Week 52 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Ali Moezi transferred from solitary to general ward in Rejaei Shahr.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mehrdad Amin-Vaziri, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, arrested in Sananadaj.
• Victor Bet Tamarz, head of Assyrian church in Tehran, arrested on Christmas day.
• Azin Foroudi, Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Mohammad Kazemi, Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Reza Khandan arrested for some hours on his way to Mostafa Karim-Beigi memorial.
• Mehdi Kian, Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Dr. Mohammad Maleki arrested for some hours on his way to Mostafa Karim-Beigi memorial.
• Narges Mohammadi arrested for some hours on her way to Mostafa Karim-Beigi memorial.
• Mohammad-Hossein Moridian, Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Maryam Narimani, Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Alireza Naseri, Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Ali Sadreddine (Brother Stephan), Christian convert, arrested on Christmas day in a house-church in Roudehen.
• Reza Sharifi-Bokani arrested for some hours then released under heavy bail.
• Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested for some hours on her way to Mostafa Karim-Beigi memorial.

C-Liberations

• Ribvar Abdollahi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, released on 50 million toman bail.
• Nader Fotourehchi, journalist and Facebook activist, released on bail.
• Farzad Moradi-Nia, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, released on 70 million toman bail.
• Hasan Tafah, 85 years old, on medical leave for 3 months..

D-Other News

• Mohammad-Amin Agooshi is on hunger strike.
• Mehrdad Amin-Vaziri, Kurdish workers’ rights activist is on hunger strike.
• Alireza Rasouli ends his hunger strike after 50 days.

News of injustice in Iran

• Christian convert Farshid Fatehi sentenced to 1 more year in prison.
• Detention order for Mahdieh Golroo extended.
• Kobra Parsajou, wife of Hamid Babaei, sentenced to 6 months + travel ban.
• Journalist Reyhaneh Tabatabaei sentenced to 1 year in prison + 2 years ban on all activities.
• Mohammad Zeidi-Shad, Kurdish blogger, sentenced to 8 months in prison + monetary fine.
• 3 hangings in Zahedan on Saturday.
• One hanging in Zahedan on Sunday.
• 3 hangings in Shiraz on Wednesday.
• One hanging in Noshahr on Wednesday.
• 4 women hanged in Bam, 2 men in Bandar Abbas and 7 in Kerman on Thursday.

University – Culture

• A new daily newspaper in Iran Mardom e Emrooz.

Protests

• HEPCO workers join Pars Wagon strike in Arak.

Iran abroad

• Top Iranian revolutionary guard commander Hamid Taghawi killed in Samara in Iraq.

Iran Economics

• $1 = 3685 tomans.
• 200 illegal shops destroyed in a mall in Tehran.

Iran Politics

• Rouhani appoints government spokesman Nobakht as head of revived Management and Planning Organisation.

Miscellaneous

• 3 IRGC members killed near border with Pakistan.
• 2 terrorists on a motorcycle killed two people in the village of Sarbaz in Sistan va Baluchistan. One person killed was a Shi’a school teacher in the village and another was a Sunni member of the Basij 

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

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