Week 43 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Political prisoner Ali Moezzi returned to prison after being taken to Karaj radiology center.
• Workers’ rights activist Reza Shahabi, hospitalized again.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Hamid Meibedi, political activist, arrested in Karaj.
• Davoud Mirzaei, political activist, arrested in Karaj.
• Elham Moghan, Baha’i from Esfahan, arrested.
• Alahverdi Rouhi, political activist, arrested in Karaj.
• Yahya Sarkhani begins serving his 3 years sentence in Mahabad prison.
• More than 100 Kurds arrested in Tehran.

C-Liberations

• Asadollah Asadi released  on furlough from Evin.
• Mahmoud Bagheri released  on furlough from Evin.
• Motahereh Bahrami-Haghighi released on furlough.
• Morteza Khosravi-Rad released on furlough.
• Political prisoner Manouchehr Maimanat released from Borazjan (Boushehr) prison after completing his 4 years sentence.
• National-Religious activist Masoud Pedram released on a 3 day furlough.
• Student activist Arash Sadeghi freed on bail.
• Mehdi Tarokh released on bail.
• Student activist Majid Tavakoli released on furlough.
• Pezhman Zafarmand freed after being acquitted by Appeals.

News of injustice in Iran

• Sentence of Baha’i Nasim Ashrafi, reduced by Appeals frim 3 to 1 year.
• Babak Asiaei, cultural activist, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Nasim Bagheri, Baha’i, sentenced to 4 years in prison.
• Student activist Afshin Jamshidi sentenced to 6 months prison.
• Student activist Zia Navabi was acquitted of the new charges filed against him. He is serving a 10 years sentence in Ahvaz prison.
• Student activist Amir Nazeri sentenced to 6 months prison.
• Court of Appeals overturned the 10 months sentence of civil/cultural activist Mohtaram Rahmani giving her a monetary fine.
• 2 Kurdish brothers Farough and Farzad Samani sentenced to 5 years prison.
• 6 men and 1 woman hanged in Dizelabad prison of Kermanshah.

University – Culture

• Mahmoud Zolfonoon, the Iranian violin master, passed away at the age of 93 in the United States.
• Student activist Mehdi Amani prevented from pursuing his studies.

Protests

• Protests in Hormozgan; several arrests.
• 180 petrochemical workers stage protest.
• Tehran Imam Khomeini Hospital's Nurses rally against mandatory overtime.
• Followers of Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsanism) protest in front of the parliament; 80 arrested.
• 10,000 people in Ahvaz protest against diversion of Karoon river.

Iran abroad

• EU parliamentary delegation, headed by Hannes Swoboda meets Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.
• China seized an Iranian oil tanker bound for North Korea.
• French MPs visit their counterpart in Iran to boost cooperation between both countries.

Iran Economics

• Delay of 5 months’ salary of 120 workers of soap manufacturing.

Iran Politics

• Former dismissed health minister, Marziyeh Vahid-Dastjerdi, appointed adviser to the Judiciary Chief.

Miscellaneous

• 7 children injured during a mine explosion in Kurdistan.
• Clashes between students and basij at Mazandaran University.
• Ahwaz, the most polluted city in the world.
• Level of carcinogen benzene in Tehran is 10 times higher than standards.
• 25-year-old Razi Guntari, attending a funeral service for his friend, was shot and killed by internal security forces in Shadegan.
• Daughter of Moussavi assaulted and bited by guard.

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