Week 11 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Pastor Saeed Abedini briefly sent to hospital and returned to prison without treatment.
• Abdolrahman Asakereh exiled to Vakil Abad prison.
• Houtan Dolati transferred to Imam Khomeiny hospital.
• Abdol-Ghafour Ghalandari transferred to Ershad section in Bandar Abbas prison.
• Sami Hosseini is back to general ward of Urmia Prison.
• Rasoul  Khezr-Marevat transferred from Mahabad to Urmia prison.
• Alireza Rasouli transferred from Mahabad to Urmia prison.
• Farough Samani transferred from Mahabad to Urmia prison.
• Ahmad Tamooei is back to general ward of Urmia Prison.
• Workers’ Rights activist Sharokh Zamani exiled to Ghezel Hesar prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Hadi Ben-Sheikh-Ahmad, newly converted to Sunni Islam, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Jafar Cheldavi, newly converted to Sunni Islam, arrested in Ahvaz.
• Cleric Seyed Hossein Fali arrested in the airport.
• Karim Mousazadeh is back to prison before the end of his medical furlough.
• Women’s rights activist Maryam Naseri arrested on March 8th.
• 150 arrests in Sanandaj on March 8th.

Protestors arrested during dervishes protest in font of court building in Tehran on March 8th, sent to Evin and released on March 10th:

• Ali-Behrouz and Mohammad Abbasi
• Mohammad Abbaszadeh
• Majid Afzalipour
• Darvish, Jafar, Jalal, Masoud and Naghi Ahmadi
• Hasan Ahmadvand
• Saeed Akhoundi 
• Abbas and Mostafa Amini 
• Alireza Amiri
• Ebrahim Anbari
• Naser Arsanjani
• Jafar Arvan
• Babak and Sohrab Assadi
• Ali Ashrafi
• Hamid Asiaban
• Saleh Astaraki
• Reza Azarm
• Masoud Bahmani
• Hossein Bahremand
• Moslem Bakhshipour
• Pouyan Barani 
• Ahmad Barougouhi
• Arezou Behzadipour
• Abdollah-Bagher Beigi
• Ali Band-Ysar
• Akbar Biranvand
• Hamid Borji-Marandi
• Amin Boroumand
• Ali Boroumandi
• Afshin Chegini
• Omid Cheraghi
• Manouchehr Darabi
• Abbas Dehghan
• Shirzad Del-Khosh
• Shahoor Delfan
• Aymal Dolatabadinejad
• Elijah Eraghi
• Hojat Eskandari
• Ahmad, Farhad, Mojtaba  and Shoaib Esmaili 
• Mojtaba Falahati
• Omid Farzan
• Homayoun Fatehi
• Mahmoud Firouz-Bakhsh
• Mojtaba Garmsiri
• Omid Ghaderi
• Javid Ghaed-Rahmat
• Mohammad Ghaedi
• Reza Ghandehari
• Reza Gharemani
• Omid Ghasemi
• Peyman Ghazanfari 
• Keivan Ghiasi
• Masoud Ghomi
• Hamed Ghorbani
• Reza Harouni
• Mohammad and Yaghoub Hedavand
• Abbas and Morteza Heidari
• Amir Herdan 
• Hossein and Zahra Hosseini 
• Salman Hosseini-Beidokhti 
• Mansour Hourizadeh
• Abdolghafour Jalali 
• Ali, Amin and Farshid Karami
• Mohammad Karim-Aye
• Mohammad Karima
• Ali Karimian
• Peyman Kashefi 
• Mehdi Keivani
• Yousef Keshavarz
• Jalil Khalifeh 
• Sedigheh Khalili, wife of Hamid-Reza Moradi
• Javad Khamis-Abadi 
• Majid Khanjarizadeh
• Mostafa Khoda-Yar
• Manouchehr Kokabi
• Abdamir Mahboubi
• Masoud Majidavi
• Yazdan Makari
• Faramarz et Gholam-Abbas Mangari
• Meysam and Milad Mehdian
• Mohammad-Reza Misagh-Nouri
• Ehsan Malek-Mohammadi 
• Abolfazl Meskin 
• Mostafa Mir-Mohammadi 
• Salman Mir-Silmi 
• Hossein-Ebrahim Mohammadi 
• Ahmad Mohseni 
• Fahimeh Moradi, sister of Hamid-Reza Moradi
• Saleh Moradi
• Sepideh Moradi, daughter of Hamid-Reza Moradi
• Esmail Motakhases-Nia 
• Mohammad Motamedi
• Hadi Moudian
• Kamal and Nour-Ali Mousavi
• Saleh Mousavian 
• Raheleh Namazi 
• Davoud Nasiri 
• Milad Nasrollahi
• Behnam Nazar-Abadi 
• Mohammad-Jalal Nikbakht
• Behzad and Farshad Nouri 
• Azar Noush-Ahmadi 
• Hossein Omrani 
• Reza Papaei 
• Gholam-Ali and Mohammad-Reza Paivar
• Mohammad-Reza Pak-Nia
• Sajad Pirhadi 
• Alireza Pour-Mohammad
• Alireza-Omid, Ezzat, Morteza and Omid Rahimi 
• Saeed Rahmat-Panah
• Hossein and Jafar Rahmati 
• Hasan Rahmatvand 
• Ali-Asghar Ranjbar
• Majid Rashidi
• Hojat and Kourosh Razemani
• Khodadad Reisi 
• Behzad Rezaei
• Nemat and Shahram Riahi 
• Yadollah Riazi
• Behnoud and Rouhollah Rostami 
• Mahmoud and Mohammad Roumiani
• Mohammad Sabou-Vand
• Hamed Sadeghi 
• Ebrahim Safajou 
• Amin and Mostafa Safari 
• Abbas Safarzadeh 
• Mohammad Safouraee
• Mohammad Sagvand
• Morteza Saharabpour
• Siavash Saki 
• Hadi Salehpour
• Mohsen and Moslem Sanat- Parast
• Morteza Sangarloo
• Mohammad Seifi
• Amin Shaaban 
• Hamid and Hasan Shaabani 
• Abolfazl Shah-Ebrahimi 
• Neda Shamsian 
• Ali Shanbeh-Zadeh
• Shahram Sharifi 
• Hossein and Mohsen Sheikhi 
• Ali Shirbani
• Payam Shirvand 
• Hamid-Reza Shojah 
• Mikael Shokri
• Hamid Soleimani 
• Yousef Soltani
• Farhad and Farshad Taghizadeh
• Abol-Hasan Taheri 
• Saeed Torabi 
• Abolfazl Vakili-Rasti 
• Shokoufeh Yadollahi, mother of Kasra Nouri
• Behnam Yadollahi-Farsi 
• Rasoul Yaghoubi 
• Ali, Alireza and Yousef Yar-Ahmadi
• Hamid Yar-Ali 
• Farzad Yazdi
• Hamed Zakeri 
• Mohsen and Sasan Zanganeh 
• Hossein Zarafshan 
• Omid Zareh-Emami 
• Ali-Mohammad Zarei

