Week 41 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Sajad Beit-Abdollah, from Shush, sentenced to 15 years in prison in exile, transferred to Gorgan prison.
• Ahmad Dabat, from Shush, sentenced to 20 years in prison in exile, transferred to Rasht prison.
• Ahmad Kaabi (Zaghibi) from Shush, sentenced to 15 years in prison in exile, transferred to Kerman prison.
• Jafar Kaabi, from Shush, sentenced to 15 years in prison in exile, transferred to Yazd prison.
• Ali (Jajeh) Kanani, from Shush, sentenced to 20 years in prison in exile, transferred to Sari prison.
• Yousef Khazaraji, from Shush, sentenced to 10 years in prison in exile, transferred to Shiraz prison.
• Abdollah Momeni transferred to prison infirmary in emergency.
• Maryam Naghash-Zargaran (Nasim), Christian convert, transferred from Evin to Modares hospital.
• Hasan Naseri, from Shush, sentenced to 20 years in prison in exile, transferred to Sabzevar prison.
• Sunni prisoner Foad Rezazadeh transferred to Evin prison ward 209.
• Abbas Sagouri, from Shush, sentenced to 15 years in prison in exile, transferred to Hamedan prison.
• Maryam Shafeepour transferred to general ward in Evin.
• Arash Sharifi, Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr prison, transferred to Kashan prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Journalist Masoud Bastani back to Rejaei Shahr at the end of furlough.
• Baha'i Hassan Bazar Afkan arrested.
• Mousavi's senior adviser Alireza Beheshti Shirazi is back in Evin after 2 weeks out on furlough.
• Mostafa Faghihi the managing director of Entekhab site, arrested and sent to Evin for one day then released on bail.
• Green Movement activist Dr. Alireza Rajabianfard arrested and taken to Evin to start serving his 3 1/2 years sentence.
• Tens of people charged with promoting homosexuality and Satanism arrested in Kermanshah.

C-Liberations

• Journalist Bahman Ahmadi Amouei released on furlough.
• Journalist/HR activist Ahmad Asgari released on bail after more than 3 months detention most of it in solitary.
• Amir Chamani released from prison.
• Civil activist Mehdi Hamidi Shafigh released from Tabriz central prison.
• Political prisoner Mohammad Reza Hosseini released from Bandar Abbas prison.
• Student activist Afshin Keshtkari released from Shiraz Adelabad prison after completing his 6 months sentence.
• Mohammad-Reza Moghiseh released on furlough.
• Mohsen Mohagheghi released on furlough.
• Kurdish political prisoner Hamzeh Sobhani released from Dizelabad prison in Kermanshah. He served half of his 6 years sentence.
• Mehdi Tajik released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Hamed Ghasemi-Shal reunited with his wife in Toronto.
• Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeini-Boroujerdi suffers a heart attack in prison.

News of injustice in Iran

• Dervish Gonabadi Hamid-Reza Arayesh sentenced to exile for life to Khouzestan.
• Dervish Gonabadi Kazem  Dehghani sentenced to exile for life to Sistan-Baluchestan.
• Regime critic blogger Dr. Mehdi Khazali sentenced to 6 years imprisonment.
• Court of Appeals has sentenced Christian Maryam Naghash Zargaran to 4 years.
• Dervish Gonabadi Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan sentenced to exile for life to Hormozgan.
• Morteza Vafaei, Sunni student, sentenced to 21 months in prison.
• 6 hangings in Yazd central prison.
• 2 executions in Shahrekord prison.
• 2 public executions in Babol, carried out by victims’ family member.
• 3 executions in Ardabil prison.
• 1 execution in Bandar Abbas prison.
• 3 executions in Rasht, one publicly.
• One public execution in Fars province.

University – Culture

• 13 students from the Shiraz Medical University summoned by intelligence ministry in the past month.

Protests

• Semnan Lining Machine workers protest the delay of 11 month salary.
• Death row prisoners' families gathered in front of revolutionary court in Tehran.

Iran abroad

• New German and Dutch ambassadors nominated in Tehran.

Iran Economics

• More than 100 workers of Shiraz Marvdasht Factory have not received wages since 15 months.
• The Central Bank confirmed that the annual inflation rate exceeded 40% on most essential items for August/September. The cost of food and drink rose by 51%, shoes by 60%, and utilities, water, and fuel by 21%. Health care was 43% more expensive and transport 45%. Only communications and education had increases of less than 15%.
• 2 auto assembly plants, Kerman Motors and Modiran halt production.

Iran Politics

• President Rouhani appointed Ms. Shahindokht Mowlaverdi as Vice President and Head of Center for Women and Family Affairs.
• Elham Aminzadeh said: “Fifty complaints by Ahmadinejad’s government against some media organizations, members of the parliament, political activists and media activists were annulled.”
• Mohammad Hossein Moghimi was appointed governor general of Markazi province, Mohammad Vakili of Semnan provinces, Hasan Sadeghlu of Golestan province and Mohammad Reza Morvarid of Ilam province.
• Sorena Sattari has been appointed as vice-president for science and technology.
• Rouhani appointed Mohammad Shariatmadari as Vice President for Executive Affairs.

Miscellaneous

• Iran: attempt to sabotage a nuclear site, four people arrested.
• 5 IRGC members killed and 2 injured in clashes with the Kurdish PKK Corps in Kurdistan.

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

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