Week 39 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Student activist Ahmad Asgari transferred from Ward 209 to Ward 350 after 3 months in 209 solitary.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Behnam Chegini, member of Rouhani campaign, arrested in Delijan.
• Ziaollah Ghaderi, Baha’i from Tonekabon, arrested and sent to Sari Intel.
• Soroush Gorshasebi, Baha’i from Tonekabon, arrested and sent to Sari Intel.
• Faramarz Lotfi, Baha’i from Tonekabon, arrested and sent to Sari Intel.
• Saeed Naeemi, member of Advar, sent to Tabriz prison to serve his 1 year sentence.
• Mehdi Rahimi, Union member, arrested in Tehran.
• Prominent Azerbaijani cultural activist Salar Turi summoned to court and arrested.

C-Liberations

• Mousavi advisor Alireza Beheshti-Shirazi released on furlough.
• Evin Prison's death row prisoner, Hamid Ghassemi-Shall is released
• Journalist Mehdi Mahmoudian released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Jailed student Omid Kokabee awarded APS Sakharov prize.
• Baluchi teenager Mohammad Saber Malek Reisi denied phone calls, visitation rights.
• Omid Shah-Moradi begins a hunger strike in Evin.

News of injustice in Iran

• Abdulaziz Azimi Ghadeem, Azeri cleric, sentenced to 7 months and sent to Tabriz prison.
• Vahid Habib-Cheshmeh, Azerbaijani cultural activist, sentenced to 4 months in prison.
• Azeri activist Ali Kheirjoo sentenced to 5 years in prison.
• Student activist Arash Mohammadi's 6 months sentence upheld on appeal.
• Alireza Hashemi, the Secretary General of Teachers Organization of Iran sentenced to 5 years imprisonment.
• Appeals overturns sentence of lawyer Mahmoud Alizadeh-Tabatabaei; a new trial will take place.
• 5 men and 3 women hanged in Yazd prison last Thursday.
• 4 hangings in Ghazvin prison on Sunday.
• One execution in Kazeroun of a teenager.
• 4 hangings in Kerman on Tuesday.
• A woman hanged in Tehran on Wednesday.
• One execution in Vakil Abad prison in Mashhad on Wednesday.
• 5 men and one woman hanged in Rejaei Shahr.

University – Culture

• Iranian actress Maryam Moghaddam resident of Sweden banned from leaving Iran.
• Managing editor of Hammihan newspaper Gholam Hossein Karbaschi announced that the ban on his publication was lifted; it will be published again with, Mohammad Ghoochani as chief editor.
• 40 'starred' students return to university.
• 30 net cafés closed in Ghazvin.

Protests

• The family of death sentenced prisoners gathered in front of parliament.

Iran abroad

• Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with British Secretary of Foreign Affairs William Hague, Ms Ashton, and foreign affairs ministers of China, France, Germany, Russia and the US.
• Rouhani meets IMF Christine Lagarde, Pakistani, Japanese, Italian and Spanish Prime Ministers, French, Tunisian, Turkish and Lebanese presidents, Iraqi Vice-President, German Foreign Affairs Minister.
• Iran reappoints Kazempour as OPEC governor.
• Obama and Rouhani talked over the phone.

Iran Economics

• $1 = less than 3,000 tomans.
• 240 workers laid off in Zanjan.
• IRGC's Sadra Shipbuilding Co has laid off total of 1500 workers.
• India lifts barriers from Iranian oil imports.
• In August 2013, China imported 440,000 barrels of oil from Iran, an 18% increase over the same period last year.
• Car production in Iran down by 38.5% in first half of 2013.

Iran Politics

• Rouhani issued special order to take back all government complaints against media.
• Chief of Judiciary removes 6 judges.

Miscellaneous

• Forest fires continue to rage in Golestan National Park.
• Cholera spreads in 10 provinces.
• 360 school classes lacking teacher in Yazd.
• 28 people arrested in Qom for selling foreign currencies illegally.
• Bill allows men to marry their step-daughters, if they're 13.

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

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