Week 35 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Shahram Chinian-Miandoab, Baha’i prisoner, back to general ward in Rejaei Shahr.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, workers’ rights activist, moved to hospital.
• Ahmad Tamooei, Kurdish prisoner, beaten and moved to solitary in Urmia prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Noushazar Khanjani, Baha’i leaving in Tehran, arrested in Semnan.
• Amir Kian, newly converted Christian, arrested in Tehran.
• Masoud Kordpour, Kurdish journalist, back to Mahabad prison at the end of furlough.
• Sheikh Mojtaba Raoufi, cleric from Esfahn, arrested.
• Farzad Sadri, chief editor of Khabar Parsi, arrested after summon.
• Afshin Shahbazi, student activist, arrested and sent to Tabriz to serve his sentence.
• Mohammad-Hasan Tashakori, president of the village council, arrested during protests at Bafgh mine.
• Mehdi Vaziri, newly converted Christian, arrested in Tehran.
• Keyvan Yousefzadeh, Sunni, arrested in Urmia for cooperation with Iraqi Salafists.
• 91,000 drug traffickers arrested in 5 months.

C-Liberations

• Rahim Gholami, Azeri activist, released on 100 million rial bail.
• Hasan and Maisam Jolani, Azeri activists, released on 100 million rial bail each.
• Mehdi Motamedi-Mehr released on furlough.
• Seyyed Zia  Nabavi, student activist, released on a three day furlough.
• Blogger Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) freed at the end of his 4 years sentence.
• Riaz Sobhani released on 5 days furlough.
• Student activist Majid Tavakoli released on 5 days furlough.

D-Other News

• Families of arrested Bafgh mine workers refuse their release on bail.
• Death row RajaiShahr prisoner Bahram Tasviri found dead in solitary confinement.

News of injustice in Iran

• Reza Aghakhani, member of National-Religious party, sentenced to 3 years by Appeals.
• Nasrin Sotoudeh not allowed in court for Sattar Beheshti case.
• Mohammad Davari sentenced to 1.5 additional month.
• Mohammad Rahnamaei Khatibi, Azeri Facebook activist, sentenced to 6 months in prison.
• 1 woman and 2 men executed in Zahedan prison.
• One public hanging in Sari.
• One public hanging in Borazjan.
• 5 hangings in Bandar Abbas prison.
• 4 men and one women hanged on Tuesday in Kerman prison.
• One hanging in Zahedan on Friday.

University – Culture

• Students must repay illegally granted bursaries.
• Professor Hossein Baharavand wins UNESCO biology award.
• After more than a decade, general assembly of writers’ association held.

Protests

• 240 photographers protested the lashing sentence of two of their colleagues in Ghazvin.
• 5.000 mine workers on strike to protest arrest of other mine workers.

Iran abroad

• Zarif is the 1st FM to visit new Iraqi PM; he also meets ayatollah Sistani and Kurdistan Prime Minister and President.
• Dep. FM Amir Abdollahian heads to Riyadh for talks with senior Saudi officials.
• One woman detained in Afghanistan over murder charges.
• US Navy fires on an Iranian fishing boat.
• Zarif goes to Russia to meet his counterpart.
• US imposes more sanctions on Iran.

Iran Economics

• Iran begins to renew his plane fleet.
• Iran’s tax revenues in 5 months rise by 48 percent

Iran Politics

• AEIA inspectors banned from Parchin military site.
• Iranian revolutionary guards shoot down Israeli spy drone near Natanz.
• Impeachment won’t impede bursaries investigation.
• Grand Ayatollah Makarem: "high-speed internet and 3G is against Sharia & moral ethics”.
• Basij will need authorization to patrol the streets with motorcycle.
• Tehran mayor distances himself from segregation plan.
• Tehran police renew satellite crackdown.
• Afghans banned from Kerman province.

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

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