Prisoners’ News
A-Transfers
- Kurdish political prisoner Shahram Elyasi, servinglife imprisonment, transferred from Evin prison to Rajai Shahr prison
B- Arrests/Incarcerations
- Nursing mothers Zahra Nik-Aein and Taraneh Torabi sent to prison to serve their sentences along with their infants
- Mehdi Rafsanjani arrested after being summoned to court on return from spending 2 years in the UK
- Journalist & former Gorgan city council member, Abdolnaser Mahimani, arrested in Tehran while visiting his son
- Adeleh Cheraghi arrested September 24. Her husband labor activist Alireza Askari recently released on bail
- Ahmadinejad’s media advisor Aliakbar Javanfekr arrested & sent to Evin to start serving 6 months sentence
- Mazandaran Uni student blogger Mani Tavakoli arrested on his way back home from Tehran. Whereabouts unknown
- Activist Shokrollah Nazeri arrested after a search of his home. Whereabouts unknown
- Prominent lawyer and member of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre, Mohammad-Ali Dadkhah, began his 9-year prison sentence in Evin
- Hasan Maadikhah taken to Evin to serve his 2.5 year sentence
C-Liberations
- Green activist Mohamad Rahbari was released on Sept 11 after completing 6 months
- Esmaeil Salmanpour, a Sarand earthquake relief worker was re-arrested and re-released
- Hamid-Reza Moseibian, Behrooz Alavi, Hooman Taheri, and Vahed Kholousi - detained earthquake relief volunteers – released on bail
- Rajabali Dashab (Babak) released after serving 3 year sentence
- Activist Ali Samadpour released on bail after 83 days in detention
D-Other News
News of injustice in Iran
- Iran among the top six worst performers in Freedom House’s Net Freedom Report
- 17 Sunni teachers banned from teaching in Kurdistan province
- Shargh Daily, reformist paper,banned again. Managing Editor and cartoonist Hadi Heidari summoned by judiciary over a cartoon deemed insulting to army
University – Culture
- Severe floods in Rasht
- IMF: Iran is experiencing a brain drain at the rate of 180,000 individuals per year
- Iran cleric declares that temporary marriage is the only option for widowed women
- New iPhone 5 selling for equivalent of US$1,320 in Tehran bazaar
Protests
- Iranian activists from US, Canada and Europe went to New York to protest Ahmadinejad’s speech. A group attacked and assaulted the IRI foreign ministry spokesperson Ramin Mehmanparast
- 10,000 more workers signed a petition against living conditions
Iran Economy
- Toman-US Dollar rates hit 2720; Gold coins reach new record high 1,400,000 Toman
- Luxury car imports up 30%
Iran abroad
- Turkish trade deficit falls on gold sales to Iran
- Ahmadinejad made his final visit as President to the United Nations General Assembly in New York
- France, Germany, Britain want more sanctions on Iran
- Argentina and Iran to discuss 1990s bombings – after Argentina threatened to close its embassy in Tehran
- Iran looking to build relations with Afghanistan and India through Chahbahar port
- Swiss-based Vitol trades Iranian fuel oil, skirting sanctions
- Head of the European Union demanded the release of Mousavi, Rahnavard and Karoubi & wants a meeting with them
- India’s imports from Iran fell 5% between July and August
Politics in Iran
- Iran made additional claims about what it calls “foreign sabotage”
- Iranian Minister of Culture threatens to boycott the 2013 Oscars in the wake of the anti-Islam film
Miscellaneous
- Iran readies domestic Internet, reportedly blocks Google, Gmail, etc
- (again) and then had to provide regime personnel with circumvention tools so that they can maintain access. The Minister of Communications denied these reports.
via @lissnup Posted via email from lissping
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