Iran: more June 30, 2012

De International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran and 12 other ngo's called on leading tech companies including Apple, Google, Yahoo, Oracle and Go Daddy in a letter to stop blocking internet technology to citizens living in repressive countries like Iran. These industry leaders are denying citizens of Iran, Syria, Sudan and Cuba internet communication services that help promote fee expression.
The undersigners are: Access, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Center for Rights/Fight for the Future, Council of the Americas, Cuba Study Group, International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, National Iranian American Council, New America’s Foundation’s Open Internet Tools Project, New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute, Syrian American Council, The Tor Project, United4Iran, and Witness.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Economic analist and member of Iranian Writers’ Association Fariborz Raisdana who is in prison for over a month, is facing a deterioration of his health condition.
His wife says that due to poor prison treatment and conditions and his high age his health is deteriorating.
He suffers from diabetes and high blood pressure. May 21 he was arrested to serve his one year prisonsentence in ward 350 of Evinprison.
source: iranhumanrights.org


23 Iranian provinces are currently affected by dust storms. Dust storms descend on other affected provinces from the deserts and dried-up ponds of neighboring countries, including Iraq.
Hormozgan, Sistan and Baluchestan, Yazd, and Kerman are the most affected provinces.
source:tehrantimes.com




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Iran: more June 29, 2012

On June 28, In Robat Karim (near Tehran) were 2 men hanged in public
. According to Mehrnews one man was convicted for drugstrafficking and the other for rape.
source: iranhr.net


The father of in the Netherlands studying Iranian student Yassar Kahmeneh has been arrested five weeks ago by security agents for his contributions to a Facebook page.
Kahmeneh has a Facebookpage “The Campaign to Remind Shi’ites about Imam Naghi,” which satirizes political and religious topics,  from the rights of women in Islam, to sanctions against Iran.
More then 21000 people have "liked" the page, while others in Iran say they often visit it but refrain from "liking" for fear of being identified.
Kahmeneh says that his father only pays for his studies in Europe and that his father has been threathened with execution and that they told him that he will remain in jail -or worse- unless the page is shut down.
source: payvand


The prosecutor in Sistan-Baluchestan said that 2 suspects of the bombing in Zahedan in 2011 soon will be executed.
Six other people are still in jail. Fourty people were arrested after the bombing.
source: en.trend.az



petition to the Dutch government to stop the unjustified restrictions over Iranian nationals to participate in technologies studies.


International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is told that political prisoner Younes Aghayan who is sentenced to death abruptly was blindfolded and transferred in hand and footcuffs from Orumiyeh Prison to Police Headquarters in Mahabad, after that he was brought to a prison in Karaj. June 23 he was transported back and if his sentence is finalized, they will execute him over the coming days.
source: iranhumanrights.org


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Iran: transfer, June 28, 2012

Journalist and political prisoner Bahman Ahmadi Amoui who was arrested on June 20, 2009 is serving his prisonsentence of five years and four months in Evinprison. June 20th, 2012 he was suddenly transferred to Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj.
June 25 it was reported that he had been transferred to the solitary confinement ward at Rajai Shahr reserved for hard core criminals on death row.
Website Kalameh interviewed the brother van Amoui. In this interview his brother says among other things that there was no reason and they did not present a courtorder for this transfer. He also said that the ward in Rajaei Shahrprison is reserved for prisoners on death row and that anyone who has been transferred there has left with a myriad of physical and psychological ailments.
source: banooyesabz.wordpress.com

The Iranian ambassador to the UN told reporters in New York that foreigners had to be blamed for the bloodshed in Syria.He also said that Iran was ready to play a role in mediating a solution to the crisis in Syria.
source: rferl.org



IRIBnews reported that a cargoplane from Lufthansa has made an emergy landing Thursday morning at 3.30 on the airport of Ahwazcity in Khuzestan.
The International Civil Aviation Organization of Khuzestan province reported that the emergency landing was decided upon because of technical issues and after checking, the plane continued to its destination to Saudi Arabia.
source: en.trend.az


