Iran: more January 31 2013

Western diplomats said that Iran told the Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that the country plans to install thousands of more modern uranium centrifuges in Natanz. This enables Iran to refine uranium two or three times faster than is currently possible.
Anonymous Western diplomats said that Iran had notified the IAEA, about its plans in a letter dated January 23.
source: rferl.org



The Bulletin News website, a site linked to security bodies, announced that journalist Ali Dehghan also has been arrested. Dehghan works for the economical section of daily Bahar. Before he had worked with several reformist newspapers such as Shargh, Etemad and Bahar, and he has also worked for the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA).
This is the first time Dehghan has been arrested.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: opposite January 30, 2013

The daughter of Rafsanjani, Faezeh Hashemi, who is detained in Evinprison, published a letter to website Kaleme and slammed the member of parliament that visited Evin Prison on January 23 and said it was like a hotel.
She wrote that the reports by visiting MPs are not only mixed with lies and delusion but they are also very tactless.
She also wrote: We saw the signs of this tactlessness during the visit as this individual treated the women prisoners with contempt; he denied the veracity of their statements and soon pressed for the delegation to leave, saying he had to get to his prayers on time.”
source: iranbriefing.net

Some reformist newspapers made a rare protest against the the raid on their offices and the arrests of their staffmembers. Newspaper Shargh published in its January 30 issue an empty space where Pouria Alami's column would usually have appeared and explained that "it will not be printed until further notice."
Also the newspaper Bahar protested against the arrest of journalists.
source: rferl.org

Iran fully supports the regime of Syrian president Assad. A senior Iranian official said that those who are backing the "terrorists" are responsible for the fights and killings in Syria.
On a pressconference the Iranian foreign ministry's undersecretary for Arab and African affairs said that the cause of the Syrian crisis is the sending of arms to terrorist groups into Syria by some countries.
source: dailystar.com.lb

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Iran: more January 29, 2013

Iran launched a monkey in space yesterday, but USA says Iran may have violated a United Nations resolution if its claims are true.
The spokesman of the American Foreign Ministry said that if the report is true, Iran violated UN Security Council Resolution 1929 which bars Iran from “any activity related to ballistic missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using ballistic missile technology.”
source: rferl.org



According to the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, security agents arrested five students of dissident Ayatollah Dastgheib, in Shiraz.
Of the five detainees, only one has been identified as Taher Faghih.
Ayatollah Dastgheib, is a prominent religious scholar and supporter of the opposition Green Movement, is also a member of the Assembly of Experts.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com



On January 27 the five Ahwazi-activists, Shabanijed, Hadi Rashed, Mohammad Ali Amourinejad, Jaber Alboshoka, and Mokhtar Alboshoka, who are sentenced to death were allowed a telephonecall with their family. In the phone contact the Arab prisoners said that they have been transferred back to Karoun prison and that their physical state is fine.
On July 27, 2012 they are sentenced to death.
source: chrr.biz


Radio FREE Europe/Radio Liberty writes that Iran renewed its crackdown on the press less than five months before the presidential election. The arrest of 14 journalists is seen an attempt to silence independent coverage of the presidential election, and a signal that the regime is willing to take preemptive action against people it believes could create trouble.
source: rferl.org






Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that January 28 the reporters Keyvan Mehregan and Hossein Yaghchi are arrested. Keyvan Mehregan has been taken to Evinprison with a previous summons and he is facing new charges. The arrest of Saba Azarbik on January 27 has been confirmed.
Motehareh Shafii, is released.
source: chrr.biz



Amnesty International urges Iran to release the at least 14 reporters who were arrested.
They are accused of cooperating with "anti-revolutionary" Persian-language media organizations outside Iran.
source: amnestyusa.org


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Iran: press January 28, 2013

Security forces raided the offices of newspapers Bahar, Shargh, Arman, Etemad, and Aseman Weekly and arrested journalists working there.. They also searched and videotaped the premises.
Less then a week ago Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the spokesperson for the Iranian Judiciary predicted the arrests at a press conference.
The arrested journalists are Pouria Alemi and Pejman Mousavi (Shargh Newspaper), Emily Amraee (Bahar Newspaper), Akbar Montajebi (Aseman Weekly), Sassan Aghaee, Javad Deliri and Nasrin Takhiri (Etemad Newspaper), Motahareh Shafiee and Narges Joudaki (Arman Newspaper).
On January 26 also Soleiman Mohammadi, Bahar Newspaper and Milad Fadai Asl, Iran Labour News Ageny, ILNA’s, Political Desk were arrested on the street and transferred to Evinprison.
One hour after the arrests on Sunday, Mehrnews confirmed the news of the arrests and wrote that the arrests were "telling of the cooperation of some of them with Farsi-language anti-revolutionary media.” The news agency indicated that all the journalists were arrested with judicial orders and announced that the Revolutionary Court Prosecutor’s Office will soon issue a statement in this matter.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Iranian-American pastor Saeed Abedini has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for his role in underground churches.
He was convicted of threatening Iran's national security over underground church activities a decade ago, according to the American Center for Law and Justice.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

