News of the Prisoners
A- Transfers
- After 3 months in Intel detention, cultural activist Jabar Yebari has been moved to Karoon prison in Ahvaz.
- Amin Zargarnezhad transferred to solitary in Tabriz prison.
B- Arrests/Incarcerations
- Idris Kaveh, Bohran Keyvanpour, Hamid Parhizkar, Kurdish villagers, arrested in Nei, and Shamzin Ahmadnezhad, Shahoo Partavi, Mohammad-Amin Salimi , Mohammad Savarkar, Asad Soleimannezhad, Khalil Zibaei recently arrested in Mahabad.
- After 3 days on medical leave Baha’i professor Farhad Sadeghi returned to prison.
- Student activist Navid Gorgin was arrested in Esfahan last week.
- Ahmad Hashemi former president Khatami’s Inspector General at the Interior Ministry started serving 5 years sentence.
- Greens supporter journalist Ali Moslehi was arrested in Kashan.
C-Liberations
- Journalist/civil activist Aref Darvish was released from prison after completing 1 year sentence.
- Cyrus Fatehi, workers’ rights activist, released on bail.
- Mitra Homayouni, workers’ rights activist, released on bail.
- Journalist Nazanin Khosravani released for one week after posting bail.
- Blogger/Human Rights activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been released on bail on medical furlough.
- Saeed Marzban, workers’ rights activist, released on bail.
- Labor activist Maziar Mehrpour has been released on bail.
- Farhad Sadeghi released from Rejaei Shahr on medical furlough.
- Temporary release of imprisoned Christian convert Mehrdad Sajjadi on high bail.
- Masoud Salimpour, workers’ rights activist, released on bail.
D-Other News
- Cleric blogger Arash Honarvar Shojaei has started a hunger strike upon return to Evin after expiry of Medical furlough. He fell unconscious on the 4th day and was transferred to clinic.
- In protest against transfer from ward 12 to ward 10 in Rajaei Shahr prison, 53 prisoners refuse food rations; 40 announce hunger strike
News of injustice in Iran
- Samin Ehsani, Baha’i children’s rights activist, sentenced to 5 years in prison.
- Semnan Court of Appeals has sentenced Elham Roozbehei to 24 months in prison.
- Court of Appeals in Semnan has sentenced Baha’i Taraneh Torabi to 20 months in prison.
- The two men sentenced to death following their two previous convictions for alcohol consumption have had their death sentences commuted and each received 80 lashes.
- One public hanging in Ahar on Sunday.
- 4 hangings on Monday, 1 publicly and 3 in Semnan.
University – Culture
- The Jameh Mosque and Gonbad-e Qabus Tower have been approved as World Heritage sites.
- Filmmaker Asghar Farhadi has been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
- 1070 satellite dishes seized in Northern Iran.
- Tehran International puppet theater festival kicks off.
- Modernist Iranian painter Mansureh Hosseini dies at 86.
- Mahmoud Dowlatabadi ‘s “The Colonel” just published in the US.
- Police raided and disrupted the Pen Society meeting held by Dr. Khazali and prevented Mohammad Nourizad from entering the meeting.
- Another concert cancelled because men and women were not separated.
- Misagh Afshar, Student in Beheshti University expelled because he is Baha’i.
Protests
- Activists protest in support of Abr Forest.
- Families of detained workers’ rights activists meet to protest
- Disabled people demonstrated in front of the General Health Organization of Iran’s offices to protest the non-payment of disability benefits.
- Telecom workers to strike and protest working conditions in Shiraz.
Economy in Iran
- Ministry of industry and mines raises interest rates on loans to industry from 11% to 21%.
- Iran discovers 6 billion barrels of new oil reserves.
- Iran automobile production drops 40% this year.
- 4,000 Iranian brick workers lose jobs after plant closure.
- No Iranian crude imports for Japan in July.
- Sanctions cut Iran’s July oil exports to near 1 million barrels per day.
Iran abroad
Iranian nationals Sayed Mansour Mousavi, left, and Ahmad Abolfathi Mohammad, right, are seen in this June 27, 2012 file photo in the Nairobi magistrates court in Nairobi, Kenya. (Khalil Senosi/AP)
- Salehi, Iran Foreign Minister briefly detained by Lanarca airport security last week in Cyprus.
- U.N. publishes report on Iran arms trade with Syria.
- Iran calls for extraordinary OPEC meeting.
- Qatar frees 8 jailed Iran fishermen.
- Saudi Arabia has not resumed issuing visas to Iranian pilgrims following the suspension on the death of the Crown Prince
- Iran summons Afghan diplomat.
- Saudi decided not to execute Iranian prisoners. Sentences commuted to 15 years in jail.
- Iran proposes opening of bank branch in Mumbai, India.
- The 2 Iranians arrested in Kenya with 15 kgs of explosives are members of IRGC Qods force which executes terror attacks against targets outside Iran.
- Iran arrests two men on charges of spying for Azerbaijan; Iranian ambassador to Baku recalled.
- Frankfurt prosecutor office: Iran’s Vice Consulate is accused of sexually molesting children.
- Iran invites Egypt’s new Islamist president to non-aligned summit in Tehran in August.
Politics in Iran
- Iranian authorities ban selling food and transport services 2 foreign (read Afghan) citizens without residence permit.
- Foreign Ministry rejects anti-Semitic remarks of first Vice President Rahimi.
- The government retreats from implementing the second phase of targeted subsides.
- Iran dismisses militia commanders involved in the British embassy attack.
- Speaker of Syrian parliament to visit Iran.
- Tehran to host conference on ‘women and Islamic awakening’ next week.
- Reza Taghipour, Minister of Communications, admitted surveillance and illegally intercepting citizens’ conversations.
Miscellaneous
- One hour “temporary marriage” (Islamic prostitution contract) in Iran at $35-$50/hour.
- 63% of Iranians vote to stop Uranium-enrichment in online poll on Iran’s national TV’s website.
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