Daily and Weekly News from Iran in English: Week 15

A- Transfers

Saeed Abedini is back to general ward in Rejaie Shahr.
Mostafa Azizi moved to Evin clinic.
Journalist Masoud Bastani moved to hospital.
Mostafa Eskandari is back to general ward in Rejaie Shahr.
Khaled Hardani is back to general ward in Rejaie Shahr.
Omid Kokabee is back to general ward in Evin.
Majid Moghadam is back to general ward in Evin.
Afshin Sohrabzadeh, Kurdish political activist suffering from cancer, transferred from hospital to quarantine in Minab.

B-Arrests-Detentions

Mehdi Abdollahi, newly converted to Christianity, arrested in Karaj.
Ribvar Abdollahi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, begins serving his sentence in Sanandaj.
Hatam Abiat arrested in Ahvaz.
Gonabadi dervish Hamid-Reza Arayesh arrested near Kavar.
Salem Atashaei arrested in Ahvaz.
Basem Batrani arrested in Ahvaz.
Gonabadi dervishes Kazem and Mohammad-Ali Dehghan arrested near Kavar.
Riaz Fars arrested in Ahvaz.
Mohammad Ghadimi, newly converted to Christianity, arrested in Karaj.
Yashar Ghalandari, newly converted to Christianity, arrested in Karaj.
Mostafa Heidari arrested in Ahvaz.
Saeed Heidari, newly converted to Christianity, arrested in Karaj.
Moslem Khosraji arrested in Ahvaz.
Gonabadi dervish Zabihollah Kordpour arrested near Kavar.
Ahmad Marmazi arrested in Ahvaz.
Hadi Marvani arrested in Ahvaz.
Workers’ rights activist Nezam Sadeghi, arrested in Sanandaj.
Mahmoud Savari arrested in Ahvaz.
Abbas Seifzadeh, newly converted to Christianity, arrested in Karaj.
Malek Shakhi arrested in Ahvaz.
Poet Ahmad Sobhani Hazbavy arrested in Ahvaz.
Hengameh Taghavi, newly converted to Christianity, arrested in Karaj.
Political activist Hossein Yazdi arrested in Isfahan.
Baha’i Afsaneh Yadegar arrested at home in Tehran.
Labor activists brothers Aram and Foad Zandi arrested in Sanandaj.

C-Liberations

Baha’i Rouhieh Bagherdokht (Akbari) released on bail from Evin.

Journalist Yaghma Fashkhami released on bail.

Baha’i Mona Mehrabi (Alizadeh) released on bail from Evin.

Kurdish journaliste Kavan Mohammadpour released on bail.

Pishva Salehzadeh released on bail.

Kurdish student Mokhtar Zarei released on bail.

D-Other News

News of injustice in Iran

Student and political activist Mohsen Bigler-Beigi sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Student and political activist Javid Fakhrian sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.
Kurdish activist Ali Khoshnamak sentenced to 3 years in prison.
Political activist Abbas Lisani sentenced to 1 year in prison.
Kurdish political activist Hossein Osmani sentenced to death.
Kurdish political activist Diakou Rasoulzadeh sentenced to death.
Kurdish political activist Saber Sheikh-Abdollah sentenced to death.
Victim’s family pardons killer at the gallows in Bam.
Victim’s family pardons killer at the gallows in Arak.
2 hangings in Zahedan on Saturday.
1 public hanging in Mehriz on Sunday.
17 hangings in Karaj on Monday.
9 hangings in Karaj on Tuesday.
Public hanging in Shiraz on Wednesday.
5 hangings in Rejaei Shahr on Wednesday..

University – Culture

Protests

Iran abroad

Iran Economics

Iran Politics

Assembly of Experts Chairman Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi appointed Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi Head Secretariat of the Assembly.
Marzieh Afkham nominated first female ambassador since Islamic revolution.

Miscellaneous

Storm leaves 3 dead in Iran's Tabriz city.
Iran wins wresting world cup - for the 4th time in a row.
Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander Jafar Sheidai was killed in the Kurdish city of Kamiyaran.

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