Week 45 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Pastor Saeed Abedini transferred from Evin to Rejaei Shahr prison.
• Sevada Aghasar transferred from ward 209 to 350 in Evin.
• Hamed Ahmadi, Kurdish Sunni, transferred from Ghezel Hesar to an unknown location.
• Hasan Bazrafkan transferred from Intel to Shiraz prison.
• Protesting denial of hospitalization to other ill Dervishes, Mostafa Daneshjoo released from hospital on his request and returned to Evin; two days later, he returns to Tajrish hospital.
• Jamshid Dehghani, Kurdish Sunni, transferred from Ghezel Hesar to an unknown location.
• Ebrahim Firouzi transferred from ward 209 to 350 in Evin.
• Ebadollah Ghasemzadeh transferred from Urmia to Yazd prison.
• Kurdish political activist Maryam Moghadasi transferred from Evin to hospital.
• Bakhshali and Sahnad-Ali Mohammadi, transferred from Urmia to Yazd prison.
• Kamal Molaei, Kurdish Sunni, transferred from Ghezel Hesar to an unknown location.
• Gonabadi dervish Hamid-Reza Moradi-Sarvestani transferred to Tajrish hospital.
• Journalist Keyvan Samimi transferred to Tehran Heart Center for treatment.
• Lawyer Abdolfatah Soltani transferred to Evin clinic on the 5th day of his hunger strike.
• Vahid Taghvajo transferred from Intel to Shiraz prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Hasan Damirchi (Mohammad-Hasan Hargeli) arrested to serve his 6 months sentence.
• Baha’i Anisa Dehghani-Mahmoudi begins serving her 6 months sentence in Vakilabad prison.
• Kurdish student Ali Emami arrested in Hamedan.
• Mostafa Khalilirad, Kurdish activist, arrested in Khorasan.
• Loghman Parastish, a Kurdish religious figure in the city of Bokan,  placed under house arrest by Iran’s intelligence agency
• Saeed Pourazizi the managing director of the banned newspaper "Bahar" arrested

C-Liberations

• Davoud Abdollahi has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Ghasem Abesteh has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Khosro Besharat-Far has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Christian Mostafa (Mohammad Hadi) Bordbar released from Evin after being acquitted of all charges by the Revolutionary Court.
• Student activist Majid Dori released on furlough.
• Ayoub Karimi has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Anwar Khezri has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Saeed Pourazizi CEO of banned reformist newspaper Bahar released on bail.
• Mamousta Farhad Salimi has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Kamran Sheikhi has 1st trial after 4 years detention: he is acquitted.
• Mehdi Taghighi released from Rejaei Shahr prison after serving out his one year sentence.

D-Other News

• Mohammad-Amin Abdollahi on hunger strike to protest surge of ethnic minorities’ executions.
• Esmail Barzegar on hunger strike to protest conditions of sick prisoners.
• Amir-Khosrow Dalirsani on hunger strike to protest conditions of sick prisoners.
• Fakhroldin Faraji on hunger strike to protest surge of ethnic minorities’ executions.
• Mehdi Khodaei on hunger strike to protest conditions of sick prisoners.
• Saeed Madani on hunger strike to protest conditions of sick prisoners.
• Amanj Parvizi, brother of Arman Parvizi arrested. 
• Hassan Pourseifi on hunger strike to protest conditions of sick prisoners.
• Abdolfattah Soltani on hunger strike to protest conditions of sick prisoners.

News of injustice in Iran

• Shirkoo Moarefi was executed in Saqqez prison.
• Arman Parvizi architecture student sentenced to death.
• Rahim Sarkar Chief Editor of weekly "Hadis" sentenced to 16 months in prison.
• 2 hangings in Semnan on Sunday.
• 5 executions in Kermanshah on Monday.
• One hanging in Rasht prison on Monday.
• 9 men and 2 women hanged in Urmia prison on Monday.
• 6 hangings in Kerman and Bam prison on Monday.
• One hanging in Ahvaz on Monday.
• 5 hangings in Jiroft on Wednesday.
• One hanging in Sanandaj on Thursday.2 hangings in Bandar Abbas prison on Thursday.

University – Culture

• Japan honours Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami for invaluable contributions.
• Another Iranian reformist newspaper closed in Iran, Hamihan: it was just relaunched last week.
• Ali Janati, Minister of Culture, calls for free access to social networking sites.

Protests

• Demonstrations at Hormozgan University.
• 750 Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory workers on strike re conditions.
• Demonstration in Marivan against execution of political prisoners.

Iran abroad

• Adeli, an Iranian was elected as Secretary general of Gas Exporting Countries Forum .
• Iran arrests Al Qaeda member on border with Pakistan.
• A call for Putin - Dr. Massoumeh Ebtekar called for immediate release of Greenpeace Activists.
• Iran Revolutionary Guards commander killed in Syria.
• FM Zarif in Paris for UNESCO General Conference; he meets French FM Fabius.
• FIFA president visits Iran.
• Egyptian police arrested Ahmed Fahim Abdel Azim al-Siufi, Cairo’s Al-Alam (Iranian state-run Arabic news channel) bureau chief.

Iran Economics

• 25 Workers unemployed due to closure of "Felez Gorgan" Factory 
• Indian crude oil imports from Iran drop by over 40% this year.

Iran Politics

• Habibollah Asgaroladi died.
• The cabinet appointed Majid Khodabakhsh for Ardabil and Qasem Soleymani for Chaharmahal-Bakhtiari provinces.
• President Hassan Rouhani appoints Minister of the Interior Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli Chairman of the National Security Council.

Miscellaneous

• Armed clash in the Kurdish town of Kamyaran.
• Dozens in hospital over pollution in South.
• Zabol prosecutor shot dead by two men.
• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) opened fire on a Kurdish civilian outside the town of Nowsoud.

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

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