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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