Iran News Week 34 - 2011

Translated from the original post in French by marthegonthier

Prisoner News

A-Transfers

• Hossein Maleki Ronaghi  transferred to prison cell immediately after hospital treatment against medical advice.
• Farah Vazehan transferred to prison cell immediately after hospital treatment against medical advice.

B-Arrest / Imprisonment

• Feizollah Arabsorkhi  back in prison after temporary leave.
• Hassan Asadi Zeidadabadi  back in prison after temporary leave.
• Samin Ehsani , Baha'i, arrested in Tehran.
• Javad Emam  back in prison after temporary leave.
• Abolfazl Ghadiani  back in prison after temporary leave.
• Abdolreza Haghnejad  Rasht Christian pastor was arrested.
• Ali Heidari , editor and civic activist arrested.
• Afshin Heiratian  Baha'i and children's rights activist, arrested and sent to Evin 350.
• Vahid Kholoussi, Baha'i student denied education, arrested.
• Vahid Lalipour  husband  of Mahdieh Golrou began his sentence in Evin.
• Mahsa Mahali, Azeri activist, arrested last Sunday at Urmia.
• Mahsa Mehdizadeh, Azeri ecologist, arrested on his return to Iran.
• Mohsen Mirdamadi  back in prison after temporary leave.
• Behzad Nabavi, back in prison after temporary leave.
• Abdollah Ramezanzadeh  back in prison after temporary leave.
• Pouria Shahpari, Zoroastrian, went to Evin to serve his sentence.
• 30 people arrested at the home of  Morteza Avazpour  in Tabriz during Iftar breaking of Ramadan fast.
• Arrests made in Ahvaz allegedly for meetings organized by Facebook.

C-Releases

• Sasan Vahebivash , a student at Azad University of Tabriz, released on bail.

D-Other News 

• Seven Baha'is arrested in May in the raid on the Baha'i internet university are still in Evin.
• As of August 23, political prisoners in Rejaei Shahr are no longer allowed to go to the infirmary.

News of injustice in Iran

• Behzad Alipour , Sharif University student was sentenced to 1.5 years suspended sentence and 30 lashes.
• Hossein Amini , Kurdish activist currently imprisoned in Rejaei Shahr was sentenced to six years in prison.
• Banafshe Shima , a student of Kermanshah sentenced to six months suspended for protesting during the visit of a minister to the university. 
• Khaled Hadjizadeh,  Kurdish activist currently imprisoned in Rejaei Shahr was sentenced to six years in prison.
• Sajad Hayati  student of Kermanshah sentenced to six months suspended for protesting during the visit of a minister to the university. 
• Mehrdad Islamkhah , student activist currently free on bail, was sentenced to four years in prison.
• The verdict of  Navid Khandjan  is upheld on appeal: 12 years in prison.
• Niosh Khazayi , student of Kermanshah sentenced to six months suspended for protesting during the visit of a minister to the university. 
• Amir Khorram  member of the movement for freedom in Iran, sentenced on appeal to six years in prison.
• Qanbari Mohammad-Reza , a student of Kermanshah, was sentenced to six months suspended sentence for protesting during the visit of a minister to the university. 
• Sedigh Iman , former secretary of the University of Babol Nourshrvani, sentenced to one year in prison.
• Atefeh Zamani , a student of Kermanshah sentenced to six months suspended for protesting during the visit of a minister to the university.
• The two American hikers sentenced to eight years in prison, their lawyer has appealed.

University - Culture

• 6 faculties of the University of Tabriz Azad become unisex.
• The school week reduced to five days: Thursday is a holiday.
• Head of Iranian radio and television replaced.
• End of mixed classes in kindergarten.
• Iran is no longer part of the International Theatre Institute chaired by UNESCO: it has not paid its membership dues.
• The film Circumstance  at the Sundance festival.
• Poems of love and mystical poems now banned in public performances.

Economy of Iran

• Iran and Venezuela launched construction of a petrochemical complex near Bushehr.
• The Ministry of Agriculture banned the import of fruit.
• The Department of Energy owes $ 8 billion to contractors who must in turn pay bank charges.
• Sanctions are very hard on carpet dealers.
• Iran will once again import gasoline.
• 45% unemployment in Marand & Jolfa; 85% in the border towns
• From 30 to 35% of the dairies closed Qom.
• Iran ranks second in cigarette smuggling.
• 12,000 general medical practitioners are seeking employment in Iran.
• Iran imports more than $ 2 billion in Chinese goods.

Events

• New teachers rally held outside parliament.
• Textile shop owners on strike, other stores beginning to close in sympathy

Iran abroad

• Iran appoints new ambassador to Syria.
• The national team volleyball suspended for refusing to play against Israel. 
• Iran has withdrawn some financial support for Hamas since they refused to back Syria.
• A former regime member reveals that Iran hosted Ocalan in the 90s.
• France adds sanctions on the Iranian Qods force because of its role during the repression in Syria.
• The Emir of Qatar arrived in Tehran Thursday.
• Iran launches TV Hispana, Spanish television received in Europe and America.

Politics in Iran

• The party  Kargozaran e Sazandegui  will not participate in the next parliamentary election.

Misc. News

• Presence of nitrates in the water south of Tehran.
• A man set himself on fire Enghelab Sq Tehran over financial problems.
• 45,000 deaths annually in Iran due to the pollution, 13000 in Tehran.
• 4 killed in floods in Mashhad.
• It snowed in Mazandaran.
• 4 shepherds and 1000 sheep killed by floods on the Tehran to Tchalous road.

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