Iran: more August 31, 2012

International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran sent a letter to Iranian authorities urging them to revise the Border Closure Plan and  to put an end to the endangering the lives of the border residents.
The accompanied the report “Dangerous Borders, Callous Murders: Documenting the Killings of Couriers in Iran’s Western Provinces,” which documents extensive human rights abuses in the predominantly Kurdish border provinces of Iran.
The report is here (pdf)
source: iranhumanrigyt.org




Website Herana reported that 2 prisoners in the cities of Bandar Abbas and Zahedan died due to inhumane behavior.
Mozzafar Dadi, 24 died from severe internal bleeding after being beaten.
Siavosh Touri died in Zahedan from a heartattack after prison officials refused to transfer him to the prison clinic.
source: freedomessenger


Wednesday the Iranian parliament voted with 148 - 5 in favor of a bill that could lead to death penalty for persons convicted of working in the production of pornographic movies.
The "main elements" refered to in the draft include producers, directors, cameramen and actors involved in making of pornographic videos.
source: ireport.cnn.com

A new report from International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) says the number of centrifuges at Fordow had more than doubled from 1,064 to 2,140.
Since 2010 Iran had produced nearly 190 kilograms of higher-grade enriched uranium more then 145 kilograms since May.
Finally, the IAEA report said high-level talks this year with Iranian officials have resulted in "no concrete results.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: more August 30, 2012

The prisoner of conscience Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand who halted his wet hungerstrike after 60 days on July 27, told his familymembers on August 27 that he will start a hungerstrike and will not break it again.
Authorities told him that if he breaks his hunger strike they would review his request for furlough to be with his sick son.
This was not allowed. They also said that they would send him to a hospital for treatment if he broke his hunger strike, it didn’t happen. He has physical problems and kidneypain. Since 2007 he has not had a single day of furlough.
source: iranhumanrights.org



The Daily Brief wrote that Mohammad Tavokoli was severely beaten when plainclothed men wanted to arrest him and other members of the Kurdish Teachers Associations.
source: iranbriefing.net





Iran Human Rights Documentation Center IHRDC published visit to the NAM conference by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Tehran, from the perspective of Payam Akhavan, co-founder of IHRDC.
source: iranhrdc.org

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that Iran will never give up its right to develop nuclear energy, but that the Islamic republic has never sought to make nuclear arms.
At the opening of a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Khamenei said: "Our motto is nuclear energy for all, and nuclear weapons for none."
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more, August 29, 2012

Experts say that tightening the economical sanctions in Iran hurt ordinary Iranians. The reason behind the sanctions is the nuclear crisis, but they don't see that.
The price of a liter milk increased by 14 percent in only four days.
source: voanews.com

Newsagency Daneshoo, which is run by regime-aligned students,reported on Monday that Gen. Salar Abnoush, commander of IRGC’s Saheb al-Amr unit said to volunteer trainees that Iran is involved in fighting every aspect of a war, a military one in Syria and a cultural one as well.
The comments couldn’t be independently verified.
source: iranbriefing.net




Human Rights Watch said that the proposed amendments of the Penal Code in Iran would violate the rights of accused people and criminal defendants.
The iranian authorities should suspend enactment of the proposed amendments and undertake a major overhaul of the country’s abusive penal laws.
The report is named “Codifying Repression: An Assessment of Iran’s New Penal Code,” , 48 pages.
source: hrw.org

UN secretary-general Ban-ki-Moon is welcome in Tehran, but UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in Iran Ahmed Shaheed continues to await a visa to enter Iran.Since the mandate was first approved in March 2011, he was not allowed to enter the country.
source: iranhumanrights.org

A analysis of the practice of juvenile execution in Iran by human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei through an examination of several case studies and exploration of relevant Iranian laws.
source: iranhrdc.org

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Iran: age August 28, 2012

The health of blogger Mohammad Reza Pour-Shegera who is imprisoned in Karaj prison has been strongly detoriated.
He is suffering from bleeding from the kidney, but prison authorities are refusing to grant him medical leave.
source: iranbriefing.net




