News of the Prisoners
A- Transfers
- Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to death Habib Afshari on dry hunger strike to protest Intelligence Ministry harassing his family; he is transferred to solitary.
- Despite doctor’s orders, Mostafa Daneshjou, jailed Gonabadi dervishes’s lawyer was discharged from the hospital and transferred back to prison.
- Ali Nejati, workers’ rights activist transferred to hospital.
B- Arrests/Incarcerations
- Prominent poet and satirist Mohammad Reza Ali Payam (Haloo) arrested.
- Azad and Habib Atmani were arrested last month in Salmas.
- Dr. Yousef Bidardel Turkish language and literature professor, General Secretary of Azerbaijan civil society association arrested in Urmia after fund-raising efforts for earthquake victims
- Pan-Iranist member Omid Dehdarzadeh was arrested in a raid of his home in Ahvaz.
- Medical furlough was denied for political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadiani, he was returned to Evin from hospital.
- Mousavi’s 2009 presidential campaign coordinator Mir Taher Mousavi returning from Turkey was arrested at Tehran Airport.
- Labor activist Reza Shahabi is back in Evin prison after being hospitalized for needed treatment.
- Furlough extension was denied for activist Hassan Assadi Zeidabadi, he is back in Evin.
C-Liberations
Photo: Advar News
- 130 people receive amnesty on occasion of Eid, 90 of them are imprisoned; list of prisoners freed for Eid clemency:
- Mitra Aali
- Amirali Aghayari
- Mojtaba Ahmadi
- Alireza Akhavan
- Ashkan Alhayari
- Ashraf Alikhani
- Hadi Arab-Oladi
- Naser Azarnia
- Michael Azimi.
- Reza Azizi.
- Amir Bahmani.
- Rahman Bouzari.
- Ramin Chaooshi.
- Abdolreza Dehghan.
- Shahab Dehghani.
- Sepehr Ebrahimi.
- Sarang Etehadi.
- Mehdi Farahani.
- Masoum Fardis.
- Moshtagh Forouharpak.
- Ayoub Ghanbarpourian.
- Erfan Ghaneifard.
- Farshad Ghorbanpour Sheikhani.
- Ali Goudarzi.
- Abtin Jahanian.
- Mohsen Javadi- Afzali.
- Mehdi Karimian Eghbal.
- Amir-Abdollah Kazemi.
- Hamid-Reza Khadem.
- Nazanin Khosravarani.
- Alireza Kia.
- Kourosh Koohkan.
- Amir Latifi.
- Amir Maghamifar.
- Ali Malihi,.
- Farzan Matini Asal.
- Adel Mohammad-Hosseini.
- Mozhgan Mohammadian.
- Hamid Reza Moghadasi.
- Ali Mola-Haji.
- Reza Molavi.
- Bizhan Moradi.
- Hassan-Ali Mostafaei.
- Pouria Naderi.
- Ali, Behnam and Mazdak-Ali Nazeri.
- Navid Nezhat.
- Omid Norouzian.
- Mohammad-Reza Poonki.
- Mohsen Pourziaï.
- Ahmad Rabiei.
- Arash Rahaeimehr.
- Javad Rastjoo.
- Mehdi Rezaei.
- Arash Riki.
- Hossein Sabet.
- Soroush Safaverdi.
- Esmail Sahabi.
- Ali Salem.
- Sadaf Sabetian.
- Mohammad-Esmail Sahabeh-Tabrizi.
- Alireza Samiei.
- Mohammad-Javad Shahpari.
- Hesam Shahsavari.
- Keyvan Shirazi.
- Ebrahim Shokouhizadeh.
- Ghasem Sholeh-Saadi.
- Mohammad-Hossein Sohrabi-Rad
- Hassan Tabrizi.
- Mohammad-Reza Taghizadeh Kashani.
- Amir-Ehsan Tehrani-Sakhavat.
- Masoumeh Yavari.
- Hamid-Reza Yazdiari.
- Shamim Zeinolabedini
- Blogger Javad Aboali was released from Behbahan prison after serving out his 1 year sentence.
- Ahmad Reza Ahmadpour, cleric and member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, has been granted a 2-week furlough from prison.
- Kurdish political prisoner Hadi Amini released at the end of his prison sentence.
- Gonabadi dervish, Abdolghafour Ghalandarinejad, one of the collaborators of Majzooban Noor website resident in Bandar Abbas, was released after 6 days in detention.
