Iran: circumstance

An earthquake of 5.7 on Richterscale occurred Friday near the city of Torbat-e Heydariyeh in Razavi Khorasan province. At least 110 people got injured.
Saturday an earthquake of 5.8 on Richterscale jolted Kerman province.
At this moment it is not known if people are injured.
source: bellinghamherald.com, irsc.ut.ac.ir


At least 17 political prisoners of ward 240 started a hungerstrike after they were transferred to isolation.
Their names are:
Ali Malihi, student activist and member of Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat (student alumni organization).
Bahman Ahmad Amouie, journalist.
Hossein Nourinejad, journalist and member of Participation Front (reformist party).
Abdollah Momeni, student activist and spokesman of Daftar-e Tahkim Vahdat.
Ali Parviz, student activist.
Hamid Reza Mohammadi, political activist.
Jafar Eghdami, civil activist.
Babak Bordbar, photographer.
Zia Nabavi, starred student and member of Council to Defend the Right to Education.
Ebrahim (Nader) Babaie, civil activist and wounded veteran from Iran-Iraq war.
Kouhyar Goodarzi, humanrightsactivist and blogger.
Majid Dorri, student activist.
Majid Tavakoli, student activist.
Keyvan Samimi, journalist
Gholamhossein Arashi, arrested during Ashura protests in Teheran.
Payman Karimi, gearresteerd during Ashura protests in Tehran.
Mohammad Hossein Sohrabi Rad, political prisoner arrested in relation to his follow-up activities on deaths and torture in Kahrizak prison and a member of Mehdi Karroubi’s election campaign. He received 74 lashes and was sentenced to four years in prison.
source: persian2english.com

Amnesty International said in a statement on July 30 that Iran must release the three American hikers immediately. Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal and Sarah Emily Shourd are imprisoned for over a year without charges..
Also American president Obama urged Iran to release the three hitchhikers immediately.
source: amnestyusa.org, rferl.org


Iranian will engage all bases for a massive, weeklong drill.
The drill is named Fada'eyan-e Harreem-e Vellayat (Devotees to the Sanctity of Religious Leadership) and among other air vehicles, 43 warplanes, including F-4, F-5, F-7 and Sukhoi Su-24 fighters, and unmanned airvehicles (UAVs) take part.
source: en.rian.ru




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July 29 is in the prison of Qazvin a man hanged.
The man, Yousef Khamseh (35) was convicted for rape and robbery.
source: iranhr.net



Mohammad Reza Jalaeipour, spokesman of Mowj-e Sevom (campaign of young supporters of Khatami and Mousavi during the election), who was transferred to Mashhad on July 26 after spending 40 days in Evin solitary cells, met with his wifes parents in prison.
Jalaeipour, a student at Oxford university in England was once arrested already in June 2009 at Khomeini Airport. In september 2009 he was released and acquitted of all charges.
June 14, 2010 he was arrested again.
source: HRHI


The deathsen4tence of Jaffar Kazemi is upheld in the appeals court.He is sentenced to death for moharebeh and alleged ties with MKO.
He always denied these charges.
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Mehdi Karroubi answered in a letter to remarks made by Ahmad Jannati (appointed chairman of the Guardian Council).
Translation can be read.



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There still is no information about the whereabouts of Reza Shahabi, a member of the board of directors of Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate who was arrested June 12.
Since then he was allowed to have 3 phoneconversations with his family, the last one was in the beginning of July.
The Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate condemns the arrest and demands his immediate release.
source: iranlaborreport




Amnesty International made a statement urging Iranian authorities to stop the harassment of humanrightslawyer Mohammad Mostafaei whose whereabouts have been unknown since shortly after he was released from questioning by judicial officials last Saturday.
His wife and brother in law were arrested later that evening.
Mostafaei is defence lawyer for Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani,the woman who was sentenced to death by stoning and of many juvenile offenders.
source: amnestyusa.org



