Week 37 - 2012

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Ahmad Reza Ahmadpour, defrocked cleric, transferred to Yazd Prison.
• Human Rights activist Navid Khanjani transfered from Evin to Rejaei Shahr prison.
• Hossein Ronaghi Maleki transferred to Tabriz prison quarantine in preparation for transfer to Evin.
• Isa Saharkhiz transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr prison.
• 6 of the earthquake volunteer aid workers arrested in Azarbaijan have been transferred to Evin 350:
• Navid Khanjani
• Sepehr Saheban
• Esmaeil Salmanpour
• Saeed Shirzad
• Hooman Taheri
• Masoud Vafabakhsh.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Samin Ehsani summoned to Evin to purge her sentence.
• Rashid Esmaili member of Policy Council of Advar Tahkim (alumni Society ) was arrested by IRGC agents.
• Soleiman Mahmoudian arrested in Saqez and sent to Saghez prison.
• Mehran Malaveisi arrested in Marivan and sent to Saghez prison.
• Journalist/Human Rights activist Shiva Nazarahari sentenced to 4 years + 74 lashes reported to Evin to start serving her sentence.
• Hamed and Jamal Sheikhi arrested in Marivan and sent to Saghez prison.

C-Liberations

• Popular poet Mohammad-Reza Ali-Payam (Haloo) released on 100 million toman bail.
• After 3 years imprisonment, journalist Masoud Bastani is released on furlough.
• Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani released, acquitted of apostasy.
• National-Religious activist Alireza Rejaei released from Evin on a 3 day furlough.
• Abdollah Shahbazi, jailed Iranian historian, released.
• Ali Tase released from Marivan prison after 2 months detention.
• Obied Zarei released from Marivan prison after 2 months detention.
• These aid workers were released from custody:
• Morteza Esmailpour
• Danial Hasani
• Esmail Salmanpour
• Saeed Shirzad
• Bahram Shojaei

D-Other News

• After writing letter to Chief Judiciary, former Tehran mayor Mohammad Tavasoli summoned to Court on case that was closed 3 years ago.

News of injustice in Iran

• Farzad Ahmadi, a labour activist and tailor, sentenced to 4 months in prison in Sanandaj.
• Court of Appeals upheld 3 years sentence of Maryam Alangi. Her husband Mohsen Dogmechi died in prison last year.
• The Appeals Court in Tehran upheld 5 year sentence for the Child Rights activist Samin Ehsani.
• Court of Appeal sentenced Zahra Mansouri to 2 years in prison and 5 suspended.
• Amanollah Mostaghim’s 5 years sentence upheld by Appeals.
• Shahnaz Sagvand, wife of jailed worker Ali Nejati on trial, charged with spreading propaganda against system through interview with Foreign Media.
• Gonabadi Dervish, Nosrat Tabasi, sentenced to 5 years in prison.
• 11 people who were transferred from Ghezel Hesar to Evin Ward 240 were hanged, among them 5 Afghans.
• A man was hanged in public on Monday in Shahrood.
• Verdicts  issued for 40 people involved in the bank fraud case. 4 have received the death penalty and 2 have received life in prison.

University – Culture

• Gender Segregation forces girls to drop out from school in the villages of Yasuj due to lack of accommodation.
• Qaraati: Iranian Universities should be equipped with "temporary marriage" headquarters.
• Iran censures text messages containing the word "dollar" following collapse of its currency.

Iran Economics

• $1 = 2305 tomans on Saturday, 2430 tomans on Sunday, 2600 on Monday, 2500 and Euro 3250 tomans on Tuesday.
• Black Market counts for 21% of Iranian economy.
• Two manufacturing factories (in Arak and Esfahan) closed in one week and 600 workers lost their jobs.
• Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Mines: 38% decrease in car production in the first 5 months of the year.
• Iran's Central Bank went bankrupt.
• Iran surpasses Bolivia to become number one in the world in inequality in distribution of wealth.
• Rent prices increase by a staggering 60% says Iran's Census Bureau.

Iran  abroad

• Sierra Leone takes 10 Iranian ships off register.
• Iran seeks to reopen London embassy; UK refuses.
• Egypt denies in talks to buy Iranian oil.
• Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, slammed Bahrain’s imposition of jail terms on 13 leading opposition figures in the kingdom.

Politics in Iran

• The Majlis set up a special joint friendship group to boost parliamentary ties with Syria, Egypt, Palestine and Morocco.
• Bassij protest against the American film caricaturing Mohammad in front of Swiss Embassy.
• 100 teachers in Hamadan protested deceptive announcement of Minister of Education claiming 15% rise been implemented.

Miscellaneous

• Iran ambulance personnel get equipped with teargas.
• Iranian Paralympians take home 24 medals.