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2012-02-10T08:47:00.000+01:00

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Iran: more

2012-02-09T16:54:00.002+01:00

In the past days 4 men have been hanged in Qom.
Mehrnews writes that the unnamed men all were convicted for drugstrafficking and were hanged in the prison.
source: iranhr.net

The mental health of Reza Malek, Ayub Ghanbarpourian and other political prisoners in Evinprison is in danger especially for those who are sentenced to death, and who are in uncertainty when their execution sentence will be carried out.
Sometimes prisoners are subjected to mock executions and they only know in the last moment that this was not for real.
Many prisoners have sincere sleeping disorders, this varies from in the middle of the night screaming waking up every night to complete sleep deprivation.
Also many prisoners try to commit suicide. Those are transferred to a mental hospital where they stay 14 days in hand and footcuffs.
source: iranbriefing.net

According to recent reports from Evin prison’s Ward 350, the medical clinic is engaging in abusive practices against inmates, including the improper administration of mind-altering medication.
The clinic stopped administering medications to some prisoners while others are given large doses of drugs that can result in serious mental side effects.
This was the case with sentenced to death webdesigner Vahid Asghari, while political prisoner Hossein Asghari, got numerous medications that he is addicted to them.
source: iranbriefing.net

The deathsentence of Javad Lari has been commuted by the Supreme Court to a 2 year prisonsentence.
Lari was arrested for acting against national security but was sentenced to death by judge Selavati for moharebeh(enmity with god).He was sentenced to death for being a supporter of the MKO in the 80's for which he served 5 years in prison.
source: freedomessenger

February 7th is in Tehran Shamim Zeinol-Abedin summoned to the Sentence Implementation Unit to be flogged 50 times. She was convicted in 2009 for disrupting public order and participating in an illegal protest.
source: freedomessenger

Political prisoner Abolfazl Ghadyani has been transferred to the intensive care unit of the Modares hospital. It is reported that his health was deteriorating over the last days.
He has a heartcondition, acute hyperthyroidism and a prostate condition and has recently lost a significant amount of weight.
Although his one-year prisonsentence ended in December, he was not released, instead he was interrogated again.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

On the eve of February 14th, security agents threathened to arrest the daughters of Mousavi.
One daughter has been banned from activities at the university where she teaches.
Last year February 14, Mousavi and Karroubi were illegally detained in housearrest.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

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Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: further

2012-02-08T16:33:00.002+01:00

Student and Azeri activist Eunice Soleimani, is detained since December 2011 in Ardabil Prison.
Hij has been banned from university an is former secretary of Turkish Center at Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan, and has been severely beaten by agents of Tabriz Intelligence Agency.
source: iranbriefing.net

Zanyar Moradi and Loqman Moradi who are sentenced to death are in appeal also sentenced to death and their execution is imminent.
The only person who can stop this execution is the Fridays Prayer Leader in Marivan.
They are convicted for the killing of the son of the Fridays Prayer Leader in 2009 and spying for the British government.
They confessed this in a televised confession, but wrote an open letter from prison announcing that their confessions were extracted under torture.
source: iranbriefing.net

Malaysia stopped the exports of palmoil to Iran and Asian traders stopped purchasing crude because of the Western economical sanctions on Iran.
source: reuters

In Iran is an illegal trade in organs.According to reports the chief prosecutor of the ministry of Justice in Iran is deeply involved in this.
source: freedomessenger

The children of Karroubi and Moussavi wrote an open letter in which they call upon their compatriots to raise their voice and ask for democracy and release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience.
source: banouesabz.wordpress.com

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Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: arrests

2012-02-07T14:44:00.002+01:00

Human Rights Watch said in a statement that Iranian security agents since 2011 in Khuzestan province, 65 Arab residents have arrested.
The Deputy Middle East director of Human Rights Watch urges Iran to immediately divulge the reasons for the arrests, give detainees access to family members and lawyers and bring all detainees promptly before a judge.

Names of people reported arrested in Khuzestan Province Since November 2011 (provided by local activists).

Shush: Qasem Badavi, Jaajaa Chenani, Aadel Dabbat, Ahmad Dabbat, Ashur Dabbat, Faisal Dabbat, Kazem Dabbat, Ebrahim Heidari, Hamid Kaabi, Jaafar Kaabi, Jasem Kaabi, Karim Kaabi, Khadijeh Kaabi (female), Mohammad Kaabi (died in detention), Sajjad Kaabi, Ali Kenani, Abbas Khasraji, Mehdi Khasraji, Moslem Mazraavi, Morteza Mousavi, Hasan Navaseri, Mehdi Navaseri, Salar Obeidavi, Amir Sorkhi, Adnan Zoqeibi, Ahmad Zoqeibi, Osman Zoqeibi

Hamidiyeh: Hasan Abiat, Jalil Abiat, Jamal Abiat, Aadel Cheldavi, Adnan Cheldavi, Karim Doheimi, Ali Heidari, Mohammad Adnan Helfi, Ghabel Manabi (arrested November 2011), Hadi Manabi, Hasan Manabi (arrested November 2011), Seyed Faraj Mousavi (released on bail), Heidar Obeidavi, Khaled Obeidavi, Ayoub Saedi, Emad Saedi, Abbas Samer, Eidan Shakhi

Ahvaz (and vicinity): Ahmad Afravi (Sunni), Nasser Alboshokeh Derafshan (died in detention), Majid Bavi (Sunni), Abdolvahid Beit Sayyah (Sunni), Valid Hamadi, Qazi Handali Farhani (Sunni), Jamal Hazbavi (Sunni), Tofiq Heidari, Hamid Khanfari Batrani (Sunni), Hossein Khazraji (Sunni), Said Khazraji (Sunni), Jasem Marvani, Taher Moaviyeh, Mohammad Naami, Seyed Ahmad Nazari (Sunni), Aadel Saedi, Hossein Savari, Ali Sayyahi, Ali Sharifi, Sadoun Silavi, Khalaf Zobeidi (Sunni)

This list is not exhaustive and Human Rights Watch could not independently verify whether the individuals listed remain in detention.
source: hrw.org

Radio Zamaneh writes that according to Youssef Azizi Banitaraf arrests occurred in Shoosh, Ahvaz and Hamidieh where security forces are telling elders of the tribes in the region to bring people to the voting booths. A number of youth writing slogans on public walls calling for a boycott of the coming parliamentary elections, triggered the arrests.
Banitaraf said that the arrested were taken to an unknown place and they were not allowed to contact their familymembers. Familymembers of the deceased were not allowed holding any commemoration services for their kin.
source: iranbriefing.net

Several people in Iran report that one or more journalists of BBC-Persia have been arrested. Mehrnews reports that they were involved in newsgathering, recruiting and training for Iranian journalists and had arranged trips abroad for them.
BBC reports in its blog that at this moment no BBC Persian journalists are working in Iran.
source: BBC

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Iran: ground

2012-02-06T15:37:00.001+01:00

Blogger, publisher and physician Mehdi Khazali is sentenced to 14 years in prison, ten years in exile, and ninety lashes.
He is the son of Ayatollah Khazali, a influential cleric and member of the Assembly of Experts,who is a staunch supporter of Iran’s ruling elite.
Since he was arrested on 9 January 2012 Khazali went on hunger strike to protest his detention.
source: en.greenvoice.com

According to International Campaign for Humanrights in Iran Abolfazal Tabarzadi, 24 has been in a mental hospital suffering of severe paranoia and depression.
He is a student and nephew of political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi.
He was sentenced in appeal to 9 months in prison for acting against national security and contacts to foreign media.
Since October 2011 he is serving his sentence in Karounprison in Ahwaz.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

Shargh Daily writes that Iran banned Simpson cartoon dolls for being "too Western".
Barbie and other dolls were already on a toy blacklist.
But Superman and Spiderman were allowed, because they helped the "oppressed."
The secretary of policymaking of the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, said that any doll on which genitals are distinguishable, as well as dolls of adults, are banned.
Toy kitchen sets that include glasses for drinking alcoholic beverages are also banned.
source: utsandiego.com

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: more

2012-02-05T14:22:00.001+01:00

Iran has begun military exercises in the Strait of Hormuz.
The exercises will last one week.
The exercises come after the West sent more warships to the region amid on-going tensions over Iran’s nuclear program.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian websites reported that Saudi Arabia blocked the website of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
It is said that it was blocked because of Iran's influence on the "Islamic awakening." Iranian officials have been using the term as part of their efforts to put their own stamp on the Arab Spring uprisings, which they claim have been inspired by Iran's own 1979 revolution.
source: rferl.org

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Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: all is fine

2012-02-04T15:30:00.002+01:00

January 28th, 2 men are hanged in secret in Lakanprison in Rasht.
Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran reports that the man's names are Ayoub Kalantari, 28 and Mohammad-Reza Sharifi, 40, from Baluchistan.
from: freedomessenger

Friday Iran banned its citizens from travelling to Syria by road.
The ban came after the abduction of nearly 30 Iranians in Syria.
Each year hundreds of thousands of Iranian pilgrims travel to Syria to visit Sayyeda Zeinab, a revered Shiite shrine near Damascus.
source: freedomessenger

Ayatollah Khamenei said during the Friday Prayers in Tehran that the country is not in crisis.
He also said that the international sanctions are actually a benefit, in so far as they force Iran to concentrate on its domestic potential.
He added that regardless of the sanctions, Iran will not retreat from its nuclear program.
source: iranbriefing.net

February 3rd, security agents arrested Bahairesidents in Shiraz.
Reported are that among them Nima Dehqan, Mezhdeh Falah, Mazhgan `Amadi, Sam Jarberi, Sina Sarikhani, Bijan Falah and Zhinous Fana’iyan and several other Bahai were arrested.
source: CNN

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: act

2012-02-03T15:23:00.002+01:00

Reuters reports that traders from Ukraine no longer use Iranian ships to transport grain.
This, because of difficulties with payments following European Union sanctions on Iran.
About 400,000 tonnes of grain largely from Ukraine and Russia is held up on about 10 ships stranded outside Iranian ports because of payment problems and trade disruption following the EU sanctions.
source: en.trend.az

Iran launched succesful a new satellite.
The satellite is placed into an orbit between 250 and 370 kilometers above Earth.
Officials say that the satellite is collecting data on weather conditions and monitoring natural disasters on Earth.
It is the third, small domestically produced satellite that Iran says it has launched in recent years.
source: rferl.org

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that Iran should stop immediately the widespread campaign of intimidation against journalists and their family members.
The Campaign is also concerned about videotaping of false confessions and the possibility of politically motivated broadcasts ahead of the 2 March 2012 parliamentary elections.
In the past month were at least 9 journalists arrested, among them Parastoo Dokouhaki, Marzieh Rassouli, and Sahamoddin Bouraghani.
source: iranhumanrights.org

According to a report on the website of the Green Movement, agents of the IRGC interrogated online a BBCreporter of BBC-Persia .
The sister of the reporter is detained in Evinprison in the Ward controled by IRGC. The reporter was contacted by e-mail and they told the BBC reporter that if she talked to them, her sister would be released.
After the BBC reporter consulted with the head of BBC’s Persian service she spoke 40 minutes over the Internet with IRGC security officers.
source: rferl.org.

EAWorldView

In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran: punishments

2012-02-02T16:28:00.002+01:00

On the courtyard of the policestation in Karaj is a man hanged on January 31st.
According to IRNA the man, H. M. drove over a policeagent in 2009 and killed him.
Humanrightsorganization "Human rights and democracy activists in Iran" says that the man was named Hassan Armin(Mafi) and was a kickboxcoach and paralyzed on both legs due to the beatings in prison.
source: iranhr.net

In the Central Prison of Semnan January 31st, 2 men were hanged.
State media Jomhouri Islami wrote that the men, M.J, 49 from Tehran and H.A, 47
from Kashmer both were convicted for drugstrafficking and that their requests for amnesty were denied by the Amnesty Commission.
source: freedomessenger.com

According to reports, the cells of all political prisoners in Ward 350 of Evinprison were raided and searched while all political prisoners were transferred to the prison yard despite the fact that it was snowing.
They began chanting slogans “Ya Hossein… Mir Hossein” , “Mahmoud the Traitor” and “Death to the Dictator” and singing “Ey Iran” “Yareh Dabestani” and other songs, leading to reaction by women prisoners in Evin’s women’s ward 350 who joined in the slogans, forcing the agents to eventually leave the ward.
source: banouyesabz.blogspot.com

Last week webdesigners and bloggers Saeed Malekpour, Vahid Asghari, and Hossein Ronaghi Maleki were interrogated again by agents of Cyber Intelligence Unit of the Revolutionary Guards.They also put great pressure on the prisoners and demanded that they make false televised confessions.
Vahid Ashgar has been transferred to solitary confinement on January 31st, after being sentenced to death by judge Selavati. He is in since 2008 and is in bad psychological condition due to torture.
Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been convicted to 15 years in prison and is in very bad health.
Malekpour is sentenced to death and his sentence is reinstated by the Supreme Court.
January 31st, the IRGC said in a statement to welcome the deathsentence.
source: freedomessenger, iranhumanrights.org

Leila Mohammadi a converted Christian who is detained in Evinprison for 5 months is sentenced to 2 years in prison.
She was charged with "broad anti-Islamic propaganda, by formation of a house church.
source: worthynews.com

Gunmen kidnapped 11 Iranian pilgrims.Reports say that they stole money and cellphones from the whole group (35 people ), and kidnapped the men.
source: tri-cityherald.com

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Children are being hanged to death.
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Iran: further

2012-02-01T14:18:00.001+01:00

Political activist Hossein Naeimipour has been arrested.
Agents of the prosecutors office came to the house of his father, formed reformist member of parliament Mohammad Naeimipour and filmed every individual present.
Like his father, Hossein is member of Islamic Iran Participation Front (Mosharekat).
In 2009 he was campaignmember of Mousavi.
source: iranbriefing.net

President Ahmadinejad announced the budget gor the next Iranian calendaryear.
This budget is $510 billion. Approximately $400 billion from the budget is for statecompanies.
Compared to last year, the current sum is $2 billion more compared to last year budget.
source: en.trend.az

Iranbriefing.netpublished a portrait of Ghasem Soleimani, the probable choice of Khamenei as Irans' next president.
Soleimani is topcommander of IRGC.

