Iran: more May 31, 2012

Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), writes that 10 prisoners on deathrow in Orumiehprison are on the vierge of execution. Seven of these prisoners are convicted for drug related offenses and have been transferred from ward 15 to the quarantine ward on May 30.
Their names are:Nahad Nuraldini, Sayyad Ahmadpour, Safar Pakizehrou, Haji Pajouhesh, Allahverdi Ahmadpour, Abdolhamid Moradi, Khosro Darvishi.
Three other men were also transferred to the quarantine ward.
Their names are: Omran Gilani, Manouchehr Davoudi and Hashem Jahangirzadeh. They were previously harshly beaten by the special guard forces in the prison on Wednesday, April 25, 2012, and were reportedly kept in solitary confinement in handcuffs and shackles.
source: iranhrdc.org


Zahra Khodabakhsh daughter of Shargh newspaper’s financial investor has been arrested. According to Kaleme she has been brought to Evinprison.
Her father, Ali Khodabakhsh, invested in a number of reformist publications and  has been arrested in December 2010 and sentenced to one year in prison and a 3,000,000 Rial fine.
source: iranbriefing.net


Website Kaleme reports that 3 students were arrested at the university of Isfahan. Erfan Mohammad, Mohammad Moradi and Mojtaba Karimi were last week arrested in connection with their involvement in the distribution of Kebrit. University officials claim the publication is banned and that its distribution is in violation of the law.
source: en.greenvoice.com


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Iran: more May 30,2012

Iran condemned Kuwait for sentencing four men, two Iranians, one Kuwaiti and one stateless man, to life in prison on charges of spying.
Initially the men were sentenced to death but this verdict was on May 28th reduced to life in prison.At the time of their arrest in May 2010 they worked for the army in Kuwait.
source: iranbriefing.net


New proof is found which links Iran to murderplots. Last year Azerbaijani authorities rounded up nearly two dozen people in waves of arrests till early this year.All these people could be linked to Iran. Precisely who ordered the hits, and why, was never conclusively determined.
Officials from U.S. and Middle Eastern now see the attempts as part of a broader campaign by Iran-linked operatives to kill foreign diplomats in at least seven countries, including two Saudis, half a dozen Israelis and several Americans.
source: The WashingtonPost




Recently a more dangerous computerworm has been discovered then Stuxnet.The worm is named Flame and is capable of recording voice and IM conversations performed on a specific system, manipulate wireless communications via Bluetooth and capture computer screen shots.
The worm is mainly spreaded in Iran and has so far infected computer systems in nations around the Middle East, Europe and North America.
source: au.ibtimes.com


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Iran: Turns, May 29, 2012

ISNA reports that next spring Iran can take four zero's of its currency and rename it. The Central Bank advised the Iranian parliament. The name Rial will also be changed. The Bank proposed the names Daric, a name used during the Achaemenid dynasty, Noor or Toman.
source: en.trend.az


The writer and translator Manijeh Najm Eraghi was Sunday arrested to serve a prisonsentence from a year.
August 2010 she was arrested  and later sentenced to one year in prison for membership of Iranian Writers’ Association, mailing of announcements and gathering for the assassinated writers Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohammad Jaffar Pouyandeh.
May 21 another member of Iranian Writers Association, Fariborz Rais Dana was arrested. Dana was also sentenced to one year in jail for membership in the writers’ association and for giving interviews.
source: radiozamaneh.com

A senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards said that Iranian forces are operating in Syria as allies from Assad. He said this in an interview with ISNA, but they  subsequently removed it from its website.
The Syrian army last week killed in the city of Houla, Syria 108 people, 32 of them children.
He also said that without the presence of IRGC in Syria , the massacre of people would have happened on a much larger scale.
Sources say that this is the first time that an Iranian official openly admits the presence of Iranian forces in Syria.
source: freedomessenger

The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry warned that pressuring Tehran with further sanctions while international talks on the Iranian nuclear program are under way could jeopardize chances of reaching an agreement. The West is concerned that uranium enriched to 20 percent, could quickly be turned into more highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon. Iran rejects this.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: said May 28, 2012

Journalist,human rights activist and former writer for newspaper Khordad, Farshad Aswad has been arrested, when he was leaving the country for Malaysia.
Jaras writes that he had voiced concern about the possibility of being arrested the night before his scheduled departure from the country.
Aswad is a relative of Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh.He was in the process of making a documentary about her.
source: persian.wordpress.com