- Student activist Ali Jamali, Head of the political unit of the Office for Consolidating Unity was released after serving out his 2 1/2 years sentence.
- Zahra Khodabakhsh, daughter of Bozorg Ali Khodabakhsh, sentenced to 1 year in prison, has been released after 70 days in detention.
- Student activist Kaveh Rezaei who is serving 18-month sentence released on 20 million toman bail.
- After 20 months in prison, Pan-Iranist member Shahin Zeinali has been released on bail on a 3 day furlough.
News of injustice in Iran
- End of Ramadan clemency produces some sentence reductions:
- Remaining sentence reduced by half:
- Reza Ansari Rad
- Kamran Ayazi
- Mohammad Reza Golizadeh-Akhlaghi
- Abdollah Jafari
- Saeed Mahmoudi-Bagheri
- Ali-Akbar Mohammadzadeh
- Javad Toumari
- Sentence reduced by 2 years:
- Ahmad Karimi
- Kazem Motamed
- Omid Kharazmian remaining sentence reduced by 2/3 for Eid clemency
- Political prisoners lashed in Evin 350 to serve their sentences:
- Nazer Azarnia
- Ebrahim Babaei Ziedi
- Rahman Bouzari
- Ashkan Elahiari
- Siamak Ghaderi
- Rasoul Herdani
- Alireza Kia
- Mehdi Koohkan
- Amir Latifi
- Houman Mousavi
- Mazdak Ali Nazari
- Majid Sadeghinezhad
- Hossein Zarini
- Reyaneh Ansari workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 1 year suspended.
- Alireza Asgari, workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 1 year in prison.
- Jalil Mohammadi, workers’ rights activist, sentenced to 1 year suspended.
- Seyyed Hassan Taheri the son of Ayatollah Seyyed Jalal Taheri has been sentenced to 4 years in prison + 10 years exile to Zabol on charges of insulting the leader & public disturbance.
- Teenager born 1993 who was 15-years-old when arrested and charged with murder, sentenced to death.
University – Culture
- Physics teacher/post-graduate student Hamid Hadisi, a National-Religious activist, has been banned from teaching and expelled from University.
- Universities close nursing to male applicants.
Protests
- Workers at the Mazandaran textile plant staged a protest not having been paid for 26 months.
- Protest of metalworkers in front of Ministry of Industry.
Economy in Iran
- India insures Iranian crude tankers.
- $ melli (1226 tomans) vs. $ bazar (2125 tomans) officially
Iran abroad
- Iranian officers led Syrian regime militias in Homs: defected general.
- Bahrain returns ambassador to Iran.
- Ahmadinejad attends extraordinary OIC meeting on Syria in Saudi Arabia.
- US Navy rescues 10 Iranian sailors, from a boat in the Sea of Oman.
- Syrian rebels put captured Iranian drones on YouTube.
Politics in Iran
- Reformists will not participate in Elections : Iran ministry officially bans two reformist parties from the elections.
Miscellaneous
- Local residents of Shahran, Tehran protest against cutting of the forest park trees.
- A 6.3 earthquake stroke Eastern Azerbaijan on Saturday, mainly in Varzeghan district. Many aftershocks occurred: 40 on Sunday, 32 on Monday, 8 on Wednesday, 16 on Thursday, of up to 4.6.
- Other minor earthquakes: one measuring 5 on Wednesday night in Tabriz.
- In Khajeh district, 34 villages were severely damaged, 12 completely destroyed, 15 more than 50% destroyed and the rest destroyed between 20 and 50%.
- 40 villages around Haris were destroyed as 70 to 100%.
- Sattar Khan dam, between Varzeghan and Ahar, was cracked by the earthquake; in case of collapse, 20 villages will be under water. The bridge between Varzeghan and Ahar collapsed on Tuesday night during a 5.3 after stroke.
- The authorities decide to stop searches as from Sunday afternoon.
- Khamenei decided to visit victims in the area on Thursday.
- The government initially refused any foreign help and even compelled Turkish aid workers arriving at the border to return home. On Wednesday the decided to accept foreign help.
- The government promises $2000 gift and a $6000 loan with low interest per victim family.
- The official figures are 306 dead and 3000 wounded; unofficial ones are over 1000 dead.
- Dissidents declared Thursday a day of mourning for earthquakes victims.
- Provisional damages are estimated around $650 million.
- ‘Candle for earthquake victims’ memorial rally was attacked by police, 4 arrested.
- Iran deploys Revolutionary Guards in quake-hit areas, cracks down on private aid groups.
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