Glistener: News from Iran – Week 43

Prisoner News

Transfers

Political prisoner Ali Moezzi returned to prison after being taken to Karaj radiology center.
Workers’ rights activist Reza Shahabi, hospitalized again.

Arrests-Detentions

Hamid Meibedi, Davoud Mirzaei, and Alahverdi Rouhi, political activists, arrested in Karaj.
Elham Moghan, Baha’i from Esfahan, arrested.
Yahya Sarkhani begins serving his 3 years sentence in Mahabad prison.
More than 100 Kurds arrested in Tehran.

Liberations

Student activist Majid Tavakoli released on furlough from Rejaei Shahr.
Asadollah Asadi and Mahmoud Bagheri released on furlough from Evin.
Motahereh Bahrami-Haghighi and Morteza Khosravi-Rad released on furlough.
Political prisoner Manouchehr Maimanat has been released from Borazjan (Boushehr) prison after completing his 4 years sentence.
National-Religious activist Masoud Pedram has been released on a 3 day furlough.
Student activist Arash Sadeghi freed on bail.
Mehdi Tarokh released on bail.
Pezhman Zafarmand freed after being acquitted by Appeals.

News of injustice in Iran

Student activist Zia Navabi was acquitted of the new charges filed against him. He is serving a 10 years sentence in Ahvaz prison.
Student activist Amir Nazeri sentenced to 6 months prison.
Court of Appeals has overturned the 10 month sentence of civil/cultural activist Mohtaram Rahmani, giving her a monetary fine.
2 Kurdish brothers Farough and Farzad Samani sentenced to 5 years prison.
6 men and 1 woman hanged in Dizelabad prison of Kermanshah.

University – Culture

Mahmoud Zolfonoon, the Iranian violin master, has passed away at the age of 93 in the United States.
Student activist Mehdi Amani prevented from pursuing his studies.

Protests

Protests in Hormozgan; several arrests.
180 petrochemical workers stage protest.
Tehran Imam Khomeini Hospital’s Nurses rally against mandatory overtime.
Followers of Ahl-e Haqq (Yarsanism) protest in front of the parliament; 80 arrested.
10,000 people in Ahvaz protest against diversion of Karoon river.

Iran abroad

EU parliamentary delegation, headed by Hannes Swoboda meets Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani.
China had seized an Iranian oil tanker bound for North Korea.
French MPs visit their counterpart in Iran to boost cooperation between both countries.

Iran Economics

Iran Politics

Former dismissed health minister, Marziyeh Vahid-Dastjerdi, has been appointed adviser to the Judiciary Chief.

Miscellaneous

7 children injured during a mine explosion in Kurdistan.
Clashes between students and basij at Mazandaran University.
Ahwaz, the most polluted city in the world.
Level of carcinogen benzene in Tehran air is 10 times higher than standards.
25-year-old Razi Guntari, attending a funeral service for his friend, was shot and killed by internal security forces in Shadegan.
Daughter of Moussavi assaulted and bitten by a female security officer.

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