Week 29 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Ebrahim Babaei moved to solitary after protesting against  transfer of Dr. Nazeri.
• Member of Teachers Guild, Rasoul Badaghi, sent to hospital.
• Amir-Khosro Dalirsani moved to solitary after protesting against  transfer of Dr. Nazeri.
• Houtan Dolati moved to solitary after protesting against  transfer of Dr. Nazeri.
• Mohammad Ebrahimi moved to solitary after protesting against  transfer of Dr. Nazeri.
• Siamak Ghaderi moved to solitary after protesting against  transfer of Dr. Nazeri.
• Saeed Matinpour moved to solitary after protesting against  transfer of Dr. Nazeri.
• Dr. Ali Nazeri exiled to Zabol prison on a stretcher.
• Mostafa Daneshjou sent back to Evin without completing his medical treatment.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mohammad Ghabouli arrested during religious Yarsani ceremonial.
• Mohammad-Reza Khosravi, brother of Gholam-Reza Khosravi, arrested and sent to Evin.
• Mohsen Mohagheghi back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Nasim Zanjani, Christian, arrested in Tehran.

C-Liberations

• Journalist Mahsa Amrabadi released on furlough.
• Senior diplomat Bagher Assadi released on bail.
• Mohammad-Reza Khosravi released on bail.
• Ashkan Zahebian released on 5 days medical furlough.

D-Other News

• Prominent human rights activist and supporter of the democracy movement in Iran, Shahla Farjad, dies of cancer She was an activist for Afghan emigrants and served as their doctor. She was member of the Mothers for Peace Movement, supporter of the Women’s Movement in Iran. She was a political prisoner in the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s worked as a physician in the UN High Council for Refugee Affairs.
• Mahmoud Fazli on hunger strike in Tabriz prison to protest his sentence.
• Behboud Gholizadeh on hunger strike in Tabriz prison to protest his sentence.
• Latif Hasani on hunger strike in Tabriz prison to protest his sentence.
• Ayat Mehrali-Biglou on hunger strike in Tabriz prison to protest his sentence.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari diagnosed with prostate cancer.
• Shahram Radmehr on hunger strike in Tabriz prison to protest his sentence.
• 150 guards raided ward 350 of Evin prison, stealing personal properties, destructions air conditioners and even desecrating prayers room.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ghazi Abbasi sentenced to execution.
• Omid Behrouzi, Gonabadi dervish, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.
• Mostafa Daneshjou, Gonabadi Dervish lawyer, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.
• Reza Entesari ( photo journalist, webmaster and human-Dervish rights activist) to 8 years and six months imprisonment.
• Amir Eslami, Gonabadi dervish, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison 
• Shamim Etehadi, Baha’i, sentenced to 5 years in prison.
• Reformist student Farhad Fathi sentenced to 5 years suspended.
• Afshin Karampour, Gonabadi dervish, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.
• Abdolreza-Amir Khanfareh sentenced to execution.
• Younes-Amir Khanfareh died in custody, tortured in front of his son Abdolreza-Amir.
• Mehdi Koukhian sentenced to another year in prison.
• Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani (Majzooban Noor website manager and human-Dervish rights activist) was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison.
• Omar Pirnia, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 6 years by Appeals.
• Farshid Yadollahi, Gonabadi dervish, sentenced to 7.5 years in prison.
• 7 hangings in Rasht on last Tuesday.

University – Culture

• Order to remove works of Makhmalbaf who visited Israel from Film Museum.

Protests

• 3 days protests in Tractor Sazi in Tabriz.
• Steel workers of Kurdistan gathered in front of leader's house.
• Fillmmakers gathering of protest for getting back House of Cinema.

Iran abroad

• Morteza Hosseini, member of the Majlis Cultural Committee attacked and beaten in Mecca 
• Great-Britain sells military stuff to Syria and Iran.
• Iran frees Emiratis and Asian crew after two months.

Iran Economics

• Foulad's workers have not received wages of three months.
• Trade agreement signed with Armenia.
• Milk price increases by 15%.

Iran Politics

• MP Motaheri's site  taken down after he disclosed finding listening devices and hidden cameras in his office.
• NSFPC ( National Security and Foreign Policy Committee) members to visit women’s wing at Evin Prison to investigate complaints.

Miscellaneous

• Water shortages strike rural areas.

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