Week 16 - 2013

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Khosro and Masoud Kordpour were transferred to Urmia prison.
• Blogger Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari transferred to hospital then back to prison without treatment.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mohammad-Hassan Asadi arrested in Urmia.
• Khosro Badavi arrested in Urmia.
• Abdolsalam Bahavar arrested in Urmia.
• Amir Hassan Behrouz arrested in Urmia.
• Behrouz and Hasan Brakenloo arrested in Urmia.
• Pouria Farazmand, blogger and student, arrested in Kermanshah.
• Adnan, Aghil , Ahmad-Ibn-Abed, Ahmad-Ibn-Farhan and Hadi-Ibn-Farhan Heidari arrested during a poetry reading at one of his relatives.
• Afshin Mirzaei, arrested in Urmia.
• Ali-Akbar Mohammadzadeh is back to Evin at the end of his furlough.
• Mir-Hadi Mousavi arrested in Urmia.
• Shiva Nazar-Ahari is back to Evin at the end of her furlough.
• Farzad Salamat arrested in Urmia.
• Trade Unionist, labour activist, Reza Shahabi is back to Evin Prison after medical leave.
• Mohammad-Ali Velayati is back to Evin at the end of his furlough.
• Babak Zeinali, Baha’i student, arrested at home in Bandar Abbas.

C-Liberations

• Imprisoned member of Freedom Movement of Iran, Mohammad-Bagher Alavi, released on bail.
• Mona Ameri, Baha’i from Gorgan, freed on 150 million toman bail.
• Amir Chamani released on furlough from Tabriz prison.
• Azeri activist, Mehdi Koukhian, released on bail.
• Rofia Pakzadan, Baha’i from Gorgan, freed on 150 million toman bail.
• Economic expert Fariborz Raisdana free after 1 year prison term.
• Nassim Soltanbeigi, journalist, was freed.
• Azeri activist, Abbas Valizadeh, released on bail.

D-Other News

• After 800 days under house arrest, opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi allowed to meet his sister in Qom.
• Gonabadi Dervishes Saleh Moradi and Kasra Nouri ended their hunger strike after the 7 Dervishes incarcerated in ward 209 were transferred back to ward 350.
• Nasrin Sotoudeh elected to Executive Board of the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR).
• Political  prisoners at the Rajai Shahr prison launched a 72-hour hunger strike to protest abusive and undignified body search

News of injustice in Iran

• Sharif Saed-Panah, member of Free Union of Iranian Workers sentenced to 6 months prison.
• Mozafar Saleh-Nia, member of Free Union of Iranian Workers sentenced to 6 months prison.
• 6 persons publicly hanged in Shiraz in a total of 9 hangings.
• 2 executions in Mashhad.
• 1 execution in Kerman.

University – Culture

• Christie's Dubai auction total $6.4 million; Moshiri's Secret Garden sells for almost 1 million.
• New Asghar Farhadi film will be presented in Cannes festival.
• The student magazine of the Razi University of Kermanshah has been closed down.

Protests

• Dervishes clashes with security forces in front of the Revolutionary Court in Shiraz.
• Pensioners protest in front of the Oil Ministry.
• Demonstrations in Tabriz in front of the 'Iran Khodro Tabriz' car manufacturer.

Iran abroad

• Rally in support of imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes in Stockholm.
• An Iranian truck driver kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Afghanistan's Herat province.
• Ahmadinejad to visit to Benin, Ghana and Niger
• The new coordinator of the United Nation’s Office in Tehran, Barbadian citizen Gary Lewis, submitted his credentials to Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi.
• Ahmadinejad to attend Venezuelan president’s inauguration ceremony.
• 100s protest in Herat after 13 dead bodies of Afghans (reportedly shot dead by Iran guards) handed over to Afghanistan.

Iran Economics

• $ 1 = 3550 tomans.

Iran Politics

• Police uses tear gas after a car accident in Gorgan to spread the people.
• 15-year old teenage Ahvazi killed in anti-regime protest.

Miscellaneous

• Strong earthquake measuring at 7.8 magnitude shook southern Sistan Baluchistan province.
• Another earthquake measuring 4.8 shakes Marand (North-West).

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