Week 05 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Student Raham Barkizadeh moved to ward 7 in Evin.
• Workers’ rights activist Behnam Ebrahimzadeh moved to solitary in Evin.
• Fakhroldin Faraji is back to Tabas prison without surgery.
• Student Ali Nouri moved to ward 7 in Evin.
• Student Mohammad-Saeed Hosseinizadeh-Movahed moved to ward 7 in Evin.
• Kurdish activist Ali-Ahmad Soleimani moved from Urmia prison to Tabriz.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Sunni cleric Ghasem Abeyat arrested in Zahedan.
• Kurdish workers’rights activist Zaniar Baghian arrested in Sanandaj.
• Political activist Ghorban-Ali Behzadiannejad is back in Evin at the end of furlough.
• Baha’i Shahram Falah begins serving his sentence in Yazd.
• Baha’i Ziaollah Ghaderi arrested in Tonakebon.
• Baha’i Soroush Gorshasebi arrested in Tonakebon.
• Baha’i Navid Haghighi begins serving his sentence in Arak.
• Baha’i Faramarz Lotfi arrested in Tonakebon.
• Political activist Mohsen Mir-Damadi is back in Evin at the end of furlough.
• Journalist Alireza Rejaei back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• Ramin Rezaei, Azeri activist, sent to Takab prison to serve his 91 days sentence.
• 300,000 Iranians arrested for drug-related charges in the past 10 months.
• 24 boys and 22 girls arrested during a party in Alborz.

C-Liberations

• Ali Nouri, human rights activist, released on bail.
• Hossein Sabouri, Ahvazi Sunni activist, released on bail.
• Sami Zabadi-Alboughabish, Ahvazi Sunni activist, released on bail.

News of injustice in Iran

• Azeri journalist Mohammad-Reza Jamali sentenced to 3 years in prison.
• One hanging in Bam on Saturday.
• 4 hangings in Rasht on Saturday.
• One hanging in Karaj on Sunday.
• One hanging in Mashhad on Tuesday.
• One hanging in Shiraz on Thursday.
• 2 hangings in Urmia on Friday.

University – Culture

• Baha'i Misagh Mohebpour expelled from Shiraz University.
• Iranian MP Ali Motahari's Website filtered.
• Internet newspaper "Homa" close to Ahmadinejad banned.
• Guggenheim museum in New York will exhibit Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian works.
• Jafar Panahi sends a banned film to Berlin festival.

Protests

• Teachers protest against wage level.
• Safa Pipe workers strike again over unpaid wages; they are joined by truckers.

Iran abroad

• Iranian Deputy FM Dr.AmirAbdollahian met Egypt's president Al-Sisi in Adis Abbaba.
• Zarif travels to Kenya and meets Burundi’s and Tanzania’s presidents.
• Hossein Amir Abdollahian met with the President of South Africa Jacob Zuma.
• Boroujerdi meets Syria’s Deputy Foreign Minister
• Zarif meets Kerry in Munich.
• Iran and Afghanistan sign border agreement

Iran Economics

• Iran starts construction on new pipeline to Iraq.

Iran Politics

• Members of the Iranian Parliament’s Judicial Committee visit Evin prison for a three-hour inspection.

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Week 04 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Political activist Amir Amir-Gholi moved from solitary to public ward in Evin.
• Political activist Ali Ebadi-Jamkhaneh transferred to hospital.
• Political activist Fakhroldin Faraji moved to hospital for surgery.
• Lawyer Afshin Karampour is back to Evin.
• Baha’i Foad Moghadam sent to hospital.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Lawyer Mostafa Daneshjou sent back to Evin despite doctors’ advice.
• Naser Abdol-Hosseinzadeh, Azeri activist, sent to Meshkin-Shahr prison to serve his 6 months sentence.
• Mohammad-Reza Roein-Otoufat begins serving his 10 years sentence in Evin.

C-Liberations

• Political activist Ghorban-Ali Behzadiannejad released on furlough.
• Student activist Mahdieh Golroo released on bail.
• Christian convert Vahid Hakani freed on parole.

D-Other News

• Ali-Asghar Mahmoudian not allowed to attend his mother’s funeral.

News of injustice in Iran

• Detention order for journalist Yaghma Fashkhami extended.
• Mehdi Farahi-Shandiz sentenced to 3 extra years in prison.
• Sentence of 20 years for Facebook activist Seyed Masoud  Talebi confirmed by Supreme Court.
• 7 hangings in Minab on Saturday.
• One hanging in Esfahan on Sunday.
• 3 hangings in Kerman on Sunday.
• 3 hangings in Hamedan on Monday.
• One hanging in Shiraz on Tuesday.
• 2 hangings in Arak on Tuesday.
• One hanging in Tehran on Wednesday.
• 2 hangings in Isfahan on Wednesday. 

University – Culture

• Musician Majid Derakhshani banned from traveling abroad.
• Setareh Sobh weekly publication banned for publishing MP Motahari's critical letter to the Judiciary Chief.

Protests

• A thousand workers on strike in the coal mines of Eastern Alborz.
• Laid-off refinery workers protest plant closure.

Iran abroad

• Ali Shamkhani, the Supreme National Security Council Secretary, met with Irakli Garibashvili, Parliament Speaker of Georgia.
• Mohammad-Javad Zarif is in Yerevan.
• Vice-president of German parliament visits Tehran.
• Velayati meets with President Putin in Moscow.
• Economy Minister visits Azerbaijan.

Iran Economics

• Supply problem shuts down sugar refinery.
• Illegal currency exchange agencies sealed in Tehran.

Iran Politics

• Iran's foreign minister summoned to parliament over walk with Kerry.
• Police raid homes in Paveh to collect satellites.

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

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