Week 23 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Seyyed Ebrahim Bahrami, dervish Gonabadi, transferred to solitary in Adel-Abad prison of Shiraz.
• Mohammad-Ali Dehghan dervish Gonabadi, transferred to solitary in Adel-Abad prison.
• Mohsen Esmaili, dervish Gonabadi, transferred to solitary in Adel-Abad prison.
• Mohammad-Ali Sadeghi, dervish Gonabadi, transferred to solitary in Adel-Abad prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Reza Aghakhani, member of National-Religious party, arrested.
• Alireza Akbarzadeh, member of National-Religious party, arrested.
• Mohsen Barzegar, student and political activist, begins serving his 2 years sentence in Babol.
• Saeedollah Behdashti arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Hossein Behiraei, member of National-Religious party, arrested.
• Mohammad Ehtesham arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Farzad Eslami arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Mohammad-Reza Farid, newly converted Christian, arrested in Isfahan.
• Afshin Keshtgari, student activist, begins serving his prison sentence in Shiraz.
• Hamid-Reza Ghadiri, newly converted Christian, arrested in Isfahan.
• Nasrollah Lenshi, member of National-Religious party, arrested.
• Shirin Mir-Karimi arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Nafiseh Nikbakht arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Milad Panahipour arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Mohammad Parsi arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Mohsen Rahmani arrested during a meeting of Rouhani campaign.
• Saeed Safi, newly converted Christian, arrested in Isfahan.
• Seyyed Zia-Oldin-Reza Tofighi head of Rafsandjani campaign and Head of the Revolution Mujahideen in Boyer-Ahmad and Kohgiluyeh province arrested.

C-Liberations

• Mehdi Khazali was released on bail; he had been on hunger strike for 140 days.
• Gonabadi Dervish Saleh Moradi released after 22 months in jail.

D-Other News

• Vahid Asghari refuses to appear in court.
• Arash Sadeghi, student activist detained in Evin, begins a hunger strike after being beaten again.

News of injustice in Iran

• Gonabadi Dervish, Saleh Moradi, sentenced to one year in prison and one year of exile.

University – Culture

• Iranian state pro-Ahmadinejad newspaper "Iran" shut down for 6 months, 2 weeks before elections.
• Server provider of Mehr ordered to filter Mehr's interview with Managing Director of Sarat news criticizing filtering of Sarat.

Protests

• Gonabadi dervishes gather in front of Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz.
• Cab drivers in Kamyaran, Kurdistan Province, on strike to protest against low fares.

Iran abroad

• FM congratulates Nasrallah on anniversary of second Lebanon war..

Iran Politics

• Ghods Force commander Ghasem Soleimani will help presidential candidate Ghalibaf.

Miscellaneous

• 6 Iranians died and 348 others were poisoned after drinking methanol alcohol in Rafsanjan City.
• Ayatollah Taheri Esfehani  died. He supported the student movement especially in 1999.

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

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