Ali Larijani has been reelected as speaker for Iranian parliament. He defeated Gholam Ali Hadad Adel. Both are criticising president Ahmadinejad and are allies of Supreme Leader Khamenei, but Adel is more moderate.
source: rferl.org


Iran rejects its alleged role in plotting to topple the regime in Bahrain.
Mehrnews writes that the spokesman of Tehran's Foreign Ministry, said that Iran does not "intervene" in the internal affairs of Bahrain.
Sunday 8 people were convicted in Bahrain on accusation of conspiring with suspected Iranian agents to overthrow the regime of Bahrain.
source: wgme.com


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Iran: more May 27, 2012

May 25 is in the city of Lar a man hanged in public.
Reliable sources said to Iran Human Rights that the name of the man is Abdolreza Damankeshan ( Navab), who had been convicted for rape.
source: iranhr.net


A court in Bahrain sentenced 8 men to 15 years in prison for plotting with Iranian spies to topple the gouvernment in Bahrain.
source: washingtonpost.com


In his speech to the opening session of Iran's parliament, president Ahmadinejad urged the parliament to stand with him against "evil ones" who he says have encircled the country.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: more May 26th, 2012

In the city of Ilam is May 24 a man hanged in public.
The man, Amirhossein Hosseini was convicted for murdering a 13-year-old girl.
source: iranhr.net

The Italian carbrand Fiat, which controls Chrysler , said Friday in a statement that it stops the sales to Iran.
Fiat industrial heavy truck, agricultural and construction vehicles said it also was stopping sales to Iran.
Hyundai and Porsche halted their sales earlier.
source: iranfocus

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that Iranian judiciary should immediately provide medical care to Hossein Ronaghi Maleki , to avoid a new human tragedy. May 19 Maleki started a hungerstrike to protest the lack of medical aid.
The Campaign expressed its serious concern that Iranian intelligence and prison authorities are routinely denying proper medical care to prisoners of conscience, resulting in severe complications and even deaths.
source: ICHRI

The latest report from International Atomic Energy Agency says that Iranian nuclear activity is 27% at the Fordow enrichment plant near Qom. This is far beneath the 90% level needed to make the fissile core of nuclear weapons.. But it is above Iran’s highest-known enrichment grade of 20 per cent, the level from which uranium can quickly turned into weapons-grade material.
The report also says that Iran added 300 centrifuges in addition to 700 installed earlier.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Iran: more, May 25, 2012

Wednesday the Kurdistan Press Agency reported that Branch1 of the Revolutionary Court of Khoy convicted five Iranian Kurds to 46 years in prison for their alleged ties to Kurdish opposition groups.
The names of the five men, all residents of Maku in West Azerbaijan: Mostafa Armin, Mousa Hatefi, Saeed Derayat, Ali Marhamati and Vali Balkhanloo
The five were arrested one year ago. According to local reports, one of them, Vali Balkhanloo was tortured to death just days after his arrest.The news of his death has not yet been made public.
source: enirangreenvoice.com


The Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre received an update on the condition of Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand who is on a hungerstrike since May 14 in ward 350 of Evin Prison. May 17 he broke of his hungerstrike following the promises of the judiciary and Evin prison authorities to consider his requests for leave to visit his ill son.
Kaboudvand is in prison since July 2007.He was convicted and sentenced to more than 10 years’ imprisonment for founding the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan.
source: IHRDC

For the sixteenth time is Bandar Abbas’s dervishes weblog”, one of the oldest weblogs of the Gonabadi derwishes in Iran filtered.
The administrator from the blog told a reporter of Majzooban that news from the derwishes has been tried to boycot for years because they want to hide the cruelties and repression of Iranian people, especially from religious dissidents.As derwishes are inspired by the Sufi School they always insisted on enforcement of fair law and realize the national rights, and will continue and be more determined than before .
source: freedomessenger

Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that imprisoned blogger and humanrightsactivist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki started a hungerstrike.He is in very bad health because of the fact that his right kidney also is not functioning properly.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com




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Iran: more May 24, 2012

May 13 The Voice of America held a Kurdish interview with IHRDC Executive Director Gissou Nia
source: IHRDC

