News from Iran – Week 19 – 2014

Prisoners’ News

Transfers

• Mostafa Daneshjou transferred to CCU in Tajrish hospital.
• Arjang Davoudi transferred to ward 8 of Evin prison.
• Mohammad-Sedigh Kaboudvand back from clinic to Evin350.
• Ali Moezi on hunger strike sent to solitary in Rejaei Shahr.

 

B-Arrests-Detentions

• Baha’i Nasim Ashrafi arrested ti serve her one year sentence in Evin.
• Maziar Gilaninejad, workers’ rights activist, arrested in Karj.
• Amanollah Mostaghim is back to Rejaei Shahr at the end of medical leave.
• Mohammad Nikzad, sunni taleb, arrested.
• Omar Soleimani, Kurdish workers’ rights activist, arrested in Baneh.
• Nour-Agha Vakili, sunni taleb, arrested.

 

C-Liberations

• Alireza Farshi, Azeri political activist, released on furlough.
• Maziar Gilaninejad workers’rights activist freed.

 

D-Other News

• Ali, Jafar et Habib Afshari (Razgar), on hunger strike in Urmia prison, transferred to solitary.
• Heshmatollah Tabarzadi ends hunger strike after all Evin prisoners in solitary are back to ward 350.
• Prisoners of Evin ward 7 deprived of hot water.

 

News of injustice in Iran

• Hamid Babaei, Belgian student, sentenced by Appeals to 10 years.
• Gonabadi Dervish Ali Karami sentenced to three years prison.
• Two hangings in Mashhad on Sunday.
• 5 hangings in Kerman prison on Sunday.
• One hanging in Semnan on Monday.
• One hanging in Hamedan on Tuesday.
• One hanging in Maragheh on Wednesday.
• 3 hangings in Qom on Thursday.
• One public hanging in Saveh on Thursday.

 

University – Culture

• Parisa Moghtadi became first woman as the head of Tehran Theatre Complex.
• 12 books banned from Tehran Book Fair.
• Ghanoun newspaper banned and then Dana website filtered.
• Iran on talks to host Christies auctions.
• Mohammad Motlagh decides to publish his novel  “In The Land Of White Eglantines,” on Facebook after trying without success authorization to publish it from Ershad.

 

Protests

• Farmers in southern Roudbar have protested declining prices for agricultural products by unloading the fruits of their labour in front of the governor’s office.
• Employees of Ahvaz Mills Factory protest for their unpaid salary.
• Telecommunications workers protest in front of Ardebil Governor Office.

 

Iran abroad

• Italian parliamentary delegation visits Tehran.
• Iran detains Spaniards for illegal hunting.
• Rouhani meets Armenian FM in Tehran.
• Dubai charges 6 Iranians with businessman kidnap.

 

Iran Economics

• Delay of 5 to 20 months of salary of workers of Khorramshahr Soapmaking.
• Iran ends oil contract with Venezuela Iran, UK start oil investing negotiations.
• Iran receives 4th, 5th installment of frozen assets as agreed in Iran Deal, Central Bank of Iran confirms.
• Iranian gas pipeline to Iraq under construction.

 

Iran Politics

• Iran’s parliament votes against censuring Zarif over Holocaust stance.
• Iran president vetoes WhatsApp ban.
• Iran former intelligence chief Ali Fallahian: Unblocking Facebook leads to moral deviation and corruption in society.

 

Miscellaneous

• Flooding in 10 towns and villages of North-East Iran.
• 2957 died of drug abuse in Iran in 2013.
• Fire breaks out in Ghazvin.
• 83% Iranians don’t like their jobs.
• Iranian women post their photos without hejab on Facebook, while hardliners protest bad veiling.

 

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