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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