Week 38 - 2014

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Ali Alaei transferred from ward 350 to ward 7 of Evin.
• Esmail Barzegari transferred from ward 350 to ward 7 of Evin.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Saghi Fadaee, Baha’i from Mashhad, arrested again.
• Seyed Ali-Asghar Gharavi, journalist and political activist, begins serving his 6 month sentence.

C-Liberations

• Behieh Manavipour, Baha’i, released on bail.
• Mohsen Shoja, political activist, released on 50 million toman bail.

D-Other News

• Khaled Herdani, Kurdish political activist, ends his hunger strike.
• Cell of Hamid-Reza Moradi-Sarvestani, dervish Gonabadi, raided.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr), political prisoner recently released, denied passport.
• 40% of political and civic activist in prison, are Kurdish citizen.
• Common law prisoners join dervishes’ hunger strike.
• Families of dervishes on hunger strike organize a sit-in in visit hall of prisons.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ghoncheh Ghavami, British citizen, will be detained for 60 more days.
• Badi Hosseinpanahi, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 7 years in prison.
• Sasan Soleimani, producer of “Happy” video, sentenced to 1 year suspended for 3 years.
• 3 executions postponed in Bandar Abbas due to request of victims’ families.
• 4 suicides in Rejaei Shahr prison last week.
• 4 Razi petrochemical workers sentenced to lashes and imprisonment.
• One political Kurdish political prisoner hanged on Monday in Urmia prison.
• One hanging in Qom on Tuesday.
• Two hangings in Urmia on Wednesday.
• 5 public hangings in Shiraz on Thursday.
• 8 hangings in Kerman prison on Thursday.
• 4 hangings in Bandar Abbas on Thursday.

University – Culture

• Nora Sabet, Baha’i, denied access to University.
• Cyber police claims that 135 prostitution pages were found on Facebook.
• Many Iranian writers publish their books in Afghanistan to bypass censure.

Iran abroad

• Iran is sending troops to Iraq to fight against Islamic State.
• Large delegation from German University visits Iran.
• France drops case against MEK after 11-year.
• Zarif, Ashton meet at Iran UN mission in New York.
• Kenya detains two Iranians on suspicion of planning attacks.
• Zarif meets North Korea FM in Tehran.
• Hossein Dehghan, Iran’s Defense Minister meets president of Turkmenistan in Ashkabad.
• Meeting between Rouhani and Zarif with the Slovak Foreign Minister.
• Rouhani meets Azerbaijan minister of trade and commerce in Tehran.

Iran Economics

• EU court rescinds Iran central bank sanctions.
• Indian imports of Iranian oil rose by nearly half to 271,000 barrels per day (bpd) in January-August from a year ago.

Iran Politics

• Ministry objects to patrols enforcing hijab.
• Iran to scrap 400,000 cars to ease pollution.
• The reformist camp led by Mohammad Khatami is aligning itself with the technocratic faction of Ayatollah Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani for the March 2016 parliamentary election. 

Miscellaneous

• Explosion at Iran's Keyvan Ardakan steel plant.
• Kurdish activists in Sanandaj burn Isis flag.
• Iran wins 2014 Greco-Roman Wrestling World Championships.
• Official with Iran's Asian Games delegation charged with sexual harassment and banned from leaving South Korea.
• Clashes in Mariwan, several members of  Islamic Revolutionary Guards killed and injured in the clash.
• Queiroz will remain at his post in Iran national team.

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

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