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: more

2012-01-31T17:11:00.002+01:00

Januar 30th is in the prison of Zanjan a man hanged.
Fars newsagency reported that the not named man was sentenced for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net

Human Rights Watch stated that Iran immediately has to release dozens of union and labouractivists who recently were arrested.
Safety agents arrested yesterday the labouractivist Ali Akhavan in his house in Tehran. In recent weeks there was a crackdown on labouractivists.
Among them are Mohammad Jarahi, Shahrokh Zamani, Sheys Amani, Sharif Saedpanah and Mozafar Salehnia.
source: hrw.org, iranbriefing.net

Student activist and journalist Mohsen Sanatipour from Ferdowsi University in Mashhad and secretary of Allameh Group of the university, is sentenced to one year in prison.
The sentence is served to his lawyer last week and the judge summoned him to begin serving his sentence.
source: iranhumanrights.org

In recent days 4 IRGC-commandanders died without the usual condolences to their families from Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, he did however send his condolences to Ali Fadavi, commander of the IRGC naval forces, whose father recently died.
Guard chief Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari and former IRGC chief Major General Yahya Rahim-Safavi, even did not attend the memorials.
The four who had apparently fallen from grace are Mansoor Torkan 50, Dr. Vafa Ghaffarian 52, Ahmad Sayyafzadeh 55, and Abbas Mohri, 52.
The last years more commanders of IRGC died.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iran launched a satellite broadcast aimed at Spanish speakers worldwide, the name is HispanTV.
Since last year there were test-broadcasts.
Iran has already Arabic, Turkish, French and Urdu satellitebroadcasts. Also PressTV had a London office till January.
source: rferl.org

More then 2000 people mensen of Iran’s film community undersigned a petition against the Iranian government’s decision to ban the House of Cinema,.
Website Kaleme published the petition. Among the signatories are Majid Majidi, Kamal Tabrizi, Manouchehr Mohammadi, Ebrahim Hatami-Kia, Niki Karimi, Leila Hatami, Parviz Parastooei, Atila Pesyani and Shahab Hosseini.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

Last week an EU economic advisor said the Islamic republic still has several billions in Euros stashed in banks in Europe.
Farsnews reported that Iran had withdrawn all of its money from European banks.
According to the advisor Iran has funds deposited in accounts in Germany, Italy, Malta, Spain, Greece and Switzerland.
source: iranbriefing.net

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran:further

2012-01-30T14:47:00.002+01:00

In the prison of Semnan were January 29 two people hanged.
The men, M. J.,49 and H. A. 47 were convicted for carrying respectively 1100 grams of heroin and 6180 grams of heroin.
The charges not have been confirmed by an independent source.
source: iranhr.net

The website of Human Rights and Democracy has reported that last week the Kurd Esmail Kermanjani, appr. 30 year-old is hanged in Evinprison.
He was already 6 years in prison.
The website reports that during the past few days, a number of other prisoners have also been executed in Evin prison.
source: HRHI

The Supreme Court confirmed the deathsentence of the Kurds Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi.
In December 2010 they were sentenced to death for the charge of moharebeh (enmity with God) and the murder of the son of Marivan’s Friday Imam.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reports that this was reported by prison authorities to the prisoners. Their lawyer was also surprised and said that he will be traveling to Tehran to follow up the case at the Supreme Court.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

In a Friday on opposition websites published letter which was written by Ahmad Sadr Haj-Seyed Javadi 7 months ago to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, he asks for an end to the house arrest of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, as well as the impeachment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for misconduct as president.
source: en.greenvoice.com

EAWorldView

In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran: more

2012-01-29T16:54:00.001+01:00

January 28th was in the prison of Ilam a man hanged.
According to ISNA the man was convicted for murder and he once escaped from the prison by blowing the prison wall.
source: iranhr.net

Reports to the ACLJ say that Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani is still alive, but he is under great pressure of the Chief Justice of the Gilan Provincial Court to convert to islam.
Nadarkhani insists that he is a christian and has never been a moslim.
He was sentenced to death in June 2011 for apostacy.
source: aclj.org

Blogger and humanrights activist Hossein Ronaghi Maleki has been transferred back to prison from the hospital. He had undergone surgery.
During the past year he had undergone 5x surgeries after a kidneytransplant.
HRHI says that he was taken back to prison despite the fact that it is imperative for him to receive continued medical care outside prison walls.
source: HRHI

Journalist Hassan Fathi who was arrested November 13th, at his house, is not allowed visitors and is according to his wife in solitary confinement.
He is charged with spreading lies and disturbing public opinion after he had an interview with BBC Persian regarding the explosion at an IRG ammunition depot that killed 17 Revolutionary Guards.
source: HRHI

weekly report 28 january 2012, violence against women

weekly report 28 january 2012, basic freedom and rights abused

weekly report 28 january 2012, arbitrary arrests and prison

weekly report 28 january 2012, inhumane treatment and cruel penalties

weekly report 28 january 2012, systematic violations of the right to life, execution

EAWorldWide

In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran: portrait

2012-01-28T14:21:00.001+01:00

Syrian rebels rebels say they are holding 7 Iranians hostage and will not release them until the government frees a rebel army officer and stops military operations in Homs.
As proof they showed a video which shows the seven Iranians, unshaven and wearing black shirts.
source: rferl.org, iranbriefing.net

Website Advar reported that January 22 Abdollah Momeni was taken to the infirmery of Evinprison with severe stomachpains. He refused to stay because he was assaulted and abused by the staff.
Other prisoners say that after some hours he was transferred back to the infirmary due to severe stomach pains.No one has seen or heard from him since then, suggesting that he might have been transferred to a different location.
His family is very concerned, because he had a short telephonecall with them, before.
source: HRHI

Six portraits of IRGC commanders:

Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi

Brigadier General Mohammad Reza (Ali) Zahedi

Brigadier General Hossein Hamedani

Major Genera Mohammad Kosari

Brigadier General Mohammad Jafari Asadi.

Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali Farahani

The 2nd video in serie Angels of Iran is called: Faith and Sacrifice.

FAITH AND SACRIFICE: THE BAHA’IS IN IRAN from Education Under Fire on Vimeo.

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: further

2012-01-27T17:53:00.002+01:00

Iranian border guards have reportedly shot dead six Pakistanis and wounded two others after they strayed across Iran’s border.
source: rferl.org

The head of Justice in Bushehr announced that the perpetrators of the incident in the town of Abpakhsh will be publicly hanged.
The Public Relations Office of the Bushehr Judiciary said that the case is pursued by the court in Bushehr and were they sentenced to public hanging which sentence is confirmed by the Supreme Court.
source: freedomessenger

According to reports in Gohardashtprison inhumane pressure on political prisoners have increased.The reduction of food worsens.
The dinner was one egg, one potatoes and one piece of bread. This has been replaced by 15g halva and a small, thin piece of factory bread .
The quantity of all other meals given to prisoners has been lowered as well.
The head of Gohardasht Prison said that if sanctions were increased, the first people that would have to pay were political prisoners.
source: freedomessenger

January 21 security agents forced the door to the house of Bahai author and poet Enayatollah Sanai and searched the place. They took prayerbooks, cd's and cassettes.
Sanai was not at home and could not be arrested.
The arrestwarrant they used was expired.
source: HRHI

Human Rights House of Iran reports that interrogators of the cyber intelligence unit of IRGC gave an ultimatum at Saeed Malekpour to make a televised confession, in exchange for being transferred to Evin’s public ward and avoiding execution. Malekpour is sentenced to death for having a website with adult content.
He is already 3 years in jail.
source: HRHI

Shirin Ebadi called to a international campaign for the release of the 3 oppositionleaders Zahra Rahnavard, Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mehdi Karroubi.
She also invited all her compatriots to boycott the staged elections on 2 March.
source:iranhumanrights.org

Podcast 46, Iran’s assault on free expression, an interview with Mehrad Vaezinejad and Niousha Masoumi

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Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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Iran: more

2012-01-26T13:55:00.002+01:00

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders received information from Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights (LDDHI) that Dr. Mohammad Maleki the founder of the Iranian Association for the Defence of Liberty and Human Rights (IADLHR),is summoned to serve a prisonsentence of one year.
The organization makes an Urgent Appeal to write to Iranian government and Iranian diplomats.
source: persian2english

The International Campaign for Humanrights in Iran reports that in appeal the deathsentence for Javad Lari was overturned and sent back to the lower court.
His lawyer mr. Manijeh Mohammadi, told that that there is no evidence of moharabeh (enmity with God), her client’s charge that led to execution, and that he is innocent.
source: iranhumanrights.org

January 26th is early in the morning an Iranian fighterjet F-14 crashed near the city of Busher at the Persian Gulf.
No reason had been given.
source: reuters.com

Persian translation of Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La Rue”, dated 16 May 2011van het rapport van de speciale rapporteur 16 mei 2011

weekly report 21-jan-2012, systematic violations of the right to life

weekly report 21-jan-2012, inhumane treatment and cruel punishments amputation, flogging, torture and humiliation and arbitrary arrests and prison sentences

weekly report 21-jan-2012, Basic freedom and rights abused

weekly report 21-jan-2012, Suppression of religious and ethnic minorities and violence against women

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran: more

2012-01-25T15:11:00.001+01:00

Ahmed Jannati, the head of Iranian Guardian Council is in Iran the principal butt of jokes.
Jannati, who is in his mid- eighties, is already 30 years one of the keyrolefigures in Iran.
He is one of the hardliners and since he is Chairman of the Guardian Council he played an an active role in banning any attempt at political reform and disqualifying reformist and liberal election candidates.
source: rferl.org

New gouvernment rules say that all new employees have to present permits showing that they have gone through Quran lessons in addition to the anticipated lessons.
Employees who not have such a permit, have to go through Quran fluency lessons and then go to work.
source: freedomessenger

ISNA wrote that a prosecutor in Malayer said that since beginning of this Iranian calendaryear, 372 people have been sentenced in court for illegal watching of satellite-tv.
He said that they are to ban satellitechannels, the internet, indecent CD’s and other satellite equipment that threatens families and measures have to also be taken regarding the correct culture for cellphone use.
source: freedomessenger

Petrochemical workers in Mashahr showed that it is possible to win a major labor battle even in these times of plant closures and mass lockouts.
January 22 Project-Based Labor Force Council” announced in a statement that they changed the name in Project-Based Labor Force Union and pledges to organize engineers, technicians, and skilled as well as unskilled technical workers involved in industrial/oil related activities.
A large number of workers from Shomal Industrial Plantation Company gathered January 4th to protest the plant closure.
source: iranlaborreport

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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl

Iran: arrested

2012-01-24T15:02:00.002+01:00

The prosecutor of Kerman said that the judiciary had ‘established a special branch in the Kerman Province, like in other regions and was determined to deal decisively with all internet crimes in all areas.
They also will watch that no propaganda is made for a specific candidate or group in upcoming elections and more sensibly examining the news and media.
source: freedomessenger

According to the website Chamron is activist Yaser Yousefzadeh arrested in the house of his father by security agents. The agents refused to show any identification and attacked Yousefzadeh’s father and sister with pepper spray.
When he came to help them he was beaten severely.
He was taken to his own house where agents inspected the place and confiscated his personal belongings.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Last week arrested journalists and bloggers Parastoo Dokouhaki and Marzieh Rasouli, are being kept in solitary cells at Tehran’s Evin prison.
Reports say they are being kept in the so-called ‘Ward AA’ (do Alef).
This ward is not under the jurisdiction or supervision of the Iranian Prisons Organizations, and is illegally run by the Intelligence Department of the IRGC.
source: persian2english.com

A source said that the literature translator Mohammad Soleimani Nia, 39 on January 10th, after being summoned by the revolutionary court, was arrested.
The charges are unknown and it is also unknown where he is hold.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: international

2012-01-23T15:14:00.001+01:00

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that The World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), a body of UN, should take decisive steps to stop Iran from censoring and illegally systematically jamming of satellite signals.
Existing ITUrules forbid any member states from interfering and jamming satellite signals.
According to the spokesman of The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran the Conference of this year is facing a serious challenge in the Iranian government’s breach of international telecommunications standards.
source: iranhumanrights.org

One day after Iran backed away from the threat to take action if a US carrier passed the Street of Hormuz the aircraft carrier "USS Abraham Lincoln" , accompanied by British and French naval vessels passed the Street without incident.
source: rferl.org

AlJazeera reported that demonstrators in Syria all over the country destroyed portraits of Khamenei, Ahmadinejad and supporters of Assad.
source: freedomessenger

The foreign ministers from European countries who are in the Europese Union hold a meeting in Brussel to discuss the increase of the economic sanctions for Iran.
Participants have already agreed on sanctions against the Iranian Central Bank and eight other entities, mostly in the transport sector.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: further

2012-01-22T17:41:00.000+01:00

In Iran were 8 people sentenced to prison because they held discussions and criticized Islam and religion in an internet social network.
After their arrest they were tortured.
Dr. Kamran Ayazi, a dentist frome Shiraz, is sentenced to 9 years in prison on charges of enmity with god.
Dr. Ladan Mostavafi is sentenced to 5 years in prison, Hanieh Sane, sentenced to 7 years in prison, Hojatollah Nikouyi, five years in prison, Mohammad-Reza Pounaki, six years in prison, Mohammad-Reza Akhlaqi, seven years in prison, Sepehr Ibrahimi, eight years in prison and Amir Latifi was sentenced to seven years in prison.
source: freedomessenger.com

In Ahwaz, province Khuzestan were in recent days 10 Iranian Sunni Arabs arrested.
They were transferred to an unknown location.