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Iran: themes told June 27, 2012

Mahmoud Bakri, a member of the Executive Committee of the Iranian Teachers Association Iran has began serving his prisonsentence in Evinprison. At request of his school his imprisonment was postponed until the end of the school year.
source: iranbriefing.net


According to the UN’s recent report on drug use, somewhere between 3 and 6 percent of the global adult population uses drugs.
In a speech at an antidrug conference in Tehran on June 25, said vice-president Rahimi that "zionists“ and in particular the Talmudic, control illegal drugstrade worldwide. He even offered money to any member of the audience who could “research and find one single Zionist who is an addict. According to Rahimi, there is no such thing as a Zionist drug addict.
In reality, the UN report shows that Israel, (not all Israelis are Zionists) actually has relatively high rates of drug use compared to the rest of the world.
This so-called "zionist complot" is the newest Tehran regimetheme. Other such plots include swine flu, Harry Potter, the London Olympic logo and the Norwegian massacre.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: secretly June 26, 2012

Website Kalameh reports that in various provinces of Iran has spread a new wave of arrests of internet activists.
Also is reported that authorities have desperately tried to keep these arrests from being publicized. The charges are such as Internet activity, or charges of blasphemy in cyberspace.
The families of the arrested are under intense pressure not to publicize these arrests. These arrests began on May 23, 2012, and so far, twenty people have been arrested from various provinces.
Other then Tehran,among the detainees are people from Ilam, Mashhad, Kermanshah, Rasht, Karaj, Zanjan and Khozestan.
They all have been transported to Evinprison.Almost all of these people were arrested in raids of their place of residence after 12:00 AM and their arrests were accompanied with much insults and degradation. Prisoners are interrogated to reveal names of their friends who are active online. Rumors say that these arrests are made by an anonymous group of IRGC, the Cyber Army. Although this group is said has started in 2006, it was a few months after the 2009 presidential elections that they entered the scene.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com


South Korea has said that imports of Iranian crude oil would be halted from July 1 due to a European Union ban on insurance coverage of tankers carrying Iranian crude.
source: rferl,org



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Iran: flags and names, July 25, 2012

According to ISNA  in Razavi Khorasan province 2 men had been sentenced to death for drinking alcohol.
The judiciary said that they had previously been sentenced to "Hadd" and their sentences (80 lashes each time) had been implemented. They were sentenced to death for being convicted of drinking alcohol for the third time and their sentence has been approved by the Supreme Court, implementation of their execution is now being prepared..
source: iranhr.net


A Malaysian court has approved the extradition of Iranian Masoud Sedaghatzadeh to Thailand. Sedaghatzadeh is accused of involvement in an alleged bomb plot in the Thai capital.
He says he is innocent and will appeal.
Sedaghatzadeh was arrested on a Malaysian airport soon after an apparently accidental explosion at a house in Bangkok. Thai police said bombs were found in the house and that Sedaghatzadeh and two other Iranian men are now in custody.
source: rferl.org


Before the extra sanctions against Iran start on July 1st, many Iranian oiltankers changed the names and flags of their ships. At least a third of oil tanker operator National Iranian Tanker Company’s (NITC) ships have registered with the pacific atolls of Tuvalu and also Tanzania after dropping their Maltese and Cypriot flags.
A list with old and new names and flag:
Davar Companion Tanzania 318,000
Haraz Freedom Tanzania 317,000
Hoda Precious Tuvalu 317,000
Hadi Pioneer Tuvalu 312,000
Hamoon Lena Tuvalu 300,000
Nesa Truth Tuvalu 300,000
Najm Motion Tuvalu 300,000
Nabi Brawny Tuvalu 300,000
Noah Elite Tuvalu 300,000
Sima Blossom Tuvalu 164,000
Susangrid Daisy Tanzania 158,000
Abadan Alpha Tuvalu 98,000
Astaneh Neptune Tuvalu 98,000
source: arabtimesonline


