Week 18 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Omid Behrouzi transferred to Taleghani hospital for some hours, then back to Evin.
• Reza Entesari, dervish Gonabadi, transferred to Evin among common criminals.
• Abol-Ghasem (Javad) Fouladvand back to Evin 350.
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi transferred to Heart hospital then back to house arrest the day after.
• Farshid Yadollahi, dervish Gonabadi, transferred to Evin among common criminals.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Jamal Agooshi arrested to serve his 1 year sentence.
• Babak and Behzad Asiaei, cultural activists, begin serving their sentences in Evin.
• Jafar Azimzadeh, member of board of directors of Free Workers Union, arrested.
• Nasim Bagheri arrested in Tehran to serve her 4 years sentence.
• Mohammad Bigdeli, Sunni Muslim, arrested.
• Arash Kamancheh, cultural activist, begins serving his sentence in Evin.
• Jamil Mohammadi, member of board of directors of Free Workers Union, arrested.
• Kaveh Rahimi, cultural activist, begins serving his sentence in Evin.
• Parvin Zandi, cultural activist, begins serving her sentence in Evin.
• 23 workers’ rights activists arrested on May 1st and released the same day.

C-Liberations

• Azeri poet Hasan Damirchi (Mohammad-Hasan Hargeli) freed at the end of his sentence.

D-Other News

• Mostafa Abdi files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Mehrdad Ahan-Khah files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Akbar Amini-Armaki ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday. 
• Masoud Arab-Choodbar files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Behzad Arabgol launches a dry hunger strike.
• Soheil Arabi files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Asadollah and Majid Asadi end their hunger strikes and file a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Hasan Asadi-Zeidabadi ends his hunger strike.
• Vahid Asghari files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Rasoul Badaghi on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Emad Bahavar ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Mohammad Banazadeh-Amirkhizi on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Esmail Barzegari files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Masoud Bastani shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Omid Behrouzi files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Ghorban-Ali Behzadiannejad ends his hunger strike.
• Hamid-Reza Borhani on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Amin Chalaki ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Yashar Darolshafaei ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Mohammad Davari ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Houtan Dolati files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Jafar Eghdami shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Reza Entesari shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Amir Eslami ends his hunger strike. 
• Farshid Fatehi files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Jafar Ganji ends his hunger strike.
• Mohsen Ghashghaeizadeh ends his hunger strike.
• Amir Ghaziani files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Dr. Asghar Ghotan ends his hunger strike.
• Asadollah Hadi ends his hunger strike.
• Seyyed Saeed Haeri ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Reza (Arash) Hampaei ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Afshin Heiratian on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Khaled Herdani on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
•  Davar Hosseini-Vojdanends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Peyman Kasnejad files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Hamid Kerbasi ends his hunger strike.
• Seyyed Mehdi Khodaei files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Saleh Kohandel on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Saeed Madani shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Mehdi Mahmoudian shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Mohammad-Ali (Pirouz) Mansouri on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Dr. Saeed Masouri on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Mohsen Mir-Damadi ends his hunger strike.
• Majid Mohammadi-Moein files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Batiar Shah-Mohammadov on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Mostafa Nili shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Masoud Pedram ends his hunger strike.
• Mohammad-Sadegh Rabani-Amleshi ends his hunger strike.
• Alireza Rajabian-Fard ends his hunger strike.
• Saeed Razavi-Faghih shaves his head in solidarity with prisoners in Evin 350 and ends his hunger strike.
• Alireza Rejaei ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Mostafa Rismanbaf files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Seyyed Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki ends his hunger strike and files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Soroush Sabet files a complaint regarding Black Thursday.
• Mehdi Sajedi-Far ends his hunger strike.
• Reza Shahabi ends his hunger strike.
• Behnam Sheikhi on dry hunger strike in Evin.
• Heshmatollah Tabarzadi on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Misagh Yazdanejad on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Naseh (Ayhan) Yousefi on hunger strike in Rajaei Shahr to protest Black Thursday in Evin 350.
• Omid Zareinejad ends his hunger strike.
• Another attack this time in Gharchak women’s prison in Varamin.

News of injustice in Iran

• Mohammad-Keyvan Karimi, Sunni Muslim, sentenced to execution for Moharebeh.
• Nasrollah Lashni, National-Religious activist, sentenced to 6 years in prison.
• Emad Manabi, Ahvazi activist, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Omid Peyvand, Sunni Muslim, sentenced to execution for Moharebeh.
• Amjad Salehi, Sunni Muslim, sentenced to execution for Moharebeh.
• Ali Sayahi, Ahvazi activist, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Awat Sheikholeslami, Kurdish human rights activist, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Three public hangings in Zabol on Saturday.
• One public hanging in Semnan on Saturday.
• 7 hangings in Dizel Abad prison in Kermanshah.
• Three hangings in Mashhad.

University – Culture

• Daily Ebtekar banned and allowed again after 3 days.
• Leila Hatami joins Cannes festival jury.
• Whatsapp is filtered in Iran.
• Zhila Bani-Yaghoub named Information Hero by RSF.
• Siamak Ghaderi named Information Hero by RSF.
• Adnan Hasanpour named Information Hero by RSF.
• Saeed Matinpour named Information Hero by RSF.
• Prominent Iranian Tar player and musician Mohammadreza Lotfi passed away on Friday May 2 in Tehran at the age of 68 after a long battle with cancer.

Iran abroad

• Zarif, UNESCO chief meet in Tehran.
• Austrian FM visits Tehran.
• Zarif meets French parliamentary delegation in Tehran.
• Zarif meets Nicaragua FM in Tehran.
• Simon Gass, a former ambassador in Tehran, visits Iran to discuss upgrading ties with Great Britain.
• UNESCO plans to help Iran establish Water Research Center.
• U.S. sanctions companies from China, Dubai for dealings with Iran

Iran Economics

• Iranians make a one day gasoline strike.

Miscellaneous

• Only 7% of water remains in Urmiah Lake.
• Gazoline produced in Iran linked to cancer.

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

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