Week 40 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mohammad Darabi (Mohajer), Kurdish activist, moved to Dizelabad.
• Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeini-Boroujerdi transferred to solitary.
• Jamaloldin Khanjani, Baha’i, transferred to hospital then back to prison without treatment.
• Saeed Matinpour exiled to Zanjan.
• Ayat Mehr-Ali-Beiglou, Azeri political prisoner, moved from Jolfa to Tabriz.
• Jaber Sakhravi, Ahvazi political prisoner, beaten and sent to solitary.
• Ali Salanpour, political prisoner, transferred to hospital.
• Farhad Shafizadeh, Kurdish student, transferred to Marivan prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) arrested again.
• Abed and Kourosh Valad-Beigi, Kurdish political activists, arrested in Paveh.

C-Liberations

• Vahid Dana, Baha’i from Shiraz, released on 500 million rial bail.
• Golrokh Ebrahimi-Iraei, Wife of Arash Sadeghi, released on bail.

D-Other News

• Omid Alishenas banned from all contacts and visits.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) Wins "International Press Freedom Award".

News of injustice in Iran

• One hanging in Mashhad..

University – Culture

• 5000-year-old water pipeline discovered in Western Iran.
• "Entekhab" website close to Rafsanjani banned.

Protests

• Gonabadi Sufi Order gather in front of Ministry of Justice in protest of treatment of imprisoned dervishes.
• Haft Tapeh sugar cane factory workers back on strike

Iran abroad

• Rouhani goes to Russia for Caspian summit.
• Kenya sentences two Iranians for using fake Israeli passports

Iran Politics

• Travel banned for two clergymen close to Ayatollah Sadegh Shirazi.
• Minister supports social network access despite judiciary.

Miscellaneous

• Hamideh Abbasali is the only Iranian woman to win a gold medal in karate.
• A commander of IRGC, Mostafa Mohammadinejad, was killed in the city of Khoy.
• Tehran resident killed in police raid to remove satellite dishes

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

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