The vicepresident of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and president of the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI), said that Iranian authorities have launched a new wave of repression against ethnic minorities, such as Baluchis, Arabs and Azeris.
They are acting in complete defiance of the recommendations made by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination in its August 2010 concluding observations, where the Committee strongly criticised the denial of rights of the ‘Arab, Azeri, Baluchi, Kurdish communities and some communities of non-citizens’ in Iran and called on the authorities to take measures to protect them effectively.
source: iranbriefing.net


The member of parliament Mostafa Kavakebian backed Ali Motahari, in his allegations that Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) interfered in the recent parliamentary elections.
Other members of parliament strongly criticised Motahari.
source: iranbriefing.net


Youtube shows a videoclip with a yoing man, being whipped in public.
The site said that it was filmed last Sunday in the village of Miane. Witnesses said the young man had been arrested for allegedly drinking alcohol.
source: freedomessenger


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Iran: protest May 23, 2012

May 22 were 3 people hanged in Adelabadprison in Shiraz.
Their names are "Z.R.", A.A." and "H.A.". They were convicted for keeping and carrying of 2 kilograms of heroin, 32 kilograms and 309 grams of heroin and 4 kilograms and 900 grams of crack respective.
Including these executions Iranian authorities executed since May 15 2012 58 people. 35 of these executions are confirmed by official Iranian sources, while 23 executions (16 in Yazd and 7 in Rasht) have been reported by unofficial sources
source: iranhr.net


Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reports that on May 21 in Rejai Shahr Prison in Karaj political prisoner Mansour Radpour, 41 has died in jail and that a preliminary examination points at cerebral hemorrhage as the cause of death. Five years ago he was arrested and charged with having sympathy for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
He was sentenced to three years in jail for “activities against national security through collaboration with the PMOI”. After that time was served, he was handed another five-year prison sentence.
HRANA reported also that he was foltered and in bad physical condition.
source: iranbriefing.net


More then 100 people were arrested near the cities of Tabriz and Urmia at new mass protests for the drying out Lake Urmia .
Last year similar events took place in the same cities. Then too, dozens of Azerbaijani activists were arrested and punished.The area of Lake Urmia is about 6000 square kilometres. During bird migration the lake becomes their temporary haven. Due to prolonged drought what happens in the Urmia shallows, affects the flora and fauna of the surrounding region.
source: freedomessenger





Thee Education Under Fire campaign released a new video to raise awareness for the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) and the six Baha’i prisoners of conscience detained for teaching at this community-organized university.


source: International Campaign for Human Rights


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Iran: more May 22, 2012

Iranian statemedia reported that on May 20 and 21 18 people were hanged in 4 different cities.
In Tehran were on May 21 14 people hanged. They all were convicted for drugstrafficking. Their names will be announced soon.
May 20 in Sanandaj were 2 people executed. Their names are "S.R." and "V.A.", they were convicted of rape and robbery.
In the prison of Sari, province Mazandaran is May 20 one prisoner hanged. The not named man was convicted of trafficking 50 kg of opium.
In Dizelabadprison in Kermanshah is May 20 Hiva Havas hanged. The report did not mention the delict, but it is known that Havas had previously been arrested in connection with the 2009 Iranian post-election protests. This report has not been announced by official Iranian sources.
source: iranhr.net


Reporters without Borders calls on Iran to explain what happened to Farid Huseyn and Shahriyar Hajizade, 2 Azerbaijan journalists who are missing since May 2nd. That day they arrived in Tabriz after a short visit to Tehran.
According to the editor of Azerbaijani newspaper 525, Rashad Majid they were kidnapped by eight men in civilian dress when their bus arrived in the city.
Other journalists are already being held hostage in the diplomatic stand-off between Iran and Azerbaijan.There is increasing tension between Iran and its neighbour over territorial disputes and geostrategic interests linked to the routing of major oil and gas pipelines.
Iran holds Azeri journalist Said Matinpour hostage while Azerbaijan Ramin Bayramov, the editor of website Islamazeri.az and Anar Bayramli, a correspondent for various Iranian media continius to hold. Ramil Dadashov, a driver of Iran’s Sahar TV who was arrested along with Bayramli, has been released on May 16.
source: en.rsf.org

