Week 24 - 2012

News of the Prisoners

A- Transfers

• Javad Alikhani transferred to solitary in ward 209.
• Bahman Amouei transferred to solitary in ward 209 and then to Rejaei Shahr prison.
• Farshad Ghorbanpour transferred to solitary in ward 209.
• Abdolrahman, Jamshid, Mansour and Taha Heydari, Ahvazi political prisoners sentenced to death, moved from Karoon river to an unknown location 
• Saeed Jalalifar transferred to solitary in ward 209.
• Saeed Matinpour transferred to solitary in ward 209.
• Amir Moavi, Ahvazi political prisoner sentenced to death, moved from Karoon river to an unknown location.
• Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani, ,dervish Gonabadi, hospitalized in Taleghani hospital.
• Arash Saghar transferred to solitary in ward 209.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Baha'i Adel Fanaeian arrested and taken to Semnan prison to start serving his 6 years sentence.
• Student activist Siavash Hatam started serving his 1 year + 4months sentence in Evin prison.
• Baha'i Faran Khan Yaghma was arrested in a violent raid of his home in Sari.
• Former student activist Mostafa Nazari arrested in a raid of his home in Shiraz.
• Documentary film maker Mohammad Nourizad arrested and released 12 hours later.
• Jamal Zahedi, member of Moktab e Ghoran arrested in Sanandaj.
• Amin Zargarnezhad, leftist activist, arrested in Tabriz.

C-Liberations

• Shirollah Dargahi, grandfather of imprisoned student activist Arash Sadeghi released on bail.
• Nima Dehghan released on bail in Shiraz.
• Afshin Ehsanian, Baha’i, freed at the end of his 10 months sentence.
• Farid Emadi released on bail in Shiraz.
• Nasrin Ghadiri, Baha’i, freed at the end of her 2 years sentence.
• Keyvan Karami, Baha’i, freed at the end of his 10 months sentence.
• Farham (Hadi) Masoumi, Baha’i, freed at the end of his 10 months sentence.
• Kaviz Noozdahi Baha’i, freed at the end of his 2 years sentence.
• Sima Rajabian, Baha’i, freed at the end of her 2 years sentence.
• Sarir Sadeghi released on bail in Shiraz.
• Afsaneh Toghir, student of Tabriz University, was released.
• Hooman Zarei released on bail in Shiraz.

D-Other News 

• Mostafa Daneshjou on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Reza Entesari on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Amir Eslami on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Afshin Karampour on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Imprisoned journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian begins 'indefinite fast' to protest house arrest of green leaders.
• Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Hossein Ronaghi Maleki ended hunger strike 
• 50 guards stormed ward 350 while prisoners were holding memorial service for Hoda Saber.
• Imprisoned Human Rights attorney Abdolfatah Soltani refuses to be transferred to hospital handcuffed.
• Farshid Yadollahi, on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Tenths of political prisoners in ward 350 Evin refused to attend visitation is a show of solidarity.

