Week 50 - 2012

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Vahid Asghari, sentenced to death, refused to appear in Court; he is transferred to Evin 240 solitary and banned from visits for 3 weeks; he begins a hunger strike to protest.
• Sanaz Tafazzoli who was sentenced to 6 months in prison in Mashhad transferred to Vakil Abad prison.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Hasan Ark, Azeri activist, arrested in Tabriz.
• Pan-Iranist Milad Dehghan was arrested in Ahvaz.
• Former member of CHRR Saeed Haeri sentenced to 2 years + 74 lashes reported to Evin to start serving sentence.
• Prominent student activist Mehdi Hamidi Shafigh summoned and arrested to start serving 21 months sentence in Tabriz.
• Managing Editor of Diyare Sabz newspaper, Reza Hassanzadeh Ashrafi arrested in his office in Sari and released the same day.
• Dr. Mohammad Maleki summoned to serve his sentence in Evin.
• Political activist Azizollah Pourvali arrested transferred to Tabriz prison.
• Baha'i Adnan Rahmatpanah arrested in a raid of his home in Shiraz.
• Ahmad Riazi-Moboraki, Azeri activist, goes to Tabriz prison to serve remaining 9 months of his sentence.
• Ali Zakeri summoned and sent to Evin to start serving his 4 years sentence.

D-Other News

• The arbitrary arrest of Mehdi Hashemi [the son of ex-president Rafsanjani] extended by 2 months.
• Dr. Mehdi Khazali on hunger strike again.

News of injustice in Iran

• 3 men hanged in Zahedan on Saturday, one was Pakistani.
• One man hanged in Semnan prison on Monday.
• 2,600 executions during Ahmadinejad's first term, & more than 2,250 from July 2009 through November 2012.

University – Culture

• One of the students severely burned in the Shinabad classroom fire caused by a space heater has died in hospital.
• Iran launches its version of YouTube.
• Azar Mansouri, political director of the Mosharekat party, suspended from attending university.
• Iran, the second-worst jailer of journalists with 45 behind bars.

Protests

• Petro Part, Payandan, Darya, Sahel, Fars, Eskat Workers strike in South Fars to protest not having been paid.

Iran Economics

• Layoff of 30 contract workers from Metal Industries.
• Closure of Zagros Automotive factory and layoff of its 400 workers in spite of 3 months unpaid wages.

Politics in Iran

• Hamas Office was closed in Tehran.
• Security forces prevented Isfahani political and civic activists from a meeting with former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
• 35 Majlis members signed a motion to impeach Education Minister.

Iran  abroad

• Iranian warships dock in Sudan, sparking Israeli concern about arms smuggling.
• Afghans attack Iran consulate in city of Herat.

Miscellaneous

• 1117 workers had occupational injuries in current year in Esfahan 70-75% due to lack of safety measures.
• Nine cafes closed down in Sanandaj.