Week 14 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Zia Nabavi is back to general ward of Karoon prison in Ahvaz.
• Kasra Nouri, Gonabadi dervish on dry hunger strike, transferred to Intel in Shiraz.

C-Liberations

• Jahanbakhsh Ahmadi arrested in Paveh on 10 March 2013,  released on 50 million toman bail in Kermanshah.
• Baha'is Nava and Nika Khalusi free on bail.
• Sharif Saed-Panah member of Free Trade Union of Workers released on bail.

D-Other News

• Seyyed Jaber and Mokhtar  Al-Boshokeh, Ahvazi prisoners, end hunger strike.
• Abdolrahman Asakereh, Ahvazi prisoner, ends hunger strike.
• Mohammad-Ali Amoori, Ahvazi prisoner, ends hunger strike.
• Roeen Otufat in solitary confinement in Evin prison prevented from visits.
• Hadi Rashedi, Ahvazi prisoner, ends hunger strike.
• Hashem Shabaninejad (Amoori), Ahvazi prisoner, ends hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ghazi Heidari, political prisoner serving a sentence of 10 years in Karoon prison, sentenced to 5 more years to be served in exile in Shiraz.
• Mehdi Koukhian, Azeri civic activist, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Abbas Valizadeh, Azeri civic activist, sentenced to 8 years in prison.
• At least 580 people were executed in 2012 in Iran. Only 294 cases (51%) were reported by official Iranian sources. 
• At least 76% of Iran executions in 2012 were due to drug related charges.
•  60 executions were carried out in public in 2012 
• At least 9 women, 27 Afghan citizens and one Pakistani citizen were executed in 2012 
• 'Secret or ‘un-announced’ executions in more than 15 different Iranian prisons.

University – Culture

• Actress Asal Badiyi died in Tehran hospital at the age of 36.

Protests

• Petrochemical workers fired after strike Behnam Khodadadi fired in the wake of his speech

Iran abroad

• Ship carrying Iranian weapons en route to Syria.
• After 34 years of severed political relations Iran and Egypt, 1st Tehran-bound flight leaves Cairo.
• Egyptian tourists no longer need visas to visit Iran.
• Egyptian Coast Guard intercepts Iranian ship carrying huge cache of weapons heading for Egypt.
• Egypt Islamists attack Iran’s chargé d’affaires’ house, chant anti-Shiite slogans.

Iran Economics

• 44% of Iranians below the poverty line.
• Turkey exported almost $120 million worth of gold to Iran in February, despite tighter US sanctions.
• Indo-Iran shipping venture dissolved.
• IRGC launches airport on Great Tunb, disputed island in the Persian Gulf.

Iran Politics

• Islamic Municipal Council of Rasht dissolved.
• Ahmad Sadr Haj Seyyed Javadi, author of 120 people letter to former shah, interior and justice minister after revolution, passed away.
• Security Forces Prevented from Sadr's funeral holding.
• Deputy head of Iran Parliament-Presidential candidate declares: attack on UK Embassy in Tehran was “illegal”, must be condemned.

Miscellaneous

• Historical Bazaar of Masuleh in Guilan Province burned.

As usual, list of political prisoners in Iran: http://hyperactivist.info/ipr.html

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