Week 10 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Saleh Moradi on day 49 of Hunger Strike was moved to the infirmary because of physical weakness.
• Zia Nabavi, student activist, transferred to an unknown location.
• Sirvan and Shirzad Hossein Panahi transferred to Ghorveh prison.
• Death row political prisoner Houshang Rezaei moved from the Rejaei Shahr prison to an unknown location.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Alireza Aghaee Rad, political editor of Maghreb newspaper arrested and released the day after.
• Ghasem Ahmadi,editor of a quarterly magazine arrested in Mahabad.
• Kurdish civil and cultural activist Keyhan Azizi arrested after summoned by Intel office in Paveh.
• Mohammad Emami Naseri, Managing director of Maghreb newspaper arrested and released the day after.
• Behzad Farajollahi, Workers’ Rights Activist, arrested for planning a meeting on International Women’s Day.
• Vafa Ghaderi, Workers’ Rights Activist, arrested for planning a meeting on International Women’s Day.
• Kurdish civil and cultural activist Davoud Ghafari arrested after summoned by Intel office in Paveh.
• Khaled Hosseini, Workers’ Rights Activist, arrested for planning a meeting on International Women’s Day.
• Mohammad Javad Rouh, journalist at monthly Mehrnameh, arrested.
• Journalist and Kurdish activist Khosrow Kordpour, director of Mokrian News Agency, arrested in Mahabad.
• Secretary General of the Participation Front, Mohsen Mirdamadi is back in prison after medical furlough extension was denied.

C-Liberations

• Journalist Sasan Aghaei freed on bail.
• Journalist Saba Azarpeik freed on bail.
• Mohsen Mohagheghi member of Iran Freedom Movement released on furlough.
• Journalist Soleiman Mohammadi was released.
• Journalist Pezhman Mousavi was released.
• Journalist Nasrin Takhayori, freed on bail

D-Other News

• Jaber and Mokhtar Albooshookeh, Ahvazi prisoners in death row, launched a hunger strike to protest conditions in Karoun prison,
• Mohammad-Ali Amoorinezhad, Ahvazi prisoner in death row, launched a hunger strike to protest conditions in Karoun prison.
• Rahman Asakereh, Ahvazi prisoner, launched a hunger strike to protest conditions in Karoun prison.
• Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi denied family visits for refusing to wear prison uniform.
• Fouad Khanjani denied family visits for refusing to wear prison uniform.
• Masoud Lavasani, persecuted journalist, is out of Iran.
• Kamran Rahimian denied family visits for refusing to wear prison uniform.
• Hadi Rashedi, Ahvazi prisoner in death row, launched a hunger strike to protest conditions in Karoun prison,
• Hashem Shabaninezhad, Ahvazi prisoner in death row, launched a hunger strike to protest conditions in Karoun prison.

News of injustice in Iran

• 1 execution in Sari prison last Friday.
• 2 executions in Turkmanchai on Sunday.

University – Culture

• Aseman, Tajrobeh and Mehrnameh closed in Iran.

Protests

• Vahed bus company workers meet on Azadi Avenue.
• Workers in the Iranian metal industry went on strike and demonstrated against the non-payment of their wages in Tehran.

Politics in Iran

• Two members of the City Council of Rasht were arrested.
• Assembly of Experts re-elects Mahdavi-Kani as chairman.

Iran economics

• Trade between Iran and China dives 18% after sanctions.

Miscellaneous

• 8 people died in Sanandaj -Kurdistan province- as a result of drinking wood alcohol.