Week 13 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Babak Abbasi, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.
• Jahanbakhsh Ahmadi, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.
• Goran Bahrami, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.
• Pedram Ghaderian, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.
• Arash and Ghaneh Hatemi, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.
• Alireza Karami-Kheirabadi transferred to 1,000 Beds hospital in Tehran due to viral meningitis; he is in coma.
• Mohammad Negari, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.
• Motasem Shafiei, recently arrested in Paveh, transferred to Kermanshah prison.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Emad Bahavar returned to prison.
• Parvaneh Sarabadani expelled from Sweden 22 March, reported arrested at airport.
• Nasrin Sotoudeh's furlough extension was denied, she is back in prison.
• More than 130 Afghan nationals arrested in Sistan-Balouchistan over the last two weeks.

C-Liberations

• Sadegh Moradi-Sarvestani arrested in front of Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz was freed.
• Masoud Rezaei, Christian convert, was released on furlough.
• Mohammad Roghangir, Christian convert, was released on furlough.
• Mehran Sadeghi arrested in front of Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz was freed.
• Soroosh Saraei, Christian convert, was released on furlough.
• Behnam Yadollahi-Farsi arrested in front of Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz was freed.

D-Other News

• Mostafa Abdi begins a hunger strike in solidarity with dervishes detained in solitary.
• Saleh Moradi-Sarvestani begins a dry hunger strike in solidarity with dervishes detained in solitary.
• Kasra Nouri begins a dry hunger strike in solidarity with dervishes detained in solitary.
• Alireza Roshan begins a hunger strike in solidarity with dervishes detained in solitary.
• Sadr Javadi one of the founders of the Freedom Movement of Iran hospitalized.

News of injustice in Iran

• Mohammad Tavakoli Secretary of Teachers Union, Kermanshah, sentenced to one year in exile.

University – Culture

• License cancelation of a bookstore for selling Turkish books in Banab.

Iran abroad

• Dubai's trade with Iran plunged by a third in 2012, the Dubai customs authority said on Monday 
• Iran lifts ban on import of meat from Ireland imposed 17 years ago.
• Vice President for Constitutional Affairs, Fatimah Bodaghi, has concluded a 2-day visit to Egypt.
• Saudi Arabia confirms that its security forces captured Iranian espionage network, which Iran denies.
• Syrian rebels claim Iranian plane shot down.
• Malaysia: Iranian sisters (24 and 26) sent to gallows for drug trafficking.

Iran Economics

• Iran seizes two ships smuggling oil in the Persian Gulf
• China oil tanker seen at Iran port for first time since EU ban. 

Iran Politics

• The Ministry of Intelligence issued a 23-point warning to Iranian citizens in an effort to “preserve and expand public security and the support of Islamic Iran’s citizens against dangers and designed security vulnerabilities.”

Miscellaneous

• Increase in trafficking Iranian girls to Persian Gulf countries.

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

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