Week 32 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Navid Khanjani transferred from Rajaei Shahr prison to hospital in Tehran with heart, respiratory problems.
• Mir-Hossein Mousavi returns to house arrest from hospital.
• Baha'i Saeed Rezaei transferred back to prison after heart surgery, against doctors ‘advise.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Sedigheh Amirkhani, Christian, arrested in Isfahan.
• Yashar Farzin-No, Christian, arrested in Tabriz.
• Farshid Madres-Aval, Christian, arrested in Tabriz.
• Madeh Moradi, Kurdish student activist, arrested in Sanandaj.
• Mohammad-Reza Peymani, Christian, arrested in Isfahan.
• Mohammad-Reza Piri, Christian, arrested in Tabriz.
• Mahnaz Rafiei, Christian, arrested in Isfahan.

C-Liberations

• Participation Front member, journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian released on furlough.
• Mohammad-Sadegh Rabani released on furlough.
• Mohsen Sadeghi-Nour released on furlough.
• Hakimeh Shokri, member of Park Laleh Mothers, released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Gonabadi dervish Mohsen Esmaili prevented from attending his mother’s funerals.
• Mysterious death of Khabat Moradi, 20, in Sanandaj prison.
• Aziz Pourvali, Azeri prisoner in Tabriz prison, joins hunger strike of prisoners exiled to Rejaei Shahr.
• Abdollah Sadoughi begins a hunger strike.
• Mohammad-Ali Taheri has been on hunger strike since the beginning of Ramadan.

News of injustice in Iran

• Yousef Ab-Kharabat, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Journalist Ghasem Ahmadi sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Hamed Mahmoudnejad, workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 1 year suspended for 5 years.
• Mohammad Molanaei, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• The Bob Dylan of Iran - singer Mohsen Namjoo was sentenced to 5 years in prison in absentia.
• Activist Masoud Pedram was sentenced to one additional year of imprisonment while in prison serving his previous 3 years sentence.
• Vahed Seyyedeh, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• One hanging in Salmas prison.

University – Culture

• Amir Khosravi student activist expelled from University.
• Spanish Festival honors Iranian director Dariush Ghazbani.
• 46 publications and 10 websites received licenses.
• Government committee to study Iran’s internet problems.

Protests

• Bushehr hospital medical staff engaged in a sit-in, protesting unpaid wages.
• Ahwaz municipal workers protest lack of pay.
• Arrested "Kian-Tyre" workers were released.

Iran abroad

• 8 members of Revolutionary Guards killed in Syria in last 4 months.
• Rouhani met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu 
• Iranian Ambassador in Paris meets Laurent Fabius.
• Mohammad Nahavandian, Chief of Staff to Iranian President Rouhani, received Lapo Pistelli, the Deputy Italian Foreign Minister.
• Iranian cargo plane loaded with weapons and ammunitions shot down over Damascus airport.

Iran Economics

• Over 70% of pensioners do not have comprehensive health insurance.
• 235 unit supplier of corporate clothing sealed in Tehran.
• June-July inflation reached 33.9% and food inflation was up 51.5% over last year.
• Tile factory closures and layoffs of hundreds of workers in Boroojerd.
• "Khorshid" newspaper employees not paid.
• Four-month delay in wages payment at South Kyanush Contractor Company.
• Some 10,000 containers containing medicine and food waiting for release in southern ports.

Iran Politics

• Hassan Rouhani appointed Eshagh Jahangiri (former Minister of Industries and Mines, from 1997 to 2005, under Khatami) as his first Vice President.
• Supreme Leader appointed Dr.Ahmadinejad, ex-president as a member of the Expediency Discernment Council

Miscellaneous

• 31 people committed suicide in 54 days in Yazd province.
• Death of some kidney patients due to financial difficulties in Bushehr.

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

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