News of injustice in Iran

• Naser Abdi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Reza Abri, Azeri activist, sentenced by Appeals to 1 year.
• Mehrdad Aghapour, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Author, translator and Women's rights activist Noushin Ahmadi sentenced to 1 year suspended for 5 years.
• Saber Ahmadi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Satar Ahmadi-Far, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Mohsen Ali-Shahi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Nader Ameri-Saharghi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Rasool Amini, Kurdish activist from Sardasht condemned to 5 years imprisonment and exile to Kerman prison.
• Mohammad Asadi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Pedram Asgari Davadgar, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Tohid Aslani, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Peyman Atash-Bonab, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Javad Ayouzi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Alireza Azheri, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Abolfazl Bakhshpour, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Vahid Barzegari, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Reza Bordbar-Jamalabadi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Mohammad Chenari, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Hamed Daneshpour-Zendabadi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Vahed Doosti, Kurdish political activist, sentenced to 1 year in prison and sent to Sanandaj prison to serve his term.
• Mohammad Esmaili,  protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Ebrahim Farajzadeh, Azeri activist, sentenced by Appeals to 6 months.
• Behjat Faramarzi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Hamid Ghasemi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Ramin Gholipour, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Kioumarz Ghorbani-Niknam, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Mahiar Ghorbani protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Alireza Hosseinzadeh, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Saman Jahanpour, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Ali Jebrailzadeh, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Court of Appeals has sentenced Sajedeh Kianoush Rad to 1 year suspended for 5 years.
• Hossein Moghtader Ehsani, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Ali-Asgar Mokhtarpour, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Court of Appeals has upheld 10 years sentence of political prisoner Sedigheh Moradi on charges of affiliation with MKO.
• Seyyed Morteza Mousavi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Hamed Niknampour-Aliloo, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Masoud Peidaei protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Jafar Pouryaeeghi protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Ali Rafepour Ayouzi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Student activist Omid Rezaei sentenced to 2 years on charges of insulting the Leader and anti-regime propaganda.
• Mojtaba Sabagh-Atefi, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Reza Shiri, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Rahman Sobhani, Kurdish political activist, sentenced to 6 months in prison and sent to Sanandaj prison to serve his term.
• Faraj Taghiloo, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Ali-Hossein Tahmtan, Azeri activist, sentenced by Appeals to 6 months.
• Nouroldin Zarivar, protester against Lake Urmiah drying up, sentenced to 6 months in prison + 30 lashes.
• Two people hanged in Zahedan on Saturday.
• Two public hangings on Monday in Bushehr.
• One person hanged in Isfahan prison on Wednesday.

University - Culture

• Tehran cinema shut for selling women Euro 2012 tickets.
• Iranian actress arrested for not observing the Hejab rules.
• Maziar Falahi's concert was cancelled after police stormed the venue and arrested women for improper Hejab 
• Real purge of Azad university directors: 42 replaced by new head.
• Tehran police chief: Over 4.5 million copies of immoral and illegal videos and computer games seized.
• Intelligence and security stopped funeral of Iranian musician Hassan Kasaei.

Protests

• 400 workers from Jian Company threatened to start a strike as they have not been paid for four months.
• Hundreds of workers from the Parsian Company started a strike to protest not being paid for three months.
• Fifty workers of green space in Ahwaz started a strike as a result of not having been paid for three months.
• More than 120 workers of Keyvan Factory in Hamedan gathered in front of the factory to protest three months of delayed payment.

Economy in Iran

• Iran plans to become hub for power transit to Europe.
• The price of bread went up by 25%.
• Iran Central Bank announces an official inflation rate of 22.2% for the month of May.
• Last 3 monthly inflation rates in Iran per Central Bank: Esfand 21.5% - Farvardin 21.8% - Ordibehesht 22%.
• 30% unemployment amongst 17-30 year old's.
• $1 = 1820 tomans on Saturday, 1825 on Sunday, euro at 2300 tomans.
• Bread prices up 600% since December 2010.
• 7 countries cleared from US sanctions (apart from 11 others), India, South Korea, Turkey, South Africa, Taiwan, Malaysia and Sri Lanka.
• Thirty workers of the Metal Industry Company have not been paid for three months.
• Iran and Malaysia increase trade exchange.

Iran  abroad

• Ahmadinejad meets with Vladimir Putin and with Karzaee in Shanghai.
• Foreign ministry official goes to Cuba.
• Tehran summons Saudi envoy over executed Iranians.
• Russian FM Lavrov arrives in Iran 
• European Parliament condemns Iran’s violation of minorities’ rights.

Politics in Iran

• Mohsen Rezaie to run for Iran presidency again.
• Trade union representatives banned from talking to media about rise in prices.
• Qom Marja complain about inflation.
• Janatabad church in Tehran closed by authorities.

Miscellaneous 

• Iran bans women from Euro 2012 screenings.
• Mysterious explosion on Pasdar Street in city of Ilam.