Week 20 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mohammad Mozafari moved to Evin 6.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Sunni Kurd Heiman Bazari arrested in Mahabad.
• Workers’ rights activist Shapour Ehsani-Rad arrested.
• Kurdish Sunni student Ebrahim Gholami arrested in Mahabad.
• Negar Haeri arrested and sent to Evin 209.
• Kurdish Sunni worker Mostafa Khadir arrested in Mahabad. 
• Kurdish cultural activist Jalal Khodamoradi arrested.
• Mohammad-Reza Moradi, Chief Editor Of "Bayan Eghtesad", arrested in Eslamshahr.
• Student activist Seyed Zia  Nabavi back to prison at the end of furlough.

C-Liberations

• Gonabadi dervishes lawyer Mostafa Daneshjou freed at the end of his sentence.
• Political activist Nader Jani released on a 4 days furlough.
• Workers’ rights activist Ebrahim Madadi released on bail.
• Release on a 5 days furlough of Mehdi Motamedi-Mehr.
• Blogger Nasour Naghipour released on a 4 days furlough.
• Workers’ rights activist Davoud Razavi released on bail.
• Journalist Keyvan Samimi freed at the end of his sentence.

D-Other News

• Human Rights activist Narges Mohammadi launches hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• One amputation in Khuzestan on Sunday.
• One public hanging in Shiraz.
• 5 hangings in Shiraz on Tuesday.
• 4 hangings in Arak on Tuesday.
• One public hanging in Minab on Tuesday.
• 5 hangings in Rejaei Shahr on Wednesday.
• One public hanging in Ghochan on Thursday.
• 11 hangings in Ghezel Hesar.

University – Culture

• VOA stops radio broadcast service in Persian.

Iran abroad

• Iran’s Minister of Defense, Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, travels to Iraq and meets with his Iraqi counterpart.
• Velayati meets with President Assad in Damascus.
• Taliban delegation travels to Iran.
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Bahraini chargé d’affaires.
• Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos on May 20 in Tehran.

 

Iran Politics

• Following the protests of Ahwaz Rail Construction 60 workers dismissed.

 

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Week 19 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Gonabadi dervish Reza Entesari moved to prison’s hospital.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Baha’i Rouha Imani arrested in Kerman.
• Mourning Mother Neda Mostaghimi arrested to serve her 3 years sentence.
• Yaghoub Omri arrested in Piranshahr.

C-Liberations

• Kurdish workers’ rights activist Hamed Mahmoudnejad released on heavy bail.
• Student activist Seyed Zia Nabavi released on a 4 days furlough.
• Molavi Fatehi Mohammad Naghshbandi freed.
• Azeri activist Ali Rezaei released on bail.
• Student activist Majid Tavakoli freed at the end of his sentence.
• Baha’i Jalayer Vahdat freed at the end of his 5 years sentence.

News of injustice in Iran

• Atena Daemi sentenced to 7 years in prison.
• 4 hangings in Urmia on Saturday.
• One hanging in Rasht on Sunday.
• One hanging in Mashhad on Sunday.
• 4 hangings in Arak on Tuesday.
• 3 hangings in Hamedan on Tuesday.
• One hanging in Rasht on Wednesday.
• One hanging in Ghazvin on Wednesday.
• 7 hangings in Shiraz.

University – Culture

• 29 exhibitors banned from Tehran Book Fair.
• Mohammad-Ali Sepanloo, aged 75, passed away

Protests

• Protests in Sardasht in support of Mahabad.
• 14 days of protest by railway union in Ahvaz.
• Protests of teachers continue.
• Rally in front of Piranshahr governor’s office.
• Tabas miners strike to demand unpaid wages.
• Safa pipe has been on strike for more than 3 weeks.
• General strike in Eastern Kurdistan on Thursday.

Iran abroad

• Iraqi president visits Tehran.

Iran Economics

• Iran buys 9 passenger planes, new record in 3 decades.
• Iran received 7th installment: $4.9 billion.

Iran Politics

• Armed clashes in Kurdistan.
• Security forces prevented  National Front from holding their annual meeting.

Miscellaneous

• Graphic designer Farkhondeh Sadegh and dentist Laleh Keshavarz became first Iranian Women to summit Mount Everest.
• Al-Shabab captures Iranian sailors off Somalia.

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Week 18 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Gonabadi dervish Reza Entesari exiled to Rejaei Shahr.
• Saeed Matinpour transferred for Zanjan to Evin.
• Hossein Nouraninejad moved to ward 8 in Evin.
• Journalist Saeed Pourheydar transferred to Imam Khomeiny hospital in Tehran. 
• Gonabadi dervish Farshid Yadollahi exiled to Rejaei Shahr.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Political activist Mohsen Bigler-Beigi arrested in Shahrekord. 
• Political activist Javid Fakhrian arrested in Shahrekord.
• Human Rights activist Narges Mohammadi arrested and sent to Evin.
• Human Rights activist Neda Mostaghimi begins serving her 3 years sentence.

