Week 08 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

 

• Sunni prisoner Shouresh Ayneh Bokani transferred to Urmia Intelligence.
• Journalist Green political activist, Rajai Shahr prisoner Masoud Bastani moved to hospital.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh, workers’ rights activist transferred to quarantine of Rajai Shahr prison.
• Atena Faraghdani transferred to hospital.
• 16th day hunger striker Mohamadreza Pourshajari lost consciousness moved to hospital.
• Kurdish political prisoner Mohammad Hossein Rezaei moved to Bandar Abbas prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Labor Activist Hasan Ahmadi arrested in Marivan.
• Journalist student activist Ahmad Asgari arrested to serve 5-year prison.
• Yazd Baha'i Fariba Ashtari begins her 2-year prison sentence.
• Political activist Ali Maghami arrested to serve his 4 months.
• Civil activist Yadollah Mohammadi arrested in Divandareh.
• Mahabad Kurdish journalist Kavan Mohammadpour arrested
• Shiraz Gonabadi Dervish Saleh Moradi arrested.
• Cultural-Social Deputy of Mashhad Ferdowsi University Ali Yousefi arrested.
• Civil activist Aydin Zakeri arrested in Meshkin Shahr.
• 35 men and 40 women arrested during a party in Salmas.

C-Liberation

• Mona Aghdasi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Shiva Aghsani, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Peyman Atefi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Kavian Dehghan, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Gharchak political prisoner, human rights activist Negar Haeri released on bail.
• Political prisoner Amir Khorram released on furlough.
• Shayan Kosar, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Student activist Saha Mortezai released on bail.
• Kousha Rahimi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Nika Rajabi, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.
• Negar Sobhanian, Baha’i, freed in Isfahan.

D-Other News

• Kurdish political prisoner Mostafa Armin assaulted beaten in Barazjan prison.
• Baha’i Shahram Chinian beaten in prison.
• Gonabadi Dervish Kazem Dehghan's vehicle shot in Kavar.
• Kurdish Mahabad prisoners brothers Kordpour winners of Raha Human Rights Award.
• Zoroastrian Arash Moghadam Aslanpour beaten in prison.

News of injustice in Iran

• Baha'i Manouchehr Kholousi sentenced to 6-years in prison.
• 6 hangings on Saturday in Urmia prison.
• 8 hangings on Monday in Bandar Abbas.
• 4 hangings on Monday in Arak.
• 3 hangings on Tuesday in Rasht.
• One hanging in Tabas on Wednesay.
• 2 public hangings in Kermanshah on Wednesday.
• One hanging in Sanadaj on Friday.
• 2 death row prisoners spared in Malayer.

University – Culture

• Rouzan newspaper ban lifted.
• Iranian Baha’i library sealed.
• Iranian websites of Jamaran and Baharnews filtered. 

Protests

• Teachers escalate protests by skipping class.
• Several hundred of Qum Seminary students protest against continued detention of Ayatollah Nikounam.
• Miners continue strike over firings, right to protest. 

Iran abroad

• Two bombs explode at residence of Iran ambassador in Libya; IS claims the attack.
• UAE court sentences six Iranians to life in jail over British businessman's kidnapping.
• Iran’s Kabul embassy rocked in bomb attack targeting Turks: 2 casualties.
• Tajik Interior Minister visits Tehran.
• Minsters of Communication of Iran and Somalia meet in Tehran.

Iran Politics

• Iran pro-reform political party holds 1st congress.

Miscellaneous

• Police forces collect satellite dishes in Urmia.
• Geneva rights summit to bestow 2015 Women’s Rights Award on Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad.
• Iranian federation open a women section of struggle.

 

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Week 07 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Amir Amirgholi moved to solitary.
• Hamid Babaei moved to solitary.
• Behnam Ebrahimzadeh moved to Rejaei Shahr quarantine.
• Peyman Mirzaee transferred to Rejaei Shahr.
• Death row Kurdish prisoner Saman Naseem moved to solitary.
• Amir-Houshang Navaei moved to solitary.
• Asou Rostami moved to solitary.
• Lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh moved to hospital.
• Saeed Shirzad moved to Rejaei Shahr.

 B-Arrests-Detentions

• Mona Aghdasi, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan. 
• Shiva Aghsani, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Civic activist Eslam Ali-Akbarlou arrested. 
• Kavian and Aref Dehghan, Baha’is, arrested in Isfahan.
• Peyman Atefi, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Shahab Dehvari, student, arrested in Zabol.
• Mehrad and Safa Forghani, Baha’is, arrested in Tehran.
• Civic activist Amin Hajilou arrested.
• Elham Karambakhsh, Baha’i, arrested in Tehran.
• Shayan Kawtar, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Civic activist Araz Khasehtarash arrested.
• Mona Mehrabi, Baha’i, arrested in Tehran.
• Nationalist activist Mohammad Mozafari arrested in Tehran.
• Kauthar and Houshang Rahimi, Baha’is, arrested in Isfahan.
• Nika Rajabi, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.
• Political activist Ali Shariati arrested.
• Negar Sobhaneyan, Baha’i, arrested in Isfahan.