Human Rights Watch asks in a statement that the Iranian Judiciary should provide urgent medical care to Kurdish humanrightslawyer Mohammad Sadigh Kaboudvand and free him. He is serving a prisonsentence from 11 years.
July 15 Kabouvand suffered what may have been a stroke and he has been experiencing severe neurological problems.
Kaboudvand is one of dozens Kurdisch dissidents who are imprisoned in Iran.
Currently 16 Kurds are sentenced to death: Zeynab Jalalian, Rostam Arkia, Hossein Khezri, Anvar Rostami, Mohammad Amin Abdolahi, Ghader Mohammadzadeh, Habibollah Latifi, Sherko Moarefi, Mostafa Salimi, Hassan Tali, Iraj Mohammadi, Rashid Akhkandi, Mohammad Amin Agoushi, Ahmad Pouladkhani, Sayed Sami Hosseini, and Sayed Jamal Mohammadi.

July 17 womanrightsctivist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign Mahboubeh Karami was transferred to the prisonhospital of Evinprison to undergo a scheduled septoplasty surgery.
Karami cancelled the surgery to demonstrate against restrictions imposed on her by prison officials.
Karami suffers from respitory problems and depression.
source: persian2english



According to the Iranian interior minister were 9 people arrested in connection with the Zahedan terrorist attack, which left 27 people dead.
Two of them are indicted and 7 others are suspected of aiding the terroristst.
The minister said that measures are taken against terrorism.
source: en.trend.az

The Independent publishes an interview with two members of the rockband Blurred Vision from Canada.
Their family fled Iran in the late 1980s and settled in Toronto. They covered the song "Another brick in the wall" for students in Iran.



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July 26 three people were hanged in the Karoun prison of Ahvaz.
The men, A. A. convicted for keeping of 80 grams of crack, S. Z. convicted for keeping of 335 grams of heroin and S. M. for keeping of 43 grams of heroin.
source: iranhr.net




After five weeks detention is the Christian Alireza Seyedi released on bail from prison.
June 18 were Fatemeh Tork-Kajouri, Mehdi Karbalaei-Ali, Afshin Vafadaran and Alireza Seyedi, arrested in the house of Behrouz Sadegh-Khanajani.
Alle were released on bail, only from Behrouz Sadegh-Khanajani, who was arrested June 16th, is no information available.
source: HRHI



The courthearing was held for Ghader Nowruzi, Fatemeh Nasirpour, Siamak and Babak Panahi all members of the banned Arman Student Organization, from Tabriz university.
They are charged with anti governmentpropaganda.
source: HRHI



Mohsen Jaldiyani a Kurdish teacher from Oshnaviyeh ( West Azarbaijan ) and head of the litterature group “Teirizh” is sentenced to 6 years in prison and exile to Tabas, province Yazd.
He was arrested in January and spent 6 months in Arak and Evinprison.
On July 18 Hanieh Farshi Shotorban was arrested by security agents in her home.
They searched the house and confiscated her computer, mobile telephone and personal belongings. She was first transferred to Tabriz Intelligence detention and later to Evin prison in Tehran.
She has been charged with “insulting the sacred and having ties with foreigners”, accusations which have been said to be related to her activities on Facebook.
source: HRHI

Kurdish activist Rahim Resha was transferred to IRGC detention center in Urmia on the eight day of his hunger strike.. He was arrested on July 19 in his hoise in Mahabad and went in hungerstrike after one day.
source: HRHI



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Mir Hossein Mousavi revealed some untold stories of the Iran/Iraq war.
The article is here
source: droi.wordpress.com






The political prisoner Reza Joshan went in coma on the 6th day of his dry hungerstrike and was transferred to the hospital of Gohardasht prison of Karaj .
Reza Joshan, 25, was arrested on December 1, 2009 by intelligence agency officers at his home. He was transferred to solitary cells of IRGC and then to ward 4 after 2 months.
source: HRHI

