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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