Week 11 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Behzad Abdizadeh, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Urmia prison. 
• Saleh Ahmazadeh, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Urmia prison.
• Mohammad Gharemani, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Urmia prison.
• Naser Mohammadi, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Urmia prison.
• Abbas and Mohammad Moussa Tat, Kurdish political activists, transferred to Urmia prison.
• Mehdi Yousefpour, Kurdish political activist, transferred to Urmia prison.

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Babak Abbasi, arrested in Paveh.
• Jahanbakhsh Ahmadi, arrested in Paveh.
• Ali Azadi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, arrested in Sanandaj.
• Goran Bahrami arrested in Paveh.
• Baha'i Golrokh Firouzian arrested in Semnan.
• Arash and Ghane Hatami, arrested in Paveh.
• Rasoul Khezr Morovat, Kurdish cultural activist, arrested in Mahabad.
• Masoud Kordpour, brother of Mokrian site manager, arrested.
• Hamed Mohammadnezhad, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, arrested in Mahabad.
• Mohammad Mozafari arrested and sent to Evin to serve his 6 years sentence.
• Mohammad Negari arrested in Paveh.
• Sharif SaeedPanah Board member of the Free Trade Union of Workers was arrested.
• Blogger student, Badri Safiari arrested in Fars province.
• Farough and Farzad Samani, Kurdish workers’ rights activists, arrested in Mahabad.
• Motasem Shafei arrested in Paveh.

C-Liberations

• Mahmoud Bagheri released on furlough.
• Asal Esmailzadeh freed after serving her sentence.
• Journalist Ehsan Mazandarani released.
• Mohammad Hossein Naeemipour released from Evin on furlough.
• Shiva Nazarahari released on furlough.
• Abolfazl Shahpari released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Parvin Ghafarkhani, writer and poet, was asked by judge Khakpour for sex, she refused. Taken to prison. In protest she burned herself.
• Baha'i human rights activist Navid Khanjani beaten in prison.
• Political prisoner Mir Taher Mousavi refusing needed medicine protesting illegal detention in Intel Ministry's Ward 209.
• After 4 months, two daughters of Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, Iran opposition leaders under house arrest, allowed to meet their parents.

News of injustice in Iran

• Court overturned the death sentences of Kurdish prisoner Sammi Hosseini giving him 10 years in exile.
• Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Ebrahim Issapour. 
• Baha'i human rights activist Navid Khanjani beaten in prison.
• Court overturned the death sentences of Kurdish prisoner Jamaloldin Mohammadi giving him 10 years in exile.
• Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Saman Nasim.
• Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of Samkoo Nezhadi.
• Political prisoner Ali Ahmad Soleiman, Iraqi national, sentenced to death by Appeals.
• Female student dormitory at Tehran University attacked by unknown assailants.

University – Culture

• Iran blocked access to VPN.
• Sepideh Vaziri and Samir Golshan expelled from Payam e Nour University because of their Baha’i beliefs 
• Any gathering for chahar shanbeh souri, banned in Kurdistan.
• Maghreb daily shut down by Press Board.
• The critics’ prize awarded to 'Taboor' by Vahid Vakilifar at 15th Deauville Asian Film Festival.
• 40 students reported expelled from Fatima High School, Marivan, for inability to pay $100 fees.
• Iranian actresses file complaints against conservative filmmaker for calling them prostitutes.

Protests

• The families of arrested labor activists protested in Sanandaj.

Politics in Iran

• Iranian human rights official describes homosexuality as an illness.
• 99 Basij battalions and 15,000 police officers are prepared to keep the 'peace' during the election in Tehran.

Iran abroad

• Iran to build refineries in African states, Algeria, Angola, South Africa.
• Pakistani President Zardari in Iran to follow-up on gazoduc building.
• US extended 180-day waivers on Iran sanctions to Japan and 10 European Union nations.
• Iran and Hezbollah built 50,000-strong force to help Syrian regime.
• US, Iran secretly discussed swap of al Qaeda detainees for Iranian dissidents of MKO 

Miscellaneous

• An explosion injured several people in Bandar Imam Khomeini port in south of the country.
• An Iranian plane tried to intercept an American drone.
• Age of drug use in the country reached 10 years.