Week 35 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Political prisoner Feizollah Arabsorkhi transferred to hospital for surgery.
• After 7 days in solitary, political prisoner Jahangir (Houshang) Badozadeh moved to general ward.
• Amir Eslami, dervish Gonabadi, transferred to hospital.
• Namegh Mahmoudi  transferred to Sanandaj Intel section.
• Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki transferred for 3 hours to a hospital then back to Evin and then to Modarres hospital the day after.
• After 7 days in solitary, political prisoner Ahmad Tamou'i moved to general ward.
• After 70 days in solitary confinement in 240 Pezhman Zafarmand moved to 350 of Evin prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Sevada Aghasar, Armenian Christian, arrested in Karaj.
• Amir Chamani back to Tabriz prison at the end of furlough.
• Labor activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh returned to Evin.
• Ebrahim Firouzi, Christian, arrested in Karaj.
• Sam Kashmiri begins serving his 4 months sentence in Evin.
• Masoud Ladoni, National-Religious activist, back to Karoon prison at the end of furlough.
• Masoud Mirzaei, Christian converted arrested in Karaj.

C-Liberations

• 16 Sunni prisoners were released from Rejaei Shahr prison on parole.

D-Other News

• Basma Rahman-Ahmad-Rashid Al-Jabouri, Iraqi prisoner in Evin, begins a hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Court of Appeals has upheld the 8 year sentence of Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini.
• Salam Golnavaz, Sunni cleric of Sardasht, sentenced to 6 years in prison and life ban on wearing religious suit.
• Supreme Court overturns execution sentence of Saeed Malekpour giving him life term instead.
• Sentence of 4 years and 4 months upheld by Appeals for Gonabadi dervish Kasra Nouri.
• Manouchehr Pordel, Kurdish cultural activist, sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.
• One hanging in Ahvaz on Saturday.
• One hanging in Esfahan on Sunday.
• One hanging in Ardabil on Monday.
• 5 hangings in Ghom.
• 3 hangings in Khuzestan on Tuesday.

University – Culture

• Publication "Negar Kerman" was banned.
• Allameh Tabatabaei University becomes one gender only.

Protests

• Families of Iran-Iraq war victims gathered outside Parliament.
• Iran appoints Marzieh Afkham, first Foreign Ministry spokeswoman.

Iran abroad

• UN high official, American citizen meets with new FM Zarif in Tehran.
• Sultan of Oman meets with Rouhani.

Iran Economics

• More than 100 car workshops closed in Ghazvin.

Iran Politics

• Valiollah Seif appointed as the new head of Iran`s Central Bank.

Miscellaneous

• Google has told Android developers that they can start offering free apps in Iran.

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