Kurdish political activist, sentenced to 4 years.
• Appeals reduce sentence from 18 to 6 months for Baha’i Adib Shoaei.
• 2 hangings in Semnan on Monday.
• 3 public hangings in Karaj on Monday.
• 6 hangings in Rajaei Shahr on Wednesday.
• 1 hanging in Mashhad on Thursday.
• 1 hanging in Salmas on Thursday.

University – Culture

• France names Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi to prestigious order.

Protests

• Nurses in Tehran protest to improve their wages.

Iran abroad

• Belgian FM meets Rouhani.
• Two killed in suicide attack outside Iranian consulate in Pakistan.
• Polish FM visits Tehran.
• Zarif visits India.

Iran Economics

• Iraq signs deal to buy arms, ammunition from Iran.

Miscellaneous

• Increase of 14% of suicide in last year in Iran.
• Sigheh (temporary marriage) in Tehran costs EUR29/hour.
• Beijing, Tehran sign sister cities agreement.

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

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