The 54e branch of the appeals court upheld the sentence of 7 ½ years in prison for Milad Asadi, a studentactivist and member of Daftar-e-Tahkim Vahdat (Office for Consolidating Unity).
The sentence for Bahareh Hedayat of 9½ years was also upheld.
The sentence of Amir Khosrow Dalirsani, a nationalist-religious activist, member of Committee against Arbitrary Arrests and seniormember of Jonbesh Mosalmanan Mobarez, to 4 years in prison is upheld in appeal's court.
The verdict of 1 year in prison and 74 lashes, and a ban from journalism to 15 years against journalist Peyman Aref is confirmed in appeal. Peyman Aref is currently on prison leave for treating his heart condition.
In appeal's court the sentence of Massoud Babapour, student at Garmsar Azad University to 2 years in prison, is upheld.
Rahim Rash, Vahed Dastmordi, Salah Ahmadi, and Himan Rostami , 4 residents of the villages Albelagh and Kouseh Keriz in Mahabad are arrested on July 21.
De reden is onbekend.
According to the statistics of HRHI 19 Kurdish residents and activists have been detained from June 22nd through July 22nd.
Morteza Golizadeh from Arak, member of Province of Markazi Jebheh Mosharkat(Islamic Iran Participation Front) is sentenced to 1 year in prison.
source: HRHI

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Iran: violated

The journalist Issa Saharkhiz attended his one and a half hour trial today that took place behind closed doors in branch 15 of the Islamic Revolutionary Court.
He read a written statement, translated here.
In his letter he writes among other things that if the role in tortures at the prisons of prosecutor Mohseni Ezhei, who personally has beaten prisoners, is not investigated, he will take his case to international courts.
source: persian2english, droi.wordpress.com


In an interview with International Camapaign for Human Rights in Iran, the mother of humanrightsactivist Shiva Nazar Ahari told about her daughter.
Shiva Nazar Ahari is already 10 months imprisoned in Evin prison.
source: iranhumanrights.com



The appeals court upheld the prisonsentence of 2 years of Mahdiyeh Golrou, a studentactivist at Allameh Tabatabei University.
It is unclear whether she also has to serve the one year suspended prison sentence she received one day before her detainment.
source: HRHI

The sister of imprisoned journalist Abdolreza Tajik was allowed to visit him for the first time since his arrest on June 12.
In an interview she told that her brother told her he was violated.
Parvin Tajik told that her brother was unable to tell what he meant by “violated during a meeting which took place through a telephone booth in the presence of prison officials".
She wants to investigate the case, but her efforts to follow up on her brother’s case over the past ten days have been fruitless.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

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At a blast in a petrochemical factory on Khark Island in Persian Gulf are 4 people killed.
Reports say that high pressure in the central boiler led to an explosion.
source: washingtonpost.com






Thursday is the Iranian academic and former professor of Tehran University Baghaollah Vossough murdered in Vienna.
Vossaugh, a Bahai, fled Iran in 1979 and lived in Austria since.
He is the author of the book "Five Hundred Years of Austria-Persian Relations" .
source: radio Zamaneh



Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, Seyyed Ahmadreza Ahmadpour, Zeynab Bayazidi, Arjang Davoudi and Reza Joshan are political prisoners who went in hungerstrike to protest pressures imposed to them in prison and violation of their primary rights, during the past few days.
source: HRHI


Duitsland has granted asylum to 50 dissident Iranians, who fled their country after the presidential election last year.
Most of the refugees are journalists and others who were critical of Iran's government.
Already 12 people have arrived in Gwrmany. Initially Germany wanted only 20 asylumseekers, but raised the number after criticism from Germany's Iranian expatriate community and the rights advocates Reporters Without Borders.
source: dw-world.de


17 religious minorities, 15 Kurdish citizens and activists, 3 Azeri citizens and activists, 4 students, 4 student activists, 1 labor rights activist and 44 citizens have been detained during the time period of June 22, 2010 through July 22, 2010.
source: HRHI


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Iran: further

President Ahmadinejad said that Iran will send a man in space by 2019.
In 2009 Iran launched a homemade satellite and in Februar a Kavoshgar-3 rocket with a rat, turtle and worms on board.
Telecommunication Minister Reza Taghipoir said earlier this month Iran will launch another satellite: Rasad 1.
source: BBC


Over the world rallies are being held to save the life of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani in Tabriz.
She was sentenced to death by stoning for adultery, but the sentence was put on hold following an international outcry.
However, the deathsentence remains in place. Earlier this month, Azerbaijan officials said the execution would be "temporarily halted".
source: BBC


Kaviz Nouzdahi, Hooman Bakhtavar, Sima Rajabian and Nasrin Ghadiri are sentenced to 2 years in prison, for anti-regime propaganda, acting against national security by membership in Baha’i organizations, collaborating with foreigners after travelling abroad, organizing illegal gatherings, publishing and distributing books and CDs.
5 other Bahais are serving their prison terms for similar charges. Davar Nabilzadeh is summoned by Vakil Abad Prison to serve his prisonsentence.
source: HRHI


Studentactivist Azita Mizban of Birjand University , member of Central Islamic Student Council of Birjand, and editor of Sokoot a studentpublication, committed suicide two days ago.
Her friends are not aware of the motives behind her act.
In recent years, a considerable number of students have committed suicide as a result of social pressures and educational conditions and problems.
The number of female students committing suicide is higher than male students. Reports of the Ministry of Advanced Education state that out of every 28 cases of student suicides in Iran, seven of the victims are male and 21 are female.
source: persian2english

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Iran: punishment

In the prison of the city of Hamedan were July 22 juli the hands of five persons amputated.
Fars newsagency reported that all five persons were convicted for robbery.
The local judiciary official said that average age of the five thieves on whom the hand amputation verdict was carried out was over 25 and they had committed major thefts. He added that normally the amputations are supposed to take place in public, but since "the enemies of islam" take advantage of this kind of punishments to present islam as a violator of the humanrights, amputations are not carried out in public.
source: iranhr.net




Of the 22 female political prisoners in Evinprison are Shiva Nazar Ahari, Kobra Zaghedoost, Farah Vazham and Fatemeh Khorramjoo still in prisonlimbo.
According to RAHANAreporters are also more female political detainees confined in harsh conditions inside solitary cells and other wards of Evin prison.
The Dutch/Iranian Zahra Jabbari is one of those prisoners who has been detained in ward 209 of Evin prison since 27 December 2009.
The other women were totally sentenced to 110 years in prison
Bahareh Hedayat, 9.5 years
Motahhareh Bahrami Haghighi, 10 years
Reyhaneh Haj-Ebrahim Dabbagh, 15 years
Maryam Akbari Monfared, 15 years
Fatemeh Ziaei Azad, 2 years
Hengameh Shahidi, 6 years
Mahdieh Golrou, 3 years and 4 months
Alieh Eghdamdoost, 3 years
Kobra Zaghedoost, 1 years in prison limbo
Zahra Jabbari, 4 years
Kefayat Maleh Mohammadi, 5 years
Fatemeh Rahnama, 10 years
Farah Vazeham, undecided
Masoumeh Yavari, 7 years
Shabnam Madadzadeh, 5 years
Shiva Nazar Ahari, undecided
Fatemeh Khorramjoo, undecided
Parvin Javadzadeh, 8.5 years
Soosan Tabyanian, 1.5 years
Manijeh Nasrollahi, 3 years and 4 months
Sahba Rezvani, 3 years
Atepheh Nabavi, 4 years




The site persian2english shows latest prisoner-updates.

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Iran: sentences

Blogger and humanrightsactivist Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki who was in solitary confinement in ward 1A of IRGC in Evinprison, is in critical health.He suffers heart and kidneyproblems, but any medical help is him deprived.
He was detained on December 13, 2009 along with his brother Hassan Ronaghi- Maleki.His brother never involved in politics but was detained in order to put pressure on Hossein.
Hassan was tortured for a month and suffered neck injuries as a result of the tortures in prison.
source: HRHI



Journalist Azam Vismeh, who was arrested 1 June, is released July 21 on a bail of $70,000.
source: HRHI

Zhoubin Nasiri, Khazem Taghdiri and Ali Tahami, lawyers and Master’s students in general law, international business and international law, are more than 20 days ago arrested by security organizations. They were not allowed to have visits and no charges have been made.
source: HRHI

Ali Mahin-Torabi, a juvenile offender who was sentenced to death,has been released on July 21, after 7 years, 7 months and 11 days in prison..
He stabbed as a 16-years-old during a fight Mazdak Khodaeian with a knife, later died Khoadeian in hospital. An appealscourt has ruled that it was manslaughter and sentenced Ali Mahin-Torabi to paying diyya (blood money) as the monetary compensation to the victim’s family.
source: HRHI

Writer and religious scholar Dr. Akbar Karami, has been released from the prison of Qom after 8 months detention.
He has lost more then 12 kg weight and was harsh interrogated.
source: HRHI



Hossein Rafati, Mohammad Hasan Keighobadi and Ebrahim Biganeh have been sentenced to 2 years in prison which has been suspended for 5 years..
Mohammad Rafati and Mehdi Gholi-Tabar have each received a 6 month prison sentence which is served as a 3 year suspended imprisonment.
Ali Gholi-Tabar and Ehsan Alaei are sentenced to one year of imprisonment which has been suspended for 5 years.
Dr. Ali Asghar Jamali is sentenced to 3 years in prison. He was charged with insulting the Supreme Leader.He has also been banned from having a private office for 3 years.
In this case are also 15 other individuals convicted to 1 year in prison with 2 years suspended for distributing pamphlets of Worker-Communist Party of Iran.
source: HRHI


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Iran: basic

July 21 is in Karounprison of Ahvaz a man hanged.
The man, S. H was accused of the smuggle of 990 gram cocain.
source: iranhr.net




Amnesty International and Reporters without Borders made a statement that one year after the disputed elections more than 100 political prisoners are still being held in Iranian jails in inhuman and degrading conditions.
The joint statement says that their most basic rights are being violated, starting with the right to adequate medical treatment.
They urge the Iranian authorities to provide adequate medical treatment as a matter of urgency to the following political prisoners:
Shiva Nazar Ahari, Masoud Bastani, Amir Khosro Dalirsani, Rahim Gholami, Kouhyar Goudarzi, Nader Karimi Jouni, Mansour Ossanlu, Mohammad Sadegh Kaboudvand, Masoud Lavassani, Mojtaba Lotfi, Mehdi Mahmoudian, Said Matinpour, Abolfazl Abedini, Nasr Hamed Rouhinejad, Issa Saharkhiz, Ali Saremi, Hengameh Shahidi, Behrouz Tavakkoli, Majid Tavakkoli, Behrouz Javid Tehrani, Ahmad Zaidabadi and Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi.
The organisations say that Iran is responsible for the health and safety of any prisoner.
source: amnestyusa.org

The attorney of the three imprisoned American hikers says that he still has not been able to meet with his clients.
Sarah Shourd, Shane Bauer, and Joshua Fattal are since July 31, 2009 in Evin Prison.
During this time they have only been able to contact their families once on the telephone and once in person.
They are in solitary confinement and the health of Sarah Shourd is not good as from lack of proper medical care.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Currently there is an AIDS-congress in Vienna.This congress is about ongoing fight against HIV and AIDS.
Two two doctors specializing in prevention and treatment of HIV, Kamiar and Arash Alaei are detained in ward 209 of Evinprison.
6 months ago they were on baseless charges of acting against national interests, also known as plotting velvet revolution, sentenced to respectively 3 and 6 years in prison.
The Alaeibrothers have been instrumental in fighting the spread of HIV/AIDS in Iran.
source: missionfreeiran.org

A statement of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Workers Syndicate about increased arrests an exclusions of the members of the syndicate.


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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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