Week 28 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mostafa Daneshjou, dervishes’ lawyer, transferred to hospital.
• Mehdi Motamedi-Mehr exiled to Rejaei Shahr.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Ebrahim Babaei back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Noura (Samitra) Falah, Baha’i from Isfahan, arrested again and released the same day.
• Editorial member and Journalist of Shargh newspaper, Ali Khodabakhsh, arrested, taken to Evin to serve 1 year sentence.
• Labor Activist Behnam Khodadadi arrested in Esfahan.
• Fariba Pazhooh, journalist, arrested and sent to Evin.
• Mohammad-Sadegh Rabani back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Samira Razaghi student of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences arrested and released after 2 days.
• Nasrin Sotoudeh is back to Evin after furlough.
• Ghader Zarei Kurdish activist arrested in Urmia.
• Samim Zarei, Baha’i from Sanadaj arrested.
• 50 people were arrested in Karaj for water games.
• Qeshm Official announces arrest of "Taliban Member".

C-Liberations

• National-Religious activist Reza Aghakhani released on bail after 1 1/2 month in solitary.
• Journalist Masoud Bastani released on furlough.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh released on furlough, his son suffers from leukemia.
• Baha’i Leva Khanjani released on furlough.
• Workers’ rights activist Jalil Mohammadi released on bail from Sanandaj prison.
• Student prisoner Ali-Akbar Mohammadzadeh on furlough.
• Roein Otoufat member of National Religious activists released on bail.

D-Other News

• Mohammad-Amin Agooshi, Kurdish prisoner exiled in Zahedan, is on hunger strike.
• Basma Rahman-Ahmad-Rashid Al-Jabouri, Iraqi citizen, commits suicide in Evin Intel ward.

News of injustice in Iran

• Nasim Ashrafi, Baha’i from Tehran, sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• Workers’ rights activist Behzad Farajollahi sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Workers’ rights activist Khaled Hosseini sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Sahand Mahali sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Seyyed Jamal Mousavi sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Ali Samadpour sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Hamid Tohidi sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• 4 hangings in Urmia on Saturday.
• 3 executions in Ardebil and 11 in Zahedan on Saturday.
• 5 hangings in Ghazvin on Sunday.
• 3 hangings in Ardebil on Monday.
• 3 hangings in Kermanshah on Monday.
• Hand amputation of a young man working in Mashhad hotel.

University – Culture

• Iran opens national email service.
• Shiraz Payam Nour University English Literature student Aida Bandi expelled from the university for being of Baha'I faith.

Protests

• 235 dismissed Zagros steel plant workers gather in protest in Ghorveh.

Iran abroad

• 500 Iranians expelled from UAE.
• Another Iranian dies in Syria defending Zeynab shrine.
• Oil minister Rostam Ghasemi attended a one-day international conference on energy security in Frankfurt.

Iran Economics

• Iran central bank eliminates cheaper dollar rate.
• Increase in Iranian electricity exports to Turkey.

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

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