LAtimes writes that the U.S. policy in the last 30 years to "isolate" Iran failed.
The 16th summit of Non-Aligned Movement which was formed in 1961 to counterbalance the superpowers, in Tehran, this week, attended by representatives from more than 100 countries — 35 heads of state, including Mohamed Morsi, president of Egypt, as well as U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon shows this.
For the next three years, Iran will serve as the chair of the movement.
source: latimes.com




A 2002 ruling by the Expediency Council laid down that girls below 13 and boys younger than 15 could only wed with their father’s consent and the permission of a court.
By many organizations is warned for of a surge in mental illness, suicides, teenage runaways and girls turning to prostitution as the nuptials frequently end in divorce.
Statistic showed that some families are said to be marrying off their daughters to older men to pay off debts.
The Society For Protecting The Rights of The Child, said 43,459 girls aged under 15 had married in 2009, compared with 33,383 three years previously. In 2010, 716 girls younger than 10 had wed, up from 449 the previous year.
source: freedomessenger

weekly report 19-8 (Arbitrary arrests)

weekly report 19-8 (Basic freedom and rights abused and Religious and ethnic minorities and Suppressive maneuvers)
weekly report 26-8 (Systematic violations of the right to life Executions, arbitrary killings, deaths in custody, and death sentences)

weekly report 26-8 ( Arbitrary arrests and Prison)

weekly rport 26-8 ( Basic freedom and rights abused)

weekly report 26-8 (Religious and ethnic minorities and Suppressive maneuvers and Violence against women)

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Iran: calls August 272012

There are more details about the raid of Iranian security guards on the aidworkers in a camp for earthquake victims in Tabriz.
The aidworkers were not politically motivated. When they noticed that the Red Crescent Society and the government organizations were not helping the earthquake victims, they made the decision to take their own initiative and risked the dangers associated with helping.
On orders of the governor of Haris police and security forces attacked the warehouse filled with supplies for the earthquake victims.They surrounded the camp for seven hours.
source: persian2english



A group of Iranian activists calling themselves Green Messengers of Hope of Iran, urged president Morsi of Egypt to speak out against the ongoing housearrest of Iranian oppositionleaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi.
Morsi will attend the 16th summit of the Non-aligned Movement in Tehran.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com




The chairwoman of womens committee of National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI),urged a call to save the lives of two female political prisoners Seddigheh Moradi and Kobra Banazadeh AmirKhizi, supporters of PMOI, who were brought to Gharechak Varamin prison.
This prison is known as a second Karichakprison and the conditions are worse then Evin or Gohardasjtprison.
Seddighe Moradi was arrested along with other PMOI supporters in May 2011. She has been convicted to 11 years in prison.
Kobra Banazadeh Amirkhizi has been arrested in January 2008 because she wanted to visit familymembers in Camp Ashraf. She has been sentenced to 5 years.
Both women have been tortured.
source: freedomessenger.com


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Iran: more August 26, 2012

Website Sepahahr wrote that Saturday a helicopter of Iran's revolutionary guards has crashedt in Sardashtarea near the Iraqi border.
4 guards were killed in the crash, the website  said only that the helicopter suffered "technical failure".
source: iranfocus.com

Amnesty International says that the writer Arzhang Davoodi, 60 must be released immediately.

Davoodi, who is imprisoned since 2003 faces a court hearing 28 August on a new charge of “enmity against God” (moharebeh), which carries a possible death sentence.
This new charge is believed to be linked to his peaceful political activism and writings, including the release of an audio recording in which he called for “freedom and democracy”.
source: iranfocus.com




According to reports of Committee of Human Rights Reporters is the leftish studentactivist and womansrightsactiviste Nasim Soltan Beigi, summoned by Evinprison to serve her six year prisonsentence.
source: we-change.org

