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The biggest Iranian bourse- deal during the last calendar year was annulled according to an appeal court verdict.
The transaction worth $1.5 billion was related to the buying of 30.5 percent of the state Khuzestan Steel Company by a private businessman, Mohammad Jaberian.
ISNA reports that the deputy director of Privatization Organization of Iran said that the shares will be priced once again.
In June the buyer revoked from the transaction due to the sharp decline in steel prices.
In September, a 50-percent plus a single share of the Telecommunication Company of Iran worth $7.8 billion was offered on the stock market as the biggest ever transaction deal made in the country.
These stocks were purchased by the IRGC.
source: payvand.com


Journalist Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani wrote a book about the struggle of Iranian women to end discrimination against them.
The English edition of the book Iranian Women’s One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality: The Inside Story, is published and as Khorasani is unable to promote her book herself, this was done by Mahnaz Afkhami, former Minister of State for Woman's Affairs in Iran, in her behalf on VOA.
The book details the "inside story" of the OneMillionSignaturesCampaign and its strategies.
source: payvand, learningpartnership.org




Amnesty International December 11 said that the 3,400 members of People's Mojaheddin Organization of Iran (PMOI) in Camp Ashraf in Iraq must not forcibly be re-located.
Sources told Amnesty that that residents of Camp Ashraf, have been given a deadline of 15 December 2009 to leave or they will be forcibly removed and relocated elsewhere in Iraq. Some may also be at risk of being forcibly returned to Iran.
source: Amnesty International



In ward 240 of Evinprison has a political prisoner died suspiciously.
Doctors announced the cause of death severe spinal cord injuries.
The identity of the prisoner is up to now unknown.
The majority of the detainees of the November 4th and December 7th protests are being held in solitary cells of the ward 240.
source: hra-iran.net

7 students of Zanjan university received additional sentences for part of their charges which were within the jurisdiction of Public Courts.
Soorena Hashemi, Bahram Vahedi, Hassan Joneydi, Arash Rayeji and Payam Shakiba were each sentenced to one year in prison on charges of acting against national security and acting to hold an illegal rally.
Alireza Firouzi was sentenced to one year and four months in prison on charges of acting against national security, acting to hold an illegal rally and acting against the sacred system of the Islamic Republic.
Soorena Hashemi and Alireza Firouzi (a member of HRA) were additionally sentenced to to one and a half year imprisonment each,for filming and distribution of the videos.
Bahram Vahedi was sentenced to one year in prison and $150 fine for distribution of the video and assisting the filming.
Arash Rayeji and Mohammad Hassan Joneydi were each sentenced to a year in prison and Hossein Saremi to payment of a fine of $150 for being an accomplice.
Payam Shakiba is acquitted of charges.
source: hra-iran.net



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