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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