Iran: hungerstrike, November 30, 2012

The health of imprisoned humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is in a critical condition. She has been on a hunger strike for more than a month to protest against the violation of her rights as a prisoner and the harrassment of her family.
source: radiozamaneh.com.




The physical condition of political prisoner Dr. Asadollah Asadi who started a hungerstrike 10 days ago, is deteriorated.
He was arrested in Tabriz 29 months ago and was now brought to ward 350 of Evinprison.
He was sentenced to five years imprisonment on charges of cooperation with hostile governments and membership in the Popular Muslim Party.
source: iranbriefing.net

Article about secret plants in Iran who feed the nuclear programme.
source: iranbriefing.net


A videoconversation about humanrights violations against Bahai

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Iran: more November 29, 2012

November 29 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will meet in Vienna for new talks on Iran's nuclear program.
The gathering comes after a recent report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said Iran could soon start operating many more centrifuges at its underground Fordow facility.
source: rferl.org


November 28 Iran unveiled the new warship Sina-7 on a naval basis near Bandar Abbas.The Sina-7 is equipped with antiship missiles and is made in Iran.
Also unveiled were two Ghadir submarines, which can fire missiles and torpedoes at the same time.
Iranian statetelevision reported that Navy chief Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said that Iran must possess the newest technology to protect its borders.
source: rferl.org

Prisoner of conscience and senior spokesman for student alumni group Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat Abdollah Momeni is not allowed to receive visits from his wife and children.
After the presidential elections in 2009, where he and the group supported Karroubi, Momeni was sentenced to 11 years and 4 months in prison.Currently he is in ward 350 of Evinprison.
He wrote a letter to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei detailing his torture by interrogators in prison and after writing the letter to Khamenei, Momeni was deprived of family visits and furloug.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Police in Berlin says that Wednesday around 30 people attacked the Iranian embassy with stones and paint. They did not enter the building and the police arrested 10 people.
The reasons for the attack is unknown. Germany's foreign minister expressed regret to his counterpart in Tehran.
source: iranfocus.com



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Iran: further November 28th 2012

The humanrightscommittee of UN has criticised the continuing use of torture in Iran in a resolution. The resolution also expresses concern at restrictions on candidates in the 2012 parliamentary elections and strongly urges the government to ensure free presidential elections in 2013.
The resolution will take a final vote next month.
source: rferl.org, iranhumanrights.org

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been hacked causing the names of more then 100 experts posted on a hackerwebsite called Parastoo.
source: thehackernews.com


11 Bahais were in Mashhad convicted to six months in prison.
Their names are: Fataneh Hajipour, Navid Nabili, Ezatallah Ahmadian, Negin Ahmadian, Shazad Khalili, Naghmeh Zabihian, Negar Malekzadeh, Behnaz Hadadzadeh, Horiyeh Mohseni, Arman Mokhtari, shayan Tafzali.
Horiyeh Mohseni Negar Malekzadeh and Negin Ahmadian were convicted to a fine of 300,000 Tomans for possessionveroordeeld voor het bezit van een satellietschotel en toebehoren.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

Iranian police accepts partial responsibility for the dead of blogger Sattar Beheshti.
The policechief of Tehran said that it was negligence that he was prescribed sedative drugs by the prison’s health center and he was not allowed to take them and negligence he was kept at an administrative section,  if he had been held at the detention center, monitoring cameras would have recorded the incidents there.
source: mehrnewd.com

The husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh said that her physical condition is alarming bad.
She is in a hungerstrike since October 17th.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com



Omid Behroozi, Afshin Karampour, Farshid Yadollahi and Amir Aslani 4 Gonabadi derwishes lawyers are denied medical treatment allthough they suffer bad physical conditions.
They are imprisoned in Evin prison.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com


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Iran: rules November 27, 2012

UK based Sunday Times reported that Israeli intelligence satellites showed that Iran Fajr-5 rockets shipped through Sudan to the Gaza Strip.
The report said that Iran began preparing the weapons shipment around the same time Israel and Hamas negotiated a cease-fire late last week.
source: iranbriefing.net



Iranian cyberpolice arrested Omid Dehdarzadeh last Sunday in Ahwaz.
He was previously arrested and convicted for acting against national security, to six-month suspended jail, 75 lashes for “insulting government officials” and was fined at least 10 million rials for “resisting arrest.”
source: iranbriefing.net