Iran denies that an explosion occurred last Friday in an underground nuclear facility in Fordow, near the religious city of Qom.
source: reuters.com


International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran announces a new weekly podcast made by Iranian artist and satirist Kambiz Hosseini called Five in the Afternoon, a half-hour of news and developments on human rights in Iran. The podcast will be available every Friday on the Campaign website and on the Campaign’s Facebook page, as well as Mr. Hosseini’s Facebook page.
Here is a trailer (Fa).

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Iran: further January 27th 2013

Farhad Panirak, a Kurd from Salmas is convicted to 5 years in prison.
He has been charged with acting against national security.
The way of dealing with Kurds of Salmas and lots of arrests, summoning, and imprisonment verdicts need to be attended deeply. Also families could not get the correct information about the situation and whereabout of the detainees.
source: iranbriefing.net

Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that agents of the Ministry of Information arrested journalist Milad Fadai Asl, head of the political section of ILNA news agency, on January 26th. In 2009 he was convicted to one year jail sentence on charges of "propaganda against the regime".
After serving his one-year sentence, he was released.
source: chrr.biz



Jailed reformist Mohsen Mirdamadi wrote an open letter from Evinprison challenging the favourable reports about the prison. of  Astara MP, Safar Naimi who said that Evin should be referred to as Hotel Evin for the high-quality services that it offers to prisoners.
In this letter Mirdamadi writes that Safar Nami has quoted false statements on his behalf and on behalf of his cellmate, Alireza Beheshti.
Mirdamadi emphasizes that if Naimi feels Evin is like a hotel, then he should live in it for a while to “become fully familiar with all of its hidden aspects.”
source: radiozamaneh.com

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Iran: more January 26th 2013

This morning is in Kerman a man hanged in public.
The man, Yaser K. was convicted for rape.
source: iranhr.net


Five UN experts and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran urge Iran to suspend the deathpenalty of five Ahwazi-activists and conduct an independent investigation into the judicial process of the case, and investigate the suspects allegations of torture during their interrogation.
The five men Mohammad Ali Amouri, Hadi Rashedi, Hashem Shabani, Jabber Alboshokeh, and Mokhtar Alboshokeh , are sentenced to death for enmity with god.
source: iranhumanrights.org

According to an aide of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei of Iran, Iran would consider every attack on Syria an attack on itself.
In 2006 Shi'ite Muslim power Iran and Syria, whose leader follows an offshoot of Shi'ite Islam, signed a mutual defence pact. Little is known of its details or whether there are any other signatories. Iran accuses Western powers of supporting and arming the Syrian rebels, while the rebels accuse Iran of sending fighters from its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to help Assad.
source: dailystar.com.lb


According to Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) raided security agents on 21 January the house of bahai Sheida Ta’ieed and arrested her and her guest Bayan Babaie.
They were transferred to Sari’s Intelligence Office and after 3 days their families were informed.
source: en-hrana.com


Chart of Executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Iran: further January 25, 2013

In Khoramdareh is on January 23 a man hanged in public.
The man, V.Sh. was convicted for the murder on a security agent in Khoramdareh, province Zanjan.
In the prison of Sharoos is on January 24 one man hanged.
The man, Ch. P. was convicted for trafficking 1.94 kilograms of morphine.
In the prison of Ilam is a man hanged.
The not named man was convicted for murder.
source: iranhr.net


In Shiraz is on January 24 a man punished in public with amputation.
A. S. H. 29, was sentenced to amputation of four fingers on the right hand and three years in prison and 99 lashes for engaging in an "immoral relationship".
The Chief Prosecutor of Shiraz warned that similar sentences for several other prisoners will be carried out in the near future.
source: iranhr.net

January 23 filmmaker Behrouz Ghobadi was released following a campaign demanding his release by Amnesty International which engaged prominent Hollywood directors and actors.
He was arrested on November 4 2012 and he had been held incommunicado at an undisclosed location.
He was accused of acting against national security.
source: panarmenian.net