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Iran: before and after June 24 2012

According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Iranian authorities have denied imprisoned human rights activist Jafar Eghdam the right to a medical leave. Eghdam is detained in hall 12 of Rejai Shahrprison and suffers from a rare neurological syndrome, is close to the point of the complete paralysis of his body.
Eghdam is convicted to 10 years in prison for participating in a ceremony at Khavarancemetary.
source: iranbriefihg.net


Following the execution of 4 Ahwaz-arabs on June 21, were 15 people arrested.
Their names are:
1- Nasser Bavi, 27, son of Habib, 2 children
2- Mansour Bavi, 22, married
3- Reza Bavi, 19,
4- Esmaeil Dehimi, 23, son of Javad
5- Rahim Silavi, 38, 6 children and has been arrested twice before
6- Ali Haydari, son of Shaye
7- Mohamad Haydari, son of Shaye
8- Jasem Haydari, son of Shaye
9- Hossein Haydari, son of Shaye
10- Kazem Haydari, son of Mohamad
11- Hakim Haydari, son of Mohamad
12- Razi Sailavi, 38, poet
13- Naser Haydari
14- Adel Haydari
15- Jomeh Haydari, 45, 5 children
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com


About half of Iranians are under the age of 25. In tampa.bay is a report of a trip in Iran along the Caspian Sea.
source: tampabay.com






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Iran: prison June 23, 2012

A local source told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that in Sanandaj Kurdish Safieh Sadeghi, 23, a resident of Salmas, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of moharebeh by membership of the Kurdish group PJAK.
She was arrested in november 2010 and spent 4 o r 5 months in isolation.
She was denied of visitation with her family and taking a lawyer.
source: iranhumanrights.org


In Evinprison detained humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh said that if her request for a face-to-face visitation with the children and her mother is once again denied she will launch a hunger strike. It has been 10 months since her mother was banned from visiting her.
source: iranbriefing.net


The psychological state of Canadian-Iranian Hamid Ghassemi, who is sentenced to death for transferring army information to foreign states,is deteriorating.
June 14 2008 he was arrested while visiting his brother in jail.Alborz Ghassemi was sentenced to death and died a year later in jail.
source: iranhumanrights.org


In Nairobi, Kenia 2 Iranians have been arrested on suspicion of planning a terroristic attack together with al-Shabaab, the extremist group based in southern Somalia.
Officials told that the men are suspected of planning terror attacks in Mombasa or Nairobi.
source: iranbriefing.net





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Iran: further June 22, 2012

Iranian minister of foreign affairs confirmed the arrest of 2 men from Azerbaijan who disappeared in Iran on May 2.
He said that the men, Farid Huseyn and Shahriyar Hajizade had been arrested and accused of attempting to commit a crime.
source: en.trend.az


Former political prisoner and filmmaker Mohamad Nourizad told different media about his kidnapping and arrest.
June 14 he was kidnapped at an intersection and released late that night.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com


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Iran: more or less June 21, 2012

June 20 were in Tehran 4 men hanged in public.
The men, Iman Amani, son of Mohammad Hashem, Farshid Aliari, son of Farid, Behzad Tajik, son of Kazem and Mohammad Aikahi, son of Hassan. were convicted of rape in different cases.
Photo's of the execution.
source: iranhr.net


Unsafe workplaces in Iran take lives and create major injuries for many workers across the land.In the first nine months of last year were 3276 female and 14,743 male workers injured, 13,972 have fully recovered, 132 have been permanently disabled, 208 partially disabled and 648 have received compensations for loosing body parts during work.An average of 4 deaths are reported.
The rate of plant closures and job losses have been increased with the start of the new Iranian year and further economic sanctions.
With the second phase of the state economic subsidies cut program in June and the failure of the state to pay the declared subsidies for production facilities, the prospects for economic improvements are lessening.
Many production facilities facing rising prices and strong competition.
According to the secretary of Labour House in Boroujerd, Lorestan, the city of Boroujerd is on top with 40000 jobless and more than half of the production facilities being closed or on the verge of closure.
source: iranlaborreport