Sunday Iran opened in Tehran the summit of 80 countries of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM).
Iran said in the openingspeech that this it says proves that Washington has failed to isolate it from the rest of the world.
Tehran has declared a five-day holiday in the capital to ease traffic pressures.
A conservative cleric warned opposition activists, in an interview, not to use the NAM summit as a chance to rekindle their protests from 2009.
source: reuters


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Iran: more August 25, 2012

Iranian oppositionleader Mir Hossein Mousavi has been transported home after being hospitalized.
After problems with his heart he was transferred to a hospital where he underwent an angiography.
Mousavi and his wife Zahra Rahnavard are under housearrest since February 2011.
source: rferl.org



The Iranian deputy minister for Asia and South-Pacific told that the two poets
Farid Huseyn and Shahriyar Hajizade who were arrested on May 2nd, are imprisoned for illegal actions. Their case is being considered in the court.
He said about the illegal actions of the poets, that despite the fact that they were invited to the poetry festival in Tabriz, they have not taken part in it.
source: today.az

The head of the intelligence unit of Revolutionary Guard Corps said that Iran has the responsibility to support the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Iran accused Western powers and countries in the region, including Turkey and Qatar, of supporting the rebels in Syria.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: further August 24, 2012

Kurdish Negin Teybi who was arrested on Qods Day has been transferred after four days to the offices of the Information Ministry in Kermanshah.
Before there had been no news of her condition or whereabouts. Another woman whose identity has not been yet released was also arrested on Quds Day.
Rasul Hardani, who is imprisoned in ward 350 of Evinprison for 14 years, has started a hungerstrike after his name was removed from the list of prisoners released from prison for Eid al-Fitr.
source: iranbriefing.net




After children's right activist Saeed Shirzad was arrested on Tuesday he has begun a hungerstrike.
He was arrested along with two other activists, and while the other two were released after a brief detention, he has been kept in Ahar Prison.
source: iranbriefingnet

Under extreme security measures is oppositionleader Mir Hossein Mousavi brought on August 23 to a cardiological centre in Tehran. He was suffering from extreme chest pain.
The hospital personnel working in the unit where he has been admitted, have not been allowed to leave the building and Mousavi is said to be banned from all visitation.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

This morning president Ahmadinejad arrived in East-Azerbaijan province.
During the visit, he will get acquainted with the effects of the earthquake of August 11 and the work to eliminate them.
source: en.trend.az

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Iran: arrests August 23, 2012

Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, 32 has been ordered to appear in court next month.
He is a converted christian and has been sentenced to death for his refusal to leave christianity.
According to the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), he has to answer on "charges brought against him, in the courthearing next month.
ACLJ says it is unclear if the charges are new or connected to the apostasy conviction.
source: foxnews.com

In Haris, province East-Azerbaijan, August 22 45 social activists were arrested by security agents. They raided the camps containing supplies for victims of the recent earthquakes.
These are the known names of activists who are arrested:
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, Navid Khanjani, Vahed Kholoosi, Shayan Vahdati, Shima Ghousheh, Misagh Afshar, Vahid Rouhani, Maziar Esmaeilpour, Morteza Esmaeilpour, Hamid Reza Mossayebian, Ali Mohammadi, Mohsen Saemi, Masoud Vafabakhsh, Houman Taheri, Danial Hosseini, Nafiseh Shahidfar, Bahram Shojaie, Mohammad Arjmandi Rad, Esmael Salmanpour, Baghban Bashi, Narges Kheirollahi, Mehdi Salehi, Behrouz Alavi, Milad Panahipour, Sepehrdad Saheban, Esmael Rafati, Amir Ronaghi, Hassan Ronaghi, Jafar Gholami, Kiana Karimpour, Farnaz Ahmadzadeh, Artemiz Varzandeh, Mehrnaz Ahmadzadeh, Amin Ronaghi, Reyhaneh Hesami, Ali Taghdiri, and Sadegh Rezaie Giglu..
There are unconfirmed reports that Ahmad Ronaghi Maleki,the father of Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, has been arrested also.
source: persian2english.com




