Week 44 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mostafa Daneshjou hospitalized in Tajrish hospital.
• Navid Khanjani hospitalized briefly.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Saeed Laali, Facebook activist, arrested in Isfahan University dormitory.
• Mohammad Pouladi, student activist, arrested in Isfahan University dormitory.
• Majid Tavakoli is back to prison at the end of furlough.
• Amir Yari, student activist, arrested in Isfahan University dormitory.
• 14 Arrests in Zahedan.

C-Liberations

• Advar member Saeed Naeimi released from Tabriz prison.
• Mohammad-Hossein Naeemipour released on furlough from Evin.
• Journalist Nasour Naghipour released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Esmail Barzegari is on hunger strike.
• In Zahedan eight bodies of hanged prisoners of conscience not delivered.

News of injustice in Iran

• Actress Pegah Ahangarani sentenced to 18 months in prison.
• Death sentence of Ebrahim Aisapour upheld by Supreme Court.
• Death sentence of Mansour Arvand upheld by Appeals.
• Kurdish political activist Reza Esmaili was hanged.
• Kurdish cultural activist Habibollah Golparipour was hanged.
• 15 years sentence of Kurdish activist Samkoo Khalghati upheld by Supreme Court.
• Death sentence of Sirvan Nezhavi upheld by Supreme Court.
• One woman hanged in Urmia prison.
• One member of Jundollah executed in Khorramabad on Monday.
• One hanging in Sari prison on Monday.
• One woman and a man hanged in Rejaei Shahr prison.
• 7 hangings in Urmiah prison on Tuesday.
• 2 women and 2 men hanged in Urmiah prison on Wednesday.
• 2 hangings in Dizelabad prison.

University – Culture

• Newspaper "Bahar" banned by the Press Supervisory Board.
• Allameh Tabatabaei University to reinstate women’s studies program.
• Concert of pop singer Majid Kharatha canceled by security forces in Abadan.
• Poets gathering canceled by department of Culture.

Protests

• Laid-off workers air grievances outside Parliament.
• People form the 4th human chain in Ahvaz protesting transfer of water out of Karoon river to Zayandehrood.

Iran abroad

• Fourteen Iranian border guards killed in clash with gunmen on border with Pakistan. Sunni insurgent group Jaish ul-Adl claims responsibility for attack on border guards.
• Iran hangs 16 rebels in retaliation to killed border guards.
• Iran negotiator meets IAEA head.
• FM meets with UN-Arab League special envoy to Syria 
• Iran doesn't want Malaysia to hang two Iranian drug traffickers, Shahrzad Mansour and Neda Mostafaei.
• French FM will receive his Iranian counterpart on Nov.5th. 
• Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, departed for Beijing at the invitation of Chairman of China’s National People’s Congress.

Iran Economics

• Iran cuts saffron export duty to zero.
• Economy Minister forecasts $11.28 billion deficit in current year’s budget.
• The 15th ministerial meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) is convening in Tehran on November 3 .

Iran Politics

• Iran opens first alcohol rehab center, shedding light on illegal trade and consumption.
• 3 Peshmergas killed, one tortured to death and several pasdaran killed other injured during a clash near Baneh.
• Iran pulls down anti-US posters in capital.

Miscellaneous

• 4,000 flamingoes return to Urmiah Lake, first time in years; locals hope sign of lake revival.
• Huge Achaemenid building from Cyrus era discovered near Persepolis.
• Kurdish PJAK forces launch attack in Mako against Iran Revolutionary Guards.
• The oil pipeline in Esfahan Province exploded on October 28 causing caused a major oil spill.
• Blood shortage reaches critical stage in Tehran province.

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