 C-Liberations

• Christian convert Rasoul Abdollahi released on parole.
• Journalist student activist Evin prisoner Zahra Khandan released.
• Hatem Samadi, workers’ rights activist, released.
• Women's rights activist prisoner Fereshteh Toosi released from Evin prison.
• Rozita Vaseghi freed after 5 years.

 D-Other News

• Omid Alishenas is on hunger strike.
• Masoud Arabchobdar is on hunger strike.
• Hamid Babaei is on hunger strike.
• Saeed Shirzad is on hunger strike.

 News of injustice in Iran

• Mehrnameh's Chief Editor Forouzandeh Adibi sentenced to a fine and a year in prison.
• Akbar Amini’s sentence extended to 10 years.
• Kurdish brothers Ali and Habib Afshari, political activists, executed in Urmia prison.
• Kurdish student Asou Azizi sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Oghor Chalbi sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Iraj Darafshi sentenced to 10 years in prison.
• Sanandaj Court of Appeals upheld the one year imprisonment sentence of Farhad Shafizadeh, a Philosophy major student at Tabriz University.
• Member of Erfan Halgheei (Inter-Universalism Group), Masoumeh Zia was sentenced to 1 year imprisonment + 74 lashes.
• 2 hangings in Chah Bahar.
• 4 hangings in Shiraz and 2 in Kerman on Sunday.
• 5 hangings in Urmia on Monday.
• 6 hangings in Bam on Monday.
• 2 hangings in Bandar Abbas on Monday.
• One hanging in Mashhad on Monday.
• One hanging in Shiraz.
• One hanging in Mashhadon Friday.

 University – Culture

• Jafar Panahi’s “Taxi” wins Golden Bear in Berlin.
• Classical music Iranian vocalist Ali Reza Eftekhari's concert cancelled in Kermanshah.
• Weekly “Noh Dey”banned again.
• Mariam Heidarzadeh finally allowed publishing her poetry book.
• Population doubled since the 1979 revolution, number of University students increased by 2500% 

 Protests

• Iran MPs wear medical face masks to protest air pollution.
• Residents of Abadan take to the street to protest pollution.
• The protests in Ahvaz go on.
• Thousand workers of Louleh Safa factory ended their 14-day strike.

 Iran abroad

• Chinese Prime Minister visits Tehran.
• Ali Larijani meets Chinese foreign minister.
• Eshagh Jahangiri meets Nouri Al Maleki in Baghdad.
• Mohammad Shariat Madari meets Afghan president in Kabul.

Iran Economics

• Iranian built cement factory opens in Venezuela.
• 573 Iranians appears in the Swiss Leaks file for a total of USD1.5 billion.

 Iran Politics

• Iran prohibits armed forces involvement in elections.
• Former Iranian VP begins serving sentence for corruption.
• 350 kg explosives found in Sistan Balochistan; terrorist network dismantled.

 Miscellaneous

• Dust problem spreads to Bushehr.
• Heavily armed “terrorist” team arrested in Sistan-Baluchistan.
• Destruction of a church in Salmas.

 

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Week 06 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Mostafa Daneshjou has an heart attack, transferred to hospital.
• Peyman Mirzaie moved to Rejaei Shahr.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) transferred to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.
• Saeed Razavi-Faghih transferred from hospital to Rejaei Shahr without finishing treatment.
• Saeed Sangar transferred from Sanandaj to Urmia prison.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Farah Baghi, Baha’I, begins serving her sentence in Yazd.
• Shahab Dehvari, medical student, arrested in Zabol.
• Reza Jelodarzadeh, journalist, arrested.
• Alireza Mostakhdem, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Kermanshah.
• Ali Rezaei, Azeri journalist, arrested at Mehrabad airport.
• Hatam Samadi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, arrested in Sanandaj and released the same day.

C-Liberations

• Ahmad Zeidabadi released on furlough.

D-Other News

• Atena Farghdani begins a hunger strike in Gharchak prison.
• Zeinab Jalalian, Kurdish prisoner, denied visits in Khoy prison.
• Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari (Siamak Mehr) begins a hunger strike.

News of injustice in Iran

• Ribvar Abdollahi, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• Manouchehr Kholousi, Baha’i, sentenced to 6 years in prison.
• Man sentenced to removal of eye and ear - Doctors deny carrying out the sentence.
• 20 Tabriz football supporters sentenced to prison and lashes.
• Court rejects complaint of several Baha’is students.

Pardon

• One man pardoned at the gallows in Qom.

University – Culture

• Wall collapse halts renovation at historic Tomb of Daniel.
• Security guards sealed Mashhad Sunni School "Sonat Nabavi".

Protests

• Hundreds of students protest at Tehran University dorm.
• Unprecedented dust storm sparks protests in western Iran

Iran abroad

• Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Russia and Iran on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
• Another Iranian commander killed in Iraq.
• Iran's Vice-President meets Pope Francis.
• Zarif meets with Iraqi Prime Minister
• Rouhani meets with Indian National Security Advisor.
• Iran reiterates support for a unified Yemeni government.