Slovakia's Foreign Ministry says it is being denied access to Matej Valuch in prison.
January 16 Valuch "confessed" in a tv-show called "The hunter trapped", that he was recruted by CIA to spy on Iran.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: more January 24, 2013

January 23 januari were in the prison of Qazvin 3 men hanged.
The men, K Kh. (28), A. N. (34) and A. H. (41), were sentenced to fines, lashes and death for possession and trafficking of drugs.
source: iranhr.net




30 humanrights organizations released a joint statement expressing "deep concern" about the imminent execution of five Ahwazi Arab activists and have urged the international community and human rights organizations to take immediate action.
The 5 Ahwazi are:
Jaber Alboshoka, 28, holds an associate degree in computer sciences and is a private in the military, Mokhtar Alboshoka,26, works at a stone mining company,Hadi Rashedi,39 holds a masters degree in applied chemistry and is a chemistry teacher, Hashem Shabaninejad,32 n Arabic literature teacher and a masters student of political science at Ahwaz University,and Mohammad Ali Amourinejad,34 a Fisheries engineer and school teacher.
These five men are the founders and active members of Al-Hiwar (dialogue)—scientific-cultural institute who had mass arrests of its members in February 2011. They were interrogated and tortured by agents of the Ministry of Information.
They were accused of moharebeh (waging war with God) and terrorism, however the defendants maintain that the confessions obtained from them are false confessions obtained under torture.
The undersigned are:
1.Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Prize Laureate
2. Arab Organization for Human Rights in UK
3. Arseh Sevom (Third Sphere)
4. Association for Defence of Azerbaijani Political Prisoners in Iran (ADAPP)
5. Balochistan Human Rights Organisation
6. Centre for Combating Racism and Discrimination against Arabs in Iran” (CCRDAI)
7. Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR)
8. Together against the Death Penalty/ Ensemble contre la peine de mort (ECPM)
9. European Ahwazi Human Rights Organization (EAHRO)
10. Iran Human Rights
11. Iran Human Rights Documentation Center
12. Iranian Cultural Society, Switzerland
13. Iranian Progressive Youth (IPY)
14. Iraqi Coalition Against the Death Penalty
15. Justice for Iran NGO
16. Kurdish Human Rights Association
17. Kurdish Human Rights Network
18. Mothers of Laleh Park/ Dortmund
19. Mothers of Laleh Park/ Hamburg
20. Mothers of Laleh Park/ Los Angeles – Valley
21. Mothers of Laleh Park/Köln
22. Mourning Mothers of Iran – London
23. National Centre of Justice Iraq-UK
24. Shahrvand Yar (Citizen's Friends)
25. Society for the Defense of Human Rights in Iran – Austria
26. The Abdorrahman Boroumand Foundation
27. The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI)
28. The Association for Human Rights in Kurdistan of Iran-Geneva
29. The Mothers for Peace, Montreal
30. United4Iran
source: iranhr.net



On Monday, a group of Iranian MPs visited the notorious Evin prison, Iran's biggest jail for political prisoners.
Unlike the political prisoners, most of which were arrested after 2009. and which in recent years have complained about the abuses in the Evinprison, an MP said that after this tour that he now only about "Hotel Evin" would speak.
Last month, 20 prisoners wrote an open letter to the head of the prison in which they criticised him for allegedly not letting sick inmates receive proper treatment.
source: BBC

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Iran: opinion January 23, 2013

Update regarding the reports that one of the on January 16th executed prisoners in Rajai Shahr Prison was a minor.
Investigation revealed that Ali (Kianoosh) Naderi was born on 26 October 1990.
The criminal act was committed by him on 12 November 2008.This means that his age was 18 years and 6 days old.
source: iranhr.net

The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has issued as opinion(PDF) to the government of Iran to release Hossein Mossavi, Mehdi Karoubi, and Zahra Rahnavard calling their detention arbitrary and therefore forbidden.
WGAD stated that the Iranian government violated international human rights law and also Iranian laws by holding the opposition leaders without charges or a trial.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Nasrin Sotoudeh,  had to return to prison after 3 days, in recent days several other political prisoners were released on furlough.
Their names are student activist Bahareh Hedayat, journalists Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, Ahmad Zeidabadi, Mahsa Amrabadi and Massoud Bastani and the lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Saeed Mortazavi,the former Tehran Prosecutor who was responsible for the deaths of detainees at Kahrizak Prison in 2009 is on order of the Ahmadinejad administration, staying the head of Social Security Fund .
Two times was the appointment rejected by the Supreme Court of Justice, the administratie says that Mortazavi is serving there in a supervisory role.
source: iranbriefing.net




