Week 08 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

 

• Sunni prisoner Shouresh Ayneh Bokani transferred to Urmia Intelligence.
• Journalist Green political activist, Rajai Shahr prisoner Masoud Bastani moved to hospital.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, workers’ rights activist transferred to quarantine of Rajai Shahr prison.
• Atena Faraghdani transferred to hospital.
• 16th day hunger striker Mohamadreza Pourshajari lost consciousness moved to hospital.
• Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Hossein Rezaei moved to Bandar Abbas prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Labor Activist Hasan Ahmadi arrested in Marivan.
• Journalist student activist Ahmad Asgari arrested to serve 5-year prison.
• Yazd Baha'i Fariba Ashtari begins her 2-year prison sentence.
• Political activist Ali Maghami arrested to serve his 4 months.
• Civil activist Yadollah Mohammadi arrested in Divandareh.
• Mahabad Kurdish journalist Kavan Mohammadpour arrested
• Shiraz Gonabadi Dervish Saleh Moradi arrested.
• Cultural-Social Deputy of Mashhad Ferdowsi University Ali Yousefi arrested.
• Civil activist Aydin Zakeri arrested in Meshkin Shahr.
• 35 men and 40 women arrested during a party in Salmas.

C-Liberation

• Mona Aghdasi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Shiva Aghsani, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Peyman Atefi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Kavian Dehghan, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Gharchak political prisoner, human rights activist Negar Haeri released on bail.
• Political prisoner Amir Khorram released on furlough.
• Shayan Kosar, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Student activist Saha Mortezai released on bail.
• Kousha Rahimi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Nika Rajabi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Negar Sobhanian, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.

D-Other News

• Kurdish political prisoner Mostafa Armin assaulted beaten in Barazjan prison.
• Baha’i Shahram Chinian beaten in prison.
• Gonabadi Dervish Kazem Dehghan's vehicle shot in Kavar.
• Kurdish Mahabad prisoners brothers Kordpour winners of Raha Human Rights Award.
• Zoroastrian Arash Moghadam Aslanpour beaten in prison.

News of injustice in Iran

• Baha'i Manouchehr Kholousi sentenced to 6-years in prison.
• 6 hangings on Saturday in Urmia prison.
• 8 hangings on Monday in Bandar Abbas.
• 4 hangings on Monday in Arak.
• 3 hangings on Tuesday in Rasht.
• One hanging in Tabas on Wednesay.
• 2 public hangings in Kermanshah on Wednesday.
• One hanging in Sanadaj on Friday.
• 2 death row prisoners spared in Malayer.

University – Culture

• Rouzan newspaper ban lifted.
• Iranian Baha’i library sealed.
• Iranian websites of Jamaran and Baharnews filtered. 

Protests

• Teachers escalate protests by skipping class.
• Several hundred of Qum Seminary students protest against continued detention of Ayatollah Nikounam.
• Miners continue strike over firings, right to protest. 

Iran abroad

• Two bombs explode at residence of Iran ambassador in Libya; IS claims the attack.
• UAE court sentences six Iranians to life in jail over British businessman's kidnapping.
• Iran’s Kabul embassy rocked in bomb attack targeting Turks: 2 casualties.
• Tajik Interior Minister visits Tehran.
• Minsters of Communication of Iran and Somalia meet in Tehran.

Iran Politics

• Iran pro-reform political party holds 1st congress.

Miscellaneous

• Police forces collect satellite dishes in Urmia.
• Geneva rights summit to bestow 2015 Women’s Rights Award on Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
• Iranian federation open a women section of struggle.

 

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Week 07 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Amir Amirgholi moved to solitary.
• Hamid Babaei moved to solitary.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh moved to Rejaei Shahr quarantine.
• Peyman Mirzaee transferred to Rejaei Shahr.
• Death row Kurdish prisoner Saman Naseem moved to solitary.
• Amir-Houshang Navaei moved to solitary.
• Asou Rostami moved to solitary.
• Lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh moved to hospital.
• Saeed Shirzad moved to Rejaei Shahr.

 B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mona Aghdasi, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan. 
• Shiva Aghsani, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Civic activist Eslam Ali-Akbarlou arrested. 
• Kavian and Aref Dehghan, Baha’is, arrested in Isfahan.
• Peyman Atefi, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Shahab Dehvari, student, arrested in Zabol.
• Mehrad and Safa Forghani, Baha’is, arrested in Tehran.
• Civic activist Amin Hajilou arrested.
• Elham Karambakhsh, Baha’i, arrested in Tehran.
• Shayan Kawtar, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Civic activist Araz Khasehtarash arrested.
• Mona Mehrabi, Baha’i, arrested in Tehran.
• Nationalist activist Mohammad Mozafari arrested in Tehran.
• Kauthar and Houshang Rahimi, Baha’is, arrested in Isfahan.
• Nika Rajabi, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Political activist Ali Shariati arrested.
• Negar Sobhaneyan, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.

 C-Liberations

• Christian convert Rasoul Abdollahi released on parole.
• Journalist student activist Evin prisoner Zahra Khandan released.
• Hatem Samadi, workers’ rights activist, released.
• Women's rights activist prisoner Fereshteh Toosi released from Evin prison.
• Rozita Vaseghi freed after 5 years.

