Week 17 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Abdolghafour Ghalandari Nejad was transferred to Bandar Abbas central prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Peyman Aref arrested and released three days after.
• Amir Chamani is back to Tabriz prison at the end of furlough.
• Mohammad Davari returned to the section 350 of the Evin prison at the end of his furlough.
• Afrasiab Faraji-Fard arrested in Ahvaz.
• Faramarz Firouzian begins serving his one year sentence in Semnan.
• Freedom Movement of Iran member Jafar Ganji is back in prison after furlough extension was denied.
• Abdolghafour Ghalandarinejad, dervish Gonabadi, arrested in Bandar Abbas.
• Mehdi Khodaei returned to the section 350 of the Evin prison at the end of his furlough.
• Political prisoner Mohammad Hossein Naeemipour is back in Evin after furlough extension was denied.

C-Liberations

• Peyman Chalaki released on furlough with a 400 million bail deposit.
• Ardeshir Fanaian, Baha’i from Semnan, released on 50 million toman bail.
• A Baha'i from Semnan, Faramarz Firouzian, released on 50 million toman bail

D-Other News

• Political prisoner Raheleh Zokaei is on hunger strike in Gharchak prison in Varamin.

News of injustice in Iran

• Court hearing held for Kurdish activists Shirzad et Sirwan Hossein-Panahi in Sanandaj.
• Political prisoner, Ahmad Karimi, sentenced to 1 extra year in prison.
• Journalist Mohammad-Reza Nesab-Abdollahi sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• Gonabadi Dervishr Kasra Nouri sentenced to 4 years and 4 months by the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz.
• Hojatoleslam Hamid Rasaei, managing editor of 9 Dey weekly, sentenced to 1 year in prison + 1 year ban on journalism.
• 4 executions in Kerman prison.
• 2 executions in Karaj.
• 2 Afghans nationals executed in Mashhad.
• 2 women and 2 men executed in Dizel-Abad prison of Kermanshah.
• Five prisoners including two Afghan nationals hanged in Zahedan.
• 3 people hanged in Bam on Wednesday.
• 3 hangings in Urmia prison on Wednesday.

University – Culture

• Mehdi Bigdeli expelled from University for being a starred student.
• 60% of Iran's population is Internet users.
• Baha'i student Navid Keyhanirad expelled from Shiraz Technical University.
• Arts and Human Rights in Iran an exhibition of Mir-Hossein Mousavi paintings at Akademie der Künste –Berlin.
• Clerics Special Court has banned the 9 Dey weekly.
• Mellat-e Ma (our nation), belonging to Mohsen Rezaei, the Secretary of the Expediency Council and presidential election candidate closed due to financial problems.
• In Zanjan over the past year, 16,800 satellite dishes have been seized.

Protests

• Gonabadi Dervishes gather in front of Bandar Abbas's Intelligence Office.
• Sugar- and sugar-refining factory workers protest Ahmadinejad's visit to Khuzestan.
• Yazd railway workers gathered in front of the Governor.
• Sit-in protest at the entrance of the Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province governor's office.
• Ahwazi sets himself alight at the entrance to the governor's office building in jobs protest.
• Safa Rolling & Profile Mills workers strike.

Iran abroad

• Nasrallah holding secret negotiations with Iranian authorities.
• Russian fleet docks in Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.
• Iranian agent with Canadian passport arrested in Bulgaria.
• UK government blocks Shell paying Iran oil debt in food and medicine.
• Two arrested in Al Qaeda US-Canada train plot – directed from Iran.
• Majlis Speaker meets with Iraqi Justice Minister.
• A delegation of European Parliament will visit Iran.

Iran Economics

• Meat prices up by 60% since Norooz in Tehran.
• Energy prices to increase by 38%.
• All flights of Iranian airline SAHA have been stopped due to its outdated aircraft.

Iran Politics

• FIFA continues to warn Iran about executions on football fields.
• 3 Iranian MPs to face trial in huge bank fraud case.

Miscellaneous

• Iranian woman Dr. Zahra Alizadeh Thani = world inventor 2013.
• Ayatollah Gholam Reza Rezvani, a member of the Guardian Council died.
• 5 cases of death recorded due to imported Penicillin from China.

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