C-Liberations

• Abolfazl Abedini released on furlough.
• Abbas Bigdeli released from Evin.
• Alumni Association of Iran Spokesperson, Abdollah Momeni released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Mostafa Abdi refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Reza Akbari-Monfared refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh is on hunger strike to support the dervishes.
• Abol-Ghasem (Javad) Fouladvand refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Asghar Ghotan refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Asadollah Hadi refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Gholamreza Khosravi is on hunger strike; he refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Ali Salanpour refuses visits to protest against lack of medical treatment.
• Fungal infection outbreak in Urmia central prison.

News of injustice in Iran

• 6 months sentence for cultural activist Babak Abbasi confirmed by Appeals.
• 6 months sentence for cultural activist Jahanbakhsh Ahmadi confirmed by Appeals.
• Kurdish activist Rashid Akhkandi’s death penalty cancelled by Supreme Court.
• 6 months sentence for cultural activist Goran Bahrami confirmed by Appeals.
• Hossein Farzin flogged 20 times in Mashhad prison.
• 6 months sentence for cultural activist Pedram Ghaderian confirmed by Appeals.
• 6 months sentence for cultural activists Arash and Ghaneh Hatemi confirmed by Appeals.
• Kurdish journalist Khosrow Kordpour sentenced by Appeals to 5 years in prison in exile in Tabriz.
• Kurdish journalist Masoud Kordpour sentenced by Appeals to 3.5 years in prison.
• Molavi Fatehi Mohammad Naghshbandi and his lawyer banned from attending his own trial.
• 6 months sentence for cultural activist Mohammad Nigari confirmed by Appeals.
• 6 months sentence for cultural activist Motasem Shafiei confirmed by Appeals.
• 4 public executions on Saturday in Bandar Abbas.
• One hanging in Mashhad on on Monday.
• An Afghan citizen hanged in Rejaei Shahr on Tuesday.

University – Culture

• Setayesh Asadi expelled from Babolsar University because of her Baha’i faith..

Protests

• Gonabadi dervishes protest in front of court building in Tehran; they got attacked, more than 80 arrests.
• Protest in Yasuj University against arrest of a blogger.
• 500 current and retired workers protest in front of Parliament.

Iran abroad

• During trip in Iran, Catherine Ashton meets Narges Mohammadi and mother of killed blogger Sattar Beheshti.
• Iran warns Austrian embassy over Ashton meeting with rights activists
• EU delegation meets with Iranian officials in Tehran.
• Hasan Rouhani visits Oman.

Iran Economics

• Iran received second installment of oil income.
• Iran seals gas export deal with Oman.

Iran Politics

• Celebration of International Women’s day was forbidden in Iran.
• Reformist cleric Ayatollah Sanei's Tehran office attacked and partially burned.

Miscellaneous

• Mohammad Royanian and Saeed Shirini heads of Persepolis Club arrested.

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

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