According to reports the website of Central Bank of Iran (CBI) could not be accessed, and was hacked. Internetexperts tell that cyberattacks are targeting Iranian websites.
source: en.trend.az


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Iran: more, June 20, 2012

June 18 is according to reports confirming the execution of three Ahwazi Arab prisoners also a fourth prisoner Ali Sharifi (a.k.a Naami), executed.
Sharifi was sentenced to death at the same trial.
source: iranhr.net


Mehdi Saharkhiz, the son of imprisoned journalist Isa Saharkhiz said that his father is sentenced to another year and a half year in prison. Saharkhiz served already a 3 year prisonsentence. His son says that the medical committee has already established that Issa Saharkhiz is not physically fit to serve out his sentence. Saharkhiz suffered a heart attack in jail and has been hospitalized since last March.
source: iranbriefing.net


The health of humanrightslawyer Narges Mohammadi, Deputy Head of Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC), is deteriorating. She is currently serving a prisonsentence of 6 years in exile in the prison of Zanjan.
source: payvand


In Tehran 20 people have been arrested in connection with the assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists last year. Details would be released later. Asked if the arrestees were linked with the Mossad-linked spies and other arrests, the answer was not a complete denial.
source: tehrantimes


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Iran: executed June 18, 2012

A reliable source told that in Karoonprison in Ahwaz on June 18, 3 Ahwaz-Arabs were hanged.
The men, the brothers Abdul Rahman Heidari, Taha Heidari and Jamshid Heidari were sentenced to death for moharebe, enmity with god.
They were arrested in 2011 after the unrest in Khuzestan and were scheduled to be executed in March.
source: freedomessenger, iranhr.net


There is still no information about the five christians who were arrested 130 days ago in Shiraz.
Ms. Fariba Nazemian and Mr. Homayou, Mojtaba Hosseini, Mohammad Reza Partoei, Shokouhi and Vahid Hakani are in Adelabad prison in Shiraz and have not been charged.
source: iranbriefing.net


After having his prisonsentence is  completed, the journalist Isa Saharkhiz has not been released from prison.
His son, Mehdi Saharkhiz reported this on his Facebookpage.
source: iranbriefing.net


Two men in St.Louis, Ali Bahkti and his pastor Mike Salazar claim that they received a letter with deaththreads from Iran.
It is apparently signed by a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Army. The 2 men are muslims who converted to christianity. The letter could not be verified.
source: kplril.com


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Iran: more, June 18, 2012

Bloomberg writes about nuclear negotiations with Iran which take place in Moscow by Chinese, French, German, Russian, British and US negotiators.
The P5+1 group tries to negotiate with Iran to suspend production of uranium.
source: bloomberg.com


In less then 2 weeks the biggest oil-buyers can't reach 95% of the London insurance markets.By a unexpected last-minute deal to ease the EU-sanctions, Europe's Protection and Indemnity (P& I) clubs will not be able to insure Iranian oilvessels after July 1st.
source: au.ibntimes.com


According to ILNA more then 10.000 workers signed a petition to the ministry of labor to protest the cutting of subsidies and the impact on daily life.
Free Union of Iranian Workers say that workers of Pars Carpet, Ir Saco, Yazd Kavir Tiles, Alborz Tires, Farnakh, Naznakh, Iran Choub, Yazd Profil, Metal Works Industires No. 1, Shahid Ghandi, Iran Riseh, Taktaz Motors, Metal Works Industries No. 2, Construction Workers, nurses and hospital workers of several hospitals in Tehran, Yazd railways, Tehran Vahed Bus Company, Yazdbaf Textiles, southern Petrochemical complexen als Bandar Imam, Karoun, etc., Alborz Nakh, Pars Nonflamable Processing Company and other factories in Saveh undersigned.
source: iranlaborreport


A call from Amnesty International to release imprisoned unionists.


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