Week 22 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mohammad-Mehdi Abayat transferred to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.
• Pastor Saeed Abedini transferred back from Dey hospital to Rejaei Shahr; severely beaten during transfer.
• Shahram Chinian-Miandoab, Baha’i, transferred to dangerous criminals’ ward.
• Baha’i Shahab Dehghani transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr.
• Gholamreza Khosravi-Savadjani, sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr.
• Keyvan Samimi back to Rejaei Shahr.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Abdolsalam, Abdolhadi and Mehdi Azarm, Kurdish sunni activists, arrested at home.
• Saba Azarpeik, journalist, arrested.
• Abdolrahim Chana, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested at home.
• Abdolreza Davari, close to Ahmadinejad, arrested.
• Shahab Dehghani, Baha’i, begins serving his 4 years in Evin.
• Ebrahim Ghadi-Far, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested at home.
• Masoumeh Gholizadeh, leftist Azeri political activist, arrested.
• Ahmad Karami, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested at home.
• Mohammad Rasoulizadeh, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested at home.
• Abdolghani Vahid, Baloch sunni activist, arrested at home.
• Naser Zarei, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested at home.
• 2 youths arrested in Kermanshah.

C-Liberations

• Abolfazl Abedini-Nasr released on 10 days furlough.
• Ahmad-Reza Haeri, brother of Saeed Haeri, released on bail.
• Hamid Manafi-Nazerloo, Azeri activist, released on bail.
• Sasan Soleimani, director of “Happy” video posted on YouTube, released on $16,600 bail.

D-Other News

• Dr. Latif Hasani, Azeri activist, on hunger strike in Rejaei Shahr prison.
• Hasan Javani, 57 years old, ends 15 days hunger strike.
• Ayat Mehr-Ali-Beiglou ends hunger strike.
• More than 120 children under 18 awaiting hanging in Iran's prisons.

News of injustice in Iran

• Omid-Ali Akbari, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Mohammad-Amin Akramipour, Cyber activist, sentenced to 14 years in prison.
• Hamid-Reza Arayesh, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Abdol-Reza and Mohammad Arayesh, dervishes Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Ali Azhdari, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Seyyed Ebrahim Bahrami, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Gholam-Ali Beirami, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 months+1day in prison.
• Shahoo Bayazidi, Kurdish student, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• Amanollah Cheraghi, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Khorshid Dashtaki, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Ali-Jan, Esmail, Isa, Mehdi, Shahram and Sohrab Dehghan, dervishes Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Amir-Hamzeh Dehghan, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Mohammad-Ali Dehghan, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Kazem  Dehghani, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Mohsen Esmaili, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Zabihollah Gerdpour, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Mehdi Ghanbari, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Masoud Ghasemkhani, Cyber activist, sentenced to 22 years in prison.
• Amir Golestani, Cyber activist, sentenced to 22 years in prison.
• Nasrollah Golshan, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Fariborz Kardarfar, Cyber activist, sentenced to 18 years in prison.
• Mehrdad Keshavarz, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Ahmad-Reza Kouhi, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Kurdish civic activist Dana Lanj-Abadi sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Abouzar Malekpour, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Mehdi Marand, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Hamid Mehdizadeh, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Karamat Moradi, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Reza Pishkar, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Adnan Rahmat-Panah, Baha’i, sentenced by Appeals to 1 year in prison.
• Behiar Rajabi, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Roya Saberinejad-Nobakht, British Cyber activist, sentenced to 20 years in prison.
• Mohammad-Ali Sadeghi, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Adel Sadouni, Arab cyber activist, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Naghmeh Shahi Savandi Shirazi Cyber activist, sentenced to 7 years + 91 days in prison.
• Sentence of Maryam Shafeepour reduced by Appeals from 7 to 4 years.
• Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Mehdi Reyshahri-Tangestani, Cyber activist, sentenced to 11 years in prison.
• Seyyed Masoud Talebi, Cyber activist, sentenced to 15 years in prison.
• Saleh Tamouli (Tarafi), Arab cyber activist, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Mohammad-Reza Zahedian-Kish, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Manouchehr Zareh, dervish Gonabadi, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Hamzeh (Mehdi) Zargani, Arab cyber activist, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• One hanging in Evin on Saturday.
• One man and two women hanged in Urmiah.
• 5 hangings in Rejaei Shahr.
• One hanging in Ghazvin on Tuesday.
• One woman hanged in Amol on Wednesday.

University – Culture

• Architect Houshang Seyhoun dies.
• A new newspaper Zanan Emrouz is published.

Protests

• Police attack environmentalist protest in Isfahan: 2 injured, 10 arrested.
• Saveh profile workers protest unpaid wages.
• A human chain in Shiraz to protect a green space against building 4 sky-scrappers.
• Workers and staff at Iran Tire have begun a protest against layoffs, wage cuts and a compulsory increase in work hours.

Iran abroad

• Morteza Tamaddon, head of the Tehran Provincial Public Security Council, included in US sanctions list.
• 86 Iranian awaiting execution for drug smuggling in Malaysia.
• Zarif visits Algeria.
• At least four Iranian technicians building a gas pipeline in Iraq's Diyala , province were killed in a bombing.
• Abdollah Eskandari, revolutionary guard, killed in Syria.
• About 8,000 Iranians emigrated to Germany in 2013.

Iran Economics

• Parts of Tabriz bazaar on strike over tax increase.
• Petrobras shuts down office in Iran, no plan for investing in Iran in future.
• Australia to resume live sheep exports to Iran after 40-year boycott.
• 21% increase in rental cost over one year in Iran.

Iran Politics

• Ali Larijani again elected as the speaker of Majlis by 187 votes.
• Maryam Ghorbani appointed Prefect of Bushehr.
• Governor of Alborz Province Seyed Taher Taheri removed.
• New law helps construction workers get insurance

Miscellaneous

• 4 Iranian technicians killed in terrorist attack in Iraq
• Following shooting by Military Forces a Kurdish Young man was killed.
• Iran confirms first two cases of MERS.
• Part of Isfahan refinery caught fire.
• A father cuts her daughter head because she was in love.
• 11 suicides per day in Iran.

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

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