Week 31 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Human Rights activist Abolfazl Abedini transferred from Evin to Ahvaz Karoon prison; he begins a hunger strike.
• Majid Dori transferred from Behbahan to Karoun prison in Ahvaz.
• Mahmoud Fazli transferred to prison clinic.
• Sick political prisoner Mashallah Haeri transferred to Rajaee Shahr prison.
• Mehdi Karroubi back in house arrest following a coronary angiography at Tehran Heart Center.
• Ayoub Porkar transferred from Behbahan to Karoun prison in Ahvaz.
• Shahram Radmehr transferred to prison clinic.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mamousta Mohammad Baraei is back to Rejaei Shahr at the end of 10 days furlough.
• On furlough journalist Masoud Bastani is back to prison.
• Behnam Eghdamian, Baha’i, arrested in Ghorveh and transferred to Sanandaj.
• Vahid Rouh-Bakhsh protester of 2009 Presidential Elections arrested to serve his 18 months sentence.
• Student activist Maryam Shafeepour summoned to Court in Evin then arrested and transferred to solitary.

C-Liberations

• Journalist Fariba Pazhouh released on bail.
• Baha'i citizen Samim Zarei from Sanandaj released on bail.

News of injustice in Iran

• Supreme Court overturns sentence of execution of Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr Shahram Ahmadi.
• Christian Convert Mostafa Bordbar sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Supreme Court overturns sentence of execution of Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr Mohammad Gharibi.
• Supreme Court overturns sentence of execution of Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr Pouria Mohammadi.
• Supreme Court overturns sentence of execution of Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr Omid Peyvand.
• Supreme Court overturns sentence of execution of Sunni prisoners of Rejaei Shahr Bahman, Mohammad-Yavar and Mokhtar Rahimi.
• Supreme Court overturns sentence of execution of Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr Faramarz Shah-Nazari.
• One execution in Miandoab.
• Hand amputation sentence confirmed for a alleged robber in Abadan.

University – Culture

• Tehran Police have shut down 67 internet cafes, citing various violations of city regulations.
• Abadan Book Fair closed down by authorities.
• Science Ministry blacklists 251 foreign publications.
• Google disables Iran’s Press TV YouTube account.
• Makhmalbaf wins another award for The Gardener.
• Asghar Farhadi’s acclaimed film “The Past” to open Cairo film festival.
• Iran’s average Internet speed (3.2 MB/s) was the slowest in the world for the first quarter of the current year.

Protests

• Mohammad Ghanbari, a member of Ahl-e Haqq, set himself on fire in front of the Islamic Parliament.
• 500 Workers of Haft-Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory on strike.
• Strike at Mehvarsazan Company in South Pars.

Iran abroad

• Iran grants Syria $3.6 billion credit facility to buy oil products.
• US House passes Iran sanctions bill to slash oil exports.
• Somalia’s Puntland State releases 78 Iranian sailors.

Iran Economics

• Closing of 195 mushroom units production: 80,000 workers unemployed in a year.
• Medical drug imports stuck in customs limbo.

Iran Politics

• Authorities stop Ghadr Night Ceremony.
• Ali Najafi said that he has been confirmed as the Education Minister in the coming cabinet.
• Iran Supreme Leader rejects RoUhani cabinet.

Miscellaneous

• Addiction is the second leading cause of death in Iran.

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

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