Iran Politics

• Women’s affairs chief promotes “positive reinforcement” of hijab.
• Iran’s government tries to play matchmaker.
•  Rouhani's VP of Women's Affairs visited the notorious Gharchak prison and met with Atena Farghdani and Hakimeh Shokri.
• Administrative Court voted against Baha'is entry at University.
• Khamenei stresses that no agreement is better than a bad agreement.
• Motahari website has been filtered.

Miscellaneous

• Dust problem escalates from Ahvaz to other cities.

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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.

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Week 03 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Omid Alishenas, political activist, moved to general ward in Evin.
• Afshin Baymani, political activist, moved to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.
• Atena Daemi, civic activist, moved to general ward in Evin.
• Arzhang Davoudi, political activist, moved to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.
• Mohammad-Saeed Hosseinizadeh-Movahed, journalist, moved to general ward in Evin.
• Ali Nouri, political activist, moved to general ward in Evin.
• Journalist Saeed Razavi-Faghih transferred to hospital.
• Asou Rostami, children’s rights activist, moved to general ward in Evin.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Jalil Badavi, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Mohsen Darianoosh, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Ahmad Dehnad, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Mansour Hosseinzadeh, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Zahra Khandan, journalist, arrested in Tehran.
• Sadigh Kakeh-Mami, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Majid Khakdan, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Reza Makri, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Saha Mortezaei, women’s rights activist, arrested in Tehran.
• Mansour Naderi, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Kamil Nejati, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Nader Rasouli, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Reza Soltani-Azar, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• Shahab Zarin, Kurdish citizen, arrested in Mahabad.
• 84 people arrested during a party in Mashhad.
• 20 people arrested during a party in Amol.

C-Liberations

• Parastou Biravand, journalist and women’s rights activist, freed after 4 days.
• Vali Doroudi, Kurdish activist, released on an 8 days furlough.
• Mohsen Mir-Damadi, political prisoner, released on furlough.
• Fardin Mirki, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, released on bail.
• Ali Rashidi, economist, on a 4 days furlough.
• Alireza Rejaei, political activist, released on furlough.
• Rozita Vaseghi, Baha’i, freed at the end of her 5 years sentence.

News of injustice in Iran

• Sentence of Jabar and Malek-Mohammad Abadian revoked by Supreme Court.
• Mohammad-Sadigh Mangouri, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 3 years suspended.
• Sentence of Nezam-Oldin Molazadeh revoked by Supreme Court.
• Sentence of Molavi Fatehi Mohammad Naghshbandi and Molavi Abdolghafar Naghshbandi revoked by Supreme Court.
• Temporary detention order of Arash Sadeghi extended for 2 months.
• 2 public hangings in Shiraz.
• One hanging in Khorasan.
• 3 public hangings in Azerbaijan.
• A man sentenced to removal of an eye and an ear.

University – Culture

• "Mardom Emrouz" seized banned in relation with Charlie Hebdo's support.
• Authorities forced a female musician off-stage during a live concert in Tehran.

Protests

• Bafgh mine workers protest in Tehran for back wages.
• Teachers on strike across Iran to protest the economic problems.

Iran abroad

• Defense Minister IRGC Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan met with his Russian counterpart General Sergei Shoigu in Tehran.
• Hossein Amir Abdollahian travels to Qatar.
• IRGC Navy Commander meets with Omani National Defense College Commander.
• Ali Larijani, the Speaker of Iran’s Parliament, touched down in Turkey.
• Mohammad-Javad Zarif, Iran’s Foreign Minister, travels to Kabul,

Iran Politics

• A large number of Mazanderan photography studio sealed.
• One Sunni mosque sealed in Tehran.
• MPs lodge complaint against Motahari.

Miscellaneous

• 2,000 deaths of addicts in 8 months.

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Week 02 - 2015

Prisoners’ News

A- Transfers

• Keyvan Samimi is back to Rejaei Shahr.

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Journalist Ehsan Akbari arrested.
• Atena Farghdani beaten, arrested and sent to Gharchak.
• Jafar Ghafouri, Kurdish Sunni, sent to Mahabad to serve his 6 months sentence.
• Journalist Serajedin Mir-Damadi back to Evin at the end of furlough.
• 18 terrorists arrested in Sistan-Balochistan.

C-Liberations

• Saeed Hosseini released from Meshkin Shahr on parole.
• Journalist Mehrdad Sarjooei freed from Evin at the end of his sentence.
• Lawyer Masoud Shamsnejad, freed from Urmia prison at the end of his sentence.

D-Other News

• Abdollah Momeini stabbed, moved to hospital.

News of injustice in Iran

• Mostafa Faghihi, journalist, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
• One hanging in Yazd.
• Two hangings in Shiraz.
• 5 hangings in Arak on Tuesday.
• One hanging in Sari on Wednesday.

University – Culture

• Homayoun Shajarian concert in Bandar Abbas cancelled by authorities.
• Nora Mosama, Baha’i student, expelled from Mazandaran University.

Iran abroad

• Rouhani meets with the Venezuelan president.

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