Glistener: News from Iran – Week 47

Prisoner News

Transfers

Shahram Ahmadi, Taleb Maleki, Mokhtar Rahimi, Behrouz Shah-Nazari, Kaveh Sharifi, and Kaveh Veisi, Sunni prisoners sentenced to execution, transferred from Evin 240 to 350.
Iraj Mohammadi, Kurdish political activist transferred to hospital.
Secretary General of the Freedom Movement Ebrahim Yazdi hospitalized.

Arrests-Detentions

Negin Ahmadian, Negar Malekzadeh, Hoorieh Mohseni , Arman Mokhtari, and Behnaz Hadadzadeh begins serving 6 months in Vakil Abad.
Students Afsaneh and Shahoo Bayazidi arrested in Bokan.
Abbas Haghighi, workers’ rights activist in Polyakryl factory of Isfahan arrested
The intelligence agency incarcerated Faroukh Khezri, who is 25 years old, until his father Mohammad Khezri turns himself in.
Javad Lotfi, and Kiomars Rahimi, workers’ rights activists in Polyakryl factory of Isfahan, arrested.
Afshin Nadimi, and Mehrdad Sabouri, Kurdish Workers’s rights activists, arrested.
Journalist Nasour Naghipour is back to Evin at the end of his furlough.
Ayatollah Mohammad Sehhati arrested in Esfahan and released shortly after.
About 15 Ghaderi Dervishes arrested in Alborz Province.
8 bloggers arrested in Rafsanjan on charges of “insulting Islamic sanctities and values.”

Liberations

Other News

Ali Moradi, Kurdish political prisoner, is on hunger strike to protest against his transfer to Bandar Abbas.
Jailed human rights/children’s rights activist Mohammad Hassan Yousef Pourseifi has launched a hunger strike protesting denial of Medical treatment.
Prisoners have no hot water to shower in ward 350 of Evin.

News of injustice in Iran

Six Kurdish journalists sentenced: Shahoo Ahmadi, Ehsan Nikpei, Ali Yousefi and Mohsen Cheraghi, to 6 months in prison, Rahmatollah Cheraghi and Sajad Gheisari to 6 months suspended.
Shahin Bayezidpour, Kurdish activist, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Hossein Ghasemi, Kurdish Sunni prisoner of Rejaei Shahr, sentenced to 2 years in prison.
Kurdish bookstore owner Soleiman Mohammadi was sentenced to seven months in prison on charges of helping a Kurdish opposition party.
Teimur Naderizadeh, Borzan Nasrollahzadeh and Farshid Naseri, Sunni prisoners of Rejaei Shahr, sentenced to execution.
One hanging in Esfahan.
One hanging in Zahedan.
One hanging in Yazd.

University – Culture

The entire cast of the film Gass by Iranian director Kiarash Asadizadeh was awarded the best emerging actor honour at the eighth Rome Film Festival.

Protests

Iran abroad

FM visits Italy ahead of nuclear talks.
Rouhani holds telephone conversation with Russian president Putin; Deputy Foreign Minister meets Russian counterpart.
Suicide blast at Iranian embassy in Beirut; cultural advisor and 24 other people killed, 150 injured.
Hassan Rouhani meets Indonesian Parliament Speaker.
UN 3rd Committee Draft Resolution on Situation of Human Rights in Iran adopted YES 83, NO 36 , ABSTAIN 62.
Rouhani talks with Putin, Chinese president, British PM ahead of nuclear talks –

Iran Economics

National Iranian Gas Company went bankrupt.
Kenfkar Factory in Rasht vlosed, 31 workers unemployed.
Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO) has signed a contract with a Belgian company to build and operate a graphite electrodes manufacturing factory in Ardakan City of Yazd.
300 workers in Tabriz Tractor Factory have not been paid for more than 4 months; they now also lost their social insurance.

Iran Politics