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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