According to reports, the physical torture and sexual abuse of prisoners in cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj is ongoing.
January 16th Mohsen Marzban who was transferred from cellblock 6 to cellblock 1 protested against this violent treatment.
Prison agents then pulled him out of his solitary cell, and heavily abused him.
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com

Human Rights Watch wrote in the World Report 2012 ,that Iran executed in 2011 more then 600 prisoners and imprisoned more journalists and bloggers then any other country.
source: hrw.org

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Iran: punishment

2012-01-21T15:33:00.001+01:00

British media regulator Ofcom revoked the license of Press TV to broadcast in Great Brittain.
Ofcom Ofcom said editorial control of Press TV was exercised from Tehran rather than London and that the broadcaster had failed to amend its license accordingly.
It also said that Press TV had not paid a $154,700 fine imposed after the channel aired an interview with the imprisoned journalist Maziar Bahari that had been conducted under constraint.
source: rferl.org

Iranian police plans to close down the sale of Barbie Dolls in Iran.
Mehrnew reports that until now, tens of shops selling Barbie dolls have already been shut down .
In the eyes of the police, stores that sell these dolls are lawbreakers and will be dealt with accordingly. He said the plan to rid Iran’s cities of Barbie dolls was part of a campaign to combat “western symbols and promoters of wantonness.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Thursday ISNA reported that the Commander of Iran’s Quds Force Qasem Soleimani said that Iran one way or another, controls Iraq and Southern Lebanon and that Tehran is capable of influencing the advent of Islamist governments in order to fight “arrogant” powers.
He said this at a student symposium titled “The Youth and Islamic Awareness.”
Soleimani is seen as the most powerful man in Iraq.
source: iranbriefing.net

The unionactivist and teacher Mahdi Farahi Shandiz is arrested to serve his prisonsentence of 3 years.
Friday the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), called for action to protest the recent arrests and harrassments of unionmembers Shahrokh Zamani, Mohammad Jarrahi, Nima Pouryaghoub, Sassan Vahebivash, Sheys Amani, Sadiq Karimi, Sharif Sa’ed-Panah, Mozaffar Salehnia, Maysam Nejati-Aref, Ebrahim Madadi, Reza Shahabi, Mohammad Hosseini and Mehdi Farahi Shandiz.
source: iranbriefing.net

Six members of the Baha’i Institute for Higher Education were sentenced to high prisonterms.
Human Rights Reporters Committee reports that the sentences have been approved by the appellate court.
Kamran Mortezai is sentenced to 5 years in prison and Riaz Sobhani, Ramin Zibai, Fardah Sedghi, Mahmoud Badavam and Noshin Khadem are each sentenced to four years in prison.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: more

2012-01-20T16:55:00.002+01:00

In Kerman January 19th is a man hanged in public.
Website Khabaronline wrote that the man, Majid Samimi,31 was convicted for rape.
source: iranhr.net

Iran says that information of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has been used in the murder on the nuclear scientist last week.January 11th was Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan in Tehran assassinated after a magnetic bomb clinging to the door of his car exploded.
According to Irans Deputy UN ambassador there is a "high suspicion" that information via the IAEE was used to commit the murder.
source: rferl.org

For years graves and cemetaries of Bahai in Iran get destroyed.
In december 2011 authorities raided in Sanandaj 12 houses of Bahai and confiscated books, computers, cd's and other belongings. It looks like the fate of the cemetery has already been decided.
Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan called upon authorities on January 17th to tolerate other beliefs.
source: news.bahai.org

Two days ago, the journalist Peymon Pakmehr was arrested in Tabriz.
He is the 4th journalist who was arrested last week.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iran warned Gulf states not to co-operate with western efforts to isolate the country.
The Iranian foreign minister said that Gulfstates, cooperating with the West are in a dangerous position.
The warning came after a meeting of European ambassadors in Brussels failed to agree on the details of an EU oil embargo.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who moved to Paris, France last year, caused a scandal by posing topless for a magazine and post the photo on her Facebookpage.
The actress says that Iranian authorities told her not to come back.
source: rferl.ord

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Iran: more

2012-01-19T17:01:00.002+01:00

The sister of sentenced to death Canadian-Iranian webdesigner Saeed Malekpour says that her brother is innocent and that he did not get a fair trial.
Malekpoor, who lives in Canada, was arrested in 2008 in Tehran during a visit to his father.He was brought to prison and spent a year in solitary confinement.
In 2010 he was sentenced to death for designing and moderating websites with adult content.
His sister says that her brother not was involved in any illegal activity. A computer program he had written and put his name on was used by pornographic websites to upload pictures.
His verdict has been confirmed by the Supreme Court.
source: rferl.org

From January 17th, each week videos will be published with personal stories of courage and resilience in the face of torture, imprisonment, and execution under the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The first video is “Love and Freedom: The Life of Reza Fani Yazdi” .
In this 12 minute documentary former political prisoner, humanrightsactivist and freelance writer Reza Fani Yazdi and his wife Soheila Vahdati,tells of love, strength, and belief in freedom.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Amnesty International, United4Iran, Education Under Fire, The Boroumand Foundation, Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, the Baha’i national communities of the United States and Canada, en other organizations support this Angels of Iran videos and the DRIVE TO 25 initiative.
source: iranhumanrights.org

In a fresh crackdown on press freedom ahead of the country’s parliamentary elections in March, a fresh crackdown on journalists started.
In recent weeks at least 3 journalists, Marzieh Rasouli, Parastoo Dokouhaki, and photojournalist Sahamoddin Bourghani were arrested.
source: freedomessenger

Iranian authorities say that homosexuality is a western disease and that same-sex marriages are immoral. General Mohammad Javad Larijani made these remarks in Tehran to a lawmaker from the Federal Republic of Germany, Tom Koenigs, who chairs the human rights committee in Germany’s parliament.
In Iran homosexuality is punishable by death.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: pretend?

2012-01-18T15:20:00.002+01:00

Radio Farda said that blogger, human rights activist and journalist Parastoo Dokouhaki has been arrested in the last weekend.Security agents confiscated personal belongings.
Her family says that she has not been engaged in any political activity in recent years.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Two men with links to the deviated movement were recently sentenced to 99 lashes.
They were arrested on charges of espionage, embezzlement, receiving bribes, illegal or dishonest acquisition of money and having an illegitimate relationship.
According to website Asre Iran one man was sentenced to five years in prison for espionage and for having an illegitimate relationship to 99 lashes. The other man was also sentenced to 99 lashes.
source: freedomessenger

German Bundestag demanded the immediate release of pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who is sentenced to death in Iran.
Nadarkhani is arrested in 2009.He has been sentenced to death in 2010.
This deathsentence will not be executed if Nadarkhani returns to Islam faith.
He recently refused to agree to state that the Muslim prophet Mohammed was a messenger sent by God.
After stating this he should be released.
source: bundestag.de, gatewaynews.co.za

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Iran: more

2012-01-17T13:46:00.001+01:00

Iran has made arrests over the assassination of the nuclear scientist. The speaker for parliament, Ali Larijani Monday said that investigators had discovered clues and that people were arrested and they were being interrogated. He did not mention names or numbers.
Iran suspects the US and Israeli intelligence services for the murder.
source: iranbriefing.net

Topdiplomates from Russia and USA have met in Moscow to discuss the situations around Iran and Syria. No further details are known.
In recent years Russia has backed four rounds of United Nations sanctions against Iran, but till now has so far declined to back further international sanctions.
source: rferl.org

Iran plans to launch a satellite in February during the "ten-day dawn ceremony" from 1-11 February marking the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
In november the Iranian defense minister announced that during this Iranian calendaryear 3 satellites will be launched named Fajr (Dawn), Navid (Promise), and Tolou (Sunrise).
source: payvand.com

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Iran: signed

2012-01-16T15:20:00.002+01:00

In Shiraz were January 15th, 12 people hanged.On different places in the city 5 people were hanged in public.
Rahmat Heydari, convicted of kidnapping, murder and armed robbery. He was arrested four weeks ago.
Esmaeil Hamidi Mahmood Abadi, convicted of armed robbery.
Ali Hadavinia, convicted of armed robbery.
Mohammad Nabi Tavakoli, convicted of kidnapping and rape.
Ramin Darakhshan, convicted of rape and kidnapping.
Also 7 people were hanged in the prison of Shiraz.
All these prisoners were convicted of drug-related offences and none of them were identified by name.
source: iranhr.net

The press adviser of president Ahmadinejad Ali Akbar Javanfekr has been sentenced to one year in prison on charges of insulting the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
He was also stripped of membership of political parties, groups, associations, and media activities for five years.
It did not specify how or when Javanfekr, allegedly insulted Khamenei.
In November, Javanfekr received a one-year sentence and was banned from journalism- activities for three years on charges of "publishing materials contrary to Islamic norms".
source: rferl.org

Iranian film A Separation won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film in Los Angeles.
The film tells the story of a married couple facing the dilemma of whether to leave Iran.
Earlier the film won a Golden Bear award in Berlin..
source: rferl.org

More then 230 Iranian political activists made a statement in which they strongly condemned the recent assassination of nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan. Roshan is the third murdered scientist in two years.
At the list of signatories of activists, journalists and intellectuals are also some who have at some point felt the wrath of the Iranian regime’s oppressive practices.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Former commander of Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Alaei said that the article he had written was wrong interpreted.
He wanted to give a picture of the repressive and dictatorial behavior of the shah.
By hard-liners inside Iran and also by opponents of the Iranian regime inside and outside the country the article was interpreted as criticism against decisions of Supreme Leader Khamenei.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more

2012-01-15T12:41:00.001+01:00

Iran warned neighbouring states in the Persian Gulf not to raise their oilproduction as the economic embargo of Iran increases.
The Iranian representative at OPEC said that Tehran would not consider this a friendly action and that these countries will be responsible for what happens.
source: rferl.org

The Iranian statetelevision commented that Iran has evidence that USA was behind the assassination of one of its nuclear scientists.
According to them they have documents and evidence that this attack was planned by the CIA.
Iran said this in a letter to the Swiss ambassador in Tehran.
The Swiss embassy represents USA in Iran, while Iran and USA have no diplomatic ties.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more

2012-01-14T17:05:00.001+01:00

January 11th have 2 men been hanged in the prison of Tehran.
The men, Fazlollah and Jalal were convicted for rape. Fazlollah was also sentenced to 173 lashes for an immoral relationship.
Shargh reported that 3 Afghans were also sentenced to death and that the executionorder was confirmed by the head of the judicial department.
Newspaper Aftab reported that 9 prisoners will be excuted in Shiraz in the coming days.
source: iranhr.net

Student activist and member of Iran National Front, Peyman Aref, has been summoned to the office the office of the prosecutor branch 2 in Evinprison.
If this court summons leads to Peyman Aref’s arrest, this would be the fourth imprisonment for him since the 2009 Iranian Presidential election.
source: persian2english

Since 2009 detained student activist Mahdieh Golroo wrote a hearrwarming letter from prison to her husband Vahid Lalipour, who was arrested in December 2011.
source: persian2english

On the site persian2english is a translation of a letter that the member of two humanrightsorganizations Navid Khanjani wrote. In January 2011 he was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
source: persian2english

The reformist politician and former member of parliament Mohsen Armin, has been convicted by branch 15 of the revolutionary court to 6 years in prison and a ban of 5 years to all political activity. He was charged with assembly and collusion.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: more

2012-01-13T15:07:00.002+01:00

Wednesday is at Islamic Azad Universityin Tehran Farhad Daneshjoo chosen as president of the university.
He received 5 out of 9 votes.
After receiving approval of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution he will replace Abdollah Jasbi, who has been locked in a power struggle with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad since the June 2009 presidential elections.
Daneshoo is an Ahmadinejad ally.

source: payvan.com

In Tehran and Shiraz the derwishes Simin Nematollahi and Kasra Nouri members of Gonabadi Nematollahi-Order have been arrested.
They have been charged with spreading propaganda against the Iranian establishment.
In recent years many derwishes were arrested and houses of worship demolished.
source: rferl.org

Reporters without Borders wrote in a letter to Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, her concern of the escalation of the repression of journalists, netizens and civil society members and the increase in online censorship in Iran.
source: radio Zamaneh

Thursday said a senior official that USA increases her aim to close the trade with Central Bank of Iran (CBI).
This is part of economic sanctions against Iran.
source: freedomessenger

The Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, accused USA and Israel of orchestrating the assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a nuclear scientist in Tehran last week.
He said so in a condolenceletter to Roshan's family, which was posted on Khamenei’s website.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: forced

2012-01-12T15:34:00.002+01:00

In the past 2 days five women died under suspicious circumstances in Qarchak Prison in Varamin.At night their physical condition worsened but the infirmery refused to accept and treat them.
Their names are: Fatemeh Mohammadnia, 28, Hall 4, Shadi Nikkho, 22, Hall 5, Fataneh Abdali, 40, Hall 5, Sahar Soleimani, 21, Hall 5, Maryam Qods, 30, Hall 5.
The prisoninfirmery refuses to treat prisoners who commit suicide due to prison condition, as a result most prisoners die.
source: freedomessenger

Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran reports that political prisoner Ali Moezi will be tried in the 15th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court for moharebe,enmity with god,which could carry the death sentence.
He is charged for the fact that his daughter lives in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, he is an ex-political prisoner from the 80's and he attended funeral services for deceased political prisoner Mohsen Dokmeh Chi.
Moezi suffers bladdercancer and is denied any treatment since his arrest.
source: freedomessenger

According to reports were January 7th four prisoners from QezelHesar prison were transferred to solitary confinement, prior to execution.
Their names are: Amir Bakhshi, 35 Ali Geravand, 25, Hossein Tajik, 22 , Afghan, and an unnamed prisoner.
Also were on January 5th 15 prisoners who are awaiting their execution summoned to make confessions for camera to say that they were narcotics traffickers and that the Islamic Republic is doing them a favor by executing them because they deserve to be stoned to death.
All 15 prisoners refused to make such confessions.
source: freedomessenger

The student Shokoufeh Moeddi has been expelled from university of Zahedan while she is from Bahai faith.
The news was received in a letter on December 31st 2011.
Although the reasons were not named in the letter, the administration told her verbally that the reason for her expulsion is her belief in the Baha’I Faith.
In Sari articles 27 and 28 of the trade union laws were the reasons for police department’s buildings unit to close down the business of Bahai Arman Safai and were searched. A laptop was confiscated.
On January 6th, a Bahai celebrationday, safetyagents raided the house of Bakhtiar Rasekhi, where a private religious ceremony was, searched, filmed those present and arrested 3 people.
Their names are Bakhtiar Rasekhi, his wife Farahnaz Naimi and their daughter Farin Rasekhi.
There is still no news of the whereabout of the three detainees.
source: HRHI

Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand has been transferred to hospital.
He was in Evinprison for 5 years without furlough.
He needs heart and prostate surgery.

It is reported that political prisoner and journalist Issa Saharkhiz since December 14 in the Khomeinihospital in Tehran.
The political prisoner’s family is under immense pressure not to give interviews to foreign media.
source: iranbriefing.net, iranhumanrights.org

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Iran: action

2012-01-11T15:09:00.001+01:00

The Iranian Ministry of Interior disqualified number of current MPs for running in the parliamentory elections in March.
Ali Motahari, Hamidreza Katouzian, Alireza Mahjoub, Ali Abbaspour Tehrani, Fatemeh Ajorloo, Abbasali Noura, Peymon Forouzesh, Ghodratollah Alikhani and Daryoosh Ghanbari all were criticising the government over the past year.
While the actual reason for the disqualification has not been announced, Ali Motaheri, says its because of the article he wrote over Parliament’s refusal to question on a series of administrative irregularities, and even offered his resignation.
source: iranbriefing.net

January 10th 2012 Malaysian security officials threathened to deport the Iranian fugitive and activist journalist Ali Hosseinpoor Jamshidi to Iran.
Jamshidi was summoned and questioned for 2 hours about his personal background, relationships, financial resources, and his activism and journalistic work.
Malaysian officials told him that Iran is an important partner for Malaysia.They told him that if he continued his activities they would deport him.
source: iranhumanrights.org

This morning an Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan,32 was killed by a carbomb.
Fars newsagency reported that a magnetic bomb was placed on his car the same as in previous attacks on scientists.
Iran accuses Israel. Witnesses saw 2 men on motorcycles fix the bomb on the car.
A pedestrian was killed also and another person in the car was injured severely.
source: freedomesenger, washingtonpost.com

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Iran: spoken

2012-01-10T15:32:00.002+01:00

The wife of oppositionleader Mehdi Karroubi expressed her concern about the safety of the building in which her husband is being held. The building next to it is being demolished, and it is possible that it could collapse into this building.
Sunday she told a group of political activists that the security forces are intentionally ignoring her warnings, adding: “Some people are concerned that this may be turning into a setup".
The group former political prisoners and activists arrested before the revolution, met with Karroubi to share their memories during the struggles prior to the revolution.
source: iranbriefing.net, banouyesabz.wordpress.com

Political activist Asal Esmaeilzadeh has been convicted by the revolutionary court to 4 months in prison with eight months suspended imprisonment.
The charges are propagating against the system, gathering and colluding. She is currently not imprisoned.
Recently she was arrested along with Peyman Aref and Shahrar Konoor Tabrizi on Behesht Zahra cemetery, under the charge of praying at Neda Agha Soltan’s grave site.
source: iranbriefing.net

Webmaster and blogger Vahid Asghri has been sentenced to death by the revolutionary court.
In 2009 he and other web masters of internet sites opposing Islam had been arrested by cyberpolice of IRGC.
They were physically and psychologically tortured while in custody and were forced to appear in televised confessions.
source: iranbriefing.net

The Iranian chief of police says that Google is no searc-engine but a spying tool.
He also said that people's information security should be protected against enemies and launching a national internet can serve to this protection.
He said that they are not cutting the cyber relations with abroad and international internet service by launching own national internet.
source: en.yrend.az

Former IRGCchief Hossein Alaei Monday wrote an article in newspaper Etalaat in which he compared Iran’s Supreme Leader with the late Shah before he was ousted during the Islamic revolution of 1979.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

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Iran: sentence

2012-01-09T14:21:00.002+01:00

In the prison of Zanjan were on January 4th, 2012 5 men hanged .
Newagency Fars reported the were all convicted for drugstrafficking.Their names were not revealed.
source: iranhr.net

According to ISNA is January 7th in Gachsaran a man hanged in public. The not named man was convicted for rape.
source: iranhr.net

Sundaymorning was womens right activist Alieh Eghdamdoost released.
She served a 3 year-prisonsentence without receiving one day furlough.
source: persian2english

Fars newsagency reported that Iranian American Amir Mirza Hekmati, 28 is sentenced to death by the revolutionary court in Tehran for cooperating with a hostile country and spying for the C.I.A.
The court found him guilty of Corruption on earth and Moharebe.
Hekmati was arrested in August 2011 but the news came out in December 2011 when he made a televised confession.
The prosecutor said that Hekmati was trained in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hekmati's family in USA says that he was visiting his grandmother in Iran.
source: reuters, nytimes.com

The upcoming parliamentary elections show an increase of green slogans on walls, phone booths, and banknotes to remember the demonstrations of 25 Bahman, February 14, 2011.
More then 5000 candidates registered for the elections in March, the first elections since 2009.
source: en.greenvoice.com, freedomessenger

The Iranian minister of Information reported that in connection with the upcoming parliamentary elections, several spies were arrested.He said that were in contact with abroad through cyberspace networks.
He also said that the information ministry had complete information about the activities of the arrested spies.
source: en.trend.az

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Iran: further

2012-01-08T12:23:00.001+01:00

Journalist Fatemeh Kheradmand has been arrested in her house and transferred to Evinprison. She is the wife of journalist Masoud Lavasani, who was released in September after almost 2 years in prison.
Human Rights House of Iran reported that security agents seached her house and confiscated personal items.
The reason for the arrest has not been announced.
source: freedomessenger

Reza Jushan who was arrested during the post-election incidents in 2009 is sentenced to another 16 months in prison. He was charged with propagating against the government.
Currently he is in Rajayi Shahr Prison in Karaj and has been transported to ward 209 in Evinprison.
source: freedomessenger

U.S. officials say a U.S. Navy ship has rescued 13 Iranians who were being held hostage by Somalian pirates in the Arabian Sea. January 5 they received a distress call from an Iranian fishing vessel that had been boarded by pirates more than a month ago.
source: rferl.org

President Ahmadinejad has left for a fiveday trip to South-America.
He visits Venezuela, Nicaragua, Cuba, and Ecuador.
According to Fars newsagency he says that these countries resist the oppression of the United States and share an anticolonialist view.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more

2012-01-07T15:23:00.001+01:00

In the prison of Varamin is on January 5 a man hanged.
The man, Nazar Ali Moradi (53) was convicted for keeping of 215g heroin and 10kg of opium.
source: iranhr.net

According to Farsnewsagency of January 4 in Zanjan 5 people have been hanged.
The not named men were convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: freedomessenger

The website Jaras writes that Iranian dissident Ali Jamshidi who lives in Malaysia has been summoned by Malaysian police. Jamshidi is one of reformist activists who fled Iran after the elections in 2009.
In Malaysia he’s been a presenter for Rasa, a satellite television channel dedicated to covering the opposition movement. He has also been actively involved in pro-reformist websites and social networks covering Iran.
Lately websites close to the Iranian government have been conducting a smear campaign against the community of Iranian dissidents residing in Malaysia.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

The family of Amir Hekmati, an arrested Iranian-American man whom Iranian officials allege worked for the CIA, the televised confessions were fake and made under duress.
His parents also say that they have been forced into silence by Iranian officials who had promised them their son would be released soon. Hekmati was arrested in August 2011 and his first court session was held on 27 December 2011.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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Iran: list

2012-01-06T17:56:00.002+01:00

In three different provinces were January 4 eight people hanged.
In Azadi (Liberty) Square of Kermanshah,were "Alireza Ahamdi" (48), Sadegh Eskandari (33) and Sasan Basami (36) hanged in public. They were convicted of armed robbery of a bank in August 2011.
In the prison of Semnan is A. T. hanged, he was convicted for drugstrafficking.
In the prison of Kerman were "Mohammad A.", "Ali N." and "Ahmad T" hanged for keeping and trafficking drugs.
In the prison of Bam were Alireza B." and "Hamzeh M." hanged, they were convicted for trafficking opium and heroin.
source: iranhr.net

The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center published a chart with names of the (39) people who were executed since 1 January 2012.

Since January 2010 the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran reported regularly about secret executions in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad.
They published a White Paper with backgrounds, names and executed prisoners in other prisons.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Political activist and former professor at Allamaeh Tabatabai University Sohrab Razzaghi, has been sentenced by judge Selavati in Tehran to 20 year's in prison and a fine of 550.000 euro.Razzaghi was charged with establishing a group aimed at toppling the regime and acting against national security, providing confidential information to outsiders and receiving money from international organizations.
Razzaghi denies all charges. Currently he lives in The Netherlands and says that since he has not reported to Evin Prison to serve out his sentence, the government will confiscate the $200,000 bail he put up for his release.
source: iranbriefing.net

The political prisoner Saeed Saki has been transferred from Karounprison to Dezfulprison. A source in Ahwaz told that the inmates in Ahwaz are treated like animals.
The prison is heavily overcrowded and the hygienical conditions are bad.
Two persons sleep in one bed and one on the floor. The inmates are abused and assaulted by prisonofficials.
source: iranhumanrights.org

The brother of last year at the funeral of her father deceased activist Haleh Sahabi, , says that police finally must end the cover-up and release the recordings from the events on the cemetary.
Authorities say that Sahabi's death is due to heartfailure of emotion, but eyewitnesses say that there was assault and battery on the cemetary.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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Iran: restriction

2012-01-05T18:08:00.002+01:00

An Azerbaijan newsagency reports that Brigadier-General Bagher Afshar and 8 members of Iranian Law Enforcement Police in Qazvin are arrested because they raped female students in gangbang.
The agents who have to control the Islamic dress code and moral security scheme, stopped cars with female drivers.
The women, mostly young female students who were deemed to be not properly dressed were with their cars taken to Sherkat-e-Naft Parking . It was told to them that they might get into trouble and would probably be sentenced to years in prison and their personal data and telephonenumbers were taken.
It was also said that maybe the policeofficer could solve the problem.
In following days, the police officers would call the students asking them to come to the parking lot where the cars were held, and began to rape them in the parking lot.
source: iranbriefing.net

The political prisoner Ali Chak, who is in Mahabad Public Prison is after he received an injection on the prisoninfirmery paralysed in both legs.
Despite this, he was returned to his cellblock.
e serves a prisonsentence of 7 years.
source: iranbriefing.net

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran writes that in the 6 months between March 21 and September 21 in West and East Azerbaijan province more then 320 cultural, political, womens rights and humanrightsactivists were arrested.
It is reported that in prisons in Azerbaijan more then 10 executions took place.Names are: Tohid Masoumi Dajin, Khaled Esmaili, Masoud Ghavi Najah, Aref Rashidpour, Esfandiar Mandahaki, Teymour (Timan) Ayoubian, Sadigh Nemani, Mehdi Kohan and Younes Aghaian.
On the site of International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran is a list with 45 names of activists from the protests at Lake Urmia who were sentenced to a total of 75 years in prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org

The Iranian cyberpolice made new guidelines for the use of internetcafes to enforce control of the internet. Users have to give personal information such as their name, father's name, national ID number, and telephone number. Cafe owners will be required to keep the personal and contact information of their clients and also a record of their browsing history for six months.
source: rferl.org

