Iran: imprisoned

The Kurdish writer Sousan Mohammadkhani Ghiasvand is arrested March 11 in Karaj. There is no information about the reason for her arrest and it is not known where she is taken.
source: persian2english



On March 12 is during a transport of political prisoners in Qom from prison to the revolutionary court a truck collided with another vehicle, killing Mehrdad Karimpour and Davood Eivazi, and a guard, and serously wounding another guard.
Karimpour was charged with acting against national security by participating in the memorial service commemorating Ayatollah Montazeri and putting up posters at his workplace.
The charges against Eivazi are unknown.
source: persian2english

Roozonline writes that Ramin Pourandarjani's family demanded at the behind closed doors held trial against those charged in relation with Kahrizak’s scandal that the killers of their son be punished.
Pourandarjani was a doctor in Kahrizakprison in the summer of 2009 and examined the individuals who lost their lives in that prison camp only two days prior to their deaths.
He later died under suspicious circumstances.
Those who are held reponsible for the events, Saeed Mortazavi, Ahmadi Mogaddam and Radaan are not among the 12 charged persons.
There are great concerns that the Kahrizak case meets the same fate as that of University of Tehran’s Dormitory scandal, where in the wake of raid by the police and plain cloth officers on the University’s dormitory, in which many students were severely injured, and at least one was killed.
The only person found guilty was a soldier who was convicted of stealing an electrical razor.
source:persian2english



Human Rights Watch demands the immediate release of the filmmaker and director Jafar Panahi and two collegues Mohammad Rasoulof and Mehdi Pourmusa who were arrested March 1st.
That night agents raided the house, searched everything and arrested Panahi, his wife, his daughter and 15 other filmmakers and actors.
Two days later the others were released but for Panahi and his two collegues.
Panahi's arrest has drawn sharp criticism at home and abroad, including from several European governments, civil society groups and prominent actors.
March 8 a group of wellknown Iranian producers, directors and actors visited Panahi's family to show their support and call for his and his colleagues' immediate release.
That same day was the passport of Simin Behbahani, a poet and culture critic, taken at the international airport of Tehran, preventing her from traveling to Paris for an International Women's Day event.
source: hrw.org



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