Week 19 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Saeed Abedini stops hunger strike after his return to 350. – Transferred to Modarres hospital for stomach bleeding then back to Evin.
• Abolfazl Abedini Nasr stops hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Kamran Ayazi stops hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Mohammad et Pouria Ebrahimi stop their hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Siamak Ghaderi stops hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Amir Khosro Dalirsani stops hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Saeed Madani stops hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Abdollah Momeni stops hunger strike after his return to 350.
• Mohamad-Hassan Yousefpour-Seifi stops hunger strike after his return to 350.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mohammad Ehiaee workers’ rights activist, arrested at his work place
• Fardin Ghaderi, workers’ rights activist arrested in Sanandaj.
• Mohammad Ghasem-Khani worker at Iran Khodro, arrested at his work place.
• Baztab news site managing director Ali Ghazali reported arrested.
• Shahpour Hosseini, workers’ rights activist arrested in Sanandaj.
• Idris Karimi arrested in Ravansar.
• Hamed Mahmoudinejad, workers’ rights activist arrested in Sanandaj.
• Naaman Manouchehri arrested in Ravansar.
• Eilghar Moazzenzadeh Azeri poet arrested with his brother Ehsan at their home in Meshkin-Shahr and transferred to Ardebil Intelligence detention center.
• Jalil Mohammadi, workers’ rights activist arrested in Sanandaj.
• Adel Moradi arrested in Ravansar.
• Bahram Saeedi worker at Iran Khodro, arrested at his work place.
• Baha'i Parisa Shahidi was arrested in a raid of her home. Her husband is imprisoned in Rejaei Shahr.
• Aram Zandi workers’ rights activist arrested in Sanandaj.

C-Liberations

• Ali Azad, workers’ rights activist, released on bail.
• Shohreh Azami-Kasaei was freed at the end of her 8 month sentence.
• Zhinoos Nourani was freed at the end of her 1 year sentence.

D-Other News

• Saeed Abedini launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Abolfazl Abedini Nasr launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Kamran Ayazi launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Mohammad and Pouria Ebrahimi launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Siamak Ghaderi launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Amir Khosro Dalirsani launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Saeed Madani launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Abdollah Momeni launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.
• Mohamad-Hassan Yousefpour-Seifi launched a hunger strike to protest detention in solitary.

News of injustice in Iran

• Davoud Alijani summoned to serve his 1 year sentence in Sepidar prison.
• Akbar Amini  sentenced to 5 years in prison and 5 years ban from any political activity.
• Mahmoud Fazli, Azeri political activist, sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Behboud Gholizadeh, Azeri political activist, sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Latif Hassani, Azeri political activist, sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Shahnaz Jayzan, wife of Pastor Sabok-Rouh, summoned to serve her 1 year sentence.
• Ayat Mehrali-Biglou, Azeri political activist, sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Mohammad Parsi sentenced to 3 years in prison and 5 years ban from any political activity.
• Shahram Radmehr, Azeri political activist, sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Gonabadi Dervish, Mehran Rahbari sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Farhad Sabok-Rouh, Ahvaz pastor, summoned to serve his 1 year sentence in Sepidar prison.
• Pejman Zafarmand sentenced to 3 years in prison and 5 years ban from any political activity.
• Naser Zamen-Dezfouli summoned to serve his 1 year sentence in Sepidar prison.
• 3 public executions in Kermanshah on Monday.
• 3 executions in Isfahan prison.
• Flogging sentence carried out in public in Abiek.
• 3 hangings in Shahroud on Thursday.
• One hanging in Semnan on Thursday.

University – Culture

• Internet proxies no longer effective in Iran.
• Book of former President Rafsanjani banned at Tehran Book Fair.

Iran abroad

• Kenya jails two Iranians for life for plotting attacks.
• Kuwait upheld a life sentence against 2 Iranians for their role in a pro-Iran espionage network.
• Houtan Kian receives Dutch Lawyers for Lawyers’ award.
• FM Salehi meets Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
• Yusuf Bin Alawi, Omani foreign minister arrives in Tehran.

Iran Economics

• Iran cuts bread subsidies.
• Statistical center reports show record inflation in March/April at 38.7%, and inflation over past 12 months at 29.8%.
• Osve Iran factory closes; 24 workers fired.

Iran Politics

• Head of the Pharmaceutical Division in the Food and Drug Organization resigns due to shortage of vital drugs, accuses Ahmadinejad government of managerial failure.
• Raziyeh Omidvar is the first woman in the history of the Islamic Republic of Iran to stand as a candidate in the 11th presidential elections..

Miscellaneous

• Islamic Dress Code: Compulsory staff uniforms for female employees of Tehran University.
• Ali Parvin receives AFC Distinguished Service Award.
• Earthquake strikes port in Hormozgan province.
• Iran plunges 62 places in quality of life ranking in comparison with other countries over the past five years.

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

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