Week 29 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mohammad-Amin Agooshi, on hunger strike in Zahedan prison, was transferred to solitary.
• Omid Behrouzi, lawyer of Gonabadi dervishes, transferred to ward 7 in Evin prison.
• Dr. Latif Hasani, transferred to political ward of Rejaei Shahr at the end of his hunger strike.
• Mohammad (Kourosh) Nasiri transferred to ward 7 in Evin prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Hiva and Salar Azeri, Kurdish activists, arrested in Saghez.
• Farzad Bahadori and Simin Rasouli and their daughers Nasim and Sahar, Baha’is, arrested in Tabriz for teaching music.
• Mohammad Ghaneh, Kurdish activist, arrested in Saghez.
• Reza Haji-Saleh, Kurdish political activist, arrested in Baneh.
• Shabnam Isakhani, Baha’I, arrested in Tabriz.
• Abdol-Karim Karimi, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested in Sanandaj.
• Khaled Maleki, Kurdish sunni activist, arrested in Sanandaj.
• Vahid Ranjbar, student activist in Sistan-Baluchistan University, arrested after summon to Intel.
• 75 Banab citizens arrested accused of bothering people, mal-veiling and breaking fast.

C-Liberations

• Journalist Bahman Ahmadi-Amouee released on furlough.
• Journalist Sajedeh Arab-Sorkhi, daughter of Feyzollah Arab-Sorkhi, sentenced to 1 year in prison, released on 300 million toman bail.
• Simin Rasouli Bahadori and her daughter Nasim Bahadori released on 20 million bail each.
• Journalist Siamak Ghaderi freed at the end of his sentence.
• Mehdi Khazali released after 24 days of hunger strike.
• Leftist student Soroush Sabet freed at the end of his sentence.

D-Other News

• Amir Iranshahri, Baloch prisoner, beaten in Ardebil prison.
• Mohammad-Saber Malek-Reisi, Baloch prisoner, beaten in Ardebil prison.
• Zahedan prisoners denied cooling equipment and proper sanitation facilities.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ezzat Golparipour, Kurdish internet activist, sentenced to 3 months in prison.
• Shahoo Heidari, Kurdish internet activist, sentenced to 3 months in prison.
• Roein Otoufat, political activist, sentenced to 11 years in prison.
• 2 public lashings in Shiraz for eating during Ramadan: each 80 lashes.

Protests

• Rally of 100 taxi drivers in Yazd against low commission.

Iran abroad

• 4 extra months to finalize nuclear agreement.

Iran Economics

• The top 20% richest Iranians receive MORE subsidy than the bottom 20%.
• 31% of Iranian population is suffering from hunger.

Iran Politics

• Tehran municipal administrators not allowed to hire women.
• A number of female government employees in Tehran fired "for own well-being" to take care of their families.
• Tehran Municipality to separate boys from girls in the city parks.

Miscellaneous

• +4.6% divorces, -4.4% marriages in one year.
• 2 pilots killed in a fighting jet crash near Shiraz.
• Mehdi Khodabakhshi wins gold medal in Taekwando.
• Volleyball: Iran wins above Brazil and proceeds to semi-finale.

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

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