A spokesman of the judiciary said that calling to boycot the parliamentary elections of March 2012 is a crime.
He said this after the news of the filtering of the website of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani.
source: freedomessenger.com

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Iran: execution

2012-01-04T14:52:00.002+01:00

Newyear 2012 started according to unconfirmed reports in Iran with at least 25 executions.
Markazinews wrote that on January 3 "J. Sh." en "A. A." were hanged.
They were convicted for keeping and carrying of resp. 2,5 kilos and 4400 grams of heroin and crack.
The website Human Rights and Democracy Activists of Iran" (HRDAI) reports that January 2, 22 prisoners were executed in secret in Evinprison. The report says that they all were convicted for drugsrelated charges and they were transferred from Ghesel Hesar prison in Karaj on January 1 to Evinprison in Tehran.
From 13 people the names are listed:
Abdolvaset Mohammad Hashem, 40,Afghan,
Gholam-Reza Farough Babol Zehi, 28, Afghan,
Alireza Javid Shirazi, 38,
Aziz Shokri, 24,
Mohsen Kakavand, 32,
Hassan Panahi, 45,
Mahmoud Kermani
Yadollah Mohammadi, 40,
Abdolraouf Brouhi, 40,
Asghar Sheikh Sotudeh
Abdolhamid Deh Mordeh
Saied Reza Zadeh, 26,
Mohammad Darvishi, 27.
The Kurdistan Newsagency Kurdpa writes that Monday was hanged Salah Rashidi from the village Avila in the prison of Zanjan. He was convicted for drugstrafficking.
source: iranhr.net, freedomessenger

An official in Pakistan said that the three detained Iranian border guards face murdercharges.
The date for the trial has not yet been set.
Iran asked Pakistan to release them because they crossed the border unintentionally while chasing smugglers.
source: washingtonpost.com

The site persian2english writes a tribute to Behrouz Javid Tehrani who was released December 27 from Rajai Shahr ‘Gohardasht’ prison, after almost 7 years of detention.
source: persian2english

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Iran: more

2012-01-03T15:25:00.001+01:00

Wellknown Iranian political activist Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, succeeded to smuggle a videomessage from Rajayishahrprison.
Tamarzadi is serving a prisonsentence of 8 years.

Tamarzadi is the head of banned Democratic Front of Iran.
source: rferl.org, youtube

Iranian valuta hit a record low to the US dollar after announcing new sanctions.
Monday the currency exchange was appr. 17,800 riyals to 1 dollar.
This is 12% less then Sunday.
In December 2010 the currency was trading at around 10,500 riyals to 1 U.S. dollar.
source: freedomessenger

Kamran Ayyaz is one of the unknown prisoners of Ward 350 in Evinprison. He was arrested early in 2011 on accusation of insulting what is sacred and gathering and colluding against national security.
He is sentenced to 9 years in prison and 160 lashes.
He is also charged with apostasy and insulting to prophet. This casefile is processing.
The reason of holding this court was having a blog.
source: chrr.biz

Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is sentenced to 6 months in prison for propagating against the regime.
The website mashreghnews.ir also reports that she is five years banned from political, cultural and media activities.
source: orovillemr.com

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Iran: vrious

2012-01-02T12:56:00.002+01:00

The Appeals Court of Mazandaran province has upheld the 3 years prisonsentence of blogger, womans rights activist and member of One Million Signatures Campaign Fereshteh Shirazi .
She had been arrested on September 4, 2011 and was charged for her activities as a blogger and member of the Campaign.

source: we-change.org

In recent weeks the speed of the internet in Iran dropped.
ISNA writes that the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology has indicated that it is making efforts to improve the quality of internet service and to resolve the problems for Iranian internet users by the launch of a "clean" internet.
Reporters Without Borders said that this project shows shows that the regime wants to impose total censorship on all sectors of society.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

The police in Pakistan arrested three Iranian borderguards.
Reports say that the borderguards pursued two men in a car in Sistan-e-Baluchistan province into Pakistan and shot a man. The men were reportedly involved in smuggling.
source: BBC

Part 2 of Zia Nabavi's notes from prison exploring the concept of democracy.

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Happy and peaceful 2012

2012-01-01T11:07:00.000+01:00

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Iran: further

2011-12-31T12:58:00.001+01:00

During a speech to a group of basij militia the advisor of IRGC admitted that the arrests and crackdown of political and civil activists and street protestors in Tehran after the 2009 elections were carried out from the very first hours after the elections on direct orders of the supreme leader.
source: iranbriefing.net

2 years already is the member of Tahkim Vahdat Iranian student alumni organization Bahareh Hedayat in prison.
She was arrested during the Ashuraprotests in December 2009. She is in Evinprison and was sentenced in July 2010 to 9½ jaar in prison. November 2011 she was sentenced to another 6 months in prison for "propaganda against the regime".
source: persian2english

Fars newsagency reported that Iran testfired long range missiles in the Persian Gulf during the naval war games in The Strait of Hormuz.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more

2011-12-30T14:51:00.001+01:00

December 29 were in the city of Qazvin 2 men hanged.
According to the website of the Iranian statetelevision Jamejamonline were Mohammad and Ali convicted for the murder on 4 members of a family in March 2011.
source: iranhr.net

In Iran Human Rights Voice has an article of Farida Davoodi Mohajer about Systematic Violence against Women in Iran.
Also a from December 19th to 25th 2011 about sentences and arrests in Iran with links to the sources.
source: ihrv.org

Incarcerated reformist Mostafa Tajzadeh declared that he will not participate, nor cast a vote in the bogus, neither fair nor free parliamentary elections to be held on March 2nd 2012.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

Khabarnewagency writes that the man who threw his shoe to president Ahmadinejad, is still in prison. Rashid Shahband has been tortured and is facing heavy punishment.
Shahband, a textile worker from Sari, who lost his job, grew angry while listening to the speech about the governments great achievements and hurled his shoes to the president.
He has previously insulted Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and thrown eggs at former President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami.
It is not clear when and if Shahbandi will have a trial.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: moves

2011-12-29T14:29:00.001+01:00

The Iranian opposition activist Ebrahim Yazdi,80 is convicted to 8 years in prison.
Last year and also after the elections in 2009 he was arrested. He has been charged for security issues, including acting against national security and spreading lies.
source: rferl.org

The American administration accuses the elite of Iran’s regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of profiting "on the back of the average Iranian” while the nation suffers under the pressure of international sanctions. This coincides with the decline in the market value of the Iranian rial, which has dropped about 15 percent against the dollar in the past five weeks and 35 percent since March.
source: iranbriefing.org

MehrNews published an interview with General Mohammad Ali Jafari of the IRGC in which he says that IRGC and basij have plans to correct Tehran’s political and cultural situation.
He also said that the current situation is a threat for the regime. According to him this is a result of years of neglection.
source: iranbriefing.org

Ahmadinejad warned countries in the region on buying weapons in the USA and using them in their interest.
He said that Iran has stood against world powers over last 32 years and will not ignore its rights.
source: en.trend.az

Amerika warned Iran over the consequences of the threat to shut down the Street of Hormuz. USA said that it will take actions in this case.
source:thedailybeast.com.

Article about potential military strike against peaceful movement for change.

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Iran: fixation

2011-12-28T14:00:00.002+01:00

In the prison of Shahrud were December 26th five men hanged.
The official site of the Iranian judiciary in Semnan reports that they were convicted of drug trafficking, their names are H. B. from Gonbad, H. B. from Bojnord, H. R. from Esfrain, A. S. from Teheran and A. M. from Hashtrud.
source: iranhr.net

Yesterday at a shootout in Kurdistan province one member of basij and five members of PJAK have been killed.
Fars newsagency reports that several PJAKmembers were wounded in the incident.
source: en.trend.az

The Iranian official who during the weekend said that if Sakineh Ashtiani could not be stoned she will be hanged, has said that he was misquoted.
Sunday he said during an interview with Fars newsagency that if there were no facilities to carry out the stoningsentence, the verdict can be changed to hanging.
He now says that he was misinterpreted and that this case is following its normal course in line with the law.
source: AFP

The United States renewed its calls to Iran to release the alleged spy Amir Mirzai Hekmati. Hekmati confessed on television that he was a spy for the CIA.
His trial started on Tuesday.
The blog Nationalpost writes that the prosecutor will seek the deathsentence.
source: nationalpost.com

An Iranian top naval commander told that it is easier than drinking a glass of water to shut the Persian Gulf to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf.
Tehran threathened to close it if the economic sanctions are tightened.
source: reuters

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Iran: more

2011-12-27T15:48:00.002+01:00

December 24 were in the prison of Urmia(Orumieh) seven prisoners hanged, one of them a woman.
According to the report of the judiciary, their names are Yousef A, Heydar D., Mehdi S, Ghorbanali Sh., Saeid M., Sirus M. and the woman Nahid A.. They all were convicted for drugstrafficking.
In the prison of Rasht December 24, were 2 prisoners hanged which were convicted for drugstrafficking.
One name is unknown, the other was Sajjad Tal, 26, the brother of Mohammadreza Tal who was hanged in public in Rasht, 2 weeks ago.
source: iranhr.net

Parvin Mokhtareh, the mother of detained human rightsactivist Kouhyar Goudarzi (photo)is sentenced by the revolutionary court in Kerman to 23 months in prison for defending her sons rights in the media.
She was arrested in July one day after him and charged with "propaganda against the regime” and “insulting the martyrs and the Supreme Leader”. She has also been deprived of a lawyer during her entire trial.
Kouhyar Goodarzi is already 5 months in limbo in Ward 209 of Evinprison.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

After seven years in prison, political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani, has been released from Rajai Shahr Prison in the city of Karaj.
He was in prison on charges of being affiliated with groups who want to overthrow the government.
source: freedomessenger.com

Saham News made a short interview with Fatemeh Karroubi, the wife of Mehdi Karroubi(photo) regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections.
At this interview she tells that in her husband’s eyes these upcoming elections wouldn’t mount to any other than “rubber-stamp elections.
source: droi.wordpress.com, en.greenvoice.com

Fars newsagency reported that today a fight occurred during an open meeting of Iranian parliament.The president of Targeted Subsidies Organization Behrooz Moradi and parliamentsmember Hossein Hosseini first started a wordfight, which later turned into a fist fight.
Other members of parliament and officials prevented the fight from going further.
source: en.trend.az

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Merry Christmas

2011-12-24T11:55:00.000+01:00

Due to Christmas Holidays no blog at 24, 25 and 26 December .

Iran: further

2011-12-23T13:18:00.000+01:00

SwissState Secretariat of Economic Affairs. published a list with names freezing the assets of 180 Iranian people and enterprises.
In november Switzerland placed already 116 names on its Iran sanctions list.
source: en.greenvoice.com

December 22 journalist Roxana Saberi wrote an article where she asked Iran to stop the persecution of religious minorities.
source: insideofiran.org

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Iran: rightful?

2011-12-22T15:20:00.001+01:00

Mehrnews reported that the head of the office of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that the remarks made by the US secretary of Defence are baseless.
During an interview with CBS said the US secretary of Defense Panetta that Iran could have a nuclear weapon in a year and he refused to rule out military action to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
source: en.trend.az

5 Iranian engineers who worked in Homs, Syria at a powerplant were Tuesdaymorning kidnapped by gunmen. Iranian authorities have asked the Syrian government to identify the assailants and get the engineers released.
source: freedomessenger

39 political prisoners made a statement on Kaleme, an opposition website that the forthcoming parliamentary elections in March 2012 would “bear no resemblance to the elections mentioned in the country’s constitution.” In no place in the world is this considered to be a free and fair election.
The 39 signatories say that participating in the March elections “in any form” would only legitimise and help strengthen the foundations of tyranny and authoritarianism, and goes against the democratic and anti-dictatorial ideals of the 1979 Revolution.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Local sources say that securityagents in Tazeh Abad on December 15, shot two men from Mahdieh, and killed Farokh Faraji and wounded Hamid Mohammad so severely that he probably needs his legs amputated.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: furthermore

2011-12-21T16:46:00.001+01:00

Iranhas moved most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting companies to new computer facilities inside the country.
This is to protect them against cyber attacks.
source: news.hitb.org

Diplomats from the United States, the European Union and other allies agreed to step up pressure on Iran to force it to resume talks over its nuclear program.
The group of like-minded nations met in Rome to discuss further sanctions against Iran.
This group includes United States, the European Union and several European nations, Australia, Japan, South Korea and other countries but it was not clear if all of them were represented.
source: freedomessenger

The Advocacy Council for the Right to Education (ACRE) said in a statement that the star system, the practice of banning student activists of the right to education, has been predominant in Iran for the past six years.
source: persian2english.com

The solitary confinement of six Kurdish political prisoners in the prison of Orumieh will, according to a reliable source, continue for another five days.
Habibollah Golparipour, who is sentenced to death, Jahangir Baduzadeh, Ahmad Tamou’i, Yousef Kakmami, Ali Ahmad Soleiman, and Mostafa Ali Ahmad were transferred into solitary confinement 2 weeks ago.
They continue to be prohibited from visiting with or contacting their families.
source: iranbriefing.net

The Iran Humanrights Documentation Center asks to donate to continue to serve as trusted resource on Iran human rights and to expand her activities. This includes IHRDC’s Evidence Collection Guide a simple, instructional manual on how to collect evidence of human rights abuses.
source: iranhrdc.org

