News from Iran - Week 22 - 2012

News of the Prisoners

A- Transfers

• Ebrahim Babaei transferred to hospital.
• Imprisoned opposition cleric Ayatollah Kazemini Boroujerdi hospitalized.
• Participation Front member Mehdi Eghbal has been released on medical furlough.
• Political prisoner Mohamadreza Motamednia was taken to Modarres hospital and returned to Evin after treatment.
• Reza Sharifi Bokani transferred to solitary confinement in Rajai Shahr Prison.
• Illegal transfer of Sharokh Zamani, Workers’ rights activist, to Yazd prison

B- Arrests/Incarcerations

• Baha’i Atefeh Anvari was arrested in Isfahan.
• Journalist Farshad Aswad arrested on his way out of the country.
• Mohammad Ilkhanizadeh Tehran University student sentenced to 3 months prison and 74 lashes.
• Zeynab Jafarzadeh, a student at the Teachers Seminar in Tehran, was arrested in the student dormitory and transferred to Evin Prison.
• Baha'i Mahnaz Jan-Tasar was arrested in a raid of her home in Bandar Abbas.
• Extension of medical furlough denied for Mahboubeh Karami, she is back to Evin.
• Zahra Khodabakhsh, daughter of Shargh newspaper investor, detained.
• Basimeh Kamjoo, teacher,  arrested in Fasham.
• Mojtaba Karimi, Mohammad Moradi, and Erfan Mohammad arrested in Esfahan for distributing Kebrit, a forbidden student newspaper.
• Journalist Sam Mahmoudi recalled to prison.
• Manizheh Najm Araghi, writer, translator and secretary of the Writers Association, arrested.
• Baha’i Zhinous Nourani begins serving her one year sentence in Semnan.
• Baha’i Rofia Bidaghi begins serving her one year sentence in Semnan
• Mohammad Rezaei, member of National-Religious party entered prison to serve his sentence.
• Sadaf Sabetian Baha’i, arrested and sent to Evin to serve her 2 years sentence.
• Behnam Sheikhi arrested again and sent to Intelligence detention center in Tabriz.
• Number of Christian citizens, affiliated to "Church of Iran", arrested in Karaj.

C-Liberations

• Mohammad Ahadi released on bail from Tabriz prison after 4 months + 6 days.
• Gholamhossein Azari Najababadi was released after completing his one year sentence; he was arrested during 25 Bahman (2/14/2011) protest for carrying a green flag.
• Mehdi Forouzandeh Pour head of Mousavi office released from prison today at the end of his sentence.
• Mehrdad Karami was released from Tabriz prison after 5 months incarceration
• Vahid Lalipour, Mahdieh Golroo’s spouse, freed at the end of his sentence.
• Atefeh Nabavi released from prison
• Banned from education, Baha'i Sama Nourani was released after completing her 1 year sentence.
• Ebrahim Rashidi was released on bail from Tabriz prison after 4 months incarceration
• Banned from education student activist Kaveh Rezaei Shiraz has been released on furlough.
• Rouzbeh Saadati released on bail from Tabriz prison after 4 months + 6 days.
• Davoud Soleimani, member of Participation Front central council, freed from prison at the end of his sentence.

D-Other News

• Arash Sadeghi begins hunger strike to support Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki.
• Tuesday afternoon, Evin Ward 350 was raided by security forces. Political prisoners protested by chants of Ya Hossein Mir Hossein.

News of injustice in Iran

• Sonia Ahmadi, Baha’i, sentenced by appeals to 5 years in jail.
• Omid Firouzian, Baha’i; has been sentenced to 4 years + 6 months by lower court in Semnan.
• Nourah Nabilzadeh Baha’i, sentenced by appeals to 5 years in jail.
• Baha'i Pouya Tabianian has been sentenced to 6 years + 6 months by a court in Semnan.
• Sina Zahiri sentenced to two years in prison.
• One execution in Evin on Wednesday morning.
• Eight people executed in Urmia prison on Thursday.

University - Culture

• Shahre Ketab (Book City) in Boustan shopping center has been shut down.
• Rudehen University has now been sexually segregated.
• Turkish poetry night ceremony by Azeri students at Tehran University, cancelled.
• Journalism scrapped from top university.
• Foad Shams has been banned from continuing his university education.
• 62% of Iranian Olympiad winners immigrate.
• Jackson Pollock painting back in Tehran Museum of Contemporary Arts after a row with Iran's customs service over unpaid debt was resolved.
• Student activist Reza Arab suspended from Mazandaran University.
• Mehdi Jamalvand suspended from Hamedan University.
• 40 students summoned by Beheshti University Disciplinary Committee.
• Babak Maghazei becomes a starred student*.
• Jabar Dastbaz suspended from Saghez university.
• House of Cinema permanently shut down.

* “starred students” are discriminated against and prevented from continuing their education

Protests

• Kiosk venders in Tabriz have had a protest gathering in front of the city hall protesting the actions of the Urban Squares Organization.
• Students at Tabriz University protest the Internet cuts/interruption to services.
• In clashes in Ilam 5 military officers are killed and 10's of protesters were arrested.

Economy in Iran

• $1 = 1780 tomans on Saturday, 1732 tomans on Monday.
• Abhar Steel Factory has been closed.
• Workers of Iran Barak have not been paid for 7 months.
• Workers of Parris factory in Sanandaj have not been paid for a year.
• Iran cancels $2 billion dam contract with China.
• 80 tires factory workers laid off.

Iran  abroad

• British Foreign Secretary W. Hague condemns violence against Ahwazi Arab Protesters.
• IRGC Commander: Iran's Qods force has significant presence in Syria.
• Iran targeted by 'Flame' espionage virus 'The virus could only have been created by a state'.
• Vice president Mohammad Reza Rahimi visits Kenya.
• 10 Iranians have been executed in Saudi Arabia. Iran summoned the Saudi ambassador to hand a note of complaint.
• At the end of the 9th Conference for Economic Cooperation between Iran and Tajikistan in Tehran, five Memorandums of Understanding were signed.

Politics in Iran

• 'Bakhtiar' dam is given to IRGC's Khatem-Al-Anbia. [See also cancelled China project above]
• Ali Larijani elected president of the parliament.
• Security forces shut down the international agriculture and food exhibition in Tehran as some booth owners were in violation of Islamic dress code.
• Iranian police restrict sale of neckties.

Miscellaneous

• Iran, number one in opium usage in the world.
• Dust clouds appears again over Tehran.
• Research found 5.4% of child labourers and streets kids in Iran have AIDS.
• Launch of temporary marriage centers in Tehran.
• Trojan targets Iranian and Syrian dissidents via proxy tool.
• 25% of Iran’s population suffers from Psychiatric problems.

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