Week 11 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

 

•  Gonabadi dervish Mostafa Abdi transferred to solitary in Evin and back to general ward the day after.
• Gonabadi dervish Reza Entesari transferred to solitary in Evin and back to general ward the day after.
• Syrian Kurdish prisoner Ramezan Ahmad Kamal moved to Rejaei Shahr.
• Gonabadi Dervish Saleheddin Moradi moved to Shiraz prison. 

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Blogger Vahid Abolghasemi  arrested.
• Najafabad Baha'i Naghmeh Farabi begins serving her 2 years sentence in Yazd.
• Green political activist Mohammad Amin Hadavi transferred from hospital to prison.
• Blogger Majid Kabi arrested.
• Baha’i Shabnam Motahed begins serving her sentence with her husband Iman Rashidi.
• Blogger Shahab Mousavi arrested.
• Baha’i Iman Rashidi begins serving his sentence with his wife Shabnam Motahed.
• Young Baloch citizen Abed Reisi arrested in Nikshahr.
• Blogger Rahim Yazdi arrested.
• Sanadaj political activist Mokhtar Zarei arrested at home.
• 60 arrests during a party in Tehran.
• Hundreds of football spectators arrested in Khuzestan.

C-Liberations

• Dervishes Gonabadi Jafar and Masoud Ahmadi freed at Kavar.
• After 2.5 years, political activist Behzad Arabgol released on furlough.
• Baha’i Nasim Ashrafi released on furlough for Now Rooz.
• Baha'i Faran Hesami released on furlough for Now Rooz.
• Ribvar Kamranipour released on bail.
• Dervish Gonabadi Morteza Kangarlou freed at Kavar.
• Dervish Gonabadi Zabiollah Kordpour freed at Kavar.
• Political prisoner Arash Moghadam released on a 4 days furlough for Now Rooz.
• Dervish Gonabadi Davoud Nasiri freed at Kavar.
• Political prisoner Mohammad Nasiri released on furlough for Now Rooz.
• Qom seminary teacher Ayatollah Nekounam released.
• Baha'i prisoner `Adnan Rahmat-Penah freed on bail.
• Human Rights activist Evin prisoner Arash Sadeghi released on heavy bail.
• Political prisoner Maryam Shafipour released on furlough for Now Rooz.
• Political Prisoner Ahmad Zeidabadi on 3 days furlough for Now Rooz.

 

D-Other News

• Faran Hesami wins Raha Südwind Award.
• Prison guards raided ward 12 of Rejaei Shahr.
• A death row prisoner committed suicide in Shiraz.
• Masoud Emamza, 45 years old, committed suicide in Bandar Abbas prison.

 

News of injustice in Iran

• Shahram Amiri sentenced to 5-years in exile and 10-years in prison.
• Labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh sentenced to 6 years in prison.
• Former president’s son Mehdi Hashemi sentenced to 15 years in prison.
• Kurdish prisoner Zeinab Jalalian sentence reduced from death to 15 years.
• Civil activist Majid Moghadam sentenced to 6 years in prison.
• Labor activist Jamil Mohammadi sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.
• Blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari sentenced to 1 year in prison and exile.
• Temporary detention order for political activist Ali Shariati, incarcerated since Feb 18, has been extended.
• 4 hangings in Zahedan on Monday of which 3 Afghan nationals.
• One hanging in Shiraz on Monday.
• 2 public hangings in Jiroft on Wednesday.

 

Protests

• Teachers protest in Shahr e Kord.
• Teachers protest in front of Charmahal-Va-Bakhtiyari governor’s office.

 

Iran abroad

• US remove Iran and Hezbollah from Terror List.
• Iranian ship unloads 185 tons of weapons for Houthis at Saleef port.
• Iranian Vice-President for Family Affairs and Women, meets with an advisor to the Italian Prime Minister.
• Tehran condemns terrorist bombing in Pakistan against Christians.
• Economic and Finance Minister meets Syrian President Assad.
• Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister meets with his Omani counterpart in Muscat.

 

Iran Economics

• 50% drop in Iranian oil exports to the Republic of Korea in February 2015.
• Iran's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased to over $54 billion in the first nine months of the current Iranian year.
• The government has managed to slash a more-than-40 percent inflation rate to 16 percent.
• $18.5 million in subsidies for manufacturing for the following year..

 

Iran Politics

• Leader’s office says government must force people toward heaven.
• 17 students of Kermanshah Razi University summoned for improper hijab.
• Guardian Council approves next year’s budget.

Miscellaneous

• A street vendor sets himself in fire in front of Khorramshahr municipality.
• Suspicious fire at the mosque holding funeral services for the brother of detained Greens leader Mehdi Karoubi.

 

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