Last Friday, Zia Nabavi, was along with 59 other prisoners violently transferred to Ward 8 of Karounprison in Ahwaz which holds people held on theft and drug-related charges.
Nabavi, who is a prisoner in exile wrote six months ago a letter about the bad prisonconditions in Ward 1 to Mohammad Larijani.Following he and other prisoners were transferred to another Ward.
Sometime between July to September, Zia and numerous others were secretly transferred back to ward 1 in Karoun prison.
source: persian2english.com

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Iran: abuse

2011-12-20T12:43:00.002+01:00

Sana News reported that two teenagers of 16 and 17 year, after they had been arrested at a footballmatch in Tabriz, were sexually abused by personnel of Tabriz SSF Intelligence Agency.
The prisoners, who wish to remain anonymous were also foltered.
Reports say that this happened many times more in the past few months with younger detainees.
In the past these and similar things also happened to Azari-activists and detainees in the Revolutionary Guards Corps Intelligence Agency.
source: freedomessenger

According to a statement of Coordination Council of the Green Path of Hope will the Green Movement boycott the forthcoming parliamentary elections in March 2012. Despite the warnings of the past two years, there is no hope that the upcoming elections would be held freely and fairly.
Last week, Ali Mohammad Gharibani, president of Coordination Council of the Reformist Front, announced that the reformist factions would not be participating in the parliamentary race in March.
source: en.greenvoice.com

The Supreme Court reduced the deathsentence of Kurdish prisoner of conscience Zeinab Jalalian, into life in prison.
In 2009 she was sentenced to death on charges of membership in PJAK and armed operations.
It was proven that she was not involved in any armed activities and this is why the Supreme Court overturned her sentence.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Eng. translation of the Parties and Associations Law Reform Plan

Podcast 43: Internet Censorship in Iran- Interview with Mehdi Yahyanejad

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Iran: several

2011-12-19T14:18:00.002+01:00

ISNA wrote that on December 18 a man was hanged in the prison of Ilam.
The man, H. A. was convicted for kidnapping and rape.
source: iranhr.net

Iranian television showed a televised confession of a man who confessed having worked as a spy for the American CIA.
The man, Amir Mirza Hekmati was born in Arizona and is of Iranian descend.
A video (Fa) can be seen on youtube.
source: abc.net, youtube

The Iranian regime shut down 85 restaurants in Karaj for the unconventional presence of girls and boys.
Mehrnews reported that 165 restaurants received written notices and that, if they do not carry out the Islamic law, they will be shut down.
source: freedomessenger

Iran wants to choose its first team of astronauts before the end of this Iranian calendaryear(March 21). According to the head of Iran's Aerospace Research this team will be compiled from fighter pilots.
He also says that Iran is currently in negotiations with several countries, which can provide this future team with necessary training.
Iran plans to put a man in space by 2017.
Last year Iran announced it had put a rocket carrying a mouse, turtle and some worms into space.
source: en.trend.az

weekly report 17 december suppressive maneuvers

weekly report 17 december violence against women

weekly report 17 december arbitrary arrests and prison and basic freedom and rights abused

weekly report 17 december inhumane treatment and cruel punishments

weekly report 17 december systematic violation of the right to life, executions

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Iran: more

2011-12-18T12:48:00.001+01:00

In the prison of the city of Arak are December 17 three men hanged.
The official judiciary website in Markazi province reported that S. P. was convicted for keeping of 830 grams of crack, M. A. and P. A. for trafficking of 5 kilos and 7 grams of heroin.
source: iranhr.net

A prisoner in the prison of Aran va Bidgol has been hanged.
The judiciary website of Aran va Bidgol reported December 15 that Morteza Kh. was convicted for keeping 639 grams of crack and 12 grams of marijuana.
source: freedomessenger

December 11 is in Shahre Kord a man hanged in public,while needed urgent medical attention.
The man, Kianoush Sh. had cut his wrists a few minutes before his execution.
source: freedomessenger

Two citizens of Kuwait, Adel Al-Yahya en Raed Al-Majed were released by Iran.
They were arrested last month in Abadan and detained in Ahwaz on charges of spying.
The ambassador of Kuwait accompanied them to the airport, where they took off to Kuwait.
source: en.trend.az

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Iran: further

2011-12-17T14:23:00.001+01:00

4 Bahaiprisoners who are in prison in Shiraz , Vehdat Dana, Afshin Ehsenian, Farham Masoumi, en Keyvan Karmi, have been transferred to Ward 1 of Shiraz Pirbenoy prison, where they are being kept in a very cold cell with 30 other prisoners.
They are denied to leave the ward or to receive any visits. Even though their families delivered their medications, the prisoners did not receive them due to the prison infirmary being closed.
They are serving a prisonsentence of one year, which has been handed to them on March 1, 2010 on the charge of propaganda against the regime.
source: HRHI

Following the release of a video about his personal life on YouTube, the renowned filmmaker Mohammad Nourizad said in an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that this video is created from fragments that were taken by securityagents from confiscated films.
This video appeared on YouTube on 10 December.
He said that they can use the materials of the film to build a case against him as a spy.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Women’s rights and student activist Setareh Elyasi has been expelled by Disciplinary Committee of the University of Cultural Heritage for disobedience.
December 2009 she defended her thesis and has been waiting to obtain her diploma since.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Iranian pastor Youcef Nadarkhan has to serve at least another year in prison before he may be executed for refusing to abandon his faith in Christ and return to Islam.
The judiciary wants to use that time to "use whatever means necessary to cause him to convert to Islam".
source: worthynewa.com

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Iran: more

2011-12-16T13:04:00.001+01:00

USA passed a bill, National Defense Authorization Act, which includes measures against Pakistan and increases the pressure on Iran.
There also measures to suspend the aid to Pakistan.
source: rferl.org

Thursday was in Tehran a ceremony of honoring the in 2007 from Turkey abducted former defense minister Alireza Asgari.After his abduction nothing was heard about him, but Iranian authorities believe Israel's agency, Mossad, is the main suspect behind his abduction. It is believed that he has been transferred to Israel after abduction.
In 2010 Tehran Times reported that Asgari died in Israeli prison.This has never been confirmed.
source: en.trend.az

Podcast 42 an interview with Dokhi Fassihian over recente UN Human Rights Resolution on Iran.

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Iran: further

2011-12-15T15:47:00.002+01:00

December 13 were in the city of Rostam, province Fars 2 men hanged in public.
The men, Samer R. and Hossein M. were convicted for kidnapping and rape.
In Rasht, province Gilan is Mohammadreza Tal son of Ali,hanged in public.
He was convicted of keeping and selling of 44 kg of heroin.
In Aran Bigdel, province Isfahan is on December 14 a not named man hanged.
According to the judiciary website he was convicted for posession of 639 grams of crack and 12 grams of hashish.
source: iranhr.net

Reporters without Borders reports that there is no end to the suppression and crackdown on media and journalists in Iran.
The Tehran monthly Chashm Andaz is closed and the weekly Saymareh, from Kudasht, province Lorestan, has been forced to cease activity as a result of judicial pressure.
source: en.rsf.org

Six of seven Kurdish students who were arrested in recent months in Sanandaj, all members and former members of Kurdish Students Democratic Union (the Union), have been released on bail.
The 6 students were charged with propaganda against the regime and acting against national security.
Their names are Arman Zamani, Asaad Bagheri, Suran Daneshvar, Millad Karimi, Shirzad Karimi, and Mehdi Doagoo.
Rahim Bajur, of Payam Noor University in Marivan and member of Kurdish Students Democratic Union and Marivan’s Anjoman-e Sabz-e Chia, stays in detention.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Alireza Seyedin, 31 a muslim who is converted to christianity four years ago, is convicted to 6 years in prison by Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court on charges of propagating against the regime and acting against national security.
He held his baptism in Turkey.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Saeed Naimi who is transferred from Karajprison to Tabrizprison, is being charged with assistance in espionage.
Naimi, a student and member of Policy Council of Advar Tahkim Vahdat was arrested May 9.
He spent 3 months in isolation.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Ali Alikhani from Sheeti, province Azerbaijan was arrested about 40 days ago and transferred to an unknown location.
Since then nothing is heard about him.
source: iranhumanrights.org

The explosion on December 10 at Yazd Ghadir Rolling Steel factory took the lives of 13 of 23 workers who were present, 6 of them are in critical condition.
The explosion was caused by explosive material brought to Rolling Steel from the Western provinces.
No safety precautions were put into place.
source: iranlaborreport.com

Jaras reported that dissident cleric Hasanali Mostafaei in Najaf Abad is arrested by security forces.
There is no further information about his arrest.
source: en.greenvoice.com

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Iran: written down

2011-12-14T12:30:00.001+01:00

Blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki who is currently serving a prisonsentence of 15-years started a hungerstrike to protest of the authorities’ disregard for his serious medical needs.
In a letter to Tehran's prosecutor he made a strong stance against the widespread disregard of basic human rights in Iran and the abuse of political prisoners and their families.
source: iranbriefing.net

weekly report 10 december systematic violations of the right to life.

weekly report 10 december , arbitrary arrests and prison.

weekly report 10 december basic freedom and rights abused.

weekly report 10 december suppressive maneuvers and violence against women.

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Iran: more

2011-12-13T17:26:00.002+01:00

According to Tehran's chief prosecutor were 15 American and Zionist spies arrested.
He gave no information about their nationality or where they are kept.
The report does not say whether the suspects include any of the 12 alleged agents that Tehran said in November had been arrested.
source: washingtonpost.com

In Khomein City burned a woman her husband with acid for practicing polygamy.
In her confession the woman told police that she committed the act because her husband did marry a second woman without her knowledge.
source: freedomessenger.com

The iranlaborreport published a message from Network of Iranian Labor Associations (NILA) to Amnesty International’s Human Rights Day Event in Chicago about humanrights in Iran.
source: iranlaborreport

Sundaynight were at a blast at Ghadir Steel in Ardakan, province Yazd, 7 people killed.
Those dead included foreign nationals.
There is an investigation to the cause of the incident.
source: jordannews.net

The wife of political prisoner Bahman Sadeghi-Pour has according to website Kaleme suffered a miscarriage in the fifth month of her pregnancy, due to stress.
Bahman Sadeghi-Pour is serving a prisonterm of 4 years.
Her brothers Pourya and Daryoush are in prison also.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Political prisoner Mohammad Tavasoli is held incommunicado in Evin prison, reported his family.
Tavasoli was arrested November 2 in connection with a letter to former president Mohammad Khatami which was co-signed by 143 social and political activists.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iran Human Rights Documentations Center published the 1st translatoion(En) of Internal Regulation on the Commission of Article 90 of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Constitution.
Art.90 puts the Parliament in charge of investigating complaints made about the operation of the Parliament (Majlis), the Executive, and the Judiciary.
source ihrdc.org

December 5 were 6 Kurdish social and political prisoners from Ward 12 transferred to solitary confinement.
Their names are: Habibollah Golparipour, Jahangir Baduzadeh, Ahmad Tamou’i, Yousef Kakmami, Ali Ahmad Soleiman, and Mostafa Ali Ahmad .
Authorities have not yet given the reason for the transfer. Since December 12, 2011, no further information about these prisoners is available.
source: iranhrdc.org

Website Ghasednews.ir, reported that laid off workers demonstrated and disrupted a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Sari about a year of unpaid back pay.
One of them threw a “pair of shoes” at the president.
He was attacked by supporters of Ahmadinejad and had to be released by securityagents.
Other websites reported that objects were thrown.
State media were silent on the reported incident.
source: freedomessenger.com

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Iran: act

2011-12-12T14:41:00.001+01:00

December 11 is a man hanged in public.
ISNA reported that the man, Kianoosh S. K. G. was hanged in public at "Danesh Square" in Shahr-e-Kord.
The man was sentenced to death for kidnapping and rape.
According to the official website of the judiciary in Fars were today in the prison of Shiraz two men amputated.
One foot of a prisoner who was convicted of armed robbery, was amputated, his hand was amputated before.
In the same prison was one hand of another prisoner also amputated this morning.
source: iranhr.net

A new gasfield is discovered in Iran in the Caspian Sea, containing about 50 trillions of cubic meters of gas.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said during a visit at Mazandaran province that this will change the energy and political balance around the Caspian Sea and that these can meet domestic consumption demand for 10 years.
source: en.trend.az

Maziar Yazdanpanah, a student at Mazandaran University, who was 2 years ago sentenced, to a 6-month suspended prison sentence was with several other students at Mazandaran University informed that their suspended prison sentences were reversed.
After a November gathering of students at the university, Maziar Yasdanpanah was barred from returning to his dormitory without being given any written warning.
Despite scores of Mazandaran University students arrested or expelled from school in the last 2 years, the students have continued to organize events and gatherings.
source: HRHI

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Iran: images

2011-12-11T12:56:00.000+01:00

The family of Robert Levinson, the former FBI-agent who disappeared from the island Kish in March 2007 received videofootage in which he showed a great loss of weight and confirms that he is abducted and also tells that he runs out of medication for his diabetes.

