Week 50 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Ghasem Abesteh transferred from hospital to Rejaei Shahr before end of treatment.
• Jamshid Dehghani transferred from hospital to Rejaei Shahr before end of treatment.
• Jafar Eghdami transferred from hospital to Rejaei Shahr before end of treatment.
• Afshin Karampour, Gonabadi dervish, transferred to hospital.
• Khazar-Rasoul Maravat, hunger striker of Urmia prison, transferred to hospital.
• Ali Salanpour transferred from hospital to Rejaei Shahr before end of treatment.
• Hakimeh Shokri, women’s rights activist, transferred to Gharchak.
• Mohammad-Hasan Yousef-Pourseifi transferred to hospital.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Amir Amir-Gholi, political activist, arrested in Tehran.
• Asou Azizi, Kurdish student activist, arrested in Mahabad.
• Jamshid Eblis, rap singer, arrested in Mashhad.
• Neda Farsatipour, Baha’i, beings serving her 6 months sentence in Urmia.
• Ali Khoshnamak, Kurdish activist, arrested in Mahabad.
• Farahnaz Moghadam, Baha’i, begins serving her 3 years sentence in Urmia.
• Mohsen Rahmani, student and political activist, begins serving his 7 years sentence in Evin.

C-Liberations

• Seyyed Mathias-Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad, Christian convert, acquitted of all charges and freed from Rejaie Shahr.
• Seyyed Mahmoud Bagheri released on furlough.
• Emad Bahavar, student and political activist, freed at the end of his sentence.
• Rahman Bahmani (Zia), Christian convert, released from Dezful prison.
• Hossein Barounzadeh, Christian convert, released from Dezful prison.
• Alireza Beheshti-Shirazi released on furlough.
• Nasour Naghipour released on furlough.
• Reza Rabani (Silas), Christian convert, acquitted of all charges and freed from Rejaie Shahr.

D-Other News

• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, labor activist, is on hunger strike.
• Amir Mirzaei-Hekmati on hunger stike in Evin prison.
• Mohammad-Sedigh Kaboudvand receives 2014 ICHRI award.
• Mohammad-Ali Taheri is on hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Mohammad-Reza Ali-Payam "Haloo" sentenced to 15 months by Appeals.
• Supreme Court reduces sentence for Emad Bahavar, student activist, to 2 years.
• Ebrahim Firouzi, Christian convert, sentence to 3 year probation+1 year + 2 years exile by Appeals.
• One woman hanged in Urmia prison.
• One hanging in Evin.
• One woman and a man hanged in Rejaei Shahr on Wednesday.
• 2 men flogged in public in Mazandaran.
• 2 hangings in Shiraz.

Protests

• Protest during Shariat-Madari speech at Tehran University.
• Sufis meet in front of Evin prison and bar association.

Iran abroad

• Iran extends visas for 450,000 Afghan refugees.
• Wael al-Halqi, the Prime Minister of the Arab Republic of Syria visits Tehran

Iran Economics

• $1 = 3250 tomans.

Miscellaneous

• Contract workers' representative of Isfahan Sepahan Cement dismissed.

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

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