Week 47 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Shahram Ahmadi, Sunni sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
• Taleb Maleki, Sunni sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
• Iraj Mohammadi, Kurdish political activist transferred to hospital.
• Mokhtar Rahimi, Sunni sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
• Behrouz Shah-Nazari, Sunni sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
• Kaveh Sharifi, Sunni sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
• Kaveh Veisi, Sunni sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
• Secretary General of the Freedom Movement Ebrahim Yazdi hospitalized.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Negin Ahmadian begins serving her 6 months sentence in Vakil Abad.
• Students Afsaneh and Shahoo Bayazidi arrested in Bokan.
• Behnaz Hadadzadeh begins serving her 6 months sentence in Vakil Abad.
• Abbas Haghighi, workers’ rights activist in Polyakryl factory of Isfahan arrested
• The intelligence agency incarcerated Faroukh Khezri, who is 25 years old until his father Mohammad Khezri turns himself in.
• Javad Lotfi, workers’ rights activist in Polyakryl factory of Isfahan arrested.
• Negar Malekzadeh begins serving her 6 months sentence in Vakil Abad.
• Hoorieh Mohseni begins serving her 6 months sentence in Vakil Abad.
• Arman Mokhtari begins serving his 6 months sentence in Vakil Abad.
• Afshin Nadimi, Kurdish Workers’s rights activist, arrested.
• Journalist Nasour Naghipour is back to Evin at the end of his furlough.
• Kiomars Rahimi, workers’ rights activist in Polyakryl factory of Isfahan arrested.
• Mehrdad Sabouri, Kurdish Workers’s rights activist, arrested.
• Ayatollah Mohammad Sehhati arrested in Esfahan and released shortly after.
• About 15 Ghaderi Dervishes arrested in Alborz Province.
• 8 bloggers arrested in Rafsanjan on charge of “blasphemy.

C-Liberations

• Mohammad-Sadegh Rabani-Amleshi released on furlough.
• 4 days furlough for political prisoner Amin Chalaki.

D-Other News

• Ali Moradi, Kurdish political prisoner, is on hunger strike to protest against his transfer to Bandar Abbas.
• Jailed human rights/children's rights activist Mohammad Hassan Yousef Pourseifi launched a hunger strike protesting denial of medical treatment.
• Prisoners have no hot water to shower in ward 350 of Evin.

News of injustice in Iran

• Shahoo Ahmadi, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• Shahin Bayezidpour, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Mohsen Cheraghi, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• Rahmatollah Cheraghi, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 6 months suspended.
• Hossein Ghasemi, Kurdish Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
• Sajad Gheisari, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 6 months suspended.
• Kurdish bookstore owner Soleiman Mohammadi was sentenced to seven months in prison on charges of helping a Kurdish opposition party.
• Teimur Naderizadeh, Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr, sentenced to execution.
• Farshid Naseri, Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr, sentenced to execution.
• Borzan Nasrollahzadeh, Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr, sentenced to execution.
• Ehsan Nikpei, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• Ali Yousefi, Kurdish journalist, sentenced to 6 months suspended.
• One hanging in Esfahan.
• One hanging in Zahedan.
• One hanging in Yazd.

University – Culture

• The entire cast of the film Gass by Iranian director Kiarash Asadizadeh was awarded the best emerging actor honour at the eighth Rome Film Festival.

Protests

• Municipal workers of Behbahan on strike.

Iran abroad

• FM visits Italy ahead of nuclear talks.
• Rouhani holds telephone conversation with Russian president Putin; Deputy Foreign Minister meets Russian counterpart.
• Suicide blast at Iranian embassy in Beirut; cultural advisor and 24 other people killed, 150 injured.
• Hassan Rouhani meets Indonesian Parliament Speaker.
• UN 3rd Committee Draft Resolution on Situation of Human Rights in Iran adopted YES 83, NO 36 , ABSTAIN 62.
• Rouhani talks with Putin, Chinese president, British PM ahead of nuclear talks – 

Iran Economics

• National Iranian Gas Company went bankrupt.
• Kenfkar Factory in Rasht vlosed, 31 workers unemployed.
• Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) has signed a contract with a Belgian company to build and operate a graphite electrodes manufacturing factory in Ardakan City of Yazd.
• 300 workers in Tabriz Tractor Factory have not been paid for more than 4 months; they now also lost their social insurance.

Iran Politics

• Mahmoud Goudarzi becomes Iran's new Minister of Sports and Youth with 199 votes in favor out of 267 votes cast by MPs.

Miscellaneous

• Majid Samii Iranian neurologist wins Leibniz Ring Prize.
• Rasht streets hit by floods.

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

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