The ministerie van Guidance Monday shut down Maghreb daily after a cartoon of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared on the front page of its November 22 issue.
Until the Press Supervisory Board decides, the paper stay closed.
source: radiozamaneh.com


The Census Organization says that young couples should marry younger to a better structure of the population.
Because people marry at a later age they usually end up making do with only one child. The head of Census Instituut said that there must be solutions to allow women who marry and continue their education to also have the facilities to raise children.
In recent months, the authorities have scrapped all population-control programs and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei apologized to the people for having instructed them in the past to bear fewer children.
source: radiozamaneh.com

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Iran: further November 26th 2012

The Pan-Iranist Youth Organization reported on Thursday that 10 members were arrested in Karaj.
The names of the members are: Hojat Kalashi, Ozhen Akbari, Farhad Baghbani, Kasra Alasavand, Hooman Eskandari, Hossein Shahriyari, Alireza Solaimani and Hossein Javid.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

In Brazil they discuss why Brazil should change its upcoming vote from Abstention and positively support an annual UN General Assembly resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran.
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a translation of the article.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Wellknown Hungarian personalities joined a campaign called "Prominent Hungarians for Human Rights in Iran," to support humanrights in Iran.
Member of European Parliament and former Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Kinga Göncz,MP Ágnes Osztolykán, journalists Ilona Bayer, Soma Mamagésa and Kata Jaksity, actors Sándor Csányi and Károly Gesztesi, international fencing champion Ivan Kovács, and musicians, including Orsi Kozma and rapper L.L. Junior.
source: bahai.org

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Iran: more November 25th 2012

The family of  the blogger Sattar Beheshti told International Campaign voor Humanrights in Iran that despite promises to pursue and introduce individuals responsible for the blogger’s death during interrogations, a few days after her son’s burial his mother was taken to a notary office to sign a form, releasing them from responsibility.
They also didn't allow them to wash the body for the funeral.
Authorities said on November 22 that Beheshti's death was due to "shock" , but gave no further information.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

US carrier USS John C Stennis is heading near The Strait of Hormuz to join the Fifth Fleet.
The mission is to keep some of the world's busiest shipping lanes open, at any moment America's standoff with Iran could escalate into a crisis.
source: iranfocus.com

European Union urges Iran to stop humanrights violations.  The resolution calls on the Iranian authorities to set free all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience, including Sakharov Prize winners Nasrin Sotoudeh and Jafar Panahi.
All the prisoners must have access to legal support and medical care. Iran must accept and facilitate peaceful protests and respect religious freedom.
The European Parliament forces the Iranian authorities to collaborate with the international community and allow the UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Iran, to visit the country.
source: freedomessenger.com

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Iran: rights..... November 24th, 2012

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), ask action for imprisoned humanrights defendant Nasrin Sotoudeh.
She was finally allowed to receive a visit from her husband and children, in the presence of security officers.She weighs 43 kilos and continues her hunger strike to protest against the pressures inflicted against her children and husband.
source: fidh.org

In the Guardian is an article about how Iranian activists are punished for speaking out.
In 2010 activist Arash Sadeghi was temporarily released from Evinprison. In a few days security agents raided his home in the middle of the night causing his mother who was alone in the house with a daughter, to suffer a heartattack.She died within a few days.
Sadeghi told Roozonline that his family blamed him for her dead. After this he was imprisoned again and since then he has spent all but one month in jail. For the past 11 months, Sadeghi has been held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer.
This is one of the cases from the article.
source: guardian.co.uk

The journalist and Secretary General of Advar Tahkim Vahdat Alumni Association Ahmad Zeidabadi is after six months of severe illness and repeated requests by his family for medical treatment transferred to a hospital in Tehran.He has been cuffed to his bed.
source: iranhumanrights.org





The Bahai brothers Saman Badii Arani and Ashkan Hadii Arani from Karaj were arrested two weeks ago.
Till now no information is known.
source: iranbriefing.net

The member of Tehran Bus Drivers Union Reza Shahabi, who is serving a prisonsentence of 6 years was taken to a hospital where he underwent 6 hours surgery.
After this he was returned to prison.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Iran, more November 23rd, 2012

Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani the jailed son of senior political figure Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, told his father during a visit that the security office has no evidence against him.
Website Kaleme published an interview with Fatemeh Heshemi,the daughter of Ayatollah Rafsanjani, the head of the Expediency Council, in which she reported on the situation of her two siblings, Mehdi and Faezeh Hashemi, in Evin Prison.
Faezeh serves a 6-months prisonsentence. Fatemeh Hashemi says that her brother is in isolation since his arrest in September.
source: radiozamaneh



Another accident occurred with a bus with students on a fieldtrip to South-Iran,
wounding 14 students.
Officials said that 40 female students were on a field trip that teaches students the history of the eight-year Iran-Iraq War. The annual trip, referred to as the “Rahian-e Noor” , has led to many road accidents, especially in recent months.
In October, one bus overturned, killing 26 students and injuring another 18.
source: radiozamaneh
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weekly humanrightsreport november 18, 2012 systematic violation to life.

weekly humanrights report november 18, 2012 arbitrary arrests, prison and violence against women.


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Iran: truth? November 22, 2012

Hossein Falah former secretary of Non-Government Organizations in Qazvin is arrested after being summoned to the office of the ministry of information in Qazvin.
The organization was shut down several years ago by the regime.
source: iranbriefing.net

The mother of the blogger Sattar Beheshti who died in custody, told Sahamnews that she does not believe statements by the authorities regarding her son’s death and she is convinced he was killed in prison.
The coroners report indicated that Sattar Beheshti died from natural causes and has hinted at heart complications and that he was previously taking heart medication.
According to his mother he was suffering from no illnesses and did not take any medication.
source: radiozamaneh



The Kurdish student activist from Mahabad, Jamal Qader Nezad was sentenced to 5 years in prison for collaboration with an opposition party.
source: iranbriefing.net

A Pakistani television station reported that president Ahmadinejad welcomed the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel but he seems to not be very optimistic. Iran has an alliance with Hamas. The leader of Hamas, on Wednesday thanked Iran for what he described as arms and funding.
source: hurriyetdailyneww.com


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Iran: further November 21 2012

Six countries, Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States are meeting on November 21 in Brussels to discuss plans to hold a fresh round of talks with Iran.
source: rferl.org


According to Al-Arabya were last week in Ahwaz 29 people arrested for participating in the funeral ceremony of an Ahvaz poet last week.
Most arrests were made n the Hai Kut Abdullah region in Ahwaz.
source: freedomessenger

The chief of Iran’s coroner’s office has announced that investigations about the death of Sattar Beheshti point to natural causes.
Mehrnewsagency also reported that the the coroner’s office has not reached a final conclusion about all its investigation results.
source: radiozamaneh.com



The pasport of Parastou Forouhar has been taken by authorities.
She came back to Iran after having attended a memorial service for her murdered parents, Daryoosh and Parvaneh Forouhar, who were killed in 1998 in a series of political assassinations.
source: iranbriefing.net



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Iran: time November 20th 2012

In Farsnews is an interview with a man who's said to be one of Khamenei's oldest friends and aides.
He tells about the frugal life from Khamenei and that he owns almost no money and just a single carpet. The only carpet in his house is an ordinary Tabriz carpet which is so old that it's threadbare in some places.
source: rferl.org

It is reported that oppositionleader Mehdi Karroubi admitted for a few hours to one of the hospital affiliated with Iran’s security apparatus yesterday to undergo tests for his physical well-being.
Two weeks ago he began experiencing extreme weight loss, a lack of appetite, dizziness and nausea.

Mir Hossein Mousavi is transferred to Tehran Heart Center today in order to undergo a number of cardiac tests.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com




Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported that journalist Abolfazl Abedini, who testified regarding signs of torture on the body of Sattar Beheshti, the blogger who died in custody, was transferred from Evinprison to Ahvaz Prison.
Immediately 41 of his cellmates protested in an open letter and stressed that he was the most knowledgeable person with regard to the case of Sattar Beheshti.
Abedini has been returned to Evinprison.
source: freedomessenger.com

Humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh who is on hungerstrike, has been returned to ward 350 from ward 209.
She has not been allowed one phonecall to her family during her 18 months of detention.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Basij commandant Mohammad Reza Naqdi said at a meeting discussing Israel’s attack in the Gaza Strip that Basij forces are counting the seconds until they are given the order to liberate Jerusalem, and they are waiting at this time from the order from the Supreme Leader.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Children are being hanged to death.

A child will be hanged to death.

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