Week 37 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Furlough extension was denied for Hassan Asadi Zeidabadi he is back to Evin.
• Masoud Bastani back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Ghorban-Ali Behzadiannejad back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Bahareh Hedayat back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Mehdi Mahmoudian back to Rejaei Shahr at the end of furlough.
• Ahmad Zeidabadi is back to Rejaei Shahr at the end of furlough.

C-Liberations

• Reza and Taher Akvanian released on 100 million toman bail.
• Davar Hosseini-Vojdan released from Evin on furlough.
• Human Rights  activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari released on furlough

D-Other News

• Guards overnight raid in Ebrat ward and beat imprisoned Dervishes.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ramin Rezaei, Azeri activist, sentenced to 91 days in prison.
• 3 hangings in Rasht on Sunday.
• 1 hanging in Ahvaz prison.
• 1 hanging in Gachsaran.
• 2 hangings in Shahrud on Tuesday.
• 6 executions in Urmiah prison on Wednesday.
• 2 executions in Dizelabad prison of Kermanshah. 
• 3 public hangings in Dehdasht on Thrusday.
• One public execution in Darab on Thursday.
• One execution in Rejaei Shahr on Thursday.

University – Culture

• House of Cinema, closed by Ahmadinejad, reopens.

Protests

• 5 workers arrested at a protest at Almahdi Aluminium in Bandar Abbas demanding wage rise.

Iran abroad

• Iran releases Indian oil tanker detained in August.
• Deadly clash erupts at Iranian consulate in Afghanistan.
• Iranian FM Meets Iraq's Acting President.
• Rouhani meets with Masahiko Kōmura, special envoy of the Japanese Prime Minister.
• Iraq tells People’s Mujahedin to leave Camp Ashraf.
• Iran 1st VP Eshagh Jahangiri, Syrian PM Wael Nader al-Halghi confer over phone.
• Drunk driving Saudi diplomat barred from leaving Iran.
• Iran and US exchange some messages on Syria.
• French FM: I will meet Iran FM in New York. in case of agreement sanctions can be removed.
• Iran backs proposal for monitoring of Syrian chemical weapons.
• Last Iranian dissidents moved out of Iraq camp after violence.

Iran Economics

• Inflation rate hits 39%, up over 5% in one month.
• Full closure of 100 tea factories in the North of the country.
• Businessman close to Ahmadinejad owes Iran $2 billion.

Iran Politics

• Ghalibaf reelected as Tehran mayor for the 3rd time.
• Iran’s cabinet has appointed Seyyed Hossein Hashemi and Rabi’ Fallah governor-generals of Tehran and Mazandaran.
• Former defense minister Shamkhani replaces Saeed Jalili.
• President Rouhani appoints Masoumeh Ebtekar as Vice President and Head of Environmental Protection Organization.
• Minister of Oil Bizhan Zanganeh has appointed Roknoddin Javadi as deputy minister and the new managing director of the National Iranian Oil Company.
• Ex-nuclear negotiator Jalili appointed to Supreme National Security Council.

Miscellaneous

• Dam-building forbidden in area of endangered Lake Oroumiyeh.
• Yahoo blocked Iranian from using its services while Google and  Apple removed some restrictions on technology to Iranian people.
• 63 people killed in collision of 2 buses near Qom.

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

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