 D-Other News

• Omid Alishenas is on hunger strike.
• Masoud Arabchobdar is on hunger strike.
• Hamid Babaei is on hunger strike.
• Saeed Shirzad is on hunger strike.

 News of injustice in Iran

• Mehrnameh's Chief Editor Forouzandeh Adibi sentenced to a fine and a year in prison.
• Akbar Amini’s sentence extended to 10 years.
• Kurdish brothers Ali and Habib Afshari, political activists, executed in Urmia prison.
• Kurdish student Asou Azizi sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Oghor Chalbi sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Iraj Darafshi sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Sanandaj Court of Appeals upheld the one year imprisonment sentence of Farhad Shafizadeh, a Philosophy major student at Tabriz University.
• Member of Erfan Halgheei (Inter-Universalism Group), Masoumeh Zia was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment + 74 lashes.
• 2 hangings in Chah Bahar.
• 4 hangings in Shiraz and 2 in Kerman on Sunday.
• 5 hangings in Urmia on Monday.
• 6 hangings in Bam on Monday.
• 2 hangings in Bandar Abbas on Monday.
• One hanging in Mashhad on Monday.
• One hanging in Shiraz.
• One hanging in Mashhadon Friday.

 University – Culture

• Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi” wins Golden Bear in Berlin.
• Classical music Iranian vocalist Ali Reza Eftekhari's concert cancelled in Kermanshah.
• Weekly “Noh Dey”banned again.
• Mariam Heidarzadeh finally allowed publishing her poetry book.
• Population doubled since the 1979 revolution, number of University students increased by 2500% 

 Protests

• Iran MPs wear medical face masks to protest air pollution.
• Residents of Abadan take to the street to protest pollution.
• The protests in Ahvaz go on.
• Thousand workers of Louleh Safa factory ended their 14-day strike.

 Iran abroad

• Chinese Prime Minister visits Tehran.
• Ali Larijani meets Chinese foreign minister.
• Eshagh Jahangiri meets Nouri Al Maleki in Baghdad.
• Mohammad Shariat Madari meets Afghan president in Kabul.

Iran Economics

• Iranian built cement factory opens in Venezuela.
• 573 Iranians appears in the Swiss Leaks file for a total of USD1.5 billion.

 Iran Politics

• Iran prohibits armed forces involvement in elections.
• Former Iranian VP begins serving sentence for corruption.
• 350 kg explosives found in Sistan Balochistan; terrorist network dismantled.

 Miscellaneous

• Dust problem spreads to Bushehr.
• Heavily armed “terrorist” team arrested in Sistan-Baluchistan.
• Destruction of a church in Salmas.

 

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Week 06 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mostafa Daneshjou has an heart attack, transferred to hospital.
• Peyman Mirzaie moved to Rejaei Shahr.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) transferred to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.
• Saeed Razavi-Faghih transferred from hospital to Rejaei Shahr without finishing treatment.
• Saeed Sangar transferred from Sanandaj to Urmia prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Farah Baghi, Baha’I, begins serving her sentence in Yazd.
• Shahab Dehvari, medical student, arrested in Zabol.
• Reza Jelodarzadeh, journalist, arrested.
• Alireza Mostakhdem, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Kermanshah.
• Ali Rezaei, Azeri journalist, arrested at Mehrabad airport.
• Hatam Samadi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, arrested in Sanandaj and released the same day.

C-Liberations

• Ahmad Zeidabadi released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Atena Farghdani begins a hunger strike in Gharchak prison.
• Zeinab Jalalian, Kurdish prisoner, denied visits in Khoy prison.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) begins a hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ribvar Abdollahi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Manouchehr Kholousi, Baha’i, sentenced to 6 years in prison.
• Man sentenced to removal of eye and ear - Doctors deny carrying out the sentence.
• 20 Tabriz football supporters sentenced to prison and lashes.
• Court rejects complaint of several Baha’is students.

Pardon

• One man pardoned at the gallows in Qom.

University – Culture

• Wall collapse halts renovation at historic Tomb of Daniel.
• Security guards sealed Mashhad Sunni School "Sonat Nabavi".

Protests

• Hundreds of students protest at Tehran University dorm.
• Unprecedented dust storm sparks protests in western Iran

Iran abroad

• Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
• Another Iranian commander killed in Iraq.
• Iran's Vice-President meets Pope Francis.
• Zarif meets with Iraqi Prime Minister
• Rouhani meets with Indian National Security Advisor.
• Iran reiterates support for a unified Yemeni government.

Iran Politics

• Women’s affairs chief promotes “positive reinforcement” of hijab.
• Iran’s government tries to play matchmaker.
•  Rouhani's VP of Women's Affairs visited the notorious Gharchak prison and met with Atena Farghdani and Hakimeh Shokri.
• Administrative Court voted against Baha'is entry at University.
• Khamenei stresses that no agreement is better than a bad agreement.
• Motahari website has been filtered.

Miscellaneous

• Dust problem escalates from Ahvaz to other cities.

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