Week 14 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A-Transfers

  

• Student Omid Kokabee moved to solitary in Evin.
• Kurdish political activist Khazar-Rasoul Maravat transferred to Mahabad prison.
• Kurdish political activist Alireza Rasouli (Molavi ) transferred to Mahabad prison.

 

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Bahman Khaleghi, Azeri civic activist, arrested.
• Mehdi Koukhian, Azeri civic activist, arrested.
• Baha’i Farahnaz Misaghian begins serving her 2 years sentence in Yazd.

 

C-Liberations

• Canadian citizen, writer and producer Ardeshir Ahmadi released from Evin.
• Baha’i Nasim Ashrafi freed at the end of her sentence.
• Baha’i Behfar Khanjani freed at the end of his sentence.

 

D-Other News

• Political prisoner Chengiz-Ghader Kheiri ends his hunger strike.
• Civic activist Majid Moghadam beaten in his cell goes on hunger strike.

 

News of injustice in Iran

• Gonabadi dervish Ebrahim Bahrami sent to exile in Sardasht for 7 years.
• Gonabadi dervish Mohsen Esmaili sent to exile in Dezful for 7 years.
• Gonabadi dervish Mohammad Sadeghi sent to exile in Maragheh for 7 years.
• Gonabadi dervish Mohammad-Ali Shamshirzan sent to exile in Bandar Abbas for life term.
• One hanging in Zabol on Saturday.
• In Mashhad, killer pardoned at the gallows by family of victim.

 

University – Culture

• Mizan chief editor fired after publishing the name of Khatami.

 

Iran abroad

• Erdogan meets Rouhani and Khamenei in Tehran.
• The European Union re-imposed sanctions on an Iranian bank and 32 Iranian shipping companies.
• Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif, visits Pakistan.

 

Iran Economics

• Iran accepted as Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank member.
• Oil minister in China to discuss energy cooperation.

Miscellaneous

• 8 Iranian guards killed near Pakistani border.

 

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