He also said that he does not know who abducted him. Iranian officials told that they know nothing about the circumstances of Mr. Levinson’s disappearance or what happened to him afterward.
source: youtube, nytimes.com

A senior commander from Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps IRGC says that the by Iran captured drone is considered as a hostile act from USA towards Iran.
According to him USA can compensate this aggressive move by some correct political measures.

source: youtube, rferl.org

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Iran: human rights

2011-12-10T13:08:00.000+01:00

IHREC published a report about Rostam Arkia, a Kurdish political prisoner from Maku, who is detained in the prison of Yazd.
Initially he was sentenced to death, this punishment is later changed into twenty years in jail.
source: iranhrdc.org

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Iran": more

2011-12-09T13:11:00.001+01:00

Studentactivist Mohammad Karimi was on National Student Day arrested.
Human Rights Reporters Committee reports that December 7th he was arrested in his home in Larijani by security agents.
11 days ago they raided his house also, but took only personal belongings.
Karimi was active in the campaign headquarters of MirHosein Mousavi during the controversial elections of 2009.
source: iranbriefing.net

December 7th is unionactivist from Vahed Syndicate in Tehran, Ebrahim Madadi arrested, after being freed only last week.
International transportunion secretary of ITF says that it is not known if this arrest is a bureaucratic error or an attempt to intimidate.
source: iranlaborreport.com

Despite the knowledge that Iran filters its internet and restricts other communications by telephone and tv, European companies continue to provide services to Tehran.
European satellitecompanies like Eutelsat, Intelsat and Arqiva provide extensive services to IRIB, but also to Al Alam and Press-TV.
In recent years they did little to stop Iran to jam other broadcasts.
EU and USA should take immediate and decisive action requiring that these satellite companies end their cooperation with Iranian censors.
source: iranhumanrights.org

To mark International Human Rights Day December 10, IHRDC released a video with instructions how to collect evidence of human rights abuses in Iran.
The video is in Farsi.
source: iranhrdc.org

FIDH/LDDHI publishes a report for International Human Rights Day updated to the end of November 2011.

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Iran: more

2011-12-08T14:18:00.001+01:00

November 29, 2 men have been hanged in public in Kermanshah.
The men Meysam Rokhsareh and Hamed Haghi were sentenced to death for kidnapping and rape.
Six other prisoners were hanged in Dizel Abad Prison.
A former inmate told that in Wards 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 of Dizel Abad Prison are hundreds of prisoners who are sentenced to death for rape or drugsrelated charges.
source: iranhumanrights.org

More then two months ago, the journalist Amir Ali Allamehzadeh has been arrested. His family has been permitted only limited contact.
Currently he is detained in IRGC’s Ward 2-A in Evin Prison. His sister told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she and her family have nothing heard about the charges.
Although Allamehzadeh was the International Desk Editor of ILNA News Agency, medical issues have stopped him from practicing journalism in recent years.
source: iranhumanrights.org

The family of the Kurdish political prisoner Anvar Hussein Panahi wrote an open letter to Dr. Ahmad Shaheed, Special Rapporteur at the United Nations.
Panahi was sentenced to death 4 years ago for a crime he did not commit, but due to international pressure the verdict was commuted to 6 years in prison.
source: iranbriefing.net

USA presented a virtual embassy with Iran, which was blocked by Iranian authorities today, one day after its launch. Among other things the site gave information about U.S. travel visas and university admission.
The U.S. embassy in Tehran has been closed since the 1979 Revolution.
The head of National Security and Foreign Policy Commission of the Iranian parliament rejected the USA action.
source: iranbriefing.net

CPJ reported in the annual prisonreport that worldwide 179 journalists are jailed.
Iran ranks 1st with 42 imprisoned journalists.
Eritrea and China rank 2 and 3, with resp. 28 and 27 journalists.
source: cpj.org

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Iran: actions

2011-12-07T15:08:00.002+01:00

According to Majzooban Noor website the Gonabadi derwishes Farzad Darvish, Mohammad Ali Saadi, Mohammad Jalal Nikbakht and Hojatollah Saidi, who were arrested on October 8, are in Pirbanan prison in Shiraz deprived of their most basic human rights.
They are detained between drugsdealers and common criminals.
July 12 the derwishes were convicted by Branch 1 of Servastan’s Public Court to 6 months in prison on charge of disturbing public order.
source: HRHI

The sister of laboractivist Reza Shahabi said during an interview with BBC Farsi that his family is ver concerned about the health of her brother. Shahabi is already 14 days in a hungerstrike and during a phonecall he spoke with great difficulty and was in very poor health.
Shahabi is in hungerstrike to protest being held with an unknown circumstance.
source: HRHI

Sources at Green Voice of Freedom say that there is a heavy security deployment in Tehran for fears of a fresh wave of opposition protests on Ashura and national Students Day.
A videoclip on youtube shows many security agents in riot gear.
In last years there were big clashes on Ashura between demonstrators and police, leaving dead and wounded people.
source: iranbriefing.net

International schools in Iran are closed since the storming of the British Embassy.
The French school is located on British embassy grounds and children were in class when the mob swarmed through the compound gates. Windows at the German school nearby were shattered in the attack, but the British teachers sent pupils home early.
Since then schools are closed, forcing children to stay home.
The parents were told that foreign teachers and their families had left the country.
source: freedomessenger

Mehdi Karroubi was allowed a visit from his family last weekend.
This was the third time in 10 months of housearrest that Karroubi was allowed to receive a visit.
According to Karroubis son, his father was in better health then the last time he visited him.
His detention conditions have improved since the last time when he lived in an appartment that too small was too house his wife. He lives in a bigger house now.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: action

2011-12-06T14:55:00.002+01:00

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran launched a campaign to help getting political prisoner and humanrights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh released from prison.
The project released a video called “Free Sotoudeh Now".
There is also a website, with various video's, and a slideshow.
Sotoudeh was arrested in 2010 and was convicted in appeals court to 6 years in prison and a 10 years ban to work as a lawyer.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Journalist Farshad Ghorbanpour who December 1st was arrested at his home, contacted his wife and said he is being transferred to Ward 350 of Evinprison.
In 2007 he was arrested and released against a $260,000 bail.
Hij was convicted to one year in prison on charges of acting against national security by propagation against the regime and also was charged with illicit sources due to his cooperation with the news website Roozonline .
Ghorbanpour was involved with various publications including HamMihan, Kargozaran, Farhikhtegan, Shahrvand Emrooz, and Mehrnameh.
source: HRHI

EU is sceptical about new sanctions on Iranian oil.
Fear grows that the embargo could damage its own economy without doing much to undercut to Iran's oil revenues.
It is possible that even the slightest increase of Iranian oilprices have a bad influence on European stockmarkets.
Iran, worlds fifth-largest oil exporter warned Sunday that oil prices could raise to $250 a barrel.
source: Reuters

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Iran: more

2011-12-05T12:09:00.001+01:00

Political prisoners Kobra Amirkhizi and Hussein Ronaghi Maleki were transferred to a hospital for medical treatment.
Maleki was suffering from internal bleeding of the kidneys and was transferred to Hasheminejad Hospital and Kobra Amirkhizi underwent an eyeoperation in Labafinejad Hospital.
source: freedomessenger

weeklyreport december 3 suppressive maneuvers and violence against women.

weeklyreport december 3 basic freedom and rights abused and suppression of religious and ethnic minorities.

weeklyreport december 3 prisoners.

weeklyreport december 3 inhumane treatment and cruel punishments amputation, flogging, torture and humiliation.

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2011-12-04T12:05:00.001+01:00

The Christian Alireza Seyedian has been sentenced by the Tehran revolutionary court to 6 years in prison.
Reports say that he is convicted for acting against national security. .
He is free on bail.
source: freedomessenger

In Javanroud Detention Center is Kurdish citizen Hashem Nazari, 24, son of Aref found dead in his prisoncell. He was arrested on November 23 and put in solitary detention.
After 5 days a prisonguard found his dead body.
Forensic reports say that he died of extreme cold and lack of medical attention.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: presse

2011-12-03T13:22:00.001+01:00

The British mediawatchdog fined Iranian news channel Press TV $ 156,800 for in 2009 unauthorized broadcasting of an interview with imprisoned Iranian-Canadian Newsweekjournalist Maziar Bahari.
PressTV failed to say that Bahari was in jail during the interview.
source: freedomessenger

Yesterday the Iranian government banned foreign media for the first time to cover any further rallies outside Britain’s embassy and diplomatic residences in Tehran.
Agence France Presse reported that this is the first time foreign media in Iran have been prohibited from covering pro-regime rallies.
source: RSF

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Iran: reported

2011-12-02T15:46:00.002+01:00

The religious blogger of Pezhak-e Khamoush and member of Qom Hezbeh Mosharkat (Participation Front) Ahmad Reza Ahmadpour who was arrested and in prison since July 19, 2010 has been transferred to the prison in Ahwaz. His prisonsentence from 3 years in prison has been increased to 5 years in prison.
source: HRHI

A prominent reformist leader reported on website Kaleme his concerns on the safety and health of Mousavi and Karroubi.
Saeed Hajjarian also praised the resistance of political activist Mostafa Tajzadeh in a note to his 55th birthday.
Tajzadeh is member of the Central Council of Islamic Iran Participation Front (Mosharekat) and from Islamic Revolution Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (MIRO), he was Interior Minister during the government of president Khatami. With 6 other prominent reformists he wrote a letter with complaints about the role of IRGC and other commanders during the 2009 elections. Since then he is in solitary confinement for 1 ½ years at Quarantine Ward from Evin prison.
In recent weeks reports have been published about the deteriorating health of Mousavi and Karroubi. They were placed under house arrest since in mid-February.
source: iranbriefing.net

International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) and the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF) announced that Ebrahim Madadi member of the board of the busdriversunion Vahed Syndicate has been released from prison. He was in prison on false charges of endangering national security.
The Vahed Bus Drivers Syndicate of Tehran and the Suburbs made a statement.
source: iranlaborreport.com

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Iran: more

2011-12-01T14:38:00.002+01:00

EU will probably strenghten the sanctions against Iran because of the attack on the British embassy in Tehran.
Officials say that more then 200 persons and entities will be subjected to EU asset freezes and travel bans.
After the attack Great-Britain closed Iran's embassy in London and closed its own embassy in Tehran. The Netherlands, France, Germany and other countries called back their ambassadors.
Analysts think that the Iranian government orchestrated the attack.
source: rferl.org, iranbriefing.net

Laboractivist Reza Shahabi who is in prison since June 12 2010, started November 22 a dry hungerstrike to protest the lack of medical care and attention to his illness.
Since he started his hungerstrike his family has heard no news from him.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

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Iran: resemblance

2011-11-30T17:38:00.002+01:00

November 29, one woman and five men were hanged in the prison of Kermanshah.
According to Fars newsagency the not identified men and woman were convicted for drugstrafficking.
Also in Kermanshah are H. H. and M. R. hanged in public on Azadisquare.
According to the judiciair report they were convicted for the kidnapping and rape of five women.
ISNA reports that in Saveh M.S. (IHR reports that a contact said that his full name is Mansur Salamat) was hanged in public on the Khalij-e-Fars square. He was convicted for the rape of a woman two years ago.
source: iranhr.net

Imprisoned journalist Amir Ali Allamehzadeh who was arrested September 14 was transferred from Branch 14 of the Government Employees and Media Court to Branch 2 of Shahid Moghaddas Court from IRGC inside Evin Prison.He is in solitary confinement and is only allowed to have visitors in an IRGC controlled room with a closed circuit of television cameras and it is forbidden to discuss the conditions.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Ayatollah Dastgheib, a prominent religious scholar and a supporter of the Green Movement, and member of the Assembly of Experts,has said that the Iranian regime crises stem from the Guardian Councils noncompliance with its responsibility.
source: iranbriefing.net

Yesterday stormed Iranian "students" the British Embassy in Tehran and briefly detained Embassypersonnel.This were all members of the Basij militia and, different from other protests, the securityguards allowed them to ramsack the building and only later did police officers in riot gear begin a somewhat lackadaisical effort to remove the protesters from the grounds.
The embassypersonnel will be evacuated from Iran. It is not known whether the embassy remains open.
The attack looked like the one on the American Embassy in 1979. Many of the chants were alike.
source: rferl.org

podcast 41 interview with Hamid Dabashi.

