Week 34 - 2012

News of the Prisoners

A- Transfers

• Mir Hossein Moussavi is taken to Hospital CCU in Tehran because of a blocked artery; Zahra Rahnavard was with him and their daughters could visit him. He is moved from hospital the day after

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Zhila Baniyaghoub summoned to prison.
• Ashura protester Behzad Arab Gol arrested three years ago summoned to Evin to serve 4-year sentence.
• Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian is back in prison.
• Shiva Nazarahari  summoned to prison.
• Children's rights activist Saeed Shirzad was arrested in Varzegan. He was there to help the earthquake victims. He begins a hunger strike to protest against his arrest.
• Rayhaneh Tabatabaei summoned to prison.
• Political prisoner Shahin Zeinali is back in Rejaei Shahr prison after 10 days out on furlough.
• 22 men and women were arrested in Chaloos in a raid of a private party.
• Raid against people helping earthquake’s victims who are transferred to Tabriz Intelligence ministry, 35 arrested among them:
• Misagh Afshar freed the next day
• Farnaz and Mehrnaz Ahmadzadeh
• Behrooz Alavi
• Mohammad Arjomandirad
• Mehri Baghbanbashi
• Maziar and Morteza Esmailpour
• Jafar Gholami
• Shima Ghosheh freed the next day
• Rayhaneh Hesami freed the next day
• Danial Hosseini
• Kiana Karimpour freed the next day
• Navid Khanjani
• Narges Kheirollahi freed the next day
• Vahed Kholousi
• Ali Mahmoudi
• Hamid Reza Masieian
• Jafar Nezami freed the next day
• Behrouz Oloomi
• Milad Panahipour
• Esmail Rafati freed the next day
• Farid Rohani
• Ahmad (freed the next day), Amir, Hasan and Hossein  Ronaghi-Maleki, 
• Sadegh Rezaei-Gigloo
• Amir Ronasi
• Sepehrdad Saheban
• Mohammad-Amin Salehi
• Esmail Salmanpour
• Mohsen Samei
• Nafiseh Saeedifard freed the next day
• Zahra Sayadi freed the next day
• Bahram Shojaei
• Ali Taghdiri
• Houman Taheri
• Masoud Vafabakhsh 
• Shayan Vahdati
• Artemis Varzandeh freed the next day

C-Liberations

• Pan-Iranist member Omid Dehdarzadeh from Ahvaz prison.
• Jalil Mohammadi, Workers rights  activist has been released. 

D-Other News

• Habib Afshari, political prisoner sentenced to death, ends his hunger strike.
• Rasoul Herdani on hunger strike in Evin 350.
• Cyber police summons private quake aid depositors.
• Mostafa Sabeti, head of the Council of the Participation Front in Golestan Province received the order banning him from leaving Iran when he was at the airport about to go on a trip abroad.

News of injustice in Iran

• University of Texas physics student, Omid Kokabee's 10-years prison sentence upheld in appeal court.
• Gilan University student activist Omid Rezaei sentenced to 8 months in prison by the Appeals Court.

Protests

• Workers protest management shuffle in copper industry.

Economy in Iran

• Iran import from Russia, largest item Wheat, non feedstock, total $425 million. - Iran export to Russia, largest line item Pistachios ~1/4 total of ~$90 million.
• Iran export to China, mostly petrochemicals and minerals, total ~$1 Billion first three months of 1391 - Iran import from China, mostly machinery, total ~ $860 million first three months of 1391.
• Iran export to USA, largest item dried grapes ~ 1/4 of total of $360,000 1st 3 months of 1391 - iran import from USA, largest item wheat nonstockfeed ~ 1/2 of total of $51 million.

Iran abroad

• Iran looks to Armenia to skirt bank sanctions.
• 150-member delegation will accompany Indian PM in visit to Tehran.
• Australia imposes new sanctions on Iran.
• UN political chief criticizes Iran for sending weapons to Assad's regime.

Politics in Iran

• 12 women’s hospitals established in Iran.
• Ali Saeedi, Khamenei representative at IRGC said Reformists can participate in upcoming presidential elections if they “repent”.
• PDKI and Komeleh sign a strategic unity agreement.

Miscellaneous 

• Tractor soccer fans boo as Khamenei shown on screen in disapproval of slow quake disaster response.