The parents and younger brother of political prisoner Anvar Hossein Panahi were summoned on January 21st to the office of the Qorveh Ministry of Intelligence in Kurdistan province.
The family is harrassed and bullied and judicial authorities impounded 10 million tomans from their bank account, money Panahi’s brother had deposited to help his family.
source: chrr.biz


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Iran: more January 22 2013

Lawyer and womansrightsactivist Farideh Gheirat told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the new Passport and Exit Law, which will make it mandatory for girls and women to have the approval of their “guardian” (father, husband, or paternal grandfather) to exit the country,is against Iranian constitution.
Farideh Gheirat hopes that the bill not will be approved.
According to ISNA this resolution that was passed on Tuesday, January 15, allows unmarried women over the age of 18 to obtain passports, but will not allow them to leave the country without permission from their guardians.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Humanrightslawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been returned to prison after only 3 days of furlough.
Prior to granting her furlough, they had reiterated to her that this furlough would be rather long, she had made it clear that if that were not the case, she would not be willing to accept furlough. A three day furlough would only lead to more distress for the children.
But on January 21st at 11 o'clock in the evening, while the children were crying, they brought her back to prison.
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Iran: more January 21st 2013

In The New York Times wrote Thomas Erdbrink an eyewitnessarticle about the public hangings yesterday in Tehran.
source: nytimes.com


Amnesty International started an urgent action for five Ahwazi who are sentenced to death.
Mohammad Ali Amouri, Sayed Jaber Alboshoka and his brother Sayed Mokhtar Alboshoka, and the teachers Hashem Sha’bani Amouri and Hadi Rashidi (Rashedi) were notified that their deathsentence was upheld by branch 32 of the Supreme Court.
The verdict has been handed to the Office for the Implementation of Sentences which means that the sentence could be carried out at any time.
source: persian2english

The father of Hossein Ronagh Maliki has been beaten and insulted by Intelligence Ministry’s agents after being summoned at the policestation in Tabriz.
He also was threathened. Hossein Ronagh Maleki who is currently out on medical furlough, stated that he thinks of going back to prison to end the harrassment of his family.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

Iranian parlliament passed a motion to investigate the actions of the Central Bank in connection with its management of the foreign currency market and the devaluation of the national currency.
According to Khaneh Mellat website the probe passed in parliament with 171 to 36 against and with 21 abstaining.
source: payvand.com

ISNA reported on Sunday that Iran has ended the subsidized gasoline for cars with engines of 1,800cc and bigger.These will be only supplied with 300 liters of gasoline per month at 7,000 rials a liter.
Iranians pay 4000rial(33 cent) per liter for a monthley ration of 60 liters and 7,000 rials a liter for larger volumes.
Previously, cars with engines of 2,000cc were included in the rationing plan.
source: payvand.com

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Iran: punish January 20, 2013

The two men who were last week sentenced to death after a video appeared on Youtube with footage of the men violently robbing a pedestrian were this morning hanged in public.
The men, Alireza Mafiha, 24 and Mohammad Ali Sorouri, 24 had been convicted for moharebe and corruption on earth.
source: dailystar.com.lb

On January 18 were in Pakdasht 2 men hanged in public.
Fars newsagency reported that the men, "Siyavash" (27) and "Mahmood" (28) were sentenced to death for rape.
ISNA reported that in Urmia on 19 January a man has been hanged in public.
The man, Hamed, 23 was convicted for murdering an other man.
Last week were the flogging sentences of four men carried out publicly in Sabzevar and Akman (near Semnan).
source: iranhr.net

The wife of Abolfazl Ghadyani told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that judge Salavati plans to transfer her husband to Ghezel Hessar Prison. On January 14 he was denied visitors and also now he is banned from having visitors because he will be transferred to another prison..
Ghadyani a member of Central Council of the Islamic Revolution Mojahedin Organization, was arrested on January 9th, 2010 and sentenced to six years in prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org

In the last laborstatistics in Iran the Statistical Center of Iran changed two fundamental definitions (that of “work,” and that of “employment),to lower the official unemployment rate.
These new definitions allow children under the age of 15 to be added to employment statistics, thereby lowering the official unemployment rates.
These new definitions go against both Iranian and international labor laws.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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