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Iran: further

2011-11-29T14:09:00.002+01:00

An article of Muhammad Sahimi about the question if recent propaganda against Iran is humanitarian intervention or naked military aggression.
source:en.irangreenvoice.com

An article of Mahshid Boroomand which describes that Supreme Leader Khamenei supports the political activities of IRGC, by calling among other things by calling the Basij a “political” entity.
source:iranbriefing.net

Yesterday reported several media in and outside of Iran a loud blast.
It was rumored that its origin was in a nuclear facility but there has not been any confirmation.
Statemedia also reported it but later removed the report from its website.
The Isfahan governor said that there was so far no report of a major explosion being heard from any government body in Isfahan.
source: freedomessenger

Student Abdolfazl Tabarzadi, 24, who was arrested December 19 2010 and was sentenced to 15 months in prison, which was reduced in appeal to 9 months, was denied a short prisonleave to take an exam outside the prison.
He was transferred October 18 to Karoon Prison in Ahvaz to serve his prisonsentence.
source: en.greenvoice.com

Almost one month after his arrest the wife of Payman Aref told International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that authorities are not providing any causes for his arrest and that her attempts to find out about his case have been futile.
The bail for his release was set to $20.000, but even after paying the amount, he was not released.
Since his arrest she only was allowed to speak twice to him by telephone, but not in person.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: money

2011-11-28T14:16:00.001+01:00

In the prison of Qom is November 24 a man hanged.
The man L.A. was convicted for smuggling and keeping 340 kg of crack.
Mehrnews also reported that on July 3rd also a man was hanged.
This execution has not been reported by official Iranian sources previously.

source: iranhr.net

The IRINN-news-channel reported that another 27 people were arrested over the recent $2.8 billion bank corruption case.
A criminal case has been filed against 50 people.
Prosecutor General of Iran Gholamhossein Mohseni E'jei said that in recent months 126 people have been brought to justice, 106 people of them are charged with this case.
source: en.trend.az

ISNA reports that president Ahmadinejad said that inflation in Iran is currently at 19.3%.
The president did not specify what time frame the rate corresponds to.
The inflationrate rose in the 12 months before October from 18.3% to 19.1%.
source: freedomessenger

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Iran: color

2011-11-27T16:53:00.001+01:00

An article of Mehrdad Darvishpour, professor in sociology at Mälardalen University about consequences of a military attack on Iran.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com

Iranian task force for IT crimes announced/ that police will enlist the aid of computer hackers. The head of Iranian IT crimes task force says that it has divided hackers into three groups: white hats, pink hats and black hats.
Hackers who illegally enter computer systems to damage or steal something are the black hats.
Those who hack into systems to show off are referred to as pink hats, and those who do it to determine the weaknesses of security systems are referred to as white hats.
The so-called pink and white hats are not considered criminals and police welcomes hackers to share their skills. According to him 50% of Iranian hackers are under 25 years of age.
American intelligence says that Iran Cyber Army has a budget of $76 million, with 2,400 employees and 12,000 reservists.
In September Iran Cyber Army hacked 500 Dutch websites, Iraanse media reported that Iranian hackers had attacked internet portals of Mossad, the CIA and Israel.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iran's parliament has approved a bill to downgrade diplomatic and economic ties with Great Britain in answer to the imposed sanctions to Iran.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more

2011-11-26T13:06:00.001+01:00

According to Vahed Workers Syndicate, is Reza Shahabi, treasurer and member of the board of Vahed Syndicate November 21, taken from Evinprison to the hospital.
Shahabi is in prison since June 12.He is in urgent need of an operation but refuses to give his consent while he is in prisonlimbo.
He started a hungerstrike to protest to his current conditions.
source: freedomessenger, iranlaborrapport.com

Several Iranian newspapers reported that the head of Iran's elitecorps Quds Force said that he doesn’t fear U.S. threats of assassination and is ready for “martyrdom”.
In recent weeks did the tension between America and Iran increase.
source: washingtonpost.com

An article about the explosion at the IRGC base last week, where 17 people died.

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Iran: more

2011-11-25T14:12:00.002+01:00

November 24 were 11 prisoners hanged in the prison of Shiraz.
The men were not identified.According to the official web site of the Iranian judiciary in Fars province,the men were convicted of drug trafficking.
The trials were held behind closed doors and were not confirmed by an independent source.
source: iranhr.net

Since June Bahai Farhood Eshtiyagh is detained without a warrant and according to the Human Rights House of Iran he is held in Mashadd prison after 4.5 months of detention. He is suffering from heart problems and Guuillain-Barre Syndrome.
He was granted prison visits only twice during this time.
source: HRHI

Azerbaijani writer and journalist Rafiq Tagi has died four days after being stabbed, in a hospital in Baku.
Taqi, a critic of the Azerbaijani government, neighbouring Iran and political Islam, was stabbed on November 19th, 7 times in front of his house.
After surgery he had been reported to be in satisfactory condition.
source: iranbriefing.net

Iran's defense minister ruled out sabotage as the cause of a recent explosion at an ammunition depot.
According to a report by investigators there was no sabotage.
The explotion caused the death of 17 people.
source: iranbriefing.net

The Dutch Foreign minister said Wednesday that he wants the EU to extend the sanctions to the central bank to stop certain types of money flows.
The EU agreed to sanction some 200 Iranian people, companies and organisations Tuesday.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: difference

2011-11-24T14:44:00.002+01:00

According to an Iranian member of parliament are 12 CIA spies arrested by Iran. The exact charges are unknown.
Sources say they are accused of targeting the nuclear program.
source: en.trend.az, telegraph.co.uk

Blogger and medical student at Manila Medical School on Philippines Rojin Mohammadi is arrested October 24 on returning from Turkey to Iran. She was transferred to Evinprison, and after 24 hours released on bail. Five days later her parents house was searched by security agents. She was arrested on unknown charges.
source: chrr.biz

Nine political prisoners started a hungerstrike in the prison of Yazd. They protest against being locked up together with ordinary inmates and also the inappropriate behavior of prison officials towards political prisoners.
Their names are: Khales Zamani, Abdolsaleh Osmani,Abdolrahman Jangali, Ali Salehi, Omar Imami, Mohammad Moradi, Hani Bani, Rostam Arkia, Vali Doroodi
source: freedomessenger

The political secretary of Iran’s Freedom Movement, Mohammad Tavassoli, 74 is in prison without being allowed to contact his family.
November 3, Tavassoli was arrested in relation with a letter sent October 15 to Mohammad Khatami signed by 143 political and social activists.
He is accused of forging the signatures of this letter, but during the weeks he is in prison, several of the people who signed the letter have been interrogated and all said ‘we signed the letter ourselves and it is not a forgery'.
source: iranbriefing.net

Siamak Ghaderi a former IRNA reporter wrote a letter from prison, to remind the public that not long ago, journalists like him received similar treatment from the very IRNA chief under attack today.
Ghaderi writes of the “inhumane” treatment he received from intelligence officials, who carried a letter from Javanfekr accusing him of being “anti-regime and anti-Velayat Faqih,” similar to the allegations reportedly now levelled against Javanfekr.
Ghaderi was arrested in August 2010 and is serving a 3 years prisonsentence.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: suppressed

2011-11-23T13:10:00.001+01:00

In the past two weeks, the authorities in Iran have intensified their attacks on journalists and newspapers.
According to the CPJ since December 2010 34 journalists and bloggers are in prison. In 2011 more than 60 journalists have been forced into exile and authorities have shut down at least 40 publications since 2009.
It was now disclosed that in March Azeri journalist Fereydoun Seydi Rad was arrested and spent 43 days in isolation. His sister said their family had maintained silence for eight months because they had been threatened. In August, a Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced Seydi Rad to one year in prison for "propagating against the regime" in writings on his blog, Arak Green Revolution, and two years for "participating in Ayatollah Montazeri's funeral" and "participating in an Ashura Day protest," in December 2010, which Seydi Rad denied.
source: cpj.org

The appeals court upheld the heavy prisonsentences against four leftish laboractivists from Tabriz, East Azerbaijan.
Shahrokh Zamani was sentenced to 11 years, Nima Pouryaghob to 6 years, Mohammad Jarahi to 5 years and Sasan Vahebivash was sentenced to 6 months in prison.
A fifth defendant Buick Sydler was found not guilty.
source: iranbriefing.net

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For 111 days, there is no news about arrested Kouhyar Goudarzi and his mother Parvin Mokthareh.
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Iran: more

2011-11-22T15:01:00.001+01:00

November 20 were in Vakilabadprison in Mashhad 2 men hanged.
The not identified men were convicted for the rape of a 15 year-old boy.
source: iranhr.net

The state newspaper IRNA denounced that its chief-editor and 39 others have been arrested.
The paper appeared in print halfwit and saif that the arrestations hampered the papers work.
The arrests appear linked to a power struggle between Ahmadinejads presschief , Ali Akbar Javanfekr and his opponents.
Javanfekr who works for IRNA Sunday has been sentenced to 1 year in prison and a 3 year ban to work as a journalist for publishing material “contrary to Islamic norms.”
His arrest shows the powerstruggle between Ahmadinejad and the group clerics and members of IRGC.
Witnesses say that he was arrested while teargas was sprayed in the building.
source: washingtonpost.com, freedomessenger, iranhumanrights.org

The Iranhumanrights Documentations Centre published an article about the fact that many members of Iranian elite have chosen Canada as country of choice.
source: iranhrdc.org

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Iran: more

2011-11-21T15:04:00.002+01:00

November 20 were 3 people hanged in the prison of Sari.
The not identified men were according to IRNA convicted for drugstrafficking.
In the prison of Boroujen were 2 mannen hanged.
Ramin Hatemi (26) and Asghar Tahmasebi (32) were convicted of the rape of a girl(18) last year.
source: iranhr.net

Iranian airliner Mahan Air bought a depriciated airplane from the German Government. It is the chancellors airplane "Theodor Heuss", an Airbus 310-304 which has flown 20 years for German government.
The aircraft has been transferred to Kiev and then to Tehran.
Very strange in this is, while Germany urges further sanctioning of Iran., Germany sold the aircraft in June to an easteuropean investorsholding for 3125 Million Euros. This group has sold it in silence to Iran.
source:Der Spiegel

November 20, 3000 workers held a sit-in by the gates of the Iranian parliament.
They protest against new changes in laborlaws set to be finalized on November 21.
These laws make workers position in ever area worse.
source: iranlaborreport.com

November 16, security agents shot at 2 Nimatullahi Gonabadi Sufi derwishes when they resisted their arrest. Website Majzooban Nur, reported that Zabehe Kurdpour and Reza Poshtkar were heading towards the dervishes’ temple in Kavar County,when they were stopped.
Nobody was injured during the incident.
source: freedomessenger

Shayan Omidi, 16 his friend Sajjad, 24 and Sajjads brother Sobhan, 16 are sentenced to death for the murder on an iron merchant and his family in October 2010.
The Gilan Supreme Court upheld the deathsentences.
source: freedomessenger.com

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Iran: dead

2011-11-20T12:52:00.000+01:00

November 12 is in the city of Noshahr a man hanged in public.
M.P. was convicted for kidnapping, rape and robbery.
According to the newspaper Shomalnews,the man was named Mostafa P., 26 year.
source: iranhr.net

A publishment about the meaning of the words of the Supreme Leader to the IRGC and basij: kill them.

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Iran: further

2011-11-19T13:36:00.001+01:00

Newspaper Jomhouri-e-Eslami reported November 17 that in the prison of Qom 2 men have been hanged. They were sentenced to death for carrying 24 kilograms and 780 grams of crack.
source: iranhr.net

Detained journalist and member of political party Participation Front Mehdi Mahmoudian who was transferred from Rajaee Shahr Prison to a hospital, for serious bloodpressure fluctuations in May 2011, finally got permission to undergo surgery.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Thursday Website Emrooz reported that Massoud Sepehr political science professor at Open University of Shiraz, senior member of Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution, has been arrested in his house.
After the disputed elections in 2009 he was arrested also.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: prison

2011-11-18T14:53:00.002+01:00

AFP reports that the deathtoll as result of the blast last week has risen to 36.
This doubles the toll of 17 who were reported or the 23 wounded people,mentioned by a Revolutionary Guards spokesman.
The raised death toll was based on a compilation of reports of funerals in Iran’s news agencies over the past few days, as well as newspapers published on Thursday. The articles identified those buried by name, for a total of 36 names.
source: freedomessenger

The conditions in prisons in Iran are more deteriorating.
Currently 13,000 people are packed in s prison with a capacity for 3,000 people .
The Central Prison of Mashhad, Camp Chenaran and the Corrections and Rehabilitation Center of Mashhad, say that they can hold on average 15 thousand and 9,953 prisoners, respectively.Currently they have three times the capacity of prisoners.
Last year the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran published a report about Ward 350 of Evinprison.
Humanrightsactivist Ali Kantouri who was detained in Ghazal Hessar Prison in Karaj, told ICHRI that a high population is packed together in very little space. Hygienic conditions are very bad also so many inmates suffer from "prisonfever"because they infect each other.
People who suffer from serious medical illnesses are in need of urgent care, such as Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, Abdollah Momeni, Keyvan Samimi, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, Ali Tari, Ghassem Shole Saadi, Issa Saharkhiz, Shabnam Medadzadeh, and Hamed Rouhinezhad outside the prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org

The lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani who currently is detained in Evinprison, wants to file a lawsuit against Mohammad Javad Larijani who falsely accused him of terroristic connections.
His wife, Massoumeh Dehghan told ICHRI that Soltani never has faced such charges and that he and his lawyers will be filing a lawsuit against him.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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Iran: fact

2011-11-17T14:11:00.002+01:00

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that Iran should stop misrepresenting the records about the humanrightssituation in Iran.
Larijani,the head of the High Council for Human Rights of Iran, said to the United Nations presscorps on November 16 that oppositionleaders Mir Hussein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have been charged with incitement to violence, amongst other crimes. Larijani also said that humanrightslawyer Abdolfattah Soltani is detained because of connections to terrorist groups, although he presented no evidence to support his claim.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Peyman Aref's wife told in an interview with International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the reason for the arrest of her husband within days after his release from Evinprison, must be a personal one.
He has told about the flogging and named the people involved. She also said that he told her he is in ward 350 of Evin prison and that bail is set to $20.000.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Iran media has doubts whether the dead of Ahmad Rezai, the son of Mohsen Rezai was a suicide.Dubai police said that he was found by hotel staff and that one of Rezai’s wrists was slit.
The official newspaper IRNA,the semiofficial Fars agency and website Tabnak, wrote about his death as suspicious. Newsagency Mehr writes that Rezai died from electrical shock.
source: freedomessenger

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