August 14 the poet Seyyed Mohammad Reza Aali Payam, aka Haloo has been arrested in his house and his computer and writings were confiscated.
The arrest came after he criticised the apathy of the Iranian regime after the earthquake.
source: azarmehr.info




Iran Human Rights warns for a new wave of massexecutions in the coming weeks. It has been reported that Iranian authorities are planning to execute multiple prisoners, among them some political prisoners and some convicted of espionage.
Most of the executions will most likely be carried out following the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit to be scheduled in Tehran from 26-31 August.
source: iranhr.net



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Iran: further August 22, 2012

Two humanrightsgroups called for an end to international cash and technical assistance to Iran’s anti-drug campaign.
Harm Reduction International and Human Rights Watch issued this call.
In 2010 and 2011 , Iran executed more than 1,000 drug offenders, more than triple the number in the previous two years.
In the past decade USA, Canada and several European countries invested millions of dollars in Iran and neighboring countries that are intended to reduce the supply and demand of illicit drugs.
However the assistance has made it easier to prosecute alleged offenders based on unfair trials, and even apply the death sentence under the draconian drug laws of Iran’s revolutionary courts.
source: freedomessenger.com

USA said it will temporarily lift the economical sanctions against Iran, allowing aid organizations to send aid, food and medicines to be sent to Iran.
source: BBC

The spokesman of Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope, urged UN secretary-general Ban-ki Moon to exert pressure on ayatollah Khamenei to release political prisoners including Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi .
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Iran: nominal August 21, 2012

The Appeals Court upheld the sentence of doctoral student at the university of Texas Omid Kokabee., to 10 years in prison.
He was accused of conspiring with foreign countries against Iran.
Jaras reported that his lawyers were not allowed to contact their client.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com




Iran announced the upgrade to six weapons, including a more accurate short-range missile, a more powerful naval engine and an airborne testing laboratory.
source: reuters

According to former members of revolutionary guard Corps, the Corps seized control in international drugstrafficking in Iran.
Despite hundreds of executions each year for drug trafficking and possession, billions of dollars are used in lucrative business smuggling of heroin, opium and methamphetamine, spearheaded by the guards.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Iran: opinions, August 2012

An American general says that intelligence services of USA and Israel have different views on reports of Iran's nuclear programme.
According to him Israel has a different view as a nuclear-armed Iran could endanger Israel's very existence.
He said so when leaving on a trip to Afghanistan.
source: iranfocus.com


In Germany 4 men had been arrested charged with delivering valves for a heavy-water reactor to Iran.
The four, one German and 3 German Iranians, were arrested in their houses in Hamburg, Oldenburg and Weimar while their houses were searched.
source: radiozamaneh.com




The Nursing Association slammed university decision to restrict nursing programs for female applicants.
This year, 77 fields in universities have announced that they will not be accepting female applicants.
It’s the first step in an attempt to segregate all university classes by gender.
source: radiozamaneh.com

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Iran: more August 19, 2012

Ahead of Eid ul-Fitr,Iranian security forces arrested many Ahwaz-Arabs on peaceful demonstrations.
August 17 several demonstrations in Ahwazregio took place demanding the release of political prisoners and respect for the bodies of those executed.
Saeed Dehimi (25) from Hamidiyah was detained at an unknown location on Friday.
Kut Abdullah, Kantex, Malashiya and Hey Althawra were arrested in Ahwaz. A number of Sunni Arabs were arrested, but only two names are known: Heidar Meisi (25) and Ahmad Hazbawi (28) are known.
The Ahwazi Arab Solidarity Network (AASN) received the names of 46 Ahwazi Arabs, but there are reports that more people were arrested.
source: freedomessenger.com

New York Times reports that Iraq helps Iran by using oil-smuggling operations and a network of financial institutions that are providing Tehran with a flow of dollars.
source: rferl.org

Iranian authorities mobilized revolutionary guards to give aid after the two earthquakes.
In the same time private individuals and unofficial NGOs were cracked.
source: iranbriefing.net



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