Iran is pressuring Azerbaijan to cut ties with Western countries and Israel.Iran is behind a “serious anti-Azerbaijan” campaign, trying to create a rift between the country and its allies before the Eurovision Song Contest.Azeri officials try to ease Iranian concerns about plans to buy Israeli drones and missile-defense systems.The magazine Foreign Policy wrote in March that the Caspian Sea country which shares a 756-kilometer border with Iran,had offered some of its airports to Israel for possible air strikes against Iran.Both Azerbaijan and Israel have rejected the report.
30 million azeri's live in Iran,A possible “bombing of Iran would be like bombing of Azerbaijan, said an official.
source: freedomessenger

Hamid PourMohammadi, the ex-Head of Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran till last November when he was arrested because of the embezzlement of $3 billion, attended important governmental meetings of the Ahmadinejad administration. Mehrnews reported on Sunday that he attended topmeetings   while he was immediately dismissed from his position at the Central Bank after his arrest, so it is not clear in what capacity he is attending government meetings.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Iran: upheld May 21, 2012

Human Rights Activists News Agency reported that the verdict of 3 ½ years in prison and 70 lashes against student at Ferdowsi university Mohamad Ghafarian is upheld by the Appeals Court.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com


The lifestyle of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in Iran is comprehensively and systematically denied by the Islamic regime, which exposes them to horrific punishment, bullying and risk of suicide.
This first detailed study about LGTB community in Iran is made by the London based group Small Media.
A handful of young gay Iranians,  participated in International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia on May 17 by putting photo's on their Facebook page. Some of the carried rainbowflags in Tehran and flew colored balloons.
source: guardian.com, mpetrelis.blogspot.com

Iran will hold the International Council of Business Cooperation of the Caspian region's countries, from 22-26 May in province Gorgan.
The International Council of Business Cooperation of the Caspian region's countries, was founded in 1996 by representatives of the Chambers of Commerce in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Iran. The Iranian members are the Chambers of Commerce of: Tehran, Sari, Rasht, Mashhad, Boujnord, Ardebil,Tabriz, Ghazvin, and Gorgan.
source: today.az


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Iran: more May 20, 2012

Thursday May 17 were two prisoners according to state media hanged in public in Isfahan.
Fars reported that the men were hanged in prison and were named Farshid and Bagher, convicted for the rape and robbery of a mother and daughter in 2009.
source: iranhr.net


Shahin Dadkhah, a former advisor to the Supreme National Security Council has been sentenced to 2 years plus a suspended five-year sentence for his alleged ties to a “hostile state.
During the presidency of Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005), Dadkhah was a member of the team led by chief negotiator Hassan Rohani.
source: en.greenvoice.com


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Iran: more May 19, 2012

Website Melli-Mazhabi reports that the head of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders of Iran, Nargess Mohammadi is brought from the infirmery of Evin prison to Zanjan prison.
May 8 Mohammadi was visited by her family. c It is reported that she is being interrogated regarding unspecified new charges that have not been communicated to her lawyer.
source: mosaddegh.com


By switching flags, companies and documents an Iranian oiltanker passed the international sanctions made to Syria. Documents obtained by the Financial Times, show that a vessel from the Islamic Republic International Shipping Lines, sailed from Syria to the Gulf of Oman and then Iran, using different flags and changing owners.
Evidence of the cooperation between the two countries comes as industry experts note a marked increase in the use of so-called ‘flags of convenience’ fluttering on Iranian-owned oil tankers.
source: iranbriefing.net


An international humanrights organization reported on Friday that May 20 will a trial hold against six Ahwazi-Arabs from Khalafabad in Khuzestan province. The men are imprisoned a year ago and there are fears that they will not receive a fair trial and may be at risk of torture.
They were arrested in their houses in February and March 2011. At least four of them were denied access to a lawyer for at least eight months after arrest.
According to the reports of Amnesty International their names are Mohammad Ali Amouri, blogger, Rahman Asakereh, teacher, Hashem Sha’bani Amouri, teacher, Hadi Rashidi, teacher, Sayed Jaber Alboshoka and his younger brother Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka.
source: iranbriefing.net

President Ahmadinejad told IRNA that he would like to go beside the Iranian athletes to the Olympics in London but that Britain has “a problem” with him being there.
The English foreign ministry , said only: We don’t comment on individual cases.
source: iranbriefing.net


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