C-Liberations

• Workers’ rights activist Kourosh Bakhshandeh released on bail.
• Workers’ rights activist Nezam Sadeghi released on bail.

D-Other News

• Amir Mirzaei-Hekmati is on hunger strike in Evin.

News of injustice in Iran

• 4 hangings in Arak last Sunday.
• 3 hangings in Sari on Tuesday.
• 1 hanging in Rejaei Shahr on Tuesday.
• 1 hanging in Ghazvin on Tuesday.
• 3 hangings in Sari on Tuesday.
• 11 hangings in Ghezel Hesar on Wednesday.
• One death row prisoner pardoned by victim’s mother in Shiraz.
• Flogging sentence carried out in public in Nahavand.

University – Culture

• Over 10 books banned removed from the Tehran Book Fair.

Protests

• Gathering of Gonabadi Dervishes in front of sealed Reza Aid Institute.
• Teachers protest throughout Iran.
• Violent protests in Mahabad.

Iran abroad

• Iran gets new diplomatic office in Washington.

Iran Politics

• Iran releases Maersk ship and its crew.

Miscellaneous

• Dust problem returns to Ahwaz, causes traffic problems.

 

 

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Week 17 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

 

 

 

• Poet and satirist Mohammad-Reza Ali-Payam "Haloo" moved to Rejaei Shahr.
• Masoud Bastani back to prison.
• Seyed Mohammad Ebrahimi hospitalized.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Kurdish workers’ rights activist Reza Amjadi arrested.
• Student activist Ehsan Dolatshah arrested and sent to Evin.
• Kurdish workers’ rights activist Osman Esmaili arrested.
• Political activist Farkhondeh Kargar arrested in Shiraz.
• Political activist Mohammad-Javad Keshvarzi arrested in Shiraz.
• Mehran Khandel, Baha’i, arrested in Hamadan.
• Workers’ rights activist Ebrahim Madadi arrested.
• Political activist Omid Masoudi arrested in Shiraz.
• Journalist and political activist Hossein Nouraninejad begins serving his 1 year sentenced in Evin.
• Workers’ rights activist Davoud Razavi arrested.
• Kurdish workers’ rights activist Mahmoud Salehi arrested.
• Political activist Mehdi-Sadat Shojaei arrested in Shiraz.
• Student activist Majid Tavakoli returned to prison after one week out on furlough and only 13 days before his sentence is complete.

C-Liberations

• Farideh and Parvaneh Ayoubi, Baha’is from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Hamid and Masoud Azar-Noosh, Baha’is from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Mahmoud Badevam, Baha’i, freed at the end of his sentence.
• Political activist Ahmad Hashemi on a 3 days furlough for the death of his wife.
• Mina Hemmati, Baha’i from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Mehran Khandel, Baha’i from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Fataneh Moshtagh, Baha’i from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Davar Nabilzadeh, Baha’i, freed at the end of his 5 years sentence.
• Shahin Rashedi, Baha’i from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Farhad Sadeghi, Baha’i, freed at the end of his sentence.
• Romina Tabibi, Baha’i from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Atefeh Zahedi, Baha’i from Hamedan, released on bail.
• Ramin Zibaei, freed at the end of his sentence.

D-Other News

• Ghadrieh Ghaderi begins a hunger strike in Yasouj prison.
• Journalist Saeed Pourheydar is on hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Armenian Christian Sevada Aghasar sentenced to 5 years in prison.
• Mohammad-Amin Akramipour, Facebook activist, sentenced to 7 years by Appeals.
• Masoud Ghasem-Khani, Facebook activist, sentenced to 7 years by Appeals.
• Amir Golestani, Facebook activist, sentenced to 7 years by Appeals.
• Fariborz Kardarfar, Facebook activist, sentenced to 7 years by Appeals.
• Mehdi Reyshahri-Tangestani, Facebook activist, sentenced to 5 years by Appeals.
• 9 hangings in Shiraz last Wednesday.
• 9 hangings in Bandar Abbas last Thursday.
• One hanging in Ghazvin on Wednesday.
• One hanging in Sanadaj on Thursday.
• Kermanshah death row prisoner pardoned by family’s victim.
• 2 death row prisoners pardoned by family’s victim.

University – Culture

• Women magazine "Zanan Emrouz" banned.
• Kermanshah teacher fired because of her faith.
• Sattar Beheshti posthumously received the 2015 Pen-New England Vasyl Stus Freedom to Write Award.

Protests

• Over 150 train workers protest in Ahvaz against wages delay then go on strike.

Iran abroad

• Iran, Iraq sign security agreement.
• Syrian Defense Minister arrives in Tehran.

 

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