Iran: environment

Last week there were great demonstrations to save Lake Orumieh.
Demonstrators threw rocks at police who answered back with gunfire.
According to Radio Zamaneh dozens of demonstrators were arrested and 22 MP's called for immediate action regarding the critical situation at Lake Oroumiyeh.
The blog The Lede publishes various videos.
source: rferl.org, radiozamaneh.com, thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

The 25 Bahman group calls everybody to participate September 3 in a peaceful civic demonstration to save Lake Orumieh.
They announce Saturday, September 3rd, 2011 as a day of support for the rights of all ethnic minorities and a National Day of Solidarity with compatriots in Orumiyeh in their civil protest against this environmental disaster.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

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Iran: in the middle

Labor activists and members of Teachers’ Union of Kurdistan, Kamal Fakorian, Ali Qarishi, Mostafa Sarbazan, Parviz Nasehi and Ezat Nosrati are summoned by telephone to appear before the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj.
Six activists are summoned to appear for the Interrogation Unit of the Revolutionary Court, Branch 4.
source: freedomessenger.com


Bahai citizen Masoud Mahmoudi is arrested and transferred to an unknown location.
The reason for his arrest is unknown. Currently various Bahai are serving prisonsentences in Khorasan province.
source: HRHI

The Iranian government reads e-mail to Gmail by using a fake certification(dutch).
Computerusers browsers think that this is the Gmail site in Google domain, but in reality the browser is diverted to an Iranian server, where they read the contents, before sending it back to Google Gmail.
The Dutch company Diginotar, which is a certificate authority, validated the fake certificate.
.(man-in-the-middle-attack).
Meanwhile the validation of the certificate is revoked.
But even when the certificate is revoked, it is possible that this may not do much to stop any attacks in progress. The only foolproof way to revoke a certificate is to update each browser, email client, and other piece of software accepting SSL certificates to blacklist the counterfeit credential.
source: webwereld.nl,theregister.com,wikipedia


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Iran: further

The in USA residing brother of imprisoned dr.Arash Alaei , told that his brother is released from prison.
His brother Kamiar Alaei said that Arash was among 100 Iranian political prisoners who got a pardon today due to the coming end of the Ramadan.
In June 2008 the brothers were arrested on spycharges.
Kamiar was released from prison earlier this year and has returned to USA.
source: persian2english


Amnesty International started an urgent action for Kouhyar Goudarzi who was arrested on July 31 and his mother Parvin Mokhtareh who was arrested August 1.





The blog Persian2english published the events that led to Mahdie Golroo and her husband Vahid Lalipour's illegal arrest.



Reza Kermani has been arrested to serve his one year prisonsentence.His verdict had been upheld in the appeals court.
source: HRHI


Student-activist Hamid Salavatinejad is arrested four days ago and transferred to an unknown location. Since his arrest there has been no news on his condition.
source: HRHI


Bahai Sari Vajih Nasheri , the wife of Vajihollah Mirza-Golpour is arrested by three Intelligence Ministry agents.
Although his wife is sick, her husband has been unable for 8 days to transfer her medications to her.
source: HRHI



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Iran: pressure

Since August 1 Mehdi Karroubi is moved to a new, tiny apartment and since July 16 there has been no communication from him, not even with his wife.
A reliable source told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that he is surrounded by a team of psychiatrists working with his captors to force his mental state into agreeing to appear in front of cameras and make a televised confession.
Karroubi is 74 years old and there is severe concern for his mental and physical health.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Reformist political activist Sajjad Karami is arrested during a religious ceremony along with families of political prisoners. He has been arrested before in february for the charges of conspiracy against national security and anti-regime propaganda. He was sentenced to one year in prison.
source: HRHI


Three Kurdish social activists and members of Management Council for Green Chya Forum in Marivan,will remain in temporary custody,because investigations surrounding their cases have not yet been completed.
According to reports Sharif Bajour, Behrooz Darvand and Iraj Ghaderi were arrested on July 23 in Marivan. They have been permitted to call their families only for a few minutes during the last month.
source: freedomessenger


On the eve of the end of ramadan pardoned Ali Khamenei 100 prisoners who were convicted of what are described as security offenses.
Some of those being released were among people who were detained during the elections in 2009.
Here are 27 names of political prisoners who were released:
1.Ehsan Abadeh Tabrizi

2.Laleh Hasanpour

3. Zahra Jabari

4. Keyvan Farzin

5. Amir Aslani

6. Mohsen Ghamin

7. Mohammad Pourabdollah

8. Arsalan Abadi

9. Nazanin Hassan Nia

10.Susan Tabiyanian

11. Akran Heydarian

12. Sama Shamloo

13. Fatemeh Darvish

14. Ali Behzadian Nejad

15. Hamid Reza Nojoumi

16. Abolfazl Ghasemi

17. Koroush Ghasemi

18. Artin Ghazanfari

19. Gholam Reza Azadi

20. Meysam Roudaki

21. Amir Hossein Ghanbari

22. Omid Sharifi Dana,

23. Behnam Ansari

24. Rouhollah Mirzakhani

25. Massoud Yazdchi

26. Mohsen Mokhtari

27. Sajad Moradi
The names of other released political prisoners will be published in the next few days.
source: banooyesabz.wordpress.com


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Iran: appealing

The Mourning Mothers of Laleh Park has again condemned the massmurders of the 80's, particularly the mass execution of political prisoners in 1987.
Now once again human rights have been clearly and widely violated in Iran, a special UN rapporteur has been appointed to look into the situation in Iran.
source: persian2english.com


Ayatollah Hossein Kazemeini Boroujerdi who is imprisoned in Tehran’s Evin prison since October 2006, appealed to international human lawyers and organizations to support those who are imprisoned in by the Iranian regime for standing up for democracy and freedom.
source: freedomessenger



August 24 more then 30 ethnic Azeri's were arrested in Tabriz during an iftar. They were protesting the Iranian government's failure to take measures to save Lake Urmia,which is drying up.
August 25 more people were arrested before and after a soccer match in Tabriz between the Azerbaijani Trakhtorsazi team and local team Shahrdari Tabriz. Thousands of people chanted "Lake Urmia is dying, the Majlis orders its execution" during the match.
When the lake dries out, some 10 million tons of salt will remain which will damage the environment and may cause illness among people living in the vicinity.
source: rferl.org


In an open letter to the Iranian minister of higher Education, Baha'i International Community is calling to end the unjust and oppressive practices that bar Baha'is and other young Iranians from university.
source: news.bahai.org



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Iran: more

The journalist Isa Saharkhiz is according to Saham News severely beaten up by prisonguards in Rajaei Shahrprison.
Mehdi Mahmoudian, another political prisoner also faced the same brutal confrontation by prison officials.
The infirmery of the prison is no longer accepting any political prisoners.
source: HRHI



Abdolreza Soudbakhsh is an Iranian doctor who was killed by a motorcyclist last September. He examined the rapevictims in 2009 from Kahrizakprison. When he was killed officials denied his murder had anything to do with the cases of alleged rape in Kahrizak.
According to his son his father was told to say that the victims of Kahrizak had Meningitis.
source: freedomessenger


Vahid Lalipour the husband of Mahdieh Golroo who was arrested along with her in December 2009, is arrested bij intelligence agents to serve his sentence.
He was released in May 2010 after paying bail, but is later sentenced to two years in prison which was reduced in appeal to one year in prison and one year in prison suspended with four years.
source: HRHI



The political prisoner Farah Vazehan who was arrested after the Ashuraprotests and has a heartcondition, is denied medical help despite her worsening condition.
She is serving a prisonsentence of 15 years on charges of enmity with god.
source: freedomessenger


According to reports there is no news, 70 days after the arrest of Ali Moezi who is in solitary confinement in Ward 209 of Evin prison.
He is 58 years old and suffers from kidneyproblems and bladdercancer.
source: freedomessenger

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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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Iran: lawyers

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said August 24 that Iranian Central Bar Association should come to the aid of embattled lawyers subjected to harassment, unfounded criminal charges, or prison sentences for defending prisoners of conscience and advocating for human rights.
The International Bar Association and United Nations Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers should intervene to defend Iranian lawyers facing persecution.
Shirin Ebadi provided a list with 41 names of lawyers who have faced government persecution since June 2009.
source: iranhumanrights.org

The lawyer of the two to heavy sentences convicted Americans is very hopeful that Ramadan will free them.
He is convinced of their innocense and hopes on the outcome of the appeal.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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Iran: further

Kurdish prisoner Farshad Kamangar has been hospitalized after 29 days of hungerstrike in the ICU of the hospital in Bijar. He is in critical condition.
Farshad Kamangar has been imprisoned in Kermanshah, Marivan and Bijar prisons for two years on alleged financial crimes.
Although he has served his full prison sentence, he remains behind bars because he is unable to pay a fine .
July 25 he and political prisoner Hassan Akhtar Samand started a hungerstrike to protest to being exiled to Bijar.
source: freedomessenger


August 18 is christian convert Abdolreza Ali Haq Nejad arrested in Rasht.
The first time he was arrested in 2006, and then in 2010 because of his evangelical activities in the church.
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com




On August 16 the poet de Hila Sadighi was sentenced by judge Pirabbasi to 4 months in prison , to be postponed for five years.
Sadeghi is known for her critical and political poems.
She had been arrested in 2010 and been interrogated for 10 to 12 hours a day.
source:iranhumanrights.org

In the past week Tehran Police Special Operations together with plainclothed agents raided houses in Tehran's Saadat Abaden neighborhood and collected satellite dishes.
Policecommando's used ropes to climb onto balconies and enter people’s private homes.
During the raid, forces tried to intimidate and frighten the neighborhood residents.
Several residents who were not home when police forces entered their dwellings alleged that their gold, jewelry, and valuable household items had gone missing.
source: iranhumanrights.org

August 21st a directive was sent by the Iranian Ministry of Education stating that the mingling of boys and girls is forbidden at preschool classes.
Its only allowed to teach them together in schools where the number of students does not reach the required minimum.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more

Mohammad-Reza Qanbari, Niosha Khazayi, Shima Banafshi, Sajad Hayati and Atefeh Zamani, all students at Kermanshah university are sentenced to 6 months in prison which is suspended for five years.
Ashkan Mosibian who is expelled from university for 2 semesters is sentenced to 91 days suspended for 5 years.
Another student activist, Aptin Pegah, who also was expelled for 2 semesters, has still not been sentenced.
source: freedomessenger



According to Bahai World News Service there are new reports about human rights violation of Bahai.The reports have recently been issued by the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Minority Rights Group International (MRG) and Amnesty International.
source: news.bahai.org


There is still no news about Kouhyar Goudarzi, who was arrested on July 31st in Tehran.
According to Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHHR), there is no news about his condition or whereabouts.
source: HRHI


Reporters without Borders listed the arbitrary arrests,and concealment of political prisoners’ whereabouts in Iran.




Mehrnews (FA) interviewed judge Esmatollah Jaberi, who is called The Man of Execution, while he implemented 350 deathsentences. In this interview he states that he should be called Man of Peace for getting 180 amnesties from the families of the victims.
source: freedomessenger



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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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Iran: further

The prisonsentence of 10 months against the in 2009 arrested Bahais of Shiraz has been upheld in appeal.
Haleh Houshmandi, Kavous Zargham, Keivan Karami, Farham Masoumi, Vahdat Dana and Afshin Ahsanian have to report within 20 days to the revolutionary court in Shiraz to serve their sentence.
source: HRHI



Zoroastrian and member of Iran Zoroastrian Committee, Abolfazl(Pouria) Shahpari, is transferred to Evinprison to serve his 2,5 years prisonsentence.
In 2009 he was arrested along with his brother Dariush Shahpari. His mother suffered a heartattack when in 2009 police raided their house and arrested her husband, Abbas Shahpari, her sons Pouria, Jafar and Dariush and her only daughter Negar Shahpari along with her son-in-law Bahman Sadeghipour.
source: HRHI.


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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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Iran: further

Yesterday two American hikers were sentenced to 8 years in prison. The third American, Sarah Shourd was released last year, due to health reasons.
Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal were sentenced to 3 years in prison for illegally entering Iran and five years for spying for the United States.
They deny the charges, saying they were only hiking near the ill-defined border.
They have 20 days to appeal the decision.
source: washingtonpost.com

The Iranian Ministry of Culture and Guidance banned the children’s book Bijan and Manijeh that is in it’s eighth publication
Previously, sections of the classic Persian book Khosrow and Shirin were censored.
The director of Peydayesh Publications said that out of 10 books that were sent for licensing to the Ministry of Culture, 7 of them were audited, resulting in their scheduled publications being halted.
source: HRHI


Complete report of the six years incarceration of Behrouz Javid Tehrani,is on HRHI-site.
Tehrani is 30 years old and has been repeatedly arrested following the July 9, 1999 student protests.
Currently he is already 6 years in prison without one day furlough.He has been tortured and lost 50% of his vision.
source: HRHI


The editor of Aidin student publication and Turkish activist Ali Hedayati is arrested in his workplace.
Human Rights House of Iran writes that he had been threatened by the security forces in person and over the phone in the past a few weeks.
source: HRHI

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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.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran: questions

An Iranian commander said Wednesday that revolutionary guards will carry on operations against Kurdish rebels in northwest Iran along the Iraqi border.
He also said that Tehran is prepared to finance the building of border security posts in northern Iraq to be manned by Iraqi forces.
He denied that Iran shelled Iraqi villages during attacks on PEJAK bases in the borderarea.
July 16 Iran started heavy shelling in the area.
source: freedomessenger


Studentactivists Khatereh Danesh Tavakol and Melina Bakhtiarnejad were arrested last week.
Tavakol is arrested when she was summoned to the Ministry of Information.
August 13 security agents raided the home of Bakhtiarnejad’s father and confiscated a computer and personal papers and arrested her.
source: HRHI



For 88 days are seven Bahai after being arrested for their activities in connection with the onlineuniversity, in prison.
Amin Zibaei, Vahid Mahmoudi, Farhad Sedghi, Mahmoud Badavam, Kamran Mortezaei, Riaz Sobhani and Noushin Khadem are in Evinprison and are charged with acting against national security.
source: HRHI



The 4 political prisoners Behrouz Javid-Tehrani, Saleh Kohandel, Farzad Madadzadeh, and Mohammad Ali Masouri were transferred from Rajaei Shahrprison to Ward 240 from Evinprison.
For 2 months familymembers of the political prisoners have not received a proper response from the authorities about their transfer. They are still interrogated, enduring torture and held in solitary confinement.
The sister of Farzad Madadzadeh, Shabnam Madadzadeh, who is serving her 5 year prison sentence, finally met her brother in the presence of his interrogator, she learned that his charges include disturbing national security.
The four prisoners were in prison prior to the 2009 post-election unrest.
source: HRHI

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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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Iran: letters

The Comittee to Protect Journalists CPJ wrote a letter to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed,
U.N. Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran asking attention for the worsening situation of pressfreedom in Iran and the great amount of imprisoned journalists.
source: CPJ



In an open letter to international organisations demanded hundreds of Iranian political and civil activists help in securing the release of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Musavi, and Mehdi Karrubi and their wives Zahra Rahnavard and Fatemeh Karrubi. Since February 14 they are under housearrest.
The letter (Fa) states among other things that no arrest warrants have been issued against them.
source: rferl.org

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weekly repport, inhumane treatment, cruel punishment and arbitrary arrests.

weekly report, basic human and prisonrights abuse.

weekly report, suppression of religious and ethnic minorities